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Multiple videos posted to social media seem to show angry residents trying to keep the public from parts of the beach that they're legally allowed to visit.

Early on a Saturday morning at Rawley Duntley Park in Lancaster — the high-desert sun blazing — George Whitesides, a Democrat running for Congress, was encircled by dozens of cheering, noisemaker-blasting volunteers. “I really want to make sure that even the astronauts out there can hear his name!” Nadia Abrica, an organizing director with the state Democratic Party, shouted, pointing to the sky. “George! George! George!” “Are you guys feeling fired up?” Whitesides asked the crowd. “Are you feeling ready to go? ... Are we going to change the House of Representatives?” “Yes!” they screamed. Whitesides, a former NASA chief...

A Denny’s breakfast platter has apparently become extremely expensive amid choking inflation and labor costs. A post on Reddit shows an image of the restaurant’s menu where the price of the Lumberjack Slam sits at $17.99, the New York Post reported on Friday, noting that a decade ago, the meal cost around $5.99: Click here to see the post. “The hefty price tag doesn’t include the premium option of upgrading the pancakes to double berry banana, cinnamon roll, or ‘choconana’ for an extra $3.09, which would bring the pre-tax, pre-tip total to $21.08,” the Post article said, noting the location...

A major gym chain is being investigated by Missouri's Attorney General after it allowed a trans woman to use a female locker room. Eris Montano, who has legally changed her gender, was accosted by a fellow gym goer whilst at the Ellisville Lifetime Fitness on Monday. A dispute has since ensued and police were ultimately involved, after someone filed a complaint on Friday morning, FirstAlert4 reports.

By opening the door wider to an interest-rate cut in September, the Federal Reserve is on a collision course with the presidential election. For a central bank that judiciously aspires to stay above the fray of partisan politics, confronting a potential policy shift around election time amounts to a lose-lose. Delivering a rate cut ahead of the election could rile up Republicans and former President Donald Trump, but withholding a needed reduction could undermine the economy and upset Democrats. The awkward optics give extra incentive for central bank officials in the coming weeks to set expectations for and explain the...

Explanation: On a road trip up Mount Uludağ in Bursa province, Turkey these motorcyclists found themselves above low clouds and fog in late June. With the bright Sun directly behind them, the view down the side of the great mountain revealed a beautiful, atmospheric glory and fog bow. Known to some as the heiligenschein or the Specter of the Brocken, a glory can also sometimes be seen from airplanes or even high buildings. It often appears to be a dark giant surrounded by a bright halo. Of course the dark giant is just the shadow of the observer (90MB video)...

TRANSCRIPT OF 37 second video clip of Michelle Obama praising "wonderful human being" and "good friend", Harvey Weinsten, is provided below the X.com images. https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1819778583600279815 11:53 AM · Aug 3, 2024TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~Michelle Obama: "I want to start by thanking Harvey Weinstein for organizing this amazing day. (applause drowns out her two word comment here).This is possible because of Harvey. He is a wonderful human being, good friend, and just a powerhouse, and the fact that he and his team took the time to make this happen for all of you, should say something, not about me or about this place,...

“If you think a woman can’t beat Donald Trump,” Amy Klobuchar declared, “Nancy Pelosi does it every day.” Speaking from the stage of a Democratic presidential debate in November 2019, the Minnesota senator felt compelled to address head-on one of her party’s central anxieties. Four-plus years later, with Vice President Kamala Harris’s sudden ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket, a woman is again trying to beat Trump in a presidential race—and the machinations of Pelosi, the former House speaker who worked to pressure President Biden out of the race, helped put her in that position. Another woman, Nikki...

This week, Ismail Haniyeh, one of the top three multi-billionaire Hamas leaders, was killed in Tehran by a bomb. He was visiting to meet with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and participate in the inauguration ceremony of new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian. While Iranian authorities initially attributed the death to an Israeli air strike, further analysis revealed that the explosive device had been secretly planted in an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps safe house for visiting friends of the regime two months prior to its remote detonation--a strategy that Pezeshkian characterized as "cowardly." In a statement issued from their luxury hotel...

We are not fans of Kevin McCarthy’s buddy, Frank Luntz. He is not a good pollster and he’s a horrible person. But when he’s right he’s right and in this case his assessment is accurate. It highlights an important idea that must be hammered home in the minds of Republicans.

Recapping the build-up to the move (…and throwing a bit of fun side-eye at a pack rat peer or two), Hostin said, "We've had to, for the past couple of weeks, box up things, get rid of things… We were allotted, each host, five huuuuge cartons. I took up two, Sara [Haines] took up all five and was looking for more! "And Ana [Navarro], please don't say that you were a purger, because I think you had over 50 pairs of shoes in your [dressing] room," Hostin quipped. >p? "I'm feeling attacked!" Navarro laughed, before admitting: "They are all my...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Air Force Global Strike Command Commander Gen. Thomas Bussiere stated that the world is currently “more complicated, more complex, and dangerous than at any point” in his nearly four-decade career in the Air Force. Co-host and POLITICO White House Bureau Chief Jonathan Lemire said, “Give us, if you will, in light of these seemingly escalating threats, your sense of the state of play.” Bussiere responded, “So, I’ve been in the Air Force for 38 1/2 years, and the world, as I see it today is more complicated, more complex, and dangerous than at...

PHOENIX — Arizonans who lack proof of citizenship can again sign up to vote in this year’s presidential and congressional races. The action comes after two of three judges on a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals late Thursday overturned a ruling to the contrary by a different three-judge panel whose duty it is to rule on pending motions. The majority of this panel — the one actually assigned to hear the case — concluded the other judges should never have made such a radical change in voting registration rules so soon before the election, saying it would...

The Babylonian map of the world is the oldest map of the world, in the world. Written and inscribed on clay in Mesopotamia around 2,900-years-ago, it is, like so many cuneiform tablets, incomplete. However, Irving Finkel and a particularly gifted student of his - Edith Horsley - managed to locate a missing piece of the map, slot it back into the cuneiform tablet, and from there set us all on journey through the somewhat mythical landscape of Mesopotamia to find the final resting place of the ark. And yes we mean that ark, as in Noah's ark. Although in the...

Officers responding to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon found the man suffering from a gunshot wound inside the home, police spokesperson Heather Mitchell said. Police said the intruder was carrying a 3-foot wooden stake and a rock when he entered an open slider door in a back bedroom. A woman was inside the room. “The suspect threw a rock at a male resident of the home, striking him in the face,” Mitchell said in a statement. “The male resident retrieved a firearm and shot the suspect.” The homeowner, a 54-year-old man, fired his Glock handgun three...

The suspected gang member who allegedly shot and wounded two NYPD sergeants after robbing a woman on the Lower East Side this week showed no remorse — giving the middle finger to cops while sitting in his holding cell. *** The barefoot suspect is dressed in dirty gray sweatpants and a matching hoodie. He appeared in court wearing a t-shirt and pajama pants emblazoned with the “I Love NY” logo. “That’s probably a ‘f–k you’ to the detectives,” a veteran NYPD officer said of the photo. “He’s known in the 5th Precinct. He’s been a nuisance in that precinct. I’m...

Of the “10 golden heroines of French history” to whom tribute was paid during the Olympics opening ceremony, all of the heroines born in the 20th century played a pivotal role in making abortion legal in France. During the Olympics opening ceremony last week, the organisers chose to highlight and celebrate “10 golden heroines” by having statues of them emerge from the Seine as the national anthem was sung. Among the women represented by these statues were politician Gisèle Halimi, and feminists Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Veil. These three were the only ones born in the 20th century and...

On August 1, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit overturned a prior decision that required proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. This ruling, which was decided in a narrow 2-1 vote, now allows individuals to register to vote using a state form, without having to provide citizenship documentation for federal positions such as President and Congress. The law, enacted by Arizona's Republican-led Legislature in 2022, was designed to prevent non-citizens from voting by mandating proof of citizenship if registering to vote with the state. The initial emergency stay, issued on July 18 by a different Ninth Circuit...

When Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin confronted the crisis, Franklin, argued that America’s trade in the Mediterranean was relatively insignificant, so American merchant vessels should avoid that sea. Adams believed America should follow the European practice of paying “protection” money. Jefferson knew it was common for the “Mussulmen” to take tribute for a certain period but suddenly requiring 'fresh negotiations' and a higher price. What Muslims did to the American economy in 2001, their forebears mass hijacking did to the American economy in 1793.

Violence erupted in several English cities on Saturday amid anti-immigrant protests, as crowds of far-right activists scuffled with the police and counterprotesters in the northern cities of Liverpool, Hull and Nottingham, among other locations.Tensions have simmered in communities across Britain in the wake of a stabbing in the northern town of Southport on Monday, as misinformation over the identity of the attacker has swirled online. The knife attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class for elementary school-aged girls stunned Britain and ignited days of anti-immigrant riots in multiple cities that were incited by far-right provocateurs. Increasingly, the demonstrations...