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The Biden administration has refused to answer reporters’ questions, rule out terrorism, or even reveal the names of two Jordanians in the country illegally, one of whom had illegally crossed the U.S. Southwest border, who on May 3 conducted a box truck ramming attack on Quantico Marine Corps Base.The Department of Justice, Department of Defense, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the FBI all circled wagons to guard even the identities of the two Jordanians against five written congressional inquiries, a sixth by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin seeking government briefings about the incident, and most recently a subpoena by the...

Guram Tushishvili has been disqualified from the men's 100kg judo competition He lashed out at opponent Teddy Riner after the Frenchman claimed victory The incident was branded as 'scandalous' by Dutch television commentators Georgian judo star Guram Tushishvili was disqualified from the men's 100kg judo competition after he bizarrely appeared to kick out at French favourite Teddy Riner during their quarter-final clash. Riner, a gold medallist at the 2012 games and the 2016 games, has since advanced to the final after beating Tajikistan's Temu Rakhimov in the resulting semi-final. But his meeting with Tushishvili, 29, ended in unsavoury scenes, with...

Former President Barack Obama’s campaign mastermind is joining Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign as a senior adviser. David Plouffe developed a reputation as a campaign guru by guiding Obama from being a little-known junior senator from Illinois to the White House in one of the most odds-defying and historical campaigns in American political history. He served as a top adviser in Obama’s White House, essentially leading Obama’s 2012 from his perch in the administration. He will now cast his lot with Harris, the latest Democrat power player to do so after countless party bigwigs had cooled on President Joe...

Keep hearing ads from supposedly respectable conservatives hawking Relief Factor. Has anyone had experience with it? Is it any good?

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It was a spring day in 2016 when 11 heavily-armed men pulled up to pro-life activist David Daleiden’s southern California home.Daleiden’s crime? Exposing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of body parts and organs of aborted babies.The person going after him? California Attorney General Kamala Harris. At the behest of Planned Parenthood, on April 5, 2016, Harris ordered a raid on Daleiden’s apartment to seize undercover footage shot by his organization, the Center For Medical Progress. Harris’s office charged Daleiden with violating video privacy laws.During the raid, Daleiden told The Daily Wire that a “dystopian kind of clown car” from...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Friday that the foreign policy vision that former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), Trump’s running mate, espouse is “nonsense.” McConnell has long tried to eliminate the “isolationist” wing’s increasing influence over the Republican Party. Although he did not directly reference Trump or Vance, McConnell called the “America First” foreign policy doctrine “nonsense.” “I mean, even the slogans are what they were in the 30s — ‘America First,'” McConnell added. Despite McConnell’s strong support for Ukraine’s protracted war, he admitted in an interview in July that he is not sure...

This is the mentality Put us all on your back this weekend

Artist’s depiction of the expected nova. Gif: NASA Visualization Studio ===================================================================================== T Coronae Borealis, a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth, is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. And if the recurring nova follows its usual pattern, we can expect to see a new, albeit temporary, star appearing in our night sky any day now. The moderator of a citizen scientist group I belong to recently emphasized, “T CrB remains our highest priority target every night.” His urgency is understandable; our “Cosmic Cataclysms” group needs to be on the lookout for the expected nova, gathering data before,...

A pair of black female activists, [Cora Masters Barry; Melanie Campbell] who have met with Vice President Harris several times and previously vowed to get “real serious” about helping her become the next president, could alienate some of the “White women for Kamala” supporters with their past rhetoric as they mobilize ahead of November’s election. *** However, the unearthed comments from the two activists could cause some internal tension for the Harris campaign as they look to mobilize different voting blocs and have called for “Unity.” “[Trump] did that, and we’re sitting here talking about the White women. F–k the...

Flying is inherently dangerous. Now we learn there is more risk in military flying and supporting armed forces aviation than maintaining the skills necessary to keep aircraft in the air or engaging an enemy in aerial combat. As a result, the health of the warfighters and the resulting readiness of the force are of concern. A recent Department of Defense (DOD) study reported that certain cancers are more prevalent in military aircrews and support personnel than in the general population. The Pentagon analysis is Phase 1 of an investigation called Study on the Incidence of Cancer Diagnosis and Mortality Among...

With the exchange complete, details can now be revealed that show just how close a swap along similar lines but including Navalny appeared to be back in February... A detailed investigation by the Wall Street Journal into the behind-the-scenes negotiations over the exchange described how its origins lay in a meeting in Geneva between the Russian and US leaders shortly after Joe Biden became president, long before Gershkovich’s arrest. There, Vladimir Putin suggested setting up a special channel to deal with prisoner swaps, an echo of a cold war practice. Biden agreed. Eventually, it led to Russia releasing the basketball...

Unofficial reports of 10 antihelium nuclei smacking into the International Space Station have inspired theoretical physicists to speculate beyond our current models in search of an explanation. While a small handful of cosmic particles might appear trivial, the signature of the antihelium shower is strange enough for researchers to treat the event like a rainstorm in a desert. In their recently published analysis, scientists from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada and Johns Hopkins University in the US make a case for considering physics outside of the currently accepted Standard Model, going as far as suggesting dark matter...

Artist's concept of a ship with the CoFlow system Looking like a set of bridge supports that were accidentally installed on a cargo ship, a new wind-driven system by startup CoFlow Jet promises to reduce ship fuel costs by up to 90% using stationary cylinders with no moving parts. Between rising fuel costs and increasing government mandates requiring shipping companies to go carbon neutral by 2050, there's a strong push to increase the efficiency of cargo ships while reducing their emissions. One way of doing this is to take a page from the history books and readopt sails to harness...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for holding interest rates steady earlier this week after Friday’s jobs report came in weaker than expected. “Fed Chair Powell made a serious mistake not cutting interest rates,” Warren said in a post on social platform X. “He’s been warned over and over again that waiting too long risks driving the economy into a ditch.” “The jobs data is flashing red,” she added. “Powell needs to cancel his summer vacation and cut rates now — not wait 6 weeks.” The central bank opted Wednesday to maintain rates at a range...

Sleepy Joe Biden was filmed wandering onto an airplane that was not Air Force One during a Russian prisoner exchange at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday. First, watch the video below where American prisoners held by Russia exit their jet to be greeted by Biden and Kamala Harris: VIDEO AT LINK................. Now, see Biden bizarrely walk up the steps of the airplane the freed prisoners just exited while Harris stares in bewilderment: “Did he think he was being exchanged to Russia??” joked Jack Posobiec. The senile puppet politician stayed in the jet for nearly two minutes! Harris also...

The chaos we are witnessing now is a result of tearing to pieces the principles and values that used to guide Western civilization. ===================================================================== Democrats have been trying very hard, particularly over the past week, to convince American voters that their candidate, like her predecessor, is something she’s not. Whereas before they tried to convince us Joe Biden had a pulse, now they’re claiming Kamala Harris is a competent, eloquent, and effective leader. The Democrats’ challenge to rebrand Kamala Harris and divert attention away from her slew of failed policies and incoherent word salads is nothing short of monumental. To...

https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/ The Gates Foundation money going towards media programs has been split up into a number of sections, presented in descending numerical order, and includes a link to the relevant grant on the organization’s website. Awards Directly to Media Outlets: NPR- $24,663,066 The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391 Cascade Public Media – $10,895,016 Public Radio International (PRI.org/TheWorld.org)- $7,719,113 The Conversation- $6,664,271 Univision- $5,924,043 Der Spiegel (Germany)- $5,437,294 Project Syndicate- $5,280,186 Education Week – $4,898,240 WETA- $4,529,400 NBCUniversal Media- $4,373,500 Nation Media Group (Kenya) – $4,073,194 Le Monde (France)- $4,014,512 Bhekisisa (South Africa) – $3,990,182 El País – $3,968,184 BBC- $3,668,657 CNN-...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said there are plans to roll out major overhauls to the Supreme Court if Democrats win control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. Calls for implementing stricter rules for the Supreme Court from the Left have escalated in recent years, as complaints about alleged corruption and ethical lapses have plagued Republican-appointed justices. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have been targeted by campaigns calling into question their relationships with GOP megadonors and their wives’ political involvement.“The Supreme Court has become a morass, both ethically and substantively,” Schumer told NBC News. “We’re...

Former President Donald Trump said Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings With Maria Bartiromo” that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt and apologized for Facebook and Instagram censoring photos of him with his fist raised. Trump said, “Mark Zuckerberg called me. First off he called me a few times after the event and said that was amazing and brave and actual he announced he is not going to support a Democrat because he can’t because he respected me for what I did that day.” He added, “To me it was a normal response but I was...