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presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will stay on the Wisconsin ballot in November, the Wisconsin Elections Commission decided Tuesday, despite Kennedy’s last-minute request to be removed. Elections commission Chair Ann Jacobs, one of three Democratic appointees to the evenly divided commission, argued that state law prevents removing a candidate for office who has met the requirements. “If you file nomination [papers] and qualify, you may not decline the nomination, and the name of that person shall appear upon the ballot, except in the case of the death of the person,” Jacobs said, arguing against taking Kennedy off the ballot....

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a program launched by President Joe Biden's administration allowing undocumented immigrants a pathway to U.S. citizenship, NBC News reports. The 'Keeping Families Together' program, which allowed undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to apply for green cards without leaving the country, was blocked by U.S. Eastern District of Texas Judge J. Campbell Barker on Monday (August 26). The program would provide a "parole in place" to undocumented spouses who could prove they've lived in the U.S. continuously for at least 10 years. Undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens typically need to leave the country...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it's unlikely that he would receive Senate confirmation because committee members are 'just safeguarding that (CIA) directorship and I would be very, very dangerous for those committees.' (LifeSiteNews) — Former presidential candidate turned Donald Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Tucker Carlson this week that he would definitely serve as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). “If you were asked, would you run it?” Carlson asked. “Yes, I would,” Kennedy replied. “But I would never get Senate confirmation.” Kennedy made major news last week when just one day after the Democratic National...

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The US "strongly opposes" Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir’s public support for building a synagogue on the Temple Mount, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told Axios’ Barak Ravid on Tuesday. “It would demonstrate blatant disregard for the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites in Jerusalem,” Miller told Ravid. "Ben Gvir’s ongoing reckless statements and actions of this minister only sow chaos and exacerbate tensions at a moment when Israel must stand united against threats from Iran and its proxy terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah. They directly undermine Israel’s security," added the State Department spokesperson....

The presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is back on, and set for September 10 on ABC. .... update came from the former president who said he had 'reached an agreement' with the Harris campaign for a primetime showdown in Philadelphia using the 'same rules of the CNN debate' with President Joe Biden. Trump's statement included some rules but doesn't specifically mention what is being done about the microphone muting. But the ex-president hinted he got his way and that microphones will be muted.

In a sour commentary, NYT Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy said he'd 'cringed' when former president Bill Clinton took the convention stage on Tuesday to claim that Harris would be 'the president of joy'..... Harris can't coast on "joy",' he concluded witheringly. How's that going to help the millions of Americans whose livelihoods are now at stake, Healey asked? On Monday, the newspaper published a guest essay titled 'Trump can win on character', by conservative commentator Rich Lowry......Pulling no punches, Lowry wrote that Harris is 'weak and a phony and doesn't truly care about the country or the middle class.'...

Is it "fatphobic" that horses spines can only hold a certain amount of weight? I think we all know the answer: Of course it is!

BREAKING: On Thursday, Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will sit with CNN for an exclusive first joint interview since launching presidential campaign

California Democrats passed a bill in the State Senate that would provide up to $150,000 in home loans for illegal aliens who are first-time home buyers in the state. The bill, AB 1840, passed the Assembly in a different form, and will head back there for approval before heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) desk. As Breitbart News reported Monday: AB 1840, proposed by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno), expands an existing program for first-time home buyers such that applicants”shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.” The bill has already passed the California State Senate and is...

Wade Wilson, who shares a name with the Marvel superhero and has "Why so serious?" and swastikas tattooed across his face, was convicted of killing two women in 2019 -- one of whom he strangled, then ran over repeatedly. Wade Wilson, the tattooed, convicted murderer known as the "Deadpool Killer" has been sentenced to death for the murders of Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43, in 2019.

Special counsel Jack Smith has charged former President Donald Trump in a superseding indictment in his federal election interference case. "Today, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment, ECF No. 226, charging the defendant with the same c, riminal offenses that were charged in the original indictment," a Justice Department spokesperson said Tuesday.

The alleged charges remain the same - Smith removes allegations covered under Executive privilege, such as efforts to influence the Justice Department.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has told police that he was supposed to have dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron on the day of his arrest, respected French investigative newspaper Le Canard Enchaine has reported. “Macron is perfectly capable of this kind of deceit aimed at fulfilling the mission demanded by his masters: jailing all those who defend freedom of expression! We demand explanations from Macron!” Les Patriots Party leader Florian Philippot wrote in a social media post commenting on the story. The Elysee Palace rushed to deny the newspaper’s claims.

The Grok chatbot on the X social media platform has been updated following a letter sent to platform owner Elon Musk from five secretaries of state demanding he make changes over false election information. Democrat Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon announced the change Monday, after he had been informed of the change by the social media company last week. Simon, along with four other secretaries of state, sent a letter earlier this month to Musk claiming their combined "37 million constituents were recently impacted by false information" Grok provided about the election. The AI chatbot will direct users who...

There are 1000 ways to commit election fraud and we know all of them. After engineer and data scientist Kim Brooks worked on cleaning the voter rolls in Georgia for a year, she realized she was on a stationary bicycle. She’d clear a name for various reasons, dead, felon, stolen ID, living at a seasonal campground for twenty years, duplicate, moved out of state, 200 years old, etc., and back it would come within a month. At that juncture she realized that a program within the Georgia voter registration database was methodically adding back fake names. She looked deeper. For...

Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a superseding indictment in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, slimming down the allegations against the 2024 presidential nominee in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.

But she just attempted to remove Cornel West from the ballot, losing a court case that she is now appealing.

CV NEWS FEED // Americans United for Life (AUL), a leading pro-life advocacy group, has published a report on the importance of federal rules regulating mail-order abortions. The Biden Administration wants to eliminate those rules. AUL states that the Aug. 26 report “provides an overview and statutory history of federal mail-order abortion rules,” addressing misconceptions about the rules. Litigation Counsel Carolyn McDonnell, the report’s author, explains that 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461–1462, part of the federal Comstock Act, restricts the US Postal Service from mailing abortifacients. Express companies, common carriers, or interactive computer services are also restricted from mailing abortifacients. Moreover,...

Seven in 10 violent crimes reported to police departments across the state in 2022 went unsolved, ranking Ohio the third worst state in the country, according to a new study released by the Council of State Governments Justice Center. Researchers examined data from the FBI's Uniformed Crime Reporting Program for a nationwide and state-by-state look at whether law enforcement is making arrests in violent crimes. Ohio ranked third, behind Florida and New Mexico, for unsolved violent crimes. In Ohio, the violent crime rate is 23% below the national average and the rate of violent crime reports declined 3% over the...