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Attorney General Kamala Harris wins the open Senate seat to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in race that featured two Democrats in California The victory for 51-year-old Harris makes her the first Indian-American senator. Harris was backed by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other top Democrats.

Human remains were found behind a Long Island home improvement store Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The grisly discovery was made after cops received a 911 call for a possible body found in a wooded area behind Lowe’s at 700 Dibblee Drive in Garden City at 2:19 p.m., according to Nassau County Police. When police arrived at the scene, they found the human remains near an abandoned encampment, according to cops. The cause of death will be determined by the Medical Examiner’s office, authorities said.

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Algeria's Imane Khelif, left, and Ireland's Kellie Anne Harrington during their women's light quarterfinal boxing match at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. Lin Yu‑ting of Taipei after winning a fight against Junhua Yin of China in Amman, Jordan, in 2020. Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting were disqualified from last year’s Women’s World Boxing Championships after failing gender eligibility tests. Two boxers who were disqualified from competing with women at a global event last year have been permitted to fight in the Paris Olympics, the International Olympic Committee confirmed. Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting...

My wife's Windows 11 laptop is in an infinite loop trying to install an update that fails to install then immediately tries to install it again. This slows the laptop of so much that it is unusable. Below is a screenshot of the update screen displaying the offending optional update. I have searched and searched the Interwebs to find out how to make an update stop trying to install but have had no luck. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Three groups of Russian nuclear-capable bombers and fighter escorts buzzed the airspace in Japan's northern waters on Tuesday one week after similar long-range sorties near the U.S. coast off Alaska.

In the wake of the horrific rocketing of a playground in which dozens of Israeli children were killed and wounded, the IDF quickly and decisively meted out justice upon Hezbollah with a strike in Beirut that killed high-ranking Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr.While the IDF is to be congratulated for its successful operation to eliminate this jihadist, the incident raises serious questions about America’s commitment to bringing terrorists to justice.Israel was able to locate, plan and successfully execute the targeted killing of Shukr, second in command of the Lebanese terrorist organization, within days of the playground attack.Those who pay attention to...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec “So is she Indian or is she black? I respect either one…she obviously doesn’t” From Greg Price 2:19 PM · Jul 31, 2024

Explanation: What is creating these unusual spots? Light-colored spots on Martian rocks, each surrounded by a dark border, were discovered earlier this month by NASA's Perseverance Rover currently exploring Mars. Dubbed leopard spots because of their seemingly similarity to markings on famous Earth-bound predators, these curious patterns are being studied with the possibility they were created by ancient Martian life. The pictured spots measure only millimeters across and were discovered on a larger rock named Cheyava Falls. The exciting but unproven speculation is that long ago, microbes generated energy with chemical reactions that turned rock from red to white while...

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics says China will build the world’s first large-scale molten-salt-cooled thorium reactor in the Gobi Desert next year, reports the South China Morning Post. China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration approved the design last year. The 60MW reactor is expected to be complete in 2029.

Local officials are telling Fox News that the USSS told a local sniper team to set up on the "ground level looking into the crowd" as opposed to on top of the warehouse roof where the assassin would ultimately fire his shots at President Trump. They also said that had USSS told… Show more

“Shark Tank” star and investor Kevin O’Leary said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” that if Kamala Harris is elected in November, America will become Canada. O’Leary said, “There is precedent for what is going on here. I ask everybody to look north to Canada. When a young Justin Trudeau swept in, nobody cared about his executional skills or what he’d ever done or anything. They just thought he was the it guy. Look at the country now it’s wiped out it because it turns out the guy had no executional skills. It would be important to leave...

The New York Times had the temerity to actually blame free markets for Venezuela’s descent down the economic cesspool under socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. Who in their right mind would actually consider Venezuela a beacon of capitalism in South America? Apparently The Times. The newspaper claimed in a July 28 news item that “in recent years, the socialist model has given way to brutal capitalism, economists say, with a small state-connected minority controlling much of the nation’s wealth.” The newspaper, whose report was addressing the dubious presidential election results in the socialist country, cited no specific cohort of "economists" who...

Kamala Harris had no sooner replaced Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee than Donald Trump began bashing her over the number of immigrants coming into the United States, declaring that they had driven countless American workers from their jobs.But the data on U.S. employment and the economy overwhelmingly suggest a reality far more beneficial when it comes to immigration than the nightmarish vision the former president has put forth.The surge of international migrants since 2021 — including refugees, asylum seekers and others entering legally and illegally — has lifted the U.S. and California economies by filling otherwise vacant...

FROM YESTERDAY: Explanation: To some, it looks like a penguin. But to people who study the universe, it is an interesting example of two big galaxies interacting. Just a few hundred million years ago, the upper NGC 2936 was likely a normal spiral galaxy: spinning, creating stars, and minding its own business. Then it got too close to the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, below, and took a dive. Together known as Arp 142, they are featured in this new Webb infrared image, while a visible light Hubble image appears in comparison. NGC 2936 is not only being deflected, but...

When Richard Nixon resigned and left the White House in August 1974, it wasn’t the only unprecedented action that shook the country. For the only time in U.S. history, both an unelected president and an unelected vice president served in the nation’s highest offices. A chain of events led to President Gerald Ford and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in the White House. Less than a year earlier, in October 1973, with Nixon already reeling from the Watergate scandal, his vice president, Spiro Agnew resigned after pleading no contest to income tax evasion. For most of American history, the position would...

A video has resurfaced online, showing parents recklessly encouraging their children to pose for photos alongside a wild alligator. Ensuring the protection of children and keeping them safe is one of the most fundamental duties of parents. Recently, a video has resurfaced online, showing parents recklessly encouraging their children to pose for photos alongside a wild alligator. The incident happened in Everglades National Park in Florida which is home to many different types of wildlife. The footage which was originally shared on TikTok last year, captures the adults urging their two young girls to stand alarmingly close to the massive...

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D) used the Senate hearing on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump to criticize the “easy accessibility” of AR-15s. When questioning FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, Hirono asked that he clarify the type of firearm used in the assassination attempt. Hirono then claimed that the United States is “a nation awash in guns.” She then zeroed in on AR-style rifles and asked, “Shouldn’t we be doing more to prevent the easy accessibility of these kinds of firearms in our country?” Abbate refused to wade into a gun control debate, making clear he is “focused on...

A Secret Service sniper claims that another assassination attempt .. seems inevitable before Election Day because the attack on President Donald Trump exposed the weakness in Secret Service security .... “This agency NEEDS to change, if not now, WHEN? The NEXT assassination attempt in 30 days? ... We all SHOULD expect another attempt to happen before November. We’ve exposed our inability to protect our leaders due to our leadership.” ... A Secret Service counter sniper sent an email Monday night to the entire Uniformed Division (not agents) saying he will not stop speaking out until "5 high-level supervisors (1 down)...

They know they can't normally win the 2nd Congressional District in Nevada. So they are trying to sneak in a person named Greg Kidd. "He is running as a nonpartisan for Nevada's second Congressional district" says his website. He is flush with cash from God knows where. Talk radio airwaves are being bombarded with his ads. He is bragging about his 100% support by Planned Parenthood on billboards. His radio commercials are saying how he will bridge partisan politics and he is giving off dog whistles of how he will solve the immigration problem by pushing the granting of amnesty....