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The Mossad enlisted Iranian security agents to plant explosives in the Tehran guesthouse where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was staying, according to a report in the Telegraph. The report says the initial plan called for assassinating Haniyeh when visited Tehran in May to attend the funeral of president Ebrahim Raisi, but two Iranian officials tell the newspaper the operation was called off due to the large number of people in the building and seeming high possibility of failure. The British daily says the agents nevertheless went ahead and planted explosives in three rooms at the compound, and later left Iran....

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked the plea agreements for the 9/11 terrorist attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others and relieved the official in charge of military courts in Guantanamo Bay. The move puts the possibility of the death penalty back on the table for the trio. It was announced in a memorandum on Friday. On Wednesday, the Department of Defense reached a plea deal with Mohammed, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Ramzi Bin al Shibh, three men accused of planning the attacks. The details of the deal weren't made public. This is a developing story. Check back for...

If you ever feel like you spend hours and hours scrolling on Facebook, TikTok or other social media platforms, you’re not alone. One man in Montreal was so negatively affected by social media apps that he’s filed a proposed lawsuit against Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, and Reddit. Montreal-based law firm Lambert Avocats filed a request for authorization of the class action on July 29. According to Lambert, the plaintiff has been active on social media since 2015. “At that time, he was active on various social media platforms for three to four hours per day, and...

History has its eye on us. President Biden’s decision to end his campaign was as pure an act of patriotism as I have seen in my lifetime. It should also be a call to action to the rest of us to continue his fight for the soul of our nation. The next 15 weeks will be like nothing this country has ever experienced politically, but have no doubt: This is a race Democrats can and must win. Mr. Biden has done a hard and rare thing. Serving as president was a lifelong dream. And when he finally got there, he...

The Devastating Legacy of Obama's Presidency - A Point of No Return | Thomas Sowell

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrest of Terry Andrew Heflin, a Democrat running for District 5 of the Clay County Commission, on 7 felony counts of voter fraud Wednesday. Heflin, 45, a resident of Clay County, was charged with 7 counts of unlawful use of absentee ballots, according to AG Marshall’s office. Specifically, the indictment alleges that Heflin falsified applications to vote absentee for multiple people and then used those people’s names to vote for himself by absentee ballot. Each count of unlawful use of an absentee ballot is a Class C felony punishable by 1 year...

This shows the huge difference between two adjacent counties. "Carjacker who told cops he’d be ‘out by Sunday’ gets 22 years in prison" chicagotribune.com/2023/03/24/column-carjacker-who-told-cops-hed-be-out-by-sunday-gets-22-years-in-prison/ #CookCounty #Chicago #WillCounty #Crime #JordanHenry #Carjacking #Carjackers

As Megan Basham’s new book continues to ruffle feathers among bigEVA elites, some of her targets have started to respond and peck away at her plucking, no matter how tangentially the mention. Enter Phil Vhischer. In a post on Twitter, he scolds her for even the suggestion that he’s called Christians to have more nuance around abortion, referencing a video that “we” (He and Skye Jethani) made about abortion and whether overturning Roe v. Wade would reduce abortions (before it was) where they argue that it wouldn’t. We last wrote about the VeggieTales creator and Holy Post podcast host he...

The US labor market cooled significantly last month as unemployment unexpectedly rose, sparking fears of a slowdown across the world’s largest economy. American employers added 114,000 jobs in July – short of the 180,000 additions expected by economists, and a marked decrease from the 179,000 added in June. The headline unemployment increased to 4.3%, its highest level since October 2021, up from 4.1% the previous month. Wall Street fell sharply following the official release. The S&P 500 declined 1.8% to a two-month low, as the technology-focused Nasdaq fell 2.4% and entered “correction” territory, having retreated 10% from the record high...

The first-ever photo of a prisoner at a CIA black site has been released in an unclassified U.S. military court filing. A photo of Ammar al-Baluchi, one of several men at Guantánamo Bay who the U.S. government has accused of orchestrating the 9/11 terror attacks, has been released in a U.S. military court filing. According to The Guardian, Baluchi was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2003 and was secretly taken to five CIA black sites between 2003 and 2006.

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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