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CHICAGO, Illinois — Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to pressure the Israeli government to yield to Hamas’s demands for a hostage deal. On Monday, Netanyahu met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and agreed to a U.S. “bridging” proposal that aimed to reconcile Israel’s demands with those of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which holds 109 hostages.

Congress and President Joe Biden’s government have reportedly paid the Texas arm of Catholic Charities USA $769 million since 2021 to help deliver a huge population of poor migrants into U.S. communities, workplaces, and housing. “Catholic Charities has a history of prioritizing the needs of migrants over those of Americans,” said Sheena Rodriguez, the president of Alliance for a Safe Texas, which champions border security and anti-trafficking programs. “I’ve spoken with numerous homeless Americans who claimed they were forced out of [a Catholic Charities] shelter in the dead of night to accommodate the influx of illegal migrants,” she told Breitbart...

Attorney General Ken Paxton.. I am launching an investigation into reports that organizations in Texas are illegally registering non-citizens to vote. Texans are deeply troubled by the possibility that organizations purporting to assist with voter registration are illegally registering noncitizens to vote in our elections. If eligible citizens can legally register to vote when conducting their business at a DPS office, why would they need a second opportunity to register with a booth outside? My office is investigating every credible report we receive regarding potential criminal activity that could compromise the integrity of our elections. The Biden-Harris Administration has intentionally...

Trump has accused Kamala Harris of being “low IQ.”1 That’s quite an accusation, so let’s look at the evidence. Once, Kamala Harris was invited to give a TED Talk. That doesn’t sound like something that would happen to a stupid person.Then again, the topic of her TED Talk was on the proper way to heat up a Cup O’ Noodles and she kept calling everyone in the room “Ted,” and if they said Ted wasn’t their name, she made them leave since this was only a talk for Teds. She also recently made an entire economic plan. That doesn’t sound...

Nicole Shanahan, vice presidential candidate for the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign, recently appeared on the Impact Theory podcast. During the interview, she discussed campaign insights, efforts to undermine their campaign, and the potential for establishing a new competitive third party beyond the 2024 election. Speaking with Impact Theory’s Tom Bilyeu, Shanahan ... told Bilyeu that the Kennedy campaign has been frequently targeted by the Democratic Party, claiming it has tried to sabotage the campaign from within by planting insiders to disrupt operations and create legal issues. She additionally brought up the Clear Choice PAC, a super PAC that has...

After receiving a gold-encrusted copy of the Holy Quran of Muslims in a mosque in the Russian Chechen Republic's capital, Grozny, Russian president Putin kissed it and then hugged it to take photos of Kadyrov and Mezhiev.

The Manhattan pizzeria worker mauled by an irate customer’s pit bull during a savage Monday beatdown is still comatose and hooked to a respirator — as a judge hit his alleged attacker with a hefty bail during his Wednesday arraignment. Manhattan prosecutors asked that Tyshaun Watson, a National Guard member and hospitality worker from Secaucus, New Jersey, be held on $250,000 cash/$500,000 insurance or partially secured bond for his alleged crimes against Zakaira El Sherief, which include second-degree attempted murder. Judge Simiyon Haniff granted the request, but added that he was surprised prosecutors wanted any bail at all.

The COVID-19 pandemic is proving to be a powerful driver of change. It is spurring biodigital innovations such as nearly real-time biosurveillance of virus spread and mutations; virus tracking via smartphone; and messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine development at unprecedented speed. Biodigital convergence, the merging of biological systems and digital technologies, is challenging the way we understand ourselves and the world in which we live.

Missing UK tech billionaire Mike Lynch’s associate Stephen Chamberlain, who stood trial for fraud alongside him after the sale of software company Autonomy, died just days before the entrepreneur vanished in a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily. Chamberlain was out for a run in Cambridgeshire, England, on Saturday when he was struck by a vehicle and died after being rushed to a nearby hospital. Chamberlain and Lynch, who remains missing after a yacht he was on with his wife and 18-year-old daughter sank Monday, were co-defendants in the decade-long fraud case that arose after the $11 billion sale to...

Pay Attention. In 2020 President Trump won more votes than any sitting president in US history. Trump increased his vote totals by 12 million votes in 2020 over his first presidential victory in 2016. Trump won 16 of 17 bellwether counties and allegedly lost the election. Something that had never happened in 36 years. Trump won the bellwether states, Ohio, Florida, and Iowa handily, something EVERY winning candidate has accomplished since 1960. Biden won the fewest number of counties in the 2020 election by any alleged “winner” in history – winning only 16% of all US counties. In this same...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. planning to drop out of the presidential race...endorse Donald Trump Friday.

On August 16, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who had been re-elected as a Democrat in 2018, withdrew his name from the November 2024 ballot. He had been running as an independent candidate this year.

44 delegates voted “present” during the Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) symbolic roll call vote, according to a Daily Caller review. The vote, a symbolic gesture after the Democrats officially nominated Harris as their candidate with a virtual roll call in early August, highlighted the party’s divide over the contentious Israel/Palestine issue. Likely among the 44 present votes were the 30 delegate members of the “Uncommitted” protest movement. They say they “feel deeply hurt and betrayed by the President’s decisions to continue funding war crimes and the mass killing of Palestinians,” according to their website. Some members of the Uncommitted movement...

Among the eight national tickets who will be on the ballot in at least ten states, there is more diversity than at any previous U.S. presidential election. The eight tickets are: Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Socialism & Libertarian, We the People, and Justice for All. Five of the eight tickets have a woman. Six of the tickets have an ethic or racial minority member (all but the Republican and Libertarian tickets). One ticket has an openly gay man. Two of the tickets have Muslim members, and one has a Jewish member..

Fernando Cluster trusted Emory University Hospital Midtown to perform a delicate procedure requiring the temporary removal of part of his skull. But, when it was time to put the piece back, Cluster says medical personnel lost it – and then charged him thousands of dollars for it.(snip) Except, when preparing for the procedure on November 11, 2022, his bone flap was nowhere to be found.(SNIP)According to the lawsuit, Cluster would wait almost two weeks for a synthetic implant flap to be manufactured. His cranioplasty was rescheduled for November 23, 2022.After the procedure, Cluster's family was allegedly charged $146,845.60, which included...

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...