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Venezuela’s opposition candidate trounced President Nicolás Maduro in last week’s election, according to election tallies that show the opposition’s Edmundo González received more than double the votes of Maduro. A Washington Post review, published Sunday, analyzed more than 23,000 precinct-level tally sheets collected by the opposition. It found Maduro received about 30 percent of the vote (3,131,103 votes) compared to 67 percent for González (6,901,845 votes), further fueling doubts over Maduro’s declared victory in the race. The tally sheets analyzed by the Post represented 79 percent of the voting tables from the July 28 election. The outlet noted that even...

The United Nations (UN) has admitted that nine employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may have participated in the Hamas terror attack of October 7. Israel said earlier this year that at least 12 UNRWA employees had participated in the terror attack. There were also reports that UNRWA staff praised the attacks, and that many UNRWA employees were members of terror groups. The U.S. suspended funding to UNRWA when Israel made the accusations; many other donor nations followed. An initial “independent” investigation found that there was insufficient evidence to substantiate Israel’s claims. (Israel rejected the results of...

VIDEOI enjoy watching Mark Halperin's channel, 2Way, which features both his analysis of current events as well as the people on ZOOM of various political persuasions weighing in on the state of the political world. However, Halperin blew off a great chance to get to the bottom of something he was talking about namely who was the source of the leak of the Doug Emhoff scandal story in which he knocked up his children's nanny. Who better to answer such a question than the person who broke the story as Halperin himself acknowledged. However, when Laura Loomer, unmuted herself on...

Derek Finkle lives across the street from the South Riverdale Community Health Centre and supervised injection site in Toronto. He has been writing a series of stories in the National Post about his neighbourhood’s battle with the centre over discarded needles, drug dealers, crime and murder. Seven months after a mother was killed in a gun fight between drug dealers outside of a supervised injection site my family lives across the street from, a class action lawsuit was filed today in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, naming the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, which operates the site, as well...

Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. I have to make a confession: Kamala Harris had a much stronger start than I expected. She appears competent, in command and she is connecting to voters — everything she wasn’t when she ran for president five years ago. I gather you’re not surprised ….Gail Collins: Bret! Does that mean you’re going to vote for her? I was planning on torturing you until you joined the team.Bret: I’m not there yet, though the rumored choice of Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania governor, as her running mate would go far to reassure me about a Harris administration. What...

* Jaguar is in the midst of reinventing the brand, reducing sales volume, and going EV-only. * JLR is looking to trim down the number of Jaguar outlets across Canada. * Dealers who invested heavily in the brand are not satisfied, and want compensation. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) dealers in Canada are gearing up for a joint lawsuit as the company wants to reconfigure how the brand operates. Jaguar’s new ultra-luxury strategy involves going all-electric and will shake up how cars are sold while drastically reducing sales expectations. While Land Rover has seemingly managed to be doing quite well, Jaguar...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - North Charleston Police say they responded to the Bojangles on Ladson Road after a fight broke out between multiple people and an employee. A report states that officers responded to the 3600 block of Ladson Road around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday regarding a call for service for a commercial panic alarm. While en route, police were advised by Charleston County deputies that there was an active fight going on at the location. Police said the victim, an employee at the store, was behind the front counter when the suspects, among which two women, entered the business. One...

With Massachusetts still in the grip of a crushing housing affordability and access crisis, one Bay State lawmaker says she has a plan to help. Legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would spend roughly a half-trillion dollars to encourage the construction of new housing, bring down costs for renters, and make it easier for first-time buyers and veterans to purchase homes, among other fixes. "The only way to dig our country out of this housing crisis is to build more housing so everyone has a place to call home,” Warren, who is running for re-election this fall, said...

Hot August Nights announced Sunday it has revoked registrations for people shown in a Friday confrontation in a Virginia City viral video. The Storey County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday the incident is also being investigated. In it, TikTok user unclerickd1 protests what he described as comments by at least one person in Virginia City that there was a “hanging tree” for people like him. The sheriff’s office said it does not “condone or support racism, inequality, or hate speech.” Hot August Nights said those in the video have been identified. “We want to clarify that there were no Hot August...

35 minutes of footage and commentary. Love his accent, the Hulk Hogan mustache.

Rep Jamie Raskin says Congress will stop Donald Trump on Jan 6, 2025 using the 14th Amendment and create “civil war conditions”

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was “surprised” by the announcement of a plea deal between a U.S. military commission and three accused plotters of the 9/11 attacks, a Pentagon spokesperson said Monday, adding that Austin wants to see the case go to trial Austin, who revoked the plea deal Friday, “was certainly surprised as we all were,” said deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh. “This is not something that the secretary was consulted on,” Singh told reporters at a Monday briefing. “We were not aware that the prosecution or defense would enter the terms of the plea agreement.” The Office of...

Meta Public Affairs Director Dani Lever acknowledged that Facebook's censorship of the post-assassination attempt photo of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump "was a mistake. Our basic operating premise regarding everything showing Trump in a good light is that it must be disinformation. This photo showed him allegedly surviving a gunshot wound and defiantly urging his supports to fight. Later, as evidence seemed to build verifying that there actually had been a shooting, that a bullet pierced Trump's ear and was within an inch of killing him, we reluctantly concluded that the photo was genuine." Lever admitted that "hearing Meta CEO...

A near-week of threats hasn’t had the hoped-for impact for Sir Keir Starmer, who on Monday announced a change of tack with the establishment of a “standing army” to crush riots where they appeared. The Prime Minister, a seasoned lawyer with a usually assured and slick style seemed unsure of his words at times and lacked his normal energy as he spoke to journalists on Monday after he stepped out of a government crisis meeting. Speaking at his official residence and office Downing Street, where it appears a certain degree of bunker mentality has set in — the husband of...

In May, my husband and I embarked on a second honeymoon. It was almost the only trip we've taken together since our first honeymoon 34 years ago. Because we've owned livestock for most of our married life, we haven't traveled together in over three decades. We rented a car and embarked on a leisurely, planless trip around the Southwest. We visited parts of Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana before returning, tired but happy, to our snug North Idaho homestead. We avoided cities and instead focused on exploring the vast beauty of the West's wide-open spaces and...

California’s Alameda Unified School District ethnic studies curriculum required students to assess their own level of privilege as they were taught Critical Race Theory and extreme gender theory. Students were given handouts including “My Relationship with Privilege and Oppression,” which asks students “whether you are privileged or oppressed.” White, male, Christian students without a criminal record are singled out as the epitome of privilege. The document lists 29 different identities and characteristics—including race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, religion and education level—that are used to determine one’s alleged level of privilege or marginalization. “Who am I as an intersectional human being,” it...

Former President Donald Trump reacted to stock markets plunging on Monday, presenting voters with a clear choice in November. “STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT “LEADERS” IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!” he posted on Truth Social. He later added: “VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH & GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024, NOT TO MENTION THE PROBABILITY OF WORLD WAR lll IF THESE VERY STUPID PEOPLE REMAIN IN OFFICE. REMEMBER, TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!” He also weighed in...

Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic Party nominee has a track record of pushing for illegal aliens to practice law in California. According to a report by John Binder for Breitbart News, Harris was a leading advocate for allowing illegal alien invaders to become licensed lawyers in the state of California. It should be noted California is affectively sanctuary state illegal aliens are allowed to reside and move across the state with virtual impunity Vice President Kamala Harris, now running for the Democratic nomination for president, was once a top champion for allowing illegal aliens to become licensed attorneys in the...

Bitcoin (BTCUSD-8.10%)’s price was tumbling on Monday, mirroring a global selloff in stocks after a weaker-than-expected jobs report on Friday. The largest and oldest token edged lower for much of the weekend before dropping sharply late Sunday. Over the past 24 hours, it was down 15% to $50,186. Ether, another popular digital asset, crashed 25% to $2,197. Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report showed that the U.S. added just 114,000 jobs in July, which fell short of consensus estimates. The soft data sparked worries that the Federal Reserve might not cut interest rates fast enough to prevent a recession. That sparked a...

We compose many top 10 song lists here at ClassicRockHistory.com. Some are more fun to write than others. Our Rickie Lee Jones songs list ranks as one of the most enjoyable we have ever done. There are rock artists, and then there are “rock artists. In our opinion, Rickie Lee Jones is up there with the greats like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Carole King, and Billie Holiday. We are not the only ones who feel that way. Rickie Lee Jones is a musician’s musician. Just one look at the stellar lineups of musicians on her studio albums defines the...