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An unnamed source in Iran's Supreme National Security Council told Kuwaiti newspaper al Jarida that a high-ranking American security delegation, mediated by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran, the Kuwaiti paper wrote on Wednesday. Fox News reported that the delegation allegedly sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel, al Jarida noted in their reporting of the story. Fox News also reported on the recent development, noting that the American delegation was speculated to arrive in Iran through Turkey, landing at the Payam-e-Khorram Airport in Karaj last Thursday and engaging...

Google blamed a ‘glitch’ for how the Harris Camp was able to edit news headlines to make it look like major news outlets favored her. As previously reported, the Harris Campaign edited news headlines with Google search ads to make it appear major news outlets such as Reuters, CBS News, CNN, NPR and AP are on her side. While these major news outlets are shilling for Harris, her campaign edited the news headlines without the outlets’ consent or knowledge. The ads say “sponsored” but the outlets did not publish the text. The favorable headlines were written by the Harris...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz reportedly turned down interview requests with The New York Times to address fresh criticisms he's facing over his response to the George Floyd riots in 2020. Walz, who has served as governor since 2019, is accused of failing to act quickly enough as rioters burned and looted businesses for days before he sent in the National Guard. Over 1,500 businesses and buildings were burned, with property damage estimated at $500 million, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The Democrat's actions have once again come into the spotlight after he was chosen as Vice President Harris' running...

[Catholic Caucus] The One-Word Antidote To The Vocation CrisisAll that is wrong, right there… The decline in religious vocation is not complex at all. In fact, the very article that tries to make excuses also goes at the root of the problem, and the problem is very simple: no Catholicism, no vocations. If the Church (in Argentina, and everywhere else) presents Herself as a leftist NGO promoting “social justice”, of course vocations will suffer, because Catholics do not have the vocation to become leftist social workers promoting social justice. You know who might have this kind of “vocation”? Homosexuals looking...

Kamala Harris, amid a furious battle for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019, embraced a ban on fracking and offshore drilling. She supported Medicare-for-all. At one point, she advocated abolishing private health insurance. And she signaled an openness to a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.Now, the vice president’s campaign says she would not pursue the fracking and offshore drilling ban — it’s a highly unpopular position in states like Pennsylvania where natural gas drives the economy — if she becomes president. She does not support a single-payer health-care system, instead focusing on what she and...

The delegation sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel. An unnamed source in Iran's Supreme National Security Council told Kuwaiti newspaper al Jarida that a high-ranking American security delegation, mediated by Oman, secretly traveled to Tehran, the Kuwaiti paper wrote on Wednesday. Fox News reported that the delegation allegedly sought to deliver messages to Tehran in order to de-escalate the tensions in the region between Iran and Israel, al Jarida noted in their reporting of the story… Allegedly, the American delegation presented a list with the names of...

On Thursday, the National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (NRLC) issued requests for records relating to the Army’s designation of it as a “terrorist group” during a training event at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, on July 10, 2024. Shockingly, the training event included a slide listing National Right to Life under the bold, all-caps heading, “TERRORIST GROUPS,” as well as bullet points listing examples such as “Pro Life” and “Oppose Row [sic] v Wade.” Were these baseless and sweeping vilifications of NRLC and pro-life people in general not appalling enough, the slide also mentioned peaceful pro-life activities, such as sidewalk...

A violent Portland Antifa ringleader has been convicted by a jury in a five-day trial marred by tight security restrictions and intimidation from Antifa members in the gallery. Alissa Eleanor Azar, 32 (b. Feb. 12, 1991), was charged with felony riot, disorderly conduct in the second degree and unlawful use of mace in the second degree. The jury found Azar guilty of felony riot and second-degree disorderly conduct. The unlawful use of mace charge resulted in a hung jury. The case stems from an Antifa riot in 2021 at a park in Clackamas County, Ore., and that's where the trial...

Day #7 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I'm posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the next couple of months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so it will take at least ten weeks to do this. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post...

After the Egyptian pyramids, the royal mausoleums of Numidia are the largest tombs in Africa. Much about them, however, remains mysterious – including who was buried inside.The Mysterious Royal Tombs of Numidia | 5:11Scenic Routes to the Past | 29.3K subscribers | 5,934 views | August 13, 2024

By Dana Blanton Fox News Published August 14, 2024 6:00pm EDT No matter how many major events intervene, and goodness knows there have been several, the state of this year’s presidential race doesn’t seem to change. Vice President Kamala Harris trails former President Donald Trump by one percentage point in the latest Fox News national survey, 49-50%. Last month, she was also behind Trump by one point, 48-49% -- as was President Joe Biden, with the same 48-49% result.

"In this video, I go into my election forecast for the 2024 election cycle and why I believe I will be the most accurate independent forecaster for the 2024 election." The author contends that his election methodology is based on key indicators such as Job Approval and is the most accurate metric predicting the winner of the Presidential election vs polling. Trump job approval is over 49% nationally, while Harris is getting 44.8%. The author states that his method predicted the outcome of the 2020 election with almost 100% accuracy.

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....

This is a major scandal. It has been more than EIGHT MONTHS since the DC appellate court heard oral arguments in the appeal of Couy Griffin's conviction for the most common J6 misdemeanor--knowingly entering restricted grounds/building. During the hearing on Dec. 4, the 3 judges (Clinton, Obama, Trump) indicated they would send the case back to Judge Trevor McFadden, who found Griffin guilty of 1752(a)(1) in March 2022. Griffin's attorney asked for either an acquittal on the sole charge or require DOJ to prove to McFadden that Griffin knew the area was restricted (he did not go inside the building)...

For Israel’s progressive elites, the real war is against the enemy withinThe Oct. 7 massacre brought Israelis together. Most of us understood full well that we need to hurry up and heal the wounds created by the bitter struggle over judicial reform so that we can pool our resources together for the momentous task we now face. But the far left, and certainly the hardcore of the permanent protest, does not share the sentiment. After a short lull at the beginning of the war, in which they too felt obliged to offer lip service to unity, their strategists, cheerleaders in...

#AshliBabbitt and #TaKiyaYoung would both be alive if they had followed #ChrisRock's advice. https://youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

Who authorized this? A man impersonating a Secret Service agent was spotted at a JD Vance event in Detroit, Michigan on August 7. A man who is not a Secret Service agent was spotted wearing a Secret Service patch on an armored vest issued by another federal agency. RealClearInvestigations reporter Susan Crabtree presented the photo to the Secret Service and they confirmed the man was improperly wearing a Secret Service patch.

The human body doesn’t age steadily throughout middle age and instead goes through bursts of rapid aging typically at around age 44 and again at 60, according to a new study published Wednesday in the academic journal Nature Aging. Stanford University researchers tracked age-related changes in more than 135,000 types of molecules and microbes in samples collected every three to six months from more than 100 adults between the ages of 25 and 75 years old. Researchers gathered more than 5,400 blood, stool, skin nasal swab and oral swabs as part of the study, and as a result were able...

To put Chicago's best face on display for the entire nation, Mayor Brandon Johnson and other city officials have begun moving homeless illegal immigrants out of the downtown area. Newly arrived illegal immigrants are being moved out of the downtown shelter to one on Chicago's south side. City leaders claim the move has nothing to do with the upcoming convention. Right. The cleanup started back in June when a large encampment was cleared out. Maura McCauley, managing deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services, revealed that the cleanup was "fast-tracked" leading up to the convention but...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis and Homosexuality: "There Is Something Personal at Stake"Those who knew Jorge Bergoglio in Argentina confirm that his attention towards homosexual propaganda shows that there is something personal at stake for him, writes AldoMariaValli.it (13 August).He has always liked to surround himself with homosexuals, except for being very harsh towards those who, as homosexuals, within his circle did not prove 'faithful'.Valli extensively quotes from a LifeSiteNews.com article by the Dutch psychotherapist Gerard J.M. van der Aardweg, a specialist on homosexuality.According to van der Aardweg, Bergoglio experiences some form of homosexual attraction. Therefore he consider it his mission to...