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From concert venues to Olympic triumphs, marriage proposals are getting more and more elaborate nowadays. Kerby Ng's complex and well-planned proposal is among them, with the 29-year-old filmmaker taking to Instagram on July 2 to share how he had asked for his partner Joyce's hand in marriage. It had been a long time coming for Joyce, so it's no wonder she couldn't compose herself on the actual day. "For months and months and months, I've been gaslighting my girlfriend," Kerby narrated in the Instagram video, which showed snippets of all the times he had fooled his partner. Kerby had planned...

According to a new report in Haaretz by Nir Hasson, as the death toll in Gaza reaches 40,000[sic]... For many who hear this claim, its veracity will seem obvious. For nearly a year, the world has been consumed by this war. There must be a reason. Surely the absolute numbers justify the riots, the self-immolations, and the accusations of that most vile crime against humanity - genocide. But reading the report, one sees how quickly it disproves its own claims. Let's look at the numbers, cited by Hasson himself: In Syria, 405,000 dead. In Iraq, 210,000 dead. In Yugoslavia, 100,000...

The FBI is pushing back after a Republican's startling discovery that Donald Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks' body had been quietly cremated. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., a member of Congress' bipartisan task force reviewing the tragic July 13 assassination attempt, unveiled that Crooks' body is 'gone' in an independent report released this week. Higgins, a former police captain, wrote that he 'caused quite a stir' when attempting to review Crooks' corpse which 'revealed a disturbing fact.' It was at this point that he learned that the FBI had 'released the body for cremation 10 days' after the shooting in Butler,...

As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has. The unplanned fossil fuel boom reflects an uncomfortable truth for Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris: It is difficult for any president to stop the spigot of U.S. oil production, a leading driver of both the economy...

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More than 50 tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor in Rafah - at the Gaza-Egypt border - were destroyed by Israel over the last week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Friday. The IDF also said, since the start of the Gaza war against Hamas, it had eliminated more than 17,000 terror operatives. Enia Krivine with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies joined LiveNOW from FOX’s Josh Breslow to discuss the latest developments out of the Middle East.

A mysterious black ring appeared in the blue skies over Virginia this week, which hovered for about 10 minutes before vanishing. Williamsburg locals flooded news station around 11am ET on Tuesday when they spotted the ominous circle over a major highway. Ron Stepp said that he was working near Eastern State Hospital when it appeared above like a huge smoke ring in the sky.

Greetings, comrade worker: Candidate for Party General Secretary Kamala Harris has promised to punish the hoarders and wreckers driving up grocery prices. All hail the might of Soviet labor! That’s the latest bonkers proposal from Komrade Kamala Harris, unveiled in her marquee speech on the economy Friday — socialist price controls on groceries. Because the sky-high grocery prices average Americans have seen since she’s been in office couldn’t be the result of her boss’s disastrous economic policies. No, they must be caused by price-gouging corporate overlords who for some reason want customers to buy less of their products. The data...

Former President Donald Trump laid out his economic policies and vision for the country at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday, promising to keep intact the Affordable Care Act, Social Security and Medicare .“A lot of people are very devastated by what’s happened with inflation,” Trump said in Asheville. “I gave Harris and Biden an economic miracle and they quickly turned it into an economic nightmare.” *** Trump discussed his plans for “No Tax on Tips” and “No Tax on Social Security,” calling out Harris – who vists the state on Friday – for announcing a similar no tax...

A split in the Black community over Kamala Harris has erupted into a melee on social media. Radio host Rickey Smiley encountered massive pushback online after he scolded Black voters who refused to support the vice president’s White House run. “I’m just sick of the Black people on the internet talking about, ’I’m not with [Ms. Harris].’ OK, so if you’re not with her, that means you’re with Trump,” Mr. Smiley said on his morning radio show. “Y’all need to block every last one of their asses on Facebook and on Instagram and social media — and stop. That’s just...

As I listen to Democrats, I pay attention to their words and it occurs to me that the cost OF living is not the same of FOR living.The cost OF living is what I have to pay to live.The cost FOR living is what I can afford with what I have TO live.

...Those unfamiliar with the National Guard activation and deployment process may not understand that this procedure is announced well in advance. Senior officers and non-commissioned officers in a unit being activated under Title 10 learn well before others of their impending call-up to go to war. Walz was in such a position, and he likely knew this when he submitted his retirement paperwork....

Treated with hostility in the past and considered witches or vampires in the Middle Ages, redheads in the modern world are thriving and celebrating their unique traits; the Redhead Days Festival marks one of the occasions to embrace the distinctive nature of gingers. Redhead Days Festival; celebrating the unique traits Held annually on the last full weekend of August, this year the Redhead Days Festival will take place on August 23-25 in the city centre of Tilburg, the Netherlands. Growing in size every year, the festival anticipates tens of thousands of redheads from more than 80 countries to unite in...

Many circuit courts have said that law enforcement can hold your property for as long as they want. D.C.’s high court decided last week that’s unconstitutional.The Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to the length of a seizure, a federal court ruled last week, significantly restricting how long law enforcement can retain private property after an arrest. "When the government seizes property incident to a lawful arrest, the Fourth Amendment requires that any continued possession of the property must be reasonable," wrote Judge Gregory Katsas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in...

The airport worker who discovered the body of a woman in a luggage carousel chute at Chicago O'Hare Airport told police how he could not immediately make sense of the ghoulish scene that confronted him when he started his August 8 shift. Missionary Virginia Vinton was found dead shortly before 7:30am on Thursday llast week with initial reports suggesting she had become 'entangled' in one of the airport's luggage belts. Now, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal the chilling truth of the 57-year-old mother of two's bizarre death and why it was ruled a suicide by authorities in Cook County, Illinois. According...

It's no wonder Kamala Harris has been hiding from the press. The most liberal Senator/VP in the history of this country has just released her economic agenda and it's everything you'd expect from a far left socialist. Via Kyle Griffin on X* Eliminating medical debt for millions of Americans * A ban on price gouging for groceries and food * A cap on prescription drug costs * A $25,000 subsidy for first-time homebuyers * A Child Tax Credit that would provide $6,000 per child to families for the first year of a baby's lifeThat first one is staggering. Medical debt...

Ukrainian forces destroyed a bridge over the Seim River in the Glushkovsky district in Russia's Kursk Oblast, Alexey Smirnov, the region's acting governor, claimed on Aug. 16. The unprecedented operation hit its 10-day mark on Aug. 15, with Kyiv claiming to have seized 1,150 square kilometers of Russian territory and 82 settlements, including the town of Sudzha. Photos purporting to show the destroyed bridge were published by the Russian Telegram channel Mash, which claimed the bridge had been struck multiple times. The channel also claimed that about 30 settlements near the village of Glushkovo, approximately 150 kilometers (93 miles) from...

Something in the Democratic Party’s subconscious knows that in times of change it should go to Chicago.It’s the city where, in 1896, a 36-year-old William Jennings Bryan sent convention delegates into raptures by railing against Gilded Age plutocrats and urging Democrats to reconnect with their populist roots. It’s where Franklin Roosevelt announced the coming of a New Deal in 1932, starting a political revolution that pushed the Republican Party to the verge of extinction. It’s where the Roosevelt coalition ripped itself apart in 1968, with protesters and students brawling in the streets and delegates at one another’s throats. It’s where...

The Illinois State Comptroller has cut fund payments to a small town after the town's embattled mayor refused to hand over finance reports. Susana Mendoza said that she would be immediately suspending 'offset' fund payments to Dolton after the village failed to hand over financial reports. The money is on pace to total $135,000, according to The Chicago Tribune, and is she threatening to fine them a total of $78,600 if they don't hand over the reports. Mayor Tiffany Henyard has been clinging onto power despite criticism over her management of Dolton and her alleged lavish spending. Mendoza said that...

Executive summaryWe found a way to get Google AI to tell the truth on politically charged topics like:Is the US childhood vaccine schedule safe?Is the COVID vaccine safe?Is Steve Kirsch a misinformation spreader?These are the exact, word for word responses received. I added bold case in a few instances but I didn’t change any of the words. I think you’ll be impressed with how spot on Google AI is on issues when it is asked to reply honestly.Is the US childhood vaccine schedule safe?Unraveling the Unknown Safety Profile of the Childhood Vaccine Schedule: An In-Depth AnalysisCumulative Toxicity: The current childhood...