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Three legal disputes over mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in line for possible rulings from statewide appellate courts ahead of November’s election. That could mean late-in-the-game changes to the rules that govern vote counting in a crucial swing state. In Washington County, a Court of Common Pleas judge ruled Friday that the county must notify voters if their mail ballot is at risk of being rejected, so they have a chance to challenge the decision or cast a provisional ballot. The county and Republican groups involved in the case are currently deciding whether to appeal the ruling to the state’s...

Vice President Kamala Harris insisted that she did not support a fracking ban, even though in 2019 she strongly backed a nationwide ban on it. “I made it clear on the debate stage in 2020 that I would not ban fracking. As vice president, I did not ban fracking. As president, I would not ban fracking,” she told CNN in an interview Thursday night. But before she dropped her bid for president in 2019 and joined President Biden’s ticket, Ms. Harris said in a CNN town hall, “there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” When asked whether her...

Claim: Vice President Kamala Harris said that she and President Biden have created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. “We created over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs. I’ll say that that’s good work,” Harris said in her interview with CNN on Thursday. Verdict: Harris’s statement is misleading. U.S. manufacturers increased their payrolls by around 742,000 workers between January 2021 when Biden took office and October 2022 but most of those were not “new” manufacturing jobs as Harris claimed. They were factories re-filling jobs that had been created under President Trump. What’s more, only 20,000 jobs have been added since October 2022, indicating a year...

CNN’s Dana Bash is set to interview Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and voters could be forgiven for having high hopes that it will be too informative? Harris-Walz is arguably the most liberal ticket ever, but they are trying desperately to cover that up, so here are a wide variety of 30 questions that Bash could ask that might actually help voters make an informed choice in a couple of months. For Harris 1 Should death row inmates have the right to vote? 2 Do you support the elimination of private health insurance? 3 How can you claim to unite...

A Florida man convicted of killing a college freshman and raping the murder victim’s older sister while the siblings camped in a national forest 30 years ago was executed Thursday. Loran Cole, 57, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. at Florida State Prison for the 1994 killing of the 18-year-old student. Cole also was serving two life sentences for rape. ...

Keir Starmer has confirmed he is looking at banning smoking from some outdoor spaces such as pub gardens. Smoking could be banned from specified outdoor areas including outside nightclubs and restaurant terraces in a clampdown on tobacco use across the country. Ministers are said to be considering a number of policies as Mr Starmer accelerates plans to make Britain smoke-free. The Prime Minister confirmed to journalists in Paris that he is looking at changes to smoking laws after leaked documents suggested smoking would be banned in outside sports stadiums, in children's parks, in pub gardens, outside nightclubs, on restaurant terraces,...

A SWAT team Thursday swarmed a Redlands nudist ranch and ripped apart the home of a person of interest in the disappearance of a missing couple. AIR7 footage captured a large tank-style police vehicle tearing down the front of the home where the person of interest may be. "We are using remote equipment to conduct a search currently. We have not yet located anyone inside, Redlands police spokesperson Carl Baker said during a press conference. "We don't know where the subject is. He may still be inside, or he may be somewhere else on the grounds." Investigators returned to the...

How many times have you heard the mainstream media tell you that the economy is doing just great in recent months? Personally, I have seen the word “booming” used over and over again to describe the economy, and it makes me sick. The level of gaslighting that we are witnessing right now is off the charts. Millions of Americans are sleeping in their vehicles, thousands of businesses are failing all over the nation, and most of the country now believes that the American Dream is no longer attainable. If this is what a “booming” economy feels like, I would hate...

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz blamed his “passion” for his exaggerated claims of carrying “weapons of war … in war” when asked to address the controversy Thursday in CNN’s interview with the Democratic ticket. The Minnesota governor and 24-year National Guard veteran made the comment suggesting he had combat experience in an anti-gun violence video in 2018, which recently resurfaced. I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves, and I speak especially passionately about about our children being shot in schools and around, around guns,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash. “So I think people know me. They...

Nate Silver, founder of the website FiveThirtyEight and now a writer on his Silver Bulletin Substack, had some bad news for Kamala Harris Thursday: Donald Trump has pulled ahead in the presidential race, according to his analysis. Matt Margolis at our sister site PJ Media had some choice commentary about the newest results: Did you hear that scream? Liberals far and wide are no doubt freaking out right now because the election they thought they had in the bag after the Democratic Party crowned Kamala Harris as its nominee, which sent a jolt of enthusiasm in their party, is now...

Jews openly praying on Jerusalem's Temple Mount breaking the rules against Jewish worship on ground considered sacred by Muslims... The controversial Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes freezing bank accounts of Elon Musk's Starlink...expectations that "X" will be shut down in Brazi in the coming hours... The four parties in the Dutch government holding talks late into the night... Serbia announcing a three-billion-dollar deal to buy 12 Rafale fighter jets from France... The United Nations says that Israel has agreed to limited pauses in military operations in Gaza to allow polio vaccinations... Global Positioning System (GPS) interference is reported...

After a disastrous partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney that reportedly cost the brand over $1 billion in lost sales last year, Bud Light has returned to its roots. The inch toward redemption started with a 2024 Super Bowl commercial featuring Peyton Manning and Post Malone. This week, Bud Light released a new ad starring comedian Shane Gillis — and it’s a full-on embrace of the brand’s fratty, frivolous ethos that, for decades, turned their ads into pop culture touchstones. And Dilly Dilly to that. If 2023 was peak woke, 2024 will be known as the year that DEI died...

As the back-to-school school season kicks off, the Vermont Department of Health is encouraging school employees and others to refrain from referring to children as a "son" or "daughter" and instead embrace gender-neutral terminology. In a Facebook post Wednesday, the department declared, "The language we use matters." "When talking about family, it's important to use terms that cover the many versions of what family can look like," the department stated. A picture accompanying the Facebook post featured a few examples of what constituted "inclusive language for families." The agency advised the use of the terms "child" or "kid" to refer...

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The presidential candidate has repeatedly claimed the alleged work experience in an attempt to connect with low-wage workers. Claim: In the 1980s, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris worked at McDonald's while she got her undergraduate degree. Rating: Research In Progress Harris has made this claim repeatedly over the years, and multiple reputable news outlets have reported on the story. But, aside from Harris' testimony itself, there is no evidence (such as a photo, employment record, or confirmation from a friend or family member) to independently verify the claim. Though we've seen no reason to doubt its veracity, we've reached out...

Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents just before they leave the factory is 30 times faster and increases battery lifespans by 50%, according to a study at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center. A lithium-ion battery’s very first charge is more momentous than it sounds. It determines how well and how long the battery will work from then on – in particular, how many cycles of charging and discharging it can handle before deteriorating.In a study published today in Joule, researchers at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center report that giving batteries this first charge at unusually high currents increased their average lifespan by...

The task force responsible for seizing the fentanyl has focused on points of entry along the southern border. Newsom doubled down on the program in June, increasing the California National Guard Deployment by 152% at the San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate, and Calexico Ports of Entry.

Political commentator Michael Eric Dyson said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that former President Donald Trump was a “bitter bigot.” Dyson said, “We’ll find out later her ability to talk about cutting taxes or boosting housing construction, or talking about a federal ban on price gouging at the grocery store. I’m looking forward to that one for sure. But the values thing is real because we got a president who was a malignant narcissist, who was incurable, imbecilic and continues to hurl with lethal intensity epithets against this woman that are unconscionable.”

BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – The percentage of incoming kindergarten students who are not vaccinated due to personal belief exemptions has increased slightly in North Dakota, but one health official said many families are getting caught up on vaccines as students get older.About 6% of incoming kindergarten students did not have the required immunizations last fall, with personal beliefs accounting for 4.5% of the exemptions, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services immunization dashboard.Vaccine exemptions for personal or religious beliefs have trended upward for kindergarten students over the past decade, the state data shows, especially since...

F-16, during the massive rocket attacks on August 26, was shot down with the help of Patriot air defense systems due to the lack of coordination between the units of the Ukrainian Air Force. This was stated by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Mariana Bezuglaya. "According to my information, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot Alexei "Moonfish" Mes was shot down by the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system due to discoordination between units. The reports noted that he "failed to manage." The event took place during one of the most powerful air attacks of the Russians on August...