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San Francisco's glitzy hotels have been plunged into massive debt following a dramatic drop off in tourism to the Golden Gate City. The Californian city's two biggest hotels, the Hilton Parc 55 and Hilton San Francisco Union Square, have lost a combined $1billion in value, according to the Kroll Bond Rating Agency. Their worth is now $553.8 million.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was told Monday that Ukraine currently controls 28 settlements in the Kursk region, as Russia expanded its evacuations amid Kyiv's ongoing cross-border offensive. The Russian state-run news agency, RIA Novosti reported on its Telegram channel that Putin had a meeting with top Russian security officials where he was notified by the acting Kursk governor that "the situation in the region is difficult" and noted that Ukraine currently controls 28 settlements in the region. Video footage from RIA Novosti showed Putin reacting angrily and interrupting the acting governor during the meeting.

One of the worst things about politicians like Public Defender Carey Haughwout is that when they age out of office, they think they can control who takes their place and what happens once they’re off playing shuffleboard at Del Boca Vista. Haughwout is retiring as Palm Beach County Public Defender after 24 years on the job, and it’s a two-man race to replace her between Adam Frankel and Dan Eisinger. They’re both Democrats, so Republicans have to choose one to vote for, but God forbid either one of them actually asks Republicans for their vote the way Frankel has. Haughwout...

CLAIM: “If Donald Trump wins in November, he will once again implement policies that target the LGBTQ+ community.” VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Trump promoted LGBTQ+ rights and set boundaries on the transgender issue. Vice President Kamala Harris is ramping up the fear machine, telling her supporters that Trump will “target” the LGBTQ+ community. The Log Cabin Republicans, an established gay rights group within the conservative movement, responded: Kamala Harris is fear-mongering for LGBT votes. ❌ Trump did NOT take away protections for LGBT workers or patients. ❌ Trump did NOT ban trans people from the military. ✅ Trump DID create a...

A triggered student called the cops on Will Witt for what he called fear-mongering.

A coalition of Libertarian Party officials, Republican legislators, and media figures has signed an open letter from the Libertarian Institute urging former President Donald Trump to endorse the Defend the Guard Act. This legislation, which has already been brought up in several states, aims to prevent the deployment of National Guard units into foreign conflicts without a formal declaration of war from Congress, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution. The letter, penned by Liam McCollum and published on Monday, emphasizes that the National Guard has borne a significant portion of the burden in recent wars, leading to substantial casualties among...

Just wondering, did you also “misprint” your rank as Command Sergeant Major on your Congressional Challenge Coin?

A report released Monday by USC’s Understanding America Study (UAS) suggests the use of hyperbolic terms to describe global warming has no effect on people’s perceptions of the urgency of climate change. The study notes that climate crusaders like the UK’s Guardian newspaper have officially opted for expressions like “climate crisis” and “climate emergency” in an attempt to raise concern and convey urgency, yet it would seem that such efforts are in vain. “Instead of ‘climate change’ the preferred terms are ‘climate emergency, crisis or breakdown’ and ‘global heating’ is favoured over ‘global warming,’ although the original terms are not...

A 61-year-old professor born in Phoenix, Arizona, believes he is the first person to gain Irish citizenship solely based on the results of a DNA test, the Irish Times reported.John Portmann, an author and professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, took an Ancestry.com test in 2019 at the behest of his adopted sister. Portmann was cared for by nuns in Phoenix before being adopted and grew up not knowing anything about his background.When he received his DNA results, he was shocked to find out he was full-blooded Irish...he couldn't stop thinking about Ireland and about his biological...

President Trump has rejoined X/Twitter and posted a campaign video!

Joe Biden sat down for a pre-recorded interview with CBS News’s Robert Costa. Biden told Robert Costa that Ku Klux Klan members took off their hoods when Trump was president because they knew they had an ally in the White House. He’s completely shot. “Every other time the Ku Klux Klan’s been involved they’ve worn hoods, so they’re not identified,” Biden said. “Under his presidency, they came out of those woods with no hoods, knowing they had an ally. That’s how I read it,” Biden added. “They knew they had an ally in the White House and he stepped up...

VIDEOLook closely at the AI faces of many of the people in Kamala Harris' supposed audiences. It is as if their faces were painted on by Picasso.

The Media Research Center submitted forty-eight public records requests to dozens of different offices. This investigation exposed thousands of pages of never-before-seen communications between Soros groups and elected prosecutors, including the far-left Soros politicians listed below. READ FULL REPORT https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf

Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris in key swing states, polling from Trafalgar Group reveals. The surveys for each state asked, “If the election for president were held today, for whom would you vote?” The pollster first looked at the swing state of Pennsylvania and found Trump edging out Harris by two percentage points — 46 percent to Harris’s 44 percent support. Another four percent of Keystone State respondents put their support behind independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and five percent remain undecided. Trump has an even bigger advantage in Nevada, leading Harris by three...

The government of The United States exists to serve ALL the citizens of The United States. The government of The United States DOES NOT exist to serve the following: 1. Leaders and nations hostile to The United States such as China and Iran and Venezuela. 2. Government employees. 3. The Democrat party. 4. Nations that compete with us such as Russia and Britain and Saudi Arabia. 5. Single issue groups such as homosexuals and environmentalists and feminists. 6. Criminal organizations. 7. A specific religion. 8. People of one skin color. 9. Descendants of ancestors from a different nation. 10. People...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former chief medical advisor to Joe Biden throughout the pandemic, has revealed he has caught COVID-19 for a third time despite having been “vaccinated and boosted six times.” Fauci reacted to catching COVID-19 yet again by praising the vaccine’s effectiveness. “I got infected about two weeks ago, it was my third infection, and I have been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times,” said Fauci.

Daily Readings from the USCCBFrom whom do the kings of the earth take tolls or census tax? From their subjects or from foreigners?” When he said, “From foreigners,” Jesus said to him, “Then the subjects are exempt. But that we may not offend them, go to the sea, drop in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. Open its mouth and you will find a coin worth twice the temple tax. Give that to them for me and for you.” Matthew 17:25–27Prior to this minor miracle, Jesus had just told His disciples for the second time about...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart Ali Bagheri Kani on Sunday that the Chinese Communist Party supports Iran “defending its sovereignty, security and national dignity” prior to an expected Iranian attack on Israel. The Iranian Islamist regime has been threatening a large-scale attack on Israel for nearly two weeks in response to the killing of Hamas “political” leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31. An explosion in Haniyeh’s lodgings eliminated the terror chief during a visit to Iran for the inauguration of current President Masoud Pezeshkian. The elimination of such a high-ranking terrorist leader under the...

An old video of NumbersUSA founder Roy Beck using gumballs to describe the perils of mass migration into the United States went viral again last week, which the group he founded says demonstrates the timelessness of his message. "Some people say that mass immigration into the United States can help reduce world poverty. Is that true? Well, no it's not," Beck said in the video. NumbersUSA, an advocacy group for limiting legal and illegal immigration, says the presentation has gotten more than 140 million views on various platforms over the years. Former GOP congressional candidate Robby Starbuck shared the video...

Conservative lawyer George Conway said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump is in his “final implosion” like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in his bunker at the end of World War II. While discussing Trump’s social media posts, Conway said, “As I’ve been yammering about for five or six years now, he’s a deeply unwell man. He is a deeply psychologically disturbed individual. If he were a member of your family, you’d be taking him, you’d be staging an intervention and taking him into a psychiatric hospital. If Melania and Ivanka and Eric and Don Jr. care...