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The Nevada Supreme Court has dealt a major blow to the Democrats’ attempts to force the certification of potentially fraudulent election results. The court dismissed a petition from the Nevada Secretary of State, Francisco Aguilar, that sought to compel the Washoe County Board of County Commissioners to immediately certify the results of a June primary election recount. The case revolved around a recount in Washoe County, where discrepancies were reported. According to the far-left Democracy Docket: Washoe County Commissioners voted to certify the recount for primary election races on Tuesday after facing legal action for refusing to do so last...

Women voters told former CNN host Don Lemon why they don’t like Vice President Kamala Harris and why they are backing former President Donald Trump in a video posted Tuesday. CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten on Friday said that women are largely driving Harris’ momentum as she leads Trump by an 11-point margin among female voters nationally, while President Joe Biden only had a four-point lead with them prior to dropping out of the race on July 21. The women told Lemon their lives were better under Trump and they don’t like Harris’ personality or want to vote for...

Palestinian Arabs report several terrorists injured after explosive device goes off as they tried to plant it in the town of Tammun. Video

Planned Parenthood expected to perform 25 free medication abortions through its mobile “health” clinic stationed near the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, told the New York Post outside of the abortion van on Monday that it had planned for “about” ten vasectomies and 25 medication abortions. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers announced in a post to X on August 14 that it would be offering free vasectomies and abortions during the DNC in Chicago. Organizers said the stunt was “not political” although they said the mobile...

It was one of the opening night’s most dramatic and sober moments. Three women emerged on the main stage, each in a spotlight against the darkness. Amanda Zurawski, standing beside her husband, told of how she nearly died when her baby would not survive and she could not get abortion care in Texas. Kaitlyn Joshua spoke of bleeding, miscarrying and being turned away from two emergency rooms in Louisiana. And Hadley Duvall of Kentucky told a harrowing story of being impregnated by her stepfather at age 12. “He calls it ‘a beautiful thing,’” she said, quoting former President Donald J....

Candidates have made plenty of blunders, quirky comments and plain old bad choices through the years | Running for a second term in 1976, President Gerald Fold declared during a debate, “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, and there never will be under a Ford administration.” Since the Soviets did, in fact, occupy much of the region, moderator Max Frankel gave Ford a chance to recant, but Ford held firm.

Candace’s main arguments, pointing out she referred to Holocaust education as indoctrination and excused Adolph Hitler’s horrifying orders as “nationalism.”

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Monday on “Deadline” that the Republican National Convention was a “testosterone-laden grievance machine,” while praising the first night of the Democratic National Convention. McCaskill said, “Look at the split screen, between the Republican convention and this one so far. The Republican convection was a testosterone laden grievance machine. Trump coming out to the song “Men Rule the World” and Hulk Hogan ripping off his shirt and you know it was just ridiculous. It is like women don’t have the right to vote.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) stated that it is “disingenuous” for 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) to point to his Democratic counterpart, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) falsely saying his wife used IVF to get pregnant and said that “to be arguing about that issue at that level, I think is ridiculous.” Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “JD Vance, while he’s out on the campaign trail, has been criticizing him today, because he’s often talked about his family’s story and journey with IVF, with their two kids, their fertility struggles....

The law has caused some Asian American voters to say they're changing their vote from Republican to Democrat ahead of the state's primary.Wen Raiti, a Chinese American community leader in Jacksonville, Florida, has been a Republican for more than a decade. As a small business owner, she said, the party’s fiscal conservatism and small government ethos resonated with her. But last May, when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation banning Chinese citizens from buying property in Florida, Raiti changed her party affiliation and began campaigning for local and national Democratic candidates. Leading up to Florida’s Aug. 20 primary election, anger toward...

A Manhattan pizzeria worker was mauled by an irate customer’s pit bull during a vicious beatdown late Monday that was sparked because the dog wasn’t allowed in the shop, cops and sources said. The 50-year-old worker at Roma Pizzeria clung to life Tuesday as the pit bull’s owner Tyshaun Watson, 35, was slapped with an attempted murder charge for allegedly pummeling the employee — later saying he was “sorry” when he was cuffed, cops said. Surveillance video captured a merciless attack by Watson after he walked into the Flatiron eatery along Fifth Avenue with his pit bull about 10 p.m.,...

On today'sKate Beningfield Bakari Sellers Kasie Hunt Shermichael Singleton Alyssa Farah Griffin CNN This Morning 8-20-24CNN This Morning, the panel from Kate Bedingfield to Bakari Sellers, to Shermichael Singleton, to host Kasie Hunt herself, all praised Joe Biden for being "selfless" in stepping aside. It's all a tired repeat of fervent over-praise of the president after he was dragged kicking and screaming to the door, with Nancy Pelosi threatening to publicly humiliate him if he refused to go. As the New York Post reported [emphasis added]: "Pelosi reportedly threatened to publicly trash her longtime friend and political ally if he...

George McMillan III wanted to Talk about Trump, through the 7p framework, so we did.

The central six-ton altar stone at Stonehenge may have come from more than 450 miles away, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Nature. Stonehenge is thought to have been erected in several phases between 3100 BCE and 1600 BCE, with the circle of large sarsen stones placed there between 2600 BCE and 2400 BCE by Neolithic and Bronze Age people. While larger local stones may have been moved by hundreds of individuals with ropes and log rollers, the Welsh bluestones could have been transported by sea using rafts. Related Articles Researchers begin excavating a site in...

The relic was likely a votive altar fixture. A 3,000-year-old statuette molded in the image of a goddess has surfaced at Italy’s underwater Gran Carro Archaeological Park, about 50 miles north of Rome, according to the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape, which is part of Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage. This six-inch relic turned up while divers were paving an underwater pathway through the Iron Age ruins beneath the east end of Lake Bolsena (whose waters once inspired a suite of Cy Twombly paintings). The pathway in progress will host visitors to the site and is part...

The first night of the Democratic National Convention averaged 20 million viewers across 13 networks, surpassing the audience for the initial day of the Republican National Convention, according to Nielsen. The numbers are for the 10 p.m. ET to 12:30 a.m ET time frame, as the proceedings went way overtime, finishing with the address by President Joe Biden. The first night of the Republican National Convention drew an estimated 18.13 million in the 10 p.m. ET hour across 12 networks. That was up slightly from the 17 million who watched in 2020.

The 36-square-foot stone also speaks of the mythical founding of the Mayan city-state Cobá.During a conference on August 12, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that workers from the Ministry of Culture’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) had found a tablet engraved with Mayan hieroglyphs near Nohoch Mul, a pyramid in the Archaeologic Zone of Cobá in Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula. Indigenous peoples first settled in Cobá—derived from the Mayan word “Ko’ba a,” roughly meaning “choppy water”—between 350 BCE and 250 CE, with Mayan civilization blossoming between 600 and 1000 CE, or what historians of...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WKRC) - After a woman was sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings from the school she worked at, a NFL player offered to buy her freedom. Vera Liddell, 68, was arrested for stealing $1.5 million worth of food from take-home meals for students over the COVID 19 pandemic. Attorneys said she operated from July of 2020 through February of 2022.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who appeared in his personal capacity, responded to 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris abandoning multiple positions from her previous presidential run like her support for Medicare for all and a ban on fracking by saying that “your time in government and just the evolution of the situation around you means it makes sense to continue developing your policies.” And there’s been a lot of “change and dynamism…not just in the administration, but just in the world around us right now.” Co-host Steve Inskeep asked, [relevant exchange...

Salvator Mundi, a $450 million painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, has not been seen publicly since it sold at Christie’s in 2017, the year it became the most expensive artwork ever auction. And the reason for that, according to a new BBC report, is that it may be held in storage in Geneva. The good news, per the BBC, is that its owner, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, may eventually make it publicly viewable. According to that report, the crown prince, often labeled MBS for short, plans to display it in a future museum in...