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To protect older Americans’ life savings, President Joe Biden pledged in October to crack down on financial advisers who recommend investments just because they pay higher commissions. Then the insurance industry got to work. Lobbying groups representing New York Life, Lincoln Financial Group, Prudential Financial and other companies first pushed back against the newly proposed regulations before suing to topple them entirely. Now the government’s latest attempt to protect retirees is in political and legal limbo, facing the possibility that it may never take effect.It is the latest example of a pervasive pattern: As the Biden administration tries to impose...

Kamala Harris is all but telling Americans they’ll have to elect her to find out what she really believes, as the Vice President ducks interviews and the media give her a free ride. This is bad enough on domestic issues, but on foreign policy it could be perilous. The world is more dangerous than it’s been in decades, and Americans deserve to know how the woman aiming to be Commander in Chief Harris would confront these threats. Ms. Harris this week tweeted a photo of her sitting next to President Biden in the White House situation room discussing the Middle...

Hillsborough's GOP-led commission doubled down in its fight to stall the school board's tax referendum, voting to appeal a court order to place it on the ballot. Why it matters: It's the latest escalation in a feud between the two government entities, leaving teacher raises in limbo. The vote lands two weeks before the printing deadline for the November ballot — and the county's appeal alone, if not expedited, endangers the referendum. Catch up quick: Commissioner Joshua Wostal (R) made a motion in July to punt the ballot referendum to 2026, citing "increases in the costs of inflation." The school...

HARVEY, Ill. — WGN Investigates has an update to a story that was first reported than a year ago. A south suburban school worker has pled guilty to stealing $1.5 millions worth of food, mainly chicken wings. Vera Liddell was the food service director for Harvey School District 152. Cook County prosecutors accused her of stealing massive amounts of food meant for take-home meals for students learning remotely during the pandemic.

Unverified rumors in Lebanon that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is hospitalized following an assassination attempt.

The sources informed the reporter of Tasnim in Iraq that the foreign minister of Iraq and the US secretary of state will be holding a press conference during the Iraqi diplomat’s upcoming visit to the US in order to read a statement on the end of the US-led international military coalition’s mission in Iraq. The pullout of the international military coalition forces from Iraq, excluding the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, will begin in September 2025, the sources said.

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Donald Trump traveled to Montana for a rally as part of a longtime effort to oust the state’s Democratic senator.The former president went to Bozeman hoping to remedy some unfinished business from 2018, when he campaigned repeatedly in Big Sky Country in a failed bid to oust Sen. Jon Tester. On Friday, Trump leveled personal insults at the three-term senator, mocking him for his weight and calling him a “slob.”Trump’s drive to oust Tester traces back to the lawmaker’s work in 2018 as chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.Tester revealed past misconduct by Trump’s former...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP vice presidential nominee, and ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl went back and forth over his past comments about “childless cat ladies,” as the Ohio Republican tried to clarify his previous suggestion that parents who have children should have more power than adults who do not have children. Vance has faced repeated backlash for 2021 remarks during which he told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the country was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want...

Sunday morning reminded us why President Trump selected Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate after turning the tables on CNN’s Dana Bash when she tried to ambush him. Determined to paint Vance in a corner, a hostile Bash peppered him with a series of questions over harmless comments he made years ago while ignoring the serious questions surrounding Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz. But Vance kept his cool and destroyed Harris and Walz while Bash pouted. WATCH: NEW: JD Vance shreds VP Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and even host Dana Bash during an interview on...

RUSSIA is scrambling to build trenches around Kursk nuclear plant as it fears Ukraine could capture its reactors. Satellite photos show new lines in the earth near the power station as Vladimir Putin's armed forces fail to halt the brave advance. Ukraine's troops have now spent six days inside the Russian homeland replacing flags, taking POWs, and capturing territory. Ukraine's army have reportedly managed to infiltrate as deep as 20km into Russian territory leaving Putin "scared and seething" over the continuous attacks. Russia is scrambling to build fortifications around the atomic facility which is 100km from the border with Ukraine....

I have not been the biggest fan of Kamala Harris, but to my surprise, the candidate who underwhelmed in 2020 is gone. I have watched all of candidate Harris’s public appearances since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for a sense of how she intends to run and possibly govern. The audiences have been vastly different, among them: the annual conclave of Zeta Phi Beta sorority, a National Federation of Teachers convention and the Philadelphia rally where the Harris-Walz ticket made its first official appearance.What I took away: Kamala Harris is a different candidate than we saw four years ago. She...

Jeff Buongiorno has the template for all candidates in the upcoming 2024 election to address non-citizens voting in the election. A candidate for Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections has a solution for preventing non-citizens from voting in the 2024 election. Jeff Buongiorno is fighting for election integrity in President Trump’s own district – Palm Beach County. He will do this by running for the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections. But there is more to this story. The following comes from Buongiorno’s website: The Florida Democrats’ lobbying efforts to permit non-citizens to assist in voter registration were met with...

Talk about mixed signals. In a new poll, voters said they believe they’d be in better financial shape under former President Donald Trump than Vice President Kamala Harris — by a nine-point margin. But, at the same time, a slight majority said they more faith in the veep to shepherd the US economy. About 42% of registered voters felt they’d be “much” or “somewhat” better off if Trump wins in November — while 33% said the same about Harris, according to a survey by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Simultaneously, Harris narrowly eked...

Anti-global warming organizations and agitators have been falling over themselves to endorse Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris, insisting her record of green-friendly activism speaks for itself. The Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Green New Deal Network endorsed Harris, as have prominent climate change crusaders such as former U.S. climate czar John Kerry, Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee (D), former energy secretary Steven Chu, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

But nagging questions persist. Chief among them: Will Harris and Waltz continue to hide their true selves as what is left of a broken media covers for them? Currently, the true nature of the Democrat Party remains hidden. The Jacobins could not win election if their first promise was to crush freedom and lop off the heads of the nobles. It all remains obscure, like their smiles. Have you forgotten the BLM riots to glorify the criminal George Floyd, the thug who held a loaded to the abdomen of a pregnant woman? Those the leftist riots in his name destroyed...

[Catholic Caucus] The Magisterium of Francis Illuminates Saint PaulIn the light of the Magisterium of Pope Francis, Aldo Maria Valli (AldoMariaValli-it, 8 August) has updated Saint Paul's speech on the Areopagus in Athens, which in its original version is rigid and narrow-minded and does not correspond to the gigantic progress in theology after the Second Vatican Council. Here is the new version:Then Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus, said: 'Athenians, I see that you are very religious in everything. As I passed by and looked at your monuments, I also found an altar with the inscription 'To an...

I believe life begins at conception. If I lived in Florida, I would support the state’s heartbeat bill and vote against the referendum seeking to liberalize Florida’s abortion laws. I supported the Dobbs decision and I support well-drafted abortion restrictions at the state and federal levels. I was a pro-life lawyer who worked for pro-life legal organizations. While I want prospective parents to be able to use I.V.F. to build their families, I do not believe that unused embryos should simply be discarded — thrown away as no longer useful.But I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 and...

Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign is seeking to avoid overstuffing the Democratic National Convention with celebrities to avoid making it seem like a “Hollywood liberal elite” event. The four-day event, scheduled to begin Aug. 19 in Chicago, will be selective over which celebrities it chooses to invite. The report comes after the party has had a history of doing events with major celebrities, including one in June with actors George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Jack Black while President Joe Biden was still seeking reelection. “We are living in the most personalized media environment ever, so it’s crucial we are...

“I’m standing behind a Black woman to be president of the United States, and it doesn’t make me any less of a Black man,” said the Illinois attorney general. “I’m asking all of you all to do the same.” A day after Vice President Kamala Harris announced that she intended to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, more than 40,000 Black men from across the country convened on a virtual fund-raising call to discuss what the moment required of them. For four hours, one Black man after another — prominent politicians, activists, entertainers — laid out the challenges ahead for Ms....

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) — Former president Donald Trump has announced via his social media platform TruthSocial that the first debate with Kamala Harris for President of the United States will be in Harrisburg on Fox News. He says the debate is currently set for September 4th. It is unclear if Kamala Harris has agreed to this date. He posted the following on his social media account: The first Debate with Kamala Harris, for President of the United States of America, will be with FoxNews on September 4th, 2024, LIVE from beautiful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The second Debate will take place on...