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The FBI has launched an investigation into whether maggots were deliberately slipped into the breakfasts of delegates at the Democratic National Convention. Law enforcement swarmed the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Chicago on Wednesday following reports of the insect attack. Indiana delegate Tracy Boyd told WGNTV: 'They protected us, of course, and turned it around in minutes.' She said her group was notified that breakfast service would be briefly delayed due to the incident by pro-Palestine activists.

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The challenge for Iran in retaliation was trying to go beyond its April attack on Israel. Iran now wants to message about how it reserves the right to at some later date. Almost three weeks after the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, the Iranian regime is trying to step down from its early claims it would carry out an attack on Israel in retaliation. The regime in Tehran has built up a lot of expectations regarding how it would attack Israel. Now it is trying to shift messaging. The challenge for Iran in retaliation was trying to...

The Montreal police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched investigations Wednesday after a threatening email was sent to more than 100 Jewish institutions across Canada, including several synagogues in Montreal. The email was sent around 5 a.m., warning the institutions that explosives had been placed in black backpacks and would be set off in a matter of hours. Article content “You will all end up in a pool of blood, none of you deserve to keep living,” the email read.

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - The U.S. Supreme Court has granted Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis an extension to respond to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' attempts to move his case in the Fulton County election interference investigation to federal court. Meadows, who served as top aide to former President Donald Trump, asserted that he stands a better chance of prevailing in a federal jury trial compared to proceedings in the Fulton County Superior Court. His legal team contends that a recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity could bolster his case. [snip] Willis previously had a...

Explanation: Forget X-ray vision — imagine what you could see with gamma-ray vision! The featured all-sky map shows what the universe looks like to NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi sees light with energies about a billion times what the human eye can see, and the map combines 12 years of Fermi observations. The colors represent the brightness of the gamma-ray sources, with brighter sources appearing lighter in color. The prominent stripe across the middle is the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Most of the red and yellow dots scattered above and below the Milky Way’s plane are...

Russia said on Wednesday that voting for the country’s upcoming local elections will be postponed in seven districts of the Kursk region. A statement by Russia’s Central Election Commission said that the decision was made after the proposal given by the electoral commission in the border region, where Ukraine launched an incursion two weeks prior. The statement said the districts concerned are Belovsky, Bolshesoldatsky, Glushkovsky, Korenevsky, Sudzhansky and Khomutovsky, as well as the town of Lgov. “The process of preparing and holding elections will be resumed with a full guarantee of voter safety,” the statement further said. Russian citizens will...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson · 8m President Trump leaves the bulletproof glass protecting him to check on a supporter in the crowd who passed out. FEARLESS.

The Harris campaign has criticized Trump for planning the event in Howell while failing to condemn what it called a "blatant display of racism and antisemitism in his name." When asked by a reporter about it on Tuesday, Trump responded, "Who was here in 2021?" When the reporter replied, "Joe Biden", Trump laughed and walked away.

An exploding electric bike battery was behind the fire last week at an Auburn inn. According to the Auburn Fire Department, the fire happened just before 6:00p on August 15 at the Cayuga Inn at the Finger Lakes (formerly the Days Inn) at 37 William St. Crews quickly made their way to the second-floor room where there were multiple fires were found. After extinguishing the fires, investigators determined an e-bike battery exploded, causing individual cells to scatter around the room. Damage was largely contained to the room with minor water damage on the first floor room below. There were no...

His disdain is palpable. Singapore's history taught its leaders early that hardcore rule of law and equality of opportunity, not equality of results, was the way to succeed. Elon Musk spotted this video on X (Twitter) featuring Lee Hsien Loong, the recently retired prime minister of Singapore, and couldn't help sharing: Elon Musk @elonmusk X-Twitter WisdomWisdom is a good word for it, because left unsaid, it's also about experience. Who is Lee Hsien Loong? He's the senior, or emeritus, prime minister of Singapore, the third in the nation's history, and the son of Singapore's founding father, the great Lee Kuan...

The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer's disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest with recent years witnessing several important controversies. In July 2022, Science magazine reported that a key 2006 research paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature, which identified a subtype of brain protein called beta-amyloid as the cause of Alzheimer's, may have been based on fabricated data. One year earlier, in June 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration had approved aducanumab, an antibody-targeting beta-amyloid, as a treatment for Alzheimer's, even though the data supporting its use were incomplete and contradictory.

In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers pieced together the chemical identity of the asteroid that fueled the planet’s fifth mass extinction event. Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The aftereffects of the collision resulted in the extinction of an estimated 75% of animal species, including most dinosaurs except for birds. But practically nothing of the asteroid itself remains. In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers pieced together the chemical identity...

The University of Kentucky is the latest school to close its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices, joining public colleges in Texas, Florida, and Alabama in eliminating programs that encourage discrimination based on race and sex. The university has decided to close its DEI office after the state legislature questioned whether the identity-focused programs have hindered discourse on campus, University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto said on Tuesday. Watch Below:

Another hole in the Left’s already tattered Walz “America’s dad” narrative. When Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate, Reuters informed us that he was a “plain speaker from the American heartland to help win over rural, white voters.” That’s what the Harris-Walz campaign wants us to think, but it has quickly become a virtually impossible narrative to sustain. Now, a retired Minnesota police lieutenant has shot another hole in the left’s already tattered Walz “America’s dad” narrative, and shown yet again how far left the Leftist Next Door really is. Fox News reported Thursday that retired Minnesota...

SpaceX debuted a new Falcon 9 first stage booster as it launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Tuesday morning. The Falcon 9 lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex in Florida at about 9:20 a.m. EDT, near the end of the launch window, as weather conditions improved. The rocket was carrying 22 Starlink satellites. Lifting off with a new first stage, the Falcon 9 rocket left the Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex at about The new first stage booster, B1085, performed as expected on its return to Earth eight minutes after takeoff, sticking the landing on the...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address nation on Friday about the present historical moment and his path forward amid rumors he will drop out to endorse Donald Trump

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(Aug. 16, 2024) — On or about August 4, 2024, Zach DeGregorio, host of the program, “Wolves and Finance,” uploaded a video to his YouTube channel titled, “Who is Kamala Harris?” which, among other things, questioned whether Harris is a “natural born Citizen” as required by the U.S. Constitution for the president and commander-in-chief. Harris became the presumptive 2024 Democrat presidential nominee almost immediately after Joe Biden on July 21 withdrew from the race and endorsed her. To that point, according to NBC News, Harris was the least popular person to hold the office since its polling began. On Wednesday,...

An American security delegation secretly traveled to Tehran in order to try to deescalate tensions in the region between Iran and Israel. In a meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei the delegation is reported to have supplied the names of ten Israeli agents in Iran that are believed to have been involved in the assassination of Hamas's Ismail Haniyeh when he visited the country in late July. US Secretary of State Tony Blinken insisted that "we haven't given up any names yet, but we won't rule it out as an option. If the alternative is a regional war between...