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The Creative Director of a major Christian publishing company has been sentenced to eight years to life in the Colorado Department of Corrections, a punishment served after he admitted to sexually abusing a six-year-old girl. In September 2022, a young woman came forward and said she’d been sexually assaulted repeatedly by Michael Paustian when she was six years old. Paustian was the Creative Director of Group Publishing, a company specializing in publishing curricula for churches. According to the Larimer County’s office: Throughout the investigation, it was revealed that the victim had disclosed the assaults to several members of the family,...

Former Bush campaign manager Karl Rove said Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” that he believed Vice President Kamala Harris will soon lead former President Donald Trump in the polls because of momentum. Rove said the former president could take the lead again by focusing on an issue. Host John Roberts said, “So let’s talk about where the race is because, in some battleground states, the polls seem to have been narrowing.”

In the US, most cities have a “Downtown”, which is the business district, the busy area where commerce is. Some cities have an “Uptown”, related to a more sophisticated, wealth-concentrated, neighborhood. And rarely a city has a “Midtown”, which would be a geographical area, in the middle of the city.

The failure of the Secret Service to pre-empt the assassination attempt on former President Trump on July 13 has left me with only one conclusion - we should dissolve the Secret Service into it's two components. If the attempted assassination was a Deep State conspiracy, by having Secret Service protection gradually stripped away so Mr. Crooks could have a clear shot, it will be practically impossible to find the fingerprints. So I want to concentrate on the structural things we can do something about. First of all, the Secret Service has never been either adequately funded, and from that adequately...

During an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, acting Labor Secretary Julie Su reacted to the July jobs report by stating that the July jobs number is “still over 100,000 jobs. It’s still broad-based.” And “generally, this is an indicator of continued strength in the economy.” Host Katie Greifeld asked, “You actually spoke to us back in June and said that we were looking at the definition of a soft landing. As you parse through these numbers, would you still say that today?”

Former President Donald Trump has taken a three-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris nationally, according to a recent Harvard-Harris poll. The poll, conducted between July 26 and 28, surveyed 2,196 voters registered voters nationally. When asked who voters would pick if the presidential election were held today, 48 percent said they would vote for Trump and 45 percent said they would vote for Harris.

A POLICE station erupted into flames last night after rioting thugs torched cars and attacked cops in another night of carnage sparked by the Southport stabbing. Eight people were arrested and three police officers taken to hospital after the outburst of terrifying violence in Sunderland city centre.

Dozens more babies in the US have been born with a frightening new condition linked to fentanyl abuse during pregnancy. Known as fetal fentanyl syndrome, the disorder causes multiple physical and brain defects, including conjoined fingers and toes and deformed heads. Dr Miguel Del Campo, at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, has seen 20 babies with the syndrome and fears the issue is far more widespread and going undetected. The condition was only identified last fall and there is no national or state-level data to track how prevalent it is. Dr Del Campo was inspired by that research, which...

SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into orbit early Friday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1 a.m., EDT, with the first stage returning to Earth to stick its Atlantic Ocean landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas. SpaceX moved back the launch for nearly an hour into the launch window, which opened at 12:19 a.m. The company did not explain the delay. Factors that could have played a factor in the delay include weather and the position of the drone ship. Friday's launch was the 12th for the booster...

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Donald Trump’s comments on Wednesday questioning whether Vice President Kamala Harris is Black were not an off-the-cuff expression of racism, but part of a broader campaign strategy that Trump and many of his key lieutenants plan to make a heavy focus of their final three-month sprint to retake the White House.Asked on Wednesday about Republicans accusing Harris of being a “DEI hire” or “DEI candidate,” Trump responded by questioning Harris’ racial identity. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened...

One of the main issues for the election is the economy. It's already been bad under Biden-Harris. It got worse on Friday as the stock market tanked and a bad July jobs report came in, as we reported. Hiring slowed to 114,000 jobs last month, the government report said, missing expectations. The unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent—its highest level in nearly three years, when the economy was still clawing its way back from the pandemic. That was also worse than expectations. Now, that raises big concerns about a slowing economy, which my colleague Ward Clark noted. Economist John Lonski...

DHS IG confirms in report that the Biden/Mayorkas DHS significantly stonewalled his J6 investigation. Texts deleted, cell phones of top officials presumably including Kim Cheatle were wiped. Data never recovered

US Secretary of Defense revokes plea deal with 9/11 suspects.

[Catholic Caucus] Rupnik’s center denounces ‘cancel culture’ of removing disgraced priest’s imagesSome of Marko Rupnik’s alleged serial abuse is said to have taken place at his Rome-based Aletti Center, which has become his international base of operations and where he continues to live an unimpeded life.Pope Francis meets Aletti Center director Maria Campatelli, Sept 2023.Vatican Media The staff of Father Marko Rupnik’s Rome-based art center have hit back against international decisions to cover the disgraced priest’s art as being part of “cancel culture.”As shrines and religious centers around the world begin to examine the future of the mosaics installed by...

Former President Trump vowed to “unleash hell” at his rally Saturday in Atlanta, targeting his new opponent, Vice President Harris, just days after thousands rallied for her in Georgia.“24 HOURS UNTIL WE UNLEASH HELL,” began Trump’s campaign email sent Friday afternoon. “At this time tomorrow, Crooked Kamala’s worst nightmares come true.”His running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), will join him at Georgia State University’s Convocation Center.The former president said he plans to take the stage in “DEEP BLUE Atlanta” and be greeted by thousands of “MAGA Patriots.” When he does so, he said Harris won’t be able to hide from...

California regulators have proposed a variety of government intrusions into the petroleum industry in order to combat future energy price surges, according to a report released Thursday by the California Energy Commission (CEC). As the Golden State continues to pursue its green agenda, the CEC expects some of California’s nine oil refineries to be shuttered due to falling demand, which would give the remaining refineries increased pricing power and raise the possibility of a surge in gas prices, the study concluded. To solve this problem, the commission proposed a variety of government interventions, including expanded regulation on private refineries, the...

The chief of the Secret Service said at a press briefing Friday that agents on the ground in Butler, Penn. did not know Thomas Crooks had a weapon until he fired his first shot at former President Donald Trump from the roof of a nearby building on July 13. Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said the agency took "full responsibility" for the law enforcement failings that day, when one of the bullets fired by Crooks grazed Trump's ear and nearly took his life. Corey Comperatore, a former volunteer fire chief from Pennsylvania, was killed in the gunfire. Also injured in...

West said 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh was 'not a terrorist'.. Kamala Harris has a "powerful" new campaign adviser: her brother-in-law Tony West, the former Obama Justice Department attorney who defended a convicted terrorist sentenced to 20 years in prison for fighting with the Taliban and colluding with al-Qaeda. West is now "a powerful adviser" to Harris's "new campaign," Axios reported Friday. Roughly 20 years prior, West held a different role: attorney for a Taliban terrorist. West in 2002 signed on to defend "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, who was captured in Afghanistan one year earlier and subsequently indicted for...

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-7-when-states-mail-out-absentee-mail-ballots#Body Alabama 45 days before the election. Alaska 25 days before the election. 24 to 27 days before the election. Arkansas 46 days before the election. California 29 days Colorado 18-22 days Connecticut 31 days Delaware 60 days Florida 50 days Pennsylvania