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Ongoing problems identified in the administration of elections in Harris County, the largest county in Texas, are enough to warrant state intervention, Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson says. After Harris County election administrators acted “in defiance of state law,” Nelson said she determined an “enhanced presence by the Secretary’s office” was necessary for the November 2024 election. As a result, SOS Elections Division staff will assist Harris County officials “for the duration of the election period from early voting, to Election Day, and through tabulation.” Nelson released the findings of audits on Monday that her office conducted in four...

The Kennedy family has been a unit since long before I was born. No matter what any of them did, the Kennedys stuck together — even when they were doing some pretty bad things. A lot has changed. The Democratic Party has evolved from the party of the working man to the party of the man who thinks he’s a woman. It is now funded by billionaires and Wall Street, and in that regard anyway, they are now everything they used to accuse Republicans of being. At the same time, the Kennedy family has transitioned from a unified and loyal...

A United Airlines flight attendant was spotted wearing a Palestinian flag pin on a domestic flight — riling pro-Israel advocates even as the airline stood by its uniform policy. Jewish civil rights group StopAntisemitism blasted United for allowing staffers for what they viewed as a divisive political statement after an outraged passenger notified the group of the staffer, who wore the pin and a keffiyeah around her neck during a Tuesday flight from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport to Newark Airport. “StopAntisemitism is alarmed by the rising trend of US airline employees displaying Palestinian flags and keffiyehs while on duty,” StopAntisemitism founder...

ox News host Jesse Watters was last night in desperate damage-control mode after a comment he made about Kamala Harris was slammed by his female co-hosts and viewers. Watters faced calls to resign after stating Harris would be 'paralyzed' by generals who 'would have their way' with her in the White House Situation Room. The panel was discussing Harris' strategic abilities when Watters said: 'You have a lot of impact there, as Commander in Chief. We don't know who she is, we don't know what she believes. 'She's going to get paralyzed in the situation room while the generals have...

Sitting Vice President Kamala Harris got no bounce whatsoever coming out of her disastrous convention last week. Last month, between July 19-22, Yahoo polled 1,178 registered voters and found the race tied between former President Trump and CacklyMcNeverBorderCzar. Forty-six to 46 percent. The latest YouGov poll shows Harris actually lost a point against Trump after her convention. Please note the dates of that Yahoo poll. His Fraudulency Joe Biden dropped out of the race in the middle of that poll on July 21. On Tuesday this same pollster released a poll of 1,194 registered voters taken between August 22-26 (five...

The NATO-Ukraine Council met on Wednesday (28 August 2024) following recent heavy Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure. Allies strongly condemned Russia’s indiscriminate strikes and reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen Ukraine’s defences.

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan completed a first day of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Tuesday in which he focused on “candid, substantive, and constructive discussions” on keeping the tenor of the bilateral relationship friendly, the White House detailed on Wednesday. Sullivan arrived for his first visit to China as national security adviser on Tuesday and is expected to stay through Thursday. Previewing his travel, potentially one of the last in-person exchanges between the administration of outgoing President Joe Biden and the Chinese Communist Party, an unnamed senior White House official predicted that Sullivan and...

A photography-related "incident" occurred at Arlington National Cemetery Monday during a visit by former President Donald Trump, leading to a report being filed, the cemetery said in a statement to ABC News. While the cemetery did not immediately provide specifics, NPR reported that a source had told the publication that two Trump campaign officials engaged in a verbal and physical altercation with a cemetery staff member during Trump's visit, which came on the third anniversary of the deaths of 13 service members during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The alleged altercation took place after the Trump campaign officials were asked...

In what is being described as stark “gaslighting” by many readers on social media, Politico published an article claiming that former President Donald Trump’s running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) “tried to tie Harris” to the Biden-Harris administration’s policies while speaking at a rally in Big Rapids, Michigan, on Tuesday.“Vance tries to tether Harris to Biden during Michigan rally,” read a Tuesday X post by Politico, citing the article.In the piece, Politico reporter Mia McCarthy amusingly writes, “Speaking at a rally in Big Rapids, Michigan, former President Donald Trump’s running mate tried to tie Harris to the Biden administration’s policies.”Politico’s...

WASHINGTON — A Falcon 9 booster tipped over in a fiery landing after an Aug. 28 launch, the first unsuccessful booster landing in three and a half years by SpaceX. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:48 a.m. Eastern carrying 21 Starlink satellites. The launch itself went as planned and the Falcon 9 upper stage deployed the satellites into orbit a little more than an hour after liftoff. The rocket’s first stage returned to make a landing on a droneship, named A Shortfall of Gravitas, in the Atlantic Ocean. The booster’s descent appeared...

Federal courts across the country are handing back disparate rulings over federal and state gun laws despite nearly back-to-back Second Amendment cases at the Supreme Court that sought to clarify the scope of the right to bear arms. Although the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen held that gun regulations must align with the nation’s “history and tradition” of firearms laws and a separate case this summer called Rahimi v. U.S. upheld firearm prohibitions for domestic violence offenders, lower federal courts are still struggling to achieve consistency, as shown by...

EVANSTON, Ill. - Tens of thousands of people woke up without power Wednesday morning after late-night storms blew through the Chicago area, downing trees and causing damage. ComEd reports 23,332 people were experiencing outages as of 6 a.m. Wednesday. At 10 p.m. last night, more than 40,000 customers were without power. You can tap here to check out current outages. Wind gusts of up to 60 mph, scattered lightning and even hail came down in several rounds of storms across the area. Cook, DuPage and Lake counties were all under Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. Large trees were brought down in Evanston,...

As the Atlantic hurricane season reaches its peak, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring a new area of potential development in the central tropical Atlantic. This system could form over the Labor Day weekend or early next week, potentially disrupting travel and weather patterns. While the chance of development is currently low, favorable environmental conditions could lead to gradual organization of the system as it moves westward.

(WRIC) — AT&T customers in parts of the country are reporting an outage that’s left them without service or their iPhone devices stuck in SOS mode. Reports of an outage peaked just before 6 p.m. CST on Downdetector, with more than 5,700 users complaining of a service disruption. By 8:35 p.m., the reports fell to just over 3,400. According to USA Today, a company spokesperson said AT&T is working to fix a “software issue that may be disrupting the ability of some of our customers to connect to our wireless network.” The spokesperson told the outlet that the outage seems...

VIDEOIt looks incredibly WEAK for a female presidential candidate to be accompanied to her first post-nomination interview by a male chaperone, or as Megyn Kelly hilariously put it, an "emotional support governor." This only fortifies the perception of total TERROR of an interview by Kamala Harris that she is willing to risk looking so weak that she has to have "Command Sergeant Major" Tim Walz standing guard for her in order to protect Kamala by leaping upon any absurdly light softball question lobbed her way by Dana Bash, a Border Czar denialist.

French prosecutors on Wednesday freed Telegram CEO Pavel Durov from police custody after four days of questioning over allegations that the messaging app is being used for illegal activities. Durov was detained on Saturday at Le Bourget airport outside Paris as part of a judicial inquiry opened last month involving 12 alleged criminal violations. “An investigating judge has ended Pavel Durov’s police custody and will have him brought to court for a first appearance and a possible indictment,” a statement from the Paris prosecutor’s office said.

I had been pleading for RFK to join Trump’s team as Attorney General as it is the most powerful position in Washington, providing Kennedy absolute immunity, AND he can clear out the swamp. Kennedy joined Trump’s team but his position has not been announced. However, Kennedy said his main goal in joining Trump is to take down Big Pharma, the USDA and FDA to MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN. The food in America has been making people sick and obese. US food standards are already extremely low and other countries, including China and Russia, refuse to buy many US-produced products as...

RUSSIA has deployed some 30,000 troops to the new frontline in Kursk as Vladimir Putin desperately tries to fend off Ukraine's forces. Mad Vlad also appears to have called in reinforcements from ally Belarus as their tanks branded with telltale "B" signs mass on the Ukrainian border in an echo of the "Z" used by Russia. Ukraine is holding strong onto 100 towns and settlements inside Kursk after first invading Russia on August 6, more than three weeks ago. Zelensky's forces have also attacked border checkpoints in the Belgorod region, attempting to push into another one of Putin's cities. A...

Faithful members of the world's largest and oldest religions cannot in good conscience 'affirm' non-heterosexual sexual orientations and gender identities. Christians who do so publicly deny their faith' ... Gov. Tim Walz's ban on faithful Christians from teaching in Minnesota's public is set to hit the state's schools in just months. ... he is "poised to make similar bigoted, totalitarian and unconstitutional policies" for the entire nation, "should he be elected vice president." The report from the publication's executive editor, Joy Pullmann, explains the state has new teacher licensing rules that will take effect in July 2025, and they will...