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A social media video depicting people “adopting” bears and raising them as pets is terrible idea, experts told Cowboy State Daily. They are just setting themselves up to be mauled, they said. A popular social media video that opens with a bear showing up at a family’s front door, set to a sappy love song with cute emojis littered throughout is put out there as a heartwarming tale of nature communing with humans. What the video really shows is a level of ignorance and interaction with one of the planet’s apex predators that’s really just incredibly stupid, wildlife experts told...

Shortly before midnight on Monday evening, Joe Biden finally took the stage at the DNC. Billed as his "final speech" and a tribute to his career, the failed president, who dropped out of the race in July, was nothing new. Instead, his time behind the podium was incredibly typical, with lots of angry shouting and repeating the same old lies. If you watched his last State of the Union, you've heard it all. [snip] According to Joseph Robinette Biden, the terrorist-supporting lunatics outside the DNC who are promising to "bring the war home" while burning American flags "have a point."...

Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance will hold a Press Conference on crime and safety in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, at 12:00PM CDT. Senator Vance will be joined by US Senate Nominee Eric Hovde, Rep. Bryan Steil, and Kenosha County Sheriff David Zoerner. President Trump and JD Vance are heartbroken to see the path of death and destruction left behind by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Hard-working Wisconsin families are paying a steep price for Kamala’s weak, failed, and dangerously liberal agenda that is devastating American cities with skyrocketing costs and crime ridden streets. ... ~~~~~ President...

BERLIN (AP) – A German court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. The Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a two-year suspended sentence in December 2022 by a state court in Itzehoe in northern Germany. She was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp near Danzig, now the Polish city of Gdansk, function. She...

Pro-Hezbollah Lebanese commentator stirred up a virtual storm in Lebanon following a sharp attack against his Christian compatriots in Lebanon, where he claimed that the Christians’ role in Lebanon is over and alleged that American battleships are coming to the region to take them away. In his controversial rant given during an interview with Lebanon On News, Reda Saad addressed his “Christian brethren in Lebanon,” as he named them, warning them to pay attention carefully to his words. “I fear that the Christians in Lebanon will face a similar destiny to that of the Afghans when they clung to the...

CHICAGO (AP) — Jill Biden once said that she knew marrying Joe Biden — then a senator from Delaware — would mean "a life in the spotlight that I had never wanted.” On Monday night, now very accustomed to that spotlight, the first lady stood before the Democratic National Convention to do her part to highlight her husband's 50 years of public service as his presidency begins to draw to a close. Her words marked the beginning of an end for her, too. Before the president walked across the stage at the United Center to deliver the keynote speech on...

An international team of astronomers has overturned a longstanding belief that stars and dark matter interact in a mysterious way to create uniform density structures across different galaxies. This finding, published in 'Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)', challenges a theory that had perplexed scientists for 25 years. The research team, which includes scientists from Australia, the UK, Austria, and Germany, utilized the Very Large Telescope in Chile to observe and analyze 22 galaxies that are approximately four billion years old. The results revealed that the perceived uniformity in galaxy density may not be a real phenomenon but...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Typically, a student who finishes zero schoolwork should expect zero for a grade. But that is not the case anymore in Kansas City Public Schools. For the 2023-24 school year, the school district district launched a new grading system, the “no zero policy.” Essentially, the minimum grade on any given assignment is 40%, even if the student didn’t do the assignment. The policy is designed to help struggling students catch up. KCPS declined an interview but shared a video announcement from chief academic officer Dr. Latanya Franklin sent to parents. She explained discussions and work...

A former prisoner who Kamala Harris was wrongfully convicted during her stint as a California prosecutor has blown the whistle on her record of locking up innocent men. In 2007, Jamal Trulovem was sentenced to o 50 years in prison for the shooting of his friend Seu Kuka. During that time, Trulovem was being prosecuted by the then-state District Attorney for San Francisco Harris. However, Trulove was vindicated on appeal six years later and was awarded a $13.1 million settlement against the state of California. The former prisoner said Harris “laughed” at him when he was convicted. “We locked eyes...

with all their elitist celebrity friends in Chicago, Illinois, for the Democratic National Convention (DNC), but the first night of primetime programming on Monday evening is going to hit a somber tone for the party.Sitting President Joe Biden — who was just toppled by a coup from within his own party after winning the Democrat presidential nomination thanks to more than 14 million primary voters in 2024 — will, instead of, on Thursday, accept that nomination voters gave to him, deliver a swan song address saying goodbye to the nation as president on Monday night and urge people to support...

~The third-rate vaudeville being mounted in Chicago this week is irrelevant to anything that matters - except for the bleak fact that half the American people are minded to go along with it, which helps explains why meaningful course-correction is all but impossible. This grim vignette, however, struck me as almost poignant: Protesters in Chicago who are marching against the DNC chant "F*ck the courts, f*ck the state, you can't make us procreate." People dressed as abortion pills take part in the march. pic.twitter.com/xwmRAAjW8w — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 19, 2024 Almost two decades ago, I began my demographic...

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” host and NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell stated that 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) hasn’t been attacking his Democratic counterpart, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D), service, but has found “criticism, a lot of it verified, about the way he accounted for his service.” While speaking to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Mitchell said, “Talk to me about Tim Walz, because you know him so well. He’s the Governor of your state. And he’s being attacked, he’s a 24-year veteran of the National...

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed more than 1,500 medieval silver coins after a citizen unexpectedly noticed what looked like "small metal plates" while digging during a construction project...The finding, which was made in May while workers laid pipe near a swimming pool in the municipality of Glottertal, bears clues to what the mining and minting trades looked like in the area 650 years ago, according to a translated statement from the Stuttgart Regional Council.Back in 1949, archaeologists in Freiburg (also known as Freiburg im Breisgau) found about 5,000 coins from around the 1280s, but no medieval coins had been found...

A Bold Vision for America’s Future. The Tuesday theme will focus on Democrats’ platform to push America forward. In a press release, party leadership accused former President Donald Trump of believing the country’s best days are behind it, and that he and Sen. JD Vance will implement a “Project 2025 agenda” to pull the country backward. Speakers:The early list is short and will likely updated later today around gavel time. Second gentleman Doug EmhoffIllinois Gov. J.B. PritzkerFormer first lady Michelle ObamaFormer President Barack ObamaProtests... No specific list today, but others beyond yesterday's Islamic Palestinian HAMAS supporters. Schedule:DNC events start at...

Mursal Mohamed Seid is a Somali migrant living in Germany who in 2021, stabbed his homeless shelter roommate so many times, the victim’s intestines “erupted” from his abdomen, before he was subsequently decapitated. Now Seid, not being German by birth, wasn’t accustomed to the Judeo-Christian culture of the West, and this was merely a matter of mental health, maladjustment, and culture, so Seid was sent to a hospital instead of a prison or the executioner’s chamber where he belonged. Earlier this month, hospital staff released Seid for a “family-friendly” and “rehabilitative” movie experience, so he could live life like a...

Ahh … God bless the great state of Florida. If you’re not familiar: Every year, an event named the Florida Python Challenge pops off in the Sunshine State to help the removal of Burmese pythons that are invading the Florida Everglades and areas around the legendary wetlands. Here in 2024, things are no different and this year’s edition has been going on the last few weeks in South Florida. Well, while this has been going on, one python hunter was shocked when he found a snake taking a ride on an alligator. In the words of Bobby Ruiz, a Wink...

In past articles and on many Line of Fire broadcasts, I have expressed my strong reservations about Donald Trump and the current direction of the GOP (most recently here), so my potential vote for him/them would be with caveats and concerns. But under no circumstances could I possibly countenance a vote for Kamala Harris. Writing in October 2020, conservative author David Kupelian took issue with Pastor John Piper, who encouraged Christians not to vote for either Trump or Biden.

The greed is unreal. When football fans realized that it costs a whopping $679.99 for NFL Sunday Ticket through the Apple Store, or $739.99 if you decide to bundle in NFL RedZone, a ton of them went absolutely bonkers in anger. The ridiculous prices were revealed by NBC Sports’ ProFootballTalk, and understandably so, it set off a reaction of rage among the NFL‘s fanbase. And to nobody’s surprise, that $679.99 price tag (or $739.99) to watch through Apple TV, iPads, iPhones and other Apple devices is the highest price out of all streaming services. Because of course it is. It...

Were one to listen to the Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) media, one would rejoice at the dramatic drop in crime in America’s blue, D/s/c ruled cities under the enlightened Harris/Biden Administration. However, residents of those cities, aren’t rejoicing, quite the opposite. Still, one of the primary themes of the Harris/Walz campaign is how tough Kamala was on crime, and how her brilliant anti-crime policies have caused crime rates, particularly violent crime rates, to dramatically drop. Axios is representative of D/s/c cheerleading: New preliminary data from major U.S. cities shows a sharp drop in violent crime in the first half of the year...

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks on crime and safety in Howell, Michigan, on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. ET. Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 2:00 p.m. ET. Location: Livingston County Sheriff's Office, 150 S Highlander Way, Howell, MI 48843