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An Iran attack against Israel remains likely so it’s important to avert that scenario by finalizing a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, top US officials said as they prepared for a critical round of talks in Doha on Thursday. “We are working 24/7 around the clock at this time to get this deal done,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in Washington. CIA Director William Burns and US special envoy Brett McGurk will represent the US, while Mossad chief David Barnea will head the Israeli team to help secure a deal to return the remaining 115 hostages and...

Santa Clara County reported the first two cases of West Nile virus in 2024, including one patient who died at a hospital this month, health authorities said Wednesday. The Santa Clara County Public Health Department said the adult patient who died was immunocompromised and died at a hospital after experiencing West Nile symptoms. The second person is also an adult who was hospitalized but is now recovering at home, the health department said. No additional details about either patient were released because of medical privacy concerns. The county's Vector Control has detected West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes in various county ZIP...

14 August 2024 Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest, Martyr on Wednesday of week 19 in Ordinary Time St. Maximilian Kolbe Church, Scarborough, ME Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEzekiel 9:1-7,10:18-22The cross marks the foreheads of all who are pureAs I, Ezekiel, listened, God shouted, ‘Come here, you scourges of the city, and bring your weapons of destruction.’ Immediately six men advanced from the upper north gate, each holding a deadly weapon. In the middle of them was a man in white, with a scribe’s ink horn...

I am on a regular basis amazed at how many people cannot see the trees through the forest. It's very clear and plain things were better 4 years ago. Economically, everything cost less, we were exporting energy instead of importing, and the country was well on it's way to having a secure southern border, other countries were respecting us again, and the country was going through a much needed healing process. Every working person or couple who goes to a grocery store has to be aware of the rising costs of not just food, but all of the other things...

<p>Joe Rogan is no fan of Vice President Kamala Harris, but the podcaster and comedian said Harris “crushed” a recent speech in Atlanta, Georgia and it’s a “problem” for Donald Trump.</p><p>Rogan was joined on Wednesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience by Adam Ray, a comedian who performed as President Joe Biden alongside comedian Shane Gillis as Donald Trump for the Killy Tony podcast, filmed at Rogan’s Austin comedy club Comedy Mothership.</p>

The Taliban held a military parade at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan with the US military equipment they stole after the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal.

bout four months after a notorious hacking group claimed to have stolen an extraordinary amount of sensitive personal information from a major data broker, a member of the group has reportedly released most of it for free on an online marketplace for stolen personal data. The breach, which includes Social Security numbers and other sensitive data, could power a raft of identity theft, fraud and other crimes, said Teresa Murray, consumer watchdog director for the U.S. Public Information Research Group.

Yesterday my gut instinct screamed at me not to get involved in those supposed 100 far right protests last night - so I felt I had to warn people. I'm glad I did. But there are serious questions to be answered! Transcript linked below video.

Hamas official Osama Hamdan spoke on the hostage deal talks in conversation with AP on Wednesday. Hamdan was cited as saying that the terror group had "some difficulties" in communicating with the Hamas chief in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for consultation on the matter.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported last week an astounding milestone: Every month of every year for the last five years Americans have purchased more than one million firearms. The group estimates that 86 million firearms were purchased during that period ending in July, and that 22 million of them were purchased by new owners. That brings the total to approximately 510 million firearms owned by more than 82 million American citizens.The news gets even better: Gun owners outvote non-gun owners by double digits. Four out of five of them said they voted in the last presidential election. If...

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a significant shake-up within his campaign team.Two former aides, who have since turned against Trump, claim that he is considering firing campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, according to the Daily Mail. (snip) “This story about President Trump being upset about picking J. D. Vance is bullsh*t. It is absolute bullsh*t. He killed it on this weekend shows,” Bongino said on his show. I suspect strongly this was a leak from people who wanted another candidate for vice president. I’m hearing from some friends of mine that this is the Kellyanne Conway...

Anyone who’s enjoyed a career as long as Clint Eastwood and been in as many great movies as he has during those seven decades in the limelight is inevitably going to notch a handful of masterpieces. Still, on either side of the camera, he’s never been better than The Outlaw Josey Wales. The debate over which entry in Eastwood’s filmography can be called the greatest has raged for decades, which is understandable when he’s got Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy, Dirty Harry, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Escape from Alcatraz, High Plains Drifter, In the Line of Fire, Pale Rider, and many...

A congressman is vowing to help unravel the mystery behind Peru’s so-called “alien mummies.” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), one of the foremost voices in Congress on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), declared that he would help get to the bottom of those puzzling Peruvian objects and recruit top talent to do so. “I will gladly help you … find someone that would analyze them,” Burchett told Mexican journalist Jaime Maussan on his show, “No Humano.” Last September, Maussan, who bills himself a “UFOlogist,” dragged a set of what he suggested were “non-human” remains to Mexico’s congress.

President Biden claimed Tuesday that he and Vice President Kamala Harris share policies that are not “progressive” — tying his legacy to hers in another comment from the White House stressing their join legacy and complicating potential efforts for Harris to distance herself from his record Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Biden “how much more progressive is Vice President Kamala Harris than you as a candidate in the general?” “The issues we’ve worked on together have made big progress economically,” the president responded while walking out of the White House en route to a Cancer Moonshot event in Louisiana. “No...

Actor Dennis Quaid has accused Facebook of censoring promotional content for the upcoming movie Reagan, claiming the social media giant has refused to allow ads with inspirational quotes from Ronald Reagan. He also claimed Facebook suspended the movie’s official page for posting clips of Quaid speaking to Fox News, Jordan Peterson’s podcast, and other outlets, though the page is currently active. “Facebook is once again censoring the free flow of ideas, deciding what’s best for us to see and hear; only this time it’s throttling advertising and promotion for my movie about Ronald Reagan,” the actor said via an email...

Explanation: This was an unusual night. For one thing, the night sky of August 11 and 12, earlier this week, occurred near the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Therefore, meteors streaked across the dark night as small bits cast off from Comet Swift-Tuttle came crashing into the Earth's atmosphere. Even more unusually, for central Germany at least, the night sky glowed purple. The red-blue hue was due to aurora caused by an explosion of particles from the Sun a few days before. This auroral storm was so intense that it was seen as far south as Texas and...

political action committee has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Donald Trump over his recent two-hour live interview with Elon Musk. End Citizens United, a Democrat-aligned PAC, claims that the interview "amounted to a virtual campaign event" for Trump financed by X, formerly Twitter, which would be in violation of federal law. The complaint names Trump, his campaign treasurer Bradley T. Crate and X as the respondents. "Such a brazen corporate contribution undermines the anti-corruption aims of the Act, and the Commission should immediately investigate these violations and take appropriate remedial action," the complaint said, referring to...

Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff have refinanced their luxury properties on the east and west coast ten times with loans totaling $13M. The second couple, both 59, have borrowed way in excess of what they’re worth – their joint fortune estimated at $8 million by Forbes. And, surprisingly, their various home loans and lines of credit are all with Wells Fargo Bank, the lending giant Kamala battled when she was Attorney General of California. Harris was in litigation for years with Wells Fargo just as she and Emhoff were living in a luxury property in the...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox to be a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on Wednesday "Today, the Emergency Committee met and advised me that in its view, the situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice," said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a media briefing on Wednesday. In the U.S, there have been 1,634 cases of mpox reported so far this year, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That's more than double the number of national cases seen at the same...

A woman found dead on a trail in Northern California was killed in a domestic dog attack, and authorities say that a pack of 25 Great Danes were seen "running loose in the area" at the time. An autopsy found numerous dog bites on Corbin, and a subsequent DNA test confirmed that she was the victim of a domestic dog attack. The sheriff's department said it believes Corbin was walking the trail when she was attacked. DNA analysis of Corbin's clothing is seeking to determine which dog, or dogs, bit her, and KCRA reports that none of the animals have...