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Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Vice President Kamala Harris was “not close” to beating former President Donald Trump in November. Guest host Michael Steele said, “I want to touch on a little bit of the noise he made earlier this week, which I personally appreciated and wanted to make sure people understood what I thought of what you said, when you caution folks. All the exuberance and all the excitement we are seeing right now in the campaign is good, it’s healthy, it is important, particularly given the campaign for Joe Biden was. Your...

Business Insider's Monica Humphries spent two weeks traveling around America's west in a camper van. Around every corner, she discovered hidden costs like paying for showers and eating out. Before embarking on a two-week van trip, Monica Humpries had romanticized the lifestyle. She pictured waking up in breathtaking places, spending weekends isolated in nature, and seeking out spontaneous adventures. She also pictured a full bank account. Humphries naively assumed that once you had your van and shed unnecessary possessions and the burden of monthly rent, there wouldn't be many other costs to consider. So when she picked up her rental...

● A police building in Sunderland was ransacked and a Citizens Advice premises next door was set alight as police faced “serious and sustained levels of violence" on Friday night ● Beer cans and bricks were thrown at riot police outside a mosque and cars were set on fire ● Northumbria Police says 10 arrests were made for offences including violent disorder and burglary ● Four police officers were taken to hospital for treatment, including a mounted rider who "sustained serious injuries" ● Some members of the crowd could be heard shouting Islamophobic slurs and chanting in support of far-right...

The Federal Communications Commission has officially approved an expansion of the E-Rate program that will allow schools and libraries to utilize E-Rate resources to loan out WiFi hotspots to students, school staff, and library patrons who lack internet access at home. The goal: ensuring that everyone has the connectivity needed for a 21st century quality education, the FCC explained in a news announcement. "It should be the standard practice that students or anyone who can't afford internet at home can check out a WiFi hotspot from their local library," said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, in a statement. "This update is...

➤ Bastrop: Elon Musk is opening a Montessori school in Bastrop this fall, with a focus on science, technology, engineering, and math for 3-9 year old students.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (8/3/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God (The Surety of a Better Covenant) Hebrews 7:2222 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

If this is real, this is probably going to get pulled very soon. Can anyone confirm?

Two months after announcing plans to close about 40 stores nationwide due to financial woes, Big Lots has indicated on its website it intends to close almost 300 stores.

The Biden administration and like-minded governments around the world are racing to secure their global climate strategy against a potential rollback under Donald Trump — an effort that has gained urgency since the ground shifted under the U.S. presidential race a month ago. The push includes leaning on the World Bank to unleash money for clean-energy projects in developing nations in a way that a future Trump administration could not unilaterally reverse. Meanwhile, climate diplomats and environmentalists have been holding their first early discussions about ways to persuade deep-pocketed investors that green energy is still the wave of the future...

So imagine that you're a conservative evangelical Christian or a traditional Catholic, and a nephew invites you to attend his upcoming wedding. And oh, by the way, he will be standing at the altar with another man. Do you go? That question presents a huge dilemma for many followers of Jesus Christ, who said that marriage consists solely of one man and one woman, united for life, for the purpose of raising a family while cherishing one another. Do you, by attending such a ceremony, thereby lend support to a practice that you view as fundamentally un-biblical and therefore sinful?...

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...