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By lifting sanctions without getting concessions, President Biden strengthened Nicolas Maduro’s regime and undermined the nation’s fight for freedom. On July 28, the Venezuelan socialist regime stole yet another election, declaring that dictator Nicolas Maduro had been reelected to another six-year term, despite losing the vote by 40 percentage points, according to election witnesses and opposition reports. This sham election should have drawn global condemnation, especially from the United States. Instead, the Biden administration failed to label the election as fraudulent until yesterday, even as one U.S. senator described the president’s Venezuela policy a success and gave it credit for...

Kamala Harris has range. She can grill nominees for the Supreme Court or meet with foreign dignitaries, then pivot to hosting a Diwali celebration or dancing enthusiastically alongside an HBCU-styled marching band. It is a dexterity that Harris, the first Black woman and Asian American to serve as vice president, developed as a person of color to navigate the corridors of power or Main Street in a nation where race and identity influence how one is received or embraced. Harris, the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, is an adroit code-switcher, a term that can include deliberately adjusting one’s...

President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, will be sentenced eight days after the 2024 presidential election takes place, after a Delaware jury found him guilty on three gun charges.

Russia's new military recruitment ad signals unity between Christians and Muslims.

IOC President Thomas Bach said Saturday the “hate speech” directed at boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting at the Paris Olympics is “totally unacceptable.” “We will not take part in a politically motivated … cultural war,” Bach said at a news briefing Khelif of Algeria and Lin of Taiwan have been subjected to days of global scrutiny about their gender. Both women were disqualified at the 2023 world championships. The Russian-led International Boxing Association — which has been banished from the Olympics by the IOC in a yearslong dispute — removed them from the worlds 16 months ago in India...

There is a Cheat Machine out there. It worked in the 2020 general election and it's no doubt gearing up again for another run. The only question is, will it work twice? Four years ago, after the results of the presidential election finally came in, it was obvious there were problems and inconsistencies with the process. Dead voters, bogus residencies, midnight ballot dumps in crucial swing states that magically propelled one candidate over the other in just a few short hours, 2,000 mules, video evidence of poll workers running ballots through scanners multiple times, etc. A lot of people took...

One of the largest industrial real-estate developers in the U.S. plans to begin developing data centers as an artificial-intelligence boom drives demand for specialized buildings. Panattoni Development said Thursday it hired a partner, Adam Kramer, to lead a team that will build and operate data centers across North America. The Irvine, Calif.-based company said it plans to develop a gigawatt of data-center capacity over the next 5 years... ... Capacity in North America’s largest data-center markets such as Dallas, Chicago and northern Virginia increased 26% last year from 2022, according to commercial real-estate services firm CBRE. The sector has some...

A renowned Democrat strategist is warning Kamala Harris that she risks losing to Donald Trump - unless she tells the far left wing of her party to 'f*** off.' James Carville - who helped Bill Clinton's successful 1992 White House run - had correctly predicted President Biden would drop out of the race, but supported an open 'mini primary' rather than installing Harris. However, now that Carville is supporting the Democrat nominee, he's demanding she not listen to the 'woke' progressive side of the party. 'I wish she'd tell them all to go f*** themselves,' Carville said, adding that the...

Well, ladies and gentlemen: the chips are down — literally and figuratively. Two years ago, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris touted their “Chips Act” to bring the semiconductor industry back home from Taiwan, China and Singapore. The price tag on the bill: a cool $280 billion of corporate handouts. It was arguably the largest corporate welfare bill in American history. Intel, Micron, Global Foundries, Polar Semiconductor, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Samsung, BAE Systems, and Microchip Technology have been the direct beneficiaries of the law. This was supposed to be one of the “Crown Jewels” of the Biden-Harris admin. A massive...

A Pentagon statement said the new deployments would "improve US force protection... increase support for the defence of Israel, and ... ensure the US is prepared to respond to various contingencies". The deployments would include additional ballistic missile defense-capable cruisers and destroyers, it said. The US military had also intensified deployments before 13 April, when Iran launched an attack on Israel with drones and missiles. Israel and its allies shot down almost all of roughly 300 drones and missiles that were fired. Israel has not commented directly on the strike which killed Haniyeh. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his...

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By now, you’re probably aware Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance has described Democrats as “childless cat ladies” with no “direct stake” in America’s future. We, on the other hand, have been ears-deep in data. ... About 38 percent of Democrats had never had children as of 2022, compared with 26 percent of Republicans, according to the universally beloved General Social Survey from the universally beloved NORC at the University of Chicago.... ... in recent years, Democrats have become a bit more likely to be childless no matter their age. In fact, they’re more likely to be childless across almost every...

Nearly 350,000 Americans settled for part-time jobs in July according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday.... Meanwhile, the number of American workers employed part-time because their hours were reduced or they could not find full-time jobs increased by 346,000 to 4.6 million, raising the specter of recession, according to economists who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation.... E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, told the DCNF. “The Biden-Harris administration has turned the American labor market into a temp agency.”... Since June 2023, the U.S. has...

In testimony on the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe told the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, "what I saw made me ashamed. As a career law enforcement officer, and a twenty-five-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend the cascade of security failures that occurred. I accept full responsibility." Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo) said "I have heard from a whistleblower that you personally cut the security resources available to cover the Butler rally and have retaliated against agents...

EXCLUSIVE — Nonsanctuary cities and states could retaliate against sanctuary cities that have shipped out migrants from their streets to Republican-run jurisdictions under a new proposal. Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) will debut legislation this week to cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal Emergency Management Agency funding to cities that, overwhelmed with illegal immigrants who have been released into the country from the southern border, have opted to use federal grant money to pay for bus, train, and plane tickets to move migrants to other towns.... Denver, which received nearly $13 million from the Biden administration to help...

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Donald Trump has said he's debating Kamala Harris on September 4. The GOP nominee claims the face-to-face will take place in an arena in Pennsylvania, but Harris has yet to confirm it's happening. Posting on Truth Social Friday night, Trump wrote: 'I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th.'

A Chinese national was arrested after multiple attempts to breach the security of Mar-a-Lago, the private club and residence of former President Donald Trump.The suspect, Zijie Li, 38, of El Monte, California, claimed to possess documents implicating the Chinese government in a recent assassination attempt on Trump.WPTV reported that Li first attempted to enter Mar-a-Lago on July 19, around 8 p.m., driving a Toyota Prius. Secret Service agents stopped him at the main gate. Li alleged he had critical information connecting China to an assassination attempt on the former president and insisted on handing over the documents. However, the Secret...

In a landmark development, Governor Josh Green, M.D., announced Friday night that a historic $4 billion settlement has been reached to resolve all tort claims arising from the catastrophic wildfires that devastated Maui last year.The devastating fires on August 8, 2023, have been linked directly to failures by the state’s primary utility provider during a critical windstorm.At first, Hawaii State Attorney General Anne E. Lopez decided to withhold initial findings from the public regarding the massive Maui wildfires that took place. This move is purportedly to “protect the integrity” of the ongoing investigation, according to a statement from the Department...