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We're getting oh so close to knowing who all the candidates on the November ballot will be, but even as the calendar has turned to August, about a third of all states still have yet to hold their primaries for non-presidential office. On Tuesday, four states — Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington — will head to the polls (or mail in their ballots), and we're tracking over a dozen races between them. With luck, by Wednesday, we'll know whether the progressive "Squad" has lost another member; whether one of the two remaining Republican representatives who voted to impeach former President...

Another member of the “squad” of progressive lawmakers is fighting for political survival in Tuesday’s primaries, which will also put former President Donald Trump’s endorsement to the test once again, including in Michigan’s crucial battleground Senate race. Rep. Cori Bush’s Democratic primary in Missouri is among the most expensive and hotly contested races Tuesday, when voters in four states — Missouri, Washington, Michigan and Kansas — pick their parties’ nominees in congressional and state races. Four years after she ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. in the heavily Democratic 1st District, Bush is looking to win a race that...

Republicans have been odd for a good long while now. Remember the Tea Party people? They used to show up to rallies and events in tri-cornered hats bedecked with bags of Lipton’s finest, but they have nothing on the current incarnation of the Grand Old Party. Revolutionary War cosplay seems a strange way to express your political ideology, but it’s not nearly as weird as obsessing over a stranger’s gender identity or trying to mandate state tracking of menstrual cycles. It took eight years and dozens of conspiracy theories, but Democrats have finally managed to successfully label this most recent...

On June 21, 2024, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit issued a unanimous opinion against Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of the State of Texas, and three individual plaintiffs. The ruling stopped the challenge to the National Firearms Act federal regulation of silencers, at least for the present. The opinion was not about the merits of the case. It was based solely on the plaintiffs’ standing to sue. The case is Paxon v Dettelbach. From the opinion:First, the declarations do not state any intention to engage in conduct proscribed by law. Rather, the declarations state only that the Individual...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday big-footed the brigadier general overseeing the war court at Guantanamo Bay and revoked the plea deals she had struck with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh-Mohammed and two co-conspirators, which took the death penalty off the table. We support Austin’s move, but what does tough-as-nails former prosecutor Kamala Harris, the anointed Democratic presidential nominee, think about this issue? It would be nice to know, should the press ever dare to ask her a question. There are a couple of reasons to wonder. The first is her brother-in-law Tony West’s role as a "key campaign adviser" to...

During an interview at the Van Zandt County Jail, Chen allegedly stated that the gold bars had been given to him by someone to transport to Dallas however he declined to give any further information. Lin told officials he left China and traveled to Hong Kong, from there he flew to Turkey and then to Mexico. He then traveled through Mexico with other Chinese nationals in an attempt to enter into the U.S.

One of the new OSD species – a hydrothermal vent limpet, Lepetodrilus marianae. Credit: Chong Chen, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, and Miwako Tsuda ================================================================================= Ocean biodiversity is under significant threat due to global changes, but new initiatives like the Ocean Species Discoveries, coordinated by the Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, aim to rapidly describe and publish findings on marine species. This innovative approach reduces the usual decades-long delay in species description, directly contributing to the conservation efforts needed to protect vulnerable marine habitats and their undiscovered inhabitants. Accelerating Biodiversity Research Accelerating global change continues to threaten Earth’s vast biodiversity, including in the...

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service said Monday it “disposed of” cocaine found last year at the White House — responding to a report about alleged infighting on its fate following a partial DNA match. “The evidence from that investigation was disposed of in accordance with retention policies,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in an email. Guglielmi did not state the specific retention policy, but broadly dismissed as “false” allegations outlined by a trio of sources to RealClearPolitics, which reported that President Biden’s then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle wanted to destroy the cocaine but faced internal opposition.

Michigan Conservative Coalition (MCC) is Michigan’s hardest-working and most respected conservative grassroots group. Their leadership never stops finding ways to boost the number of conservative members in the Michigan Legislature. Unlike other organizations that use surveys to vet candidates, MCC takes a different approach. For existing officeholders, we look at a Representative’s voting record and campaign finance reports to see who is contributing to their campaign. For new candidates, we look at things like who is supporting them, where they are getting their contributions, and who is their campaign consultant/manager. What is their background in politics? If it’s a contested...

92,532 views Streamed live on Aug 4, 2024 #SpaceStation #NASA #RocketLaunch Watch a delivery of cargo, science, and supplies launch to the International Space Station! NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are now targeting no earlier than 11:02 a.m. EDT (1502 UTC) on Sunday, Aug. 4, for liftoff of Northrop Grumman's uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft, carried on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Scientific investigations traveling in the spacecraft include tests of water recovery technology and a process to produce blood and immune stem cells in microgravity, studies of the...

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From afar, Kamala’s Atlanta rally seemed wildly successful, but a closer look reveals it was falling apart at the seams. The event was more like a rap concert, seemingly designed to attract blacks. However, as soon as the curtains lifted, many black Americans complained about how Kamala’s “ghetto” event made them look bad. Furthermore, many attendees walked out of the arena as soon as the music ended and Kamala took the stage. Now, there are whispers that the Democrats paid homeless people to fill the venue. While we can’t confirm these claims, given the left’s current level of desperation, would...

Fatah during the war: “Allahu Akbar, come to Jihad, come to Jihad… all our sons and brothers in the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces… strike the sons of apes of pigs, kill everyone who is a settler, slaughter everyone who is Israeli” Abbas’ advisor during the war: “This struggle [against Israel]... is the same struggle between Satan and man, between good and evil, between truth and lies, between those loyal to the Merciful One [Allah] and those loyal to Satan[sic]”.

In one corner, the mainstream media are playing the race card to further obfuscate the biological differences between men and women, giving the International Olympic Committee cover to continue letting chromosomally male athletes compete against females. In the other corner, sexual-development experts are explaining why they think sports associations cannot rely on external anatomy, much less passports or history of socialization and athletic competition, to determine eligibility for sex-based sporting events

The Boeing Starliner spacecraft approaching the ISS. @ NASA =================================================================================== It’s been nearly two months since Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) for its first crewed test flight. Despite several technical mishaps that have delayed Starliner’s return to Earth, NASA has continuously insisted that the vehicle is capable of carrying the crew back. Recent reports, however, suggest the space agency is looking at alternatives to bring two astronauts home safely. NASA officials are considering delaying the launch of SpaceX’s Crew 9 mission from August 18 to September 24, and putting two astronauts instead of four on...

Over the last eight years, the Democratic Party gave its blessing for the Radical Left to go on the attack. America has been in somewhat of political chaos since 2016 and Donald Trump stormed into office, what we saw was a radicalization of the Democrat party that was more obsessed with defeating Trump, and to do that they turned ever more increasingly to the radical Left wing of the party. In the film The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne is trying to understand why the Gotham City Mob has turned to the Joker and his Butler states: “You squeezed them, you...

ICE said Colombian fugitive is leader of Las Colinas criminal organization based in Santa Marta, Colombia U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that they captured a validated Colombian gang leader wanted for homicide, aggravated theft, and arms trafficking in his home country who was illegally in the U.S. ... The 29-year-old was caught by Border Patrol in September 2023, after illegally crossing into the U.S. near San Ysidro, California. He was served with a notice to appear before a Department of Justice immigration judge. He was then transferred to Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Diego. Inexplicably, the gang...

"The complete collapse of the entire railroad network in the country could happen in days," the channel said. "[Russian Railways] chiefs have been ordered to work to the point of exhaustion. Those who fail to cope are threatened with dismissal and 'execution.' This is the motivation." Russian Railways in 2023 reported that the number of trains suspended due to issues with its trains more than doubled to 42,600 amid a shortage of critical parts. This was due to "insufficient maintenance of the locomotive fleet," Kommersant reported in March. A Russian Railways spokesperson told Vedomosti in February that the issue "became...

“And if we have food and covering, with these we shall be content” (1 Timothy 6:8). God wants believers’ lives to be simplified, free from the burdens of material cares. Today’s verse declares how Christians ought to be free from material distractions. The apostle Paul asserts that life’s basic needs should be adequate to satisfy believers. He does not say it is wrong to own nice things, especially if God providentially allows you to have them. What is wrong is to have a selfish craving for money because you are discontent. The highest goal of the Christian life is to...

Finally, Congress has taken an interest in the work done by investigative journalist David Daleiden and his colleague Sandra Merritt nearly a decade ago. A week ago, for instance, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene released the full versions of subpoenaed undercover videos that were featured at the March hearing, "Investigating the Black Market of Baby Organ Harvesting.” As shocking as the videos are and as evil as the practice is, the more immediate problem is the possible election of presidential candidate Kamala Harris. While attorney general of the trend-setting California, Harris helped usher in the age of proto-fascism even before it...