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Archeologists in the Czech Republic uncovered a hoard of artifacts, including weapons and jewelry, from 3,600 years ago. Researchers were surveying the town of Budyně nad Ohří, roughly 40 miles from Prague, in 2023 when they found eight axes, one spearhead, eight arm rings and two pins, Prague Morning reported Thursday. The artifacts are believed to be from the Bronze Age, which spanned across the years 3,300 B.C. to 1,200 B.C., the outlet reported. This period is characterized by the shift in tool-making in Europe as people began using bronze, an alloy created from mixing copper and tin, instead of...

So I Google the following "Kamala Harris ethnicity" and this is what came up. "Ms Harris is the first black and Asian-American vice-president, with Indian and Jamaican-born parents." WTH? Can someone tell me WTH this means?

John Cullen joins Dr. Jason Dean to discuss his latest findings regarding the Trump assassination attempt. This is a fast moving story as Cullen and his crew are uncovering new audio and video evidence almost daily. The biggest bombshell is a new video capture of a sub-sonic projectile whizzing past Trump that occurrs before the first audible shots were even taken. Trump continues talking, unaware that he's just been shot at and avoided being hit by a distance of inches.

The top Republicans in the House and Senate raised alarm Thursday that the “costs of hostage diplomacy” will only increase in the aftermath of a major prisoner swap with Russia. “Without serious action to deter further hostage-taking by Russia, Iran, and other states hostile to the United States, the costs of hostage diplomacy will continue to rise,” the top House and Senate Republicans argued. “As we renew our call for the return of all persons wrongfully detained by the Kremlin, we recognize that trading hardened Russian criminals for innocent Americans does little to discourage Putin’s reprehensible behavior,” they concluded.

South Pasadena unveiled the city's all-electric police fleet and charging infrastructure, becoming the nation's first law enforcement agency to completely replace its gasoline-powered vehicles with electric vehicles. The city's zero-emission police fleet of 20 new Teslas will rely on a bank of new electric vehicle chargers installed at South Pasadena City Hall. A news conference was held Monday at South Pasadena City Hall to display the fleet vehicles. "This transition reflects the city's vision of a sustainable future based on both sound fiscal management and environmental stewardship," South Pasadena Mayor Evelyn Zneimer said. "We will have a 21st Century police...

Affluent liberals will do nearly anything to parade their own perceived moral virtue, including fleecing their neighbors at gunpoint. In the end, however, the only thing on parade is tragicomic liberalism. On July 25, Megan Davey Limarzi, Inspector General of Montgomery County, Maryland, issued a blistering memorandum regarding her office’s (OIG) investigation into Montgomery County Public Schools’ catastrophic management of an electric bus contract, which has cost taxpayers millions and forced MCPS to rely on diesel buses. The sad story began with the usual virtue signaling. “On February 23, 2021, as part of its commitment to sustainability, MCPS announced it...

Governor J. B. Pritzker (D-IL) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that former President Donald Trump had no idea how to handle his Democrat challenger Vice President Kamala Harris. Pritzker said, “Kamala Harris is the perfect person at this moment. We’ve got the kind of palpable excitement, the energy that we really need in the party to carry us to victory in November. Of course Donald Trump is, I think, bewildered by it all. I don’t know that he has any idea how to handle the excitement that’s happening on the Democratic side or Kamala Harris herself. Let’s face it....

Intel’s on a long, long road to recovery, and over 15,000 workers will no longer be coming along for the ride. The chipmaker just announced it’s downsizing its workforce by over 15 percent as part of a new $10 billion cost savings plan for 2025, which will mean a headcount reduction of greater than 15,000 roles, Intel tells The Verge. The company currently employs over 125,000 workers, so layoffs could be as many as 19,000 people. Intel will reduce its R&D and marketing spend by billions each year through 2026; it will reduce capital expenditures by more than 20 percent...

Homicides in Mexico declined last year to the lowest level since 2016, according to preliminary 2023 data published by the national statistics agency INEGI. There were 31,062 homicides in 2023, INEGI said Thursday, a 6.7% decline compared to the 33,287 recorded in 2022. The 2022 tally was revised upward from a preliminary count of 32,223. Comparing the preliminary data for 2022 and 2023, the decline in murders last year was a more modest 3.6%. INEGI data shows that homicide numbers fell for a third consecutive year in 2023 after reaching an all-time high of 36,773 in 2020.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said that the United States officially recognizes opposition candidate Edmundo González as the real winner of the Venezuelan presidential election, instead of incumbent Nicolas Maduro. The results of Sunday's presidential election have been in dispute since both candidates claimed victory. But the National Electoral Council declared Maduro the victor on Monday, which gave him a third six-year term. Protests have broken out across the country as a result. “Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most...

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Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson this week announced that the state would implement a "panic button" system for the November election permitting election officials to quickly alert law enforcement in the event of a threat."I don't believe this is announced yet, but we will be rolling out a panic button type of communication for every election worker if clerks work with us, to implement it in their particular voting location to be able to text if something occurs," Benson said Monday.Her remarks came during a meeting of the National Press Foundation in Detroit, WTVB reported."[W]e've done a number...

Kamala tries to rebrand herself and walk back on her previous promises, for propaganda purposes. 'Fake, Fake, Fake': Why Donald Trump Called Kamala Harris Democratic Party's 'Puppet Candidate'. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/scripted-owned-controlled-why-donald-trump-called-kamala-harris-democratic-partys-puppet-candidate/articleshow/112187088.cms On her far-left record, Brown suggested she cling to a more vague political platform. "If she keeps people continually guessing, then she can adjust the interpretation of your guess every time she sees you," he told Politico.https://www.foxnews.com/media/willie-brown-worried-harris-has-hillary-syndrome-people-dont-like-her Kamala Harris Is A Phony’: JD Vance Mocks Clip Of Kamala Harris Speaking In ‘Fake' Southern Accent https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NFmC9gsqGXQ [Palestine pallywood Islamist lobbies plan to overwhelm DNC.. Chicago Arabs mobilized too.. the "protesters" who defend...

A natural gas expansion project spanning portions of New Jersey, Delaware and New York was dealt a legal setback after a federal appeals court vacated the approval of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The U.S. Court of Appeals overturned federal approval of the $1 billion expansion of the Transco natural gas pipeline, which would run through sections of New Jersey and Pennsylvania with extensions stretching into southern New York. The panel ruled that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission overlooked studies that the market for expanded natural gas in New Jersey was low when it granted approval last year to the...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Members of the Jackson City Council have called for the Texaco gas station on Medgar Evers Boulevard to be shut down. Councilman Brian Grizzell, Ward 4, said residents in his ward have called him to express their concerns about the gas station. A man was shot and killed at the gas station on Saturday. The gas station is located in Ward 3, which is under Councilman Kenneth Stokes. He has called for the gas station to be closed. Grizzell said he’s started the process to declare the gas station a public nuisance. “You know that store...

According to a statement released by the University of Exeter, an international team of researchers, including Mark Robinson and Jose Iriarte of the University of Exeter and Javier Aceituno of the University of Antioquia, compared images of animals found in the Colombian Amazon on Cerro Azul in the Serranía de la Lindosa with animal bones uncovered in nearby archaeological excavations. The rock art images, drawn with ocher on 16 rock panels on a remote hilltop, are estimated to be about 12,500 years old. Study of the animal remains revealed that the prehistoric population consumed a diverse diet of fish, mammals,...

PARIS — Algerian boxer Imane Khelif made history this week by becoming the first-ever Olympian to win the gold medal in the new Freestyle Domestic Violence event. "This is for all of us," an emotional Khelif said, raising his bloody fist triumphantly as the broken body of his small female opponent lay before him. "I'm proud that my superior man-shoulders and bone structure gave me the ability to beat up this small woman. This is what the sport of freestyle domestic violence is all about." According to doctors, the genetically male Khelif has higher testosterone and XY chromosomes that make...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland: We must remain anchored to Jesus against the evil infiltrating the ChurchDespite evil infiltrating the Church in the form of abuses and betrayal, the faithful must recognize the Church’s divine establishment, remaining One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.(Bishop Strickland’s Substack) — “Faith of our Fathers! Holy Faith! We will be true to thee till death.” This hymn, written in honor of Catholics martyred during the time of Henry VIII in England, reminds us that we must continue to stand strong on the firm foundation of our Catholic faith, regardless of the evil that has infiltrated the Church.This...

On Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” on Oct. 8, President Donald Trump described Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) as a “communist; she’s left of Bernie!” The president went on to cite Sen. Harris’ views, which are indeed even more extreme than Senators Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) or Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA). But there’s much more compelling evidence to indicate that, yes, Kamala Harris may indeed be communist. Communist Parents Harris’ parents, her mother Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian cancer researcher, and Donald Harris, a Jamaican economist, were both hard-core leftists. In the early 1960s, the couple was active in the...

The University of California is expecting its most diverse class ever. Data for student admissions released Wednesday shows the number of Latino and African-American students has increased, and the fall 2024 class of first-year students is at an all-time high. "When you graduate and go out into the world, they're going to be reacting with students who may see the world differently than them," said Gary Clark, the associative vice chancellor for UCLA enrollment management. "And I think it's important for them to have that experience as an undergraduate, to be well-prepared for whatever comes next." Race and ethnicity are...