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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, narrowed down his appearances on the Sunday political talk shows this weekend to just one: Fox News. Perhaps this was because his multiple appearances a week ago had him trying to defend his running mate Donald Trump’s past engagement with a notorious antisemite; perhaps it was because he is viewed broadly negatively, including faring relatively poorly among Fox News’s central audience, Republicans. Whatever the reason, the friendly environment allowed Vance to lean into claims that would have met more resistance elsewhere, like Trump’s long-standing insistence that every bad poll is (somehow)...

A Colorado man held a gun up to a Burger King drive-thru worker when they wouldn’t accept a baggie of drugs as payment — and was ordered to serve more than 143 years behind bars, officials said. Eugene Robertson, 40, was sentenced Thursday for the drive-thru incident, which spurred a series of crimes Robertson carried out in the Denver suburb of Aurora on Oct. 17, 2022. After pulling the gun on the fast food worker, who told police he was scared he was going to be killed after turning down the baggie of drugs, Robertson walked into a 7-Eleven across...

The former neighbors of a violent pedophile who raped and murdered an eight-year-old girl say they are living in fear of his release from jail under a juvenile justice reform proposition authored by presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Adrian 'AJ' Gonzalez was just 15 when he brutally choked and stabbed innocent Madyson Middleton after luring her into his mother's apartment in Santa Cruz, California, with promises of ice cream. He also raped her as she lay dying and then wrapped her body in a trash bag before leaving it in a dumpster beneath the Tannery Arts Center apartment complex where they...

TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza, and he called on Hamas to do the same, without saying whether it had addressed concerns cited by the militant group. Blinken spoke after holding a 2 1/2 hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day, and was expected to travel to Egypt on Tuesday. The United States, Egypt and Qatar have spent months trying to broker an agreement, with the talks repeatedly stalling. He did...

From the moment Vice President Kamala Harris emerged as the surprise Democratic presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump began arguing that she was anointed through a “coup” rather than chosen by primary voters. After barely mentioning election integrity at the Republican convention in July, Trump is now casting the upcoming election as “rigged” against him and baselessly labeling any hurdle in his path as election interference. “This was an overthrow of a president. This was an overthrow,” Trump said at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, referring to Harris replacing Biden on the ticket. He later added: “They deposed...

Tel Aviv Horror: Hamas's Al-Qassam Behind Deadly Bombing, Claims Joint Operation with Al-Quds. In a shocking turn of events, Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades have claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in Tel Aviv. The attack, which occurred on Sunday, was conducted in cooperation with the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement. The explosion resulted in the death of the bomber and injured one person. Israeli media have labelled the incident as a "terror attack," highlighting the ongoing tensions and violence in the region. Follow our live blog for updates on this developing story.

Rumours of Vladimir Putin body doubles have been circulating for a while and now speculation is rife about the Russian president again. Putin visited Baku, Azerbaijan, between August 18 and 19 to discuss Armenian settlement with the President of Azerbaijan. But some people have noticed there is a problem with Putin’s face in comparison to a meeting he held with the Russian security council just a few days prior. This includes Anton Herashchenko, a former advisor to Ukraine’s government, who is convinced Putin appeared as a body double in Baku. He posted: ‘Putin in Baku looks different from Putin at...

In the 2000s, former President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela bet his country’s economic future on a rising China, securing tens of billions of dollars in investments and loans-for-oil deals. It paid off at first. China voraciously consumed Venezuelan oil and financed infrastructure projects from a high-speed railway to power plants. The 2010s brought a reckoning. Oil prices fell, and growth in Chinese oil demand slowed along with its economy. Venezuela’s oil export revenues plummeted, from more than $73 billion in 2011 to $22 billion in 2016. Misrule by Mr. Chavez and his handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro, and myriad other domestic...

This week, the Democratic Party will nominate for president a woman who hasn’t won a single primary. I’ve elected not to attend the convention in Chicago. Since Joe Biden pulled out, it’s become a toothless coronation – and if there are protests, I can’t report on them. To do that, one needs pre-approved press credentials from the terrifying Chicago Police Department, which seems to regard half a dozen kids with placards and a camera as a nascent riot. The diminution of American democracy continues. Three months ago, we were told Joe was fit and well: anyone who said otherwise was...

The video begins with a foggy clip of Boris Johnson saying that the Ukrainians have shown us once again that we have underestimated the Ukrainians, "so now, by all that's Holy, now is the time for us in the West to give them permission to use the weapons they already have." Johnson urgers readers to learn more by reading his article in the Daily Mail.ransomnote: From Johnson's Daily Mail article, "So for pity's sake, can we finally cut the cackle, drop the ludicrous Putin-phobia and give the Ukrainians the tools they really need to finish the job; and by that...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — The Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center in DeKalb County confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that some services at the hospital have been temporarily moved to other facilities, or rescheduled, due to multiple “intermittent sightings of flying insects.” While a VA spokeswoman said they are taking immediate action to address the issue, they said it “is not classified as an infestation.” According to the Ehrlich Pest Control website, the signs of a fly infestation are “regular sightings of flies: large number of flies buzzing around refuse areas and the base of garbage bins or...

In December 2022, early into what he now describes as his political journey, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut gave a speech warning his fellow Democrats that they were ignoring a crisis staring them in the face. For over a year, President Biden and his allies had been promoting data showing an economic miracle, as friendly pundits described it — a record-setting stock market, low unemployment and G.D.P. growth outpacing that of almost every other Western nation. But very few voters believed the story those metrics were telling. In poll after poll, they expressed a bleak view of the economy —...

Obamacare is a great example of how successful Democrats are when they pass laws that they falsely told the public would reduce health insurance prices by $2,500 per family. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was a 2,000-page monstrosity with thousands of pages of additional pages of new regulations and many new taxes. Any person with a brain would have known that the bill would cause price increases, not decreases, but no one was allowed to see the bill as passed. The first thing it did was take away freedom of choice. It forced people and businesses to buy a...

Leading populist lawmakers in Germany, from both the left and right, have demanded consequences for Kyiv over Ukraine’s alleged involvement in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, including reparations and the cessation of arms deliveries. Last week, it was reported that German authorities had issued an arrest warrant against a Ukrainian citizen for alleged involvement in the 2022 sabotage against the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines owned jointly by Russia and Germany. This was followed by a report from the Wall Street Journal, which claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had initially approved the plot to attack the...

On Dec. 1, 1960, the far-right preacher and racist demagogue Gerald L.K. Smith sent out a fund-raising appeal, headlined with a shocking claim in red type across the top: “HOLD YOUR BREATH: KENNEDY MAY HAVE LOST.” The 1960 election had indeed been close, but the Democrat, John F. Kennedy, had prevailed, and his Republican opponent, Richard M. Nixon, had congratulated Kennedy on election night, over shouted protests from his supporters. Three weeks later, Smith, the leader of what he called the Christian Nationalist Crusade, was telling his followers it was possible to reverse that result. If Smith’s followers would only...

A Cybertruck towing a giant bust of tech mogul Elon Musk is traveling across South Texas, raising questions and going viral online. In a video posted to social media Saturday, the bronze-colored bust was seen upright on a flatbed trailer. It towered over the Tesla-branded pickup that pulled it along a Brownsville street. Yellow straps crisscrossed the statue’s misshapen head. They framed a stern-looking Musk staring back at the vehicles following him. The same French tech entrepreneur and crypto advocate identified only as “Louis” who commissioned a 3-story-tall mural of Musk that now stands along the route to Starbase is...

A Scottish MSP has been suspended by his party after stating that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. John Mason, who represents Glasgow Shettleston, wrote on X: "If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they would have killed ten times as many." After his suspension, Mason reiterated his position and told Sky News, "It's never my intention to upset people, but I'm not afraid of upsetting people in the sense of if I think something important needs to be said." SNP called Mason's statement "utterly abhorrent" and accused him of "flippantly dismiss[ing] the death of more than 40,000 Palestinians," citing...

VIDEOELECTION INTERFERENCE ALERT!!!This morning I clicked on a Liberal Hivemind video and up came an ad. The problem was that instead of being the typical YouTube ad that you could skip after five or ten seconds, you had to watch the entire 1:19 minute ad. Later, when I clicked to watch a video from the Brian Craig Show the same thing happened. The same 1:19 ad for car insurance came up and I couldn't watch the Brian Craig video until it finished since it was unskippable. In this video I show what happens when you click on videos from both...

Former President Donald Trump can win Pennsylvania. But a new poll says it’s to his benefit that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remain a real factor down the stretch. Otherwise, the Democratic candidate benefits. That’s a takeaway from a Cygnal survey of 800 likely November voters conducted Aug. 14 and 15. With Kennedy a candidate, Trump leads the field, albeit well inside the poll’s +/- 3.41% margin of error. Trump has 44% support. Vice President Kamala Harris sits at 43%.

Josh McKoon, the chair of the Georgia Republican Party, boasted at the state convention in late May that he had “very good news.” Georgia Republicans had just orchestrated a takeover of the state election board, an unelected body that sets voting rules. With this new majority, Republicans could enact an agenda that would help former President Donald J. Trump win in November, Mr. McKoon said. “I believe when we look back on Nov. 5, 2024, we’re going to say getting to that 3-2 election-integrity-minded majority on the state election board made sure that we had the level playing field to...