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Ukraine's top commander said on Thursday Kyiv had set up a military commandant's office in the occupied part of Russia's Kursk region where he said his forces were still advancing, even as Moscow's troops stepped up its offensives in Ukraine's east. The remarks by Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi were the strongest sign yet that Kyiv's forces plan to dig in after launching a lightning cross-border assault on Russia last week that has opened a new front in the 2-1/2 year-old all-out war. "We are moving forward in Kursk region. A military commandant's office has been created which must ensure order...

Donald Trump’s lawyers on Thursday urged the judge overseeing his Manhattan criminal hush money case to delay the former president’s sentencing until after November’s presidential election.The request came one day after Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan rejected Trump’s latest demand that the judge step aside from the case, clearing the way for the Republican presidential candidate to learn his fate as soon as Sept. 18.The lawyers argued for the sentencing to be paused to allow Trump time to appeal if Merchan, in a decision expected by Sept. 16, declines to toss the conviction based on the US Supreme Court’s...

WASHINGTON, Monday, Aug. 15. The following official dispatches have been received by the Navy Department: FLAGSHIP HARTFORD, MOBILE BAY, Aug. 5,1864. SIR: I have the honor to report to the department, that this morning I entered Mobile Bay, passing between Forts Morgan and Gaines, and encountering the rebel ram Tennessee and gunboats of the enemy, viz., Selma, Morgan and Gaines. The attacking fleet was under way by 6:45 A.M., in the following order: The Brooklyn, with the Octoroon on her port side; Hartford, with the Metacomet; Richmond, with the Port Royal; Lackawana, with the Seminole; Monongahela, with the Tecumseh; Ossipee,...

A new Fox News poll shows former President Trump in the lead against Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris by 1-point in the 2024 matchup. Surveying 1,105 registered voters between August 9-12 with a sampling error of ±3 percentage points, the poll showed Trump ahead of Harris by one-point – 50 percent to 49 percent. She also trailed him by one-point last month – 49 percent to 48 percent. Per Fox News: Between those two surveys, there was an assassination attempt on Trump, the Republican National Convention was held, Ohio Sen. JD Vance was chosen as Trump’s running mate, Biden dropped...

Tactical Retreat and Uncertainty: Khamenei’s Leadership Shaken After Haniyeh Killing On July 30, 2024, Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration took place at the residence of Khamenei (The supreme leader). At 2 AM on July 31, Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated in northern Tehran at a secure base guarded by the Quds Force. After two weeks of silence, Khamenei finally spoke to his officials. Since Haniyeh’s assassination, he hadn’t appeared in public, but on Wednesday, August 14, he reemerged. Faced with a wave of demoralization and despair among his forces after Haniyeh’s killing, Khamenei tried to reassure them. He...

August Hanning has claimed that there appears to have been a secret arrangement between Kiev and Warsaw Poland was likely involved in the underwater explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream underwater gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022, the former president of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has claimed. August Hanning also alleged that Warsaw has intentionally obstructed Berlin’s investigation into the incident. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the blasts, which brought an end to the supply of Russian gas to Germany via Nord Stream 1 and damaged the parallel Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which had...

Vice President Kamala Harris trashed the United States in a post on Twitter (now X) in 2022 that was released by the U.S. Department of State in Farsi for the benefit of an Iranian audience. Kamala Harris on the US’s official twitter feed in Farsi from Feb. 2022 talks trash about the U.S. to the Iranian people. From Google translate: “The truth is: there is racial discrimination in America. There is xenophobia in America. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia,… https://t.co/isSZIr0t2N — Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) August 15, 2024 Harris’s statement recalls President Barack Obama’s so-called “apology tour,” when he delivered speeches in the...

ndependent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared Thursday that he has “no plans to endorse” Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race after reportedly wishing to discuss a potential exchange of an endorsement for a cabinet position with Harris. The Washington Post was the first to report on Kennedy’s request for a meeting, citing officials within the Kennedy campaign. In a Wednesday night text reported by the New York Times, Kennedy wrote, “We’ve reached out repeatedly through the highest level intermediaries. We’ve been told that they have no interest in talking with me.”

Former President Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan by two points, an AARP poll found on Thursday. The poll spotlights Trump’s sustained lead in one of the most valuable 2024 swing states. . Seven states — Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina — will decide the presidential election, political experts predict. If Trump wins one or more of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Harris’s chances of obtaining 270 electoral votes become narrower. Trump leads by two points: Trump: 45 percent Harris: 43 percent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: 6 percent Global warming activist Jill Stein: 1...

The 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) is scheduled to take place from August 19-22, 2024. The event will be held in Chicago, Illinois. The convention is expected to celebrate Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president and Tim Walz as the nominee for vice president. However, the city is bracing for what could be a perfect storm of chaos. With the possibility of up to 100,000 pro-Hamas protesters flooding the streets, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) is preparing for the worst.

A local news radio station in North Dakota is considering legal action after Kamala Harris' campaign edited one of its headlines in a campaign advertisement to make it look like they supported her. WDAY Radio, based in Fargo, said one of their stories was deceptively used in a Google ad and reached out to the Harris campaign to demand they stop using it. But the station didn't get a response, and now they are hitting back.

Radio host Charlamagne Tha God criticized Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday for his role in influencing migrants to come to the city. Adams welcomed migrants to New York City during his tenure as Brooklyn Borough President from 2014 to 2021 and early in his term as mayor, but he has since supported stricter limits on their time in the city. Charlamagne, on “The Breakfast Club,” called out Adams for changing his tune only after Republicans in border states sent migrants to the city. “You told ’em to come, Mayor Adams … We not gon’ let none...

Talk about setting the bar high! On today's Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle predicted that Kamala Harris will finish Trump off in their debate: "You wonder how long will it be before he really goes out of control. And I think what's going to happen is that when that debate occurs, and he's in the ring with the Vice President of the United States, a woman, a very sophisticated, very intelligent, woman, and she hammers him like a prosecutor, and doesn't let him off the hook, he will go -- I can't say it. But something will snap [see screencap] in...

It was 6:29 p.m. on the last Wednesday in May 2020, when Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey phoned Minnesota governor Tim Walz. Riots had erupted the day before over the police killing of George Floyd, and the city was overwhelmed. Frey pleaded with Walz to call in the National Guard. Less than three hours later, the city made a written request to Walz’s office for 600 guardsmen to help quell the chaos that was engulfing the Twin Cities. Rioters were burning buildings. They were shooting at police officers and attacking them with Molotov cocktails, fireworks, bricks, and bottles filled with cement....

LONDON (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine should negotiate an end to their conflict to avoid the war spilling over into Belarus, President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Vladimir Putin, said in an interview with Russian state television. Lukashenko was speaking against the backdrop of a Ukrainian incursion into Russia that began on Aug. 6 when thousands of Kyiv's troops smashed through Russia's western border in a major embarrassment for Putin's top military brass. In a wide-ranging interview, Lukashenko said that only "high-ranking people of American origin" wanted the Ukraine-Russia war to continue. The West, he said, was encouraging Kyiv...

A female Secret Service agent on duty to protect former President Donald Trump at a North Carolina rally Wednesday left her post to breastfeed without permission, RealClearPolitics reported. Soon before Trump's arrival in Asheville, North Carolina, the Secret Service site agent conducted a final sweep of the walking route "and found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work, i.e. a potential emergency related to the president," the outlet's Susan Crabtree posted Thursday on X. The woman agent, out of the Atlanta Field Office, and two family...

The first thing you notice about Wolf Trap Opera’s new production of “Silent Night” — composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2011 opera — is its broken frame. Directors Tonya and Ryan McKinny have mounted their production at the Barns like a painting, the perimeter of the stage bound by a gilded frame, its bottom edge snapped and in fragments on the floor. Has it been destroyed by war? Looted by thieves? Or does the McKinnys’ staging suggest a different kind of irreparable damage? An opera based on Christian Carion’s 2005 film “Joyeux Noël,” which chronicles the...

Known action by the Biden-Harris administration, combined with secrecy, “creates an impression” that the federal government has its “thumb on the scales” for the Nov. 5 presidential election, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach says. Kobach, a Republican, is leading a multistate lawsuit to strike down President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order on elections. “It appears it could be designed to register more Democrats than Republicans,” Kobach said of Biden’s order in a phone interview Wednesday with The Daily Signal. The Kansas attorney general referred to a March letter, cited in footnotes in the lawsuit, from Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin...

Democrat Party is filled with radical, extreme, Marxist, communist traitors who want to destroy America. Pure evil. Satan inspired. They are the enemies of good patriotic Americans. They are the real “domestic terrorists.” But my party- the GOP- is a party of weak-willed, feckless, cowards afraid of their own shadow, and sellouts who claim to be Republicans, but really play for the other side.” ... January 6th prisoners- who have become political hostages, enduring cruel and unusual punishment. Jake Lang stands out as one of the most egregious cases in this country’s history. He’s spent almost four years in prison...

Vance and Walz Agree to Oct. 1 Debate It remains unclear whether Walz has agreed to a separate Sept. 18 debate proposed by CNN. A much-anticipated debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appears to be on as both vice presidential candidates have agreed to CBS’s proposal for an Oct. 1 face-off.