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Pollster Frank Luntz said that Vice President Kamala Harris’ historically effective campaign launch is not sufficient for her to defeat former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Harris is currently leading Trump nationally by 1.5% after the vice president launched her campaign on July 21, according to the RealClearPolling average. Luntz, on “CNN News Central,” said that despite Harris having the “best launch” in decades, the polling difference between her and Trump is so small that she must surge after the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to have a clear path to victory.

Bob Menendez's resignation from the US Senate became official Tuesday, a much-anticipated move that follows his conviction on bribery charges in July. The New Jersey Democrat was found guilty on 16 counts tied to a scheme where he accepted bribes, including gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz, to aid the Qatari and Egyptian governments. He will face a potentially lengthy prison term at his sentencing in October. Menendez, 70, has maintained his innocence and said he plans to appeal. Menendez initially resisted calls to step down and - until last week - had kept his name on the ballot for re-election...

CLAIM: Former President Barack Obama suggested during his Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech Tuesday that former President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters — or as Obama called them, the “other side” — believe generosity is for “suckers.” VERDICT: FALSE. Statistically, Republicans are actually among the “heaviest” givers. Obama — who largely obsessed over Trump during his divisive speech to Democrats on Tuesday night, demonizing him and his supporters with surface level jabs — also attempted to cast the vision of the Democratic Party.

A new study has added fuel to concerns that America could face a surge in dementias in coming years and decades due to COVID. The research found that nearly two-thirds of people over 65 who were hospitalized with the virus went on to suffer cognitive decline, which can be a precursor for dementia, weeks and months after the infection cleared. Independent experts told DailyMail.com this is a trend they're watching closely, since if there is a link, it could affect the millions of older adults who were infected with the virus. CDC data shows that over-65s accounted for nearly half...

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Argentine authorities have quarantined a cargo ship in the Parana River over a suspected case of mpox onboard, the government said on Tuesday, as global public health authorities remain on alert for a new faster-spreading variant of the virus. The quarantined Liberian-flagged ship was sailing from Santos, Brazil - also a major commodities hub - to pick up soy cargo, according to the health ministry and industry body the Argentine Naval League. The World Health Organization (WHO) last week declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years as...

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...