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China, Tanzania and Zambia signed an initial agreement to rehabilitate a decades-old railway aimed at improving the rail-sea transportation in resource-rich East Africa, Chinese state media said on Wednesday. President Xi Jinping witnessed the signing of the memorandum of understanding on refurbishing the 1,860 kms (1,156 mile) Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) railway with the Tanzanian and Zambian presidents, who were in Beijing attending the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation... The single-track TAZARA railway was built between 1970 and 1975 through an interest-free loan from China, offering a cargo transport route from Zambia's copper and cobalt mines to the sea on Tanzania's...

@TulsiGabbard Kamala says she believes in freedom, but I was put on a secret terror watch list after I publicly criticized her. No one will be safe from political retaliation under a Harris administration. I put my life on the line for this country. Now the government calls me a terror threat. [15 min vid]

CNN — The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation, six sources familiar with the matter told CNN. It’s expected the US will make a series of moves on Wednesday aimed at addressing the Kremlin’s efforts including the White House publicly condemning the actions and the Justice Department announcing law enforcement action targeting the covert Russian campaign, the sources said.

federal judge ruled Tuesday that former President Trump may not request to move his hush money criminal case to federal court after failing to show “good cause,” meaning the case will remain in New York state court. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in a four-page order that the two reasons Trump offered as to why his case should be removed — that New York courts were biased against him and that his trial judge did not adequately review the issue of presidential immunity — fall short. Hellerstein said that district courts do not have jurisdiction to consider alleged bias...

Tuesday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called Democrat vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) “despicable” for taking a pass on responding to a question on the six slain hostages in Gaza. “So when you look at Israel in particular here, this administration has withheld armed shipments, and they haven’t gotten much especially compared to — especially compared to Ukraine,” host Sean Hannity said. “She — they have constantly called for restraint, restraint, restraint. They have blamed Israel, and they’ve done everything but what they should do, and that’s the right thing which say which would say, well, you...

Trump's hush-money sentencing is scheduled for September 18 in Manhattan. But his lawyers plan to throw a monkey wrench that could delay things until well after Election Day. That legal maneuver is massive and has a name: presidential immunity. Donald Trump's rap sheet is a work in progress these days. Under the former president's current court schedule, he will greet Election Day as a sentenced felon. But legal scholars predict Trump is about to use his new presidential immunity powers to execute an unprecedented legal maneuver, one that will delay his hush-money sentencing, now set for September 18, until well...

Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign is recruiting Deborah Mattinson, a former strategy director to Britain’s far-left prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Mattinson will head to Washington, D.C., to brief the Harris campaign on Starmer’s Labour Party’s victory in Britain’s July 4 snap election, which returned them to power after 14 years in opposition. Mattinson’s approach focused on persuading traditional Labour voters, who had abandoned the party over its embrace of mass migration and woke ideology, to return to the fold. Harris, who previously advocated far-left policies such as banning fracking, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, and defunding the police, likely hopes a...

Animal rights groups on Wednesday said gunfire killed a beluga whale that rose to fame in Norway after its unusual harness sparked suspicions the creature was trained by Russia as a spy. The organizations NOAH and One Whale said they had filed a complaint with Norwegian police asking them to open a "criminal investigation." "He had multiple bullet wounds around his body," the head of One Whale, Regina Crosby Haug who said she viewed Hvaldimir's body on Monday, told AFP. "The injuries on the whale are alarming and of a nature that cannot rule out a criminal act -- it...

According to the latest polling from Democracy Institute, former President Donald Trump has opened a three-point national lead over incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris and a five-point lead in the ten key battleground states that will decide who becomes our next president. “Donald Trump appears to be gaining serious momentum in 10 key battleground states,” reports Daily Express US, who commissioned the poll. “Data from the Democracy Institute shows the Republican Presidential hopeful is favored by [a] five percentage point lead over Kamala Harris – at 50 percent to 45 percent.” The battleground poll was taken on August 28 and...

Speaker Mike Johnson is prepping a stopgap funding extension ahead of this month’s deadline that combines some red meat for conservatives with policies that lawmakers in both parties will likely find attractive. According to sources familiar with the discussions, the Louisiana Republican’s plan would pair a six-month continuing resolution with House-passed legislation aimed at ensuring noncitizens can’t vote in federal elections. The length of the stopgap measure, if enacted, would ensure that lawmakers won’t get jammed with a lame-duck omnibus package right before Christmas, while punting final spending decisions into the new year and a new Congress — possibly with...

A Georgia school has been placed on lockdown following reports of an active shooter. Apalachee High School in Winder in Barrow County, 25 miles west of Athens, was put on hard lockdown Wednesday morning, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. The news outlet said it has received multiple calls about a shooting, which remains unconfirmed. Images from the scene show dozens of ambulances and police vehicles outside the school. At least one person was loaded into a medic helicopter on a stretcher, as reported by Atlanta News First.

The Secret Service, with its abject incompetence (at best) thoroughly exposed in the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, is now going to get some help. The Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, has announced that his department will be providing those charged with guarding the presidential and vice presidential candidates with “additional military support capabilities.” Hey, that’s a relief. We can all rest easy knowing that the people responsible for the Biden regime’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in Aug. 2021 will now be making sure that some young ideologue doesn’t try again to make the left’s Trump problem...

No more tit-for-tat responses to Hezbollah. After the Israelis learned that Hezbollah was intending to strike their country with a massive rocket attack — some 6,000 rockets — at 5 a.m. on August 25, the IDF “rose up first” and launched its own preemptive attack, sending more than 100 planes into Lebanon to destroy thousands of rockets in their launches. Hezbollah managed, in the end, to send not 6,000, but 320 missiles into Israel. They were aimed at the Mossad headquarters in Glilot, the Defense Headquarters known as Kirya, and several military bases. Not one of those military targets was...

Israel took to heart the wisdom of a passage in the Talmud. Hezbollah claims that its attack on Israel on the morning of August 25 was a “success.” Hezbollah released a statement insisting that “by God’s grace, the first stage has been fully completed with complete success. This stage involved targeting Israeli barracks and sites to facilitate the passage of attack drones towards their intended destination deep within the entity [Israel]. The drones passed, praise be to God, as planned. The number of Katyusha rockets fired so far has exceeded 320 rockets directed at the enemy’s positions.”We all know better....

A series of high-profile Ukrainian government ministers have turned in their resignations this week, with Kyiv asserting this is part of a long-planned major government reshuffle. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, two deputy Prime Ministers, the Justice Minister, the Environment Minister, the head of the State Property Fund, and the head of the national power grid have all been fired or resigned this week. While the first resignation letters went in before the Ukrainian government announced a reshuffle was happening, that is very much the narrative now, although as drily observed by the Kyiv Independent, “the reasons for the resignations were...

Their findings show that interpersonal violence—violence not meted out as punishment by authorities—was much more common in Norway. This is evident in the much greater rates of trauma on skeletons and the extent of weaponry in Norway. The study, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, sheds new light on how Viking Age societies in Norway and Denmark differed in their experiences with violence and the role social structures played in shaping those patterns...Researchers analyzed skeletal remains from Viking Age Norway and Denmark and found that 33% of the Norwegian skeletons showed healed injuries, indicating that violent encounters weren't uncommon....

1:53 Germany’s army rushed an Iris-T air-defence system into service on its own soil for the first time Wednesday having delivered several of the sophisticated systems to war-torn Ukraine to take down Russian rockets, drones and missiles mid-flight. AFP reports Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the surface-to-air system was part of a long term build-up of German and European defences initiated in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin launching the Ukraine invasion in 2022. “Russia has been massively rearming for many years, especially in the field of rockets and cruise missiles,” Scholz said at the inauguration ceremony at a base...

CNN is reporting that Biden will hold a press conference today warning the public to be on the look out for Russian misinformation as they try to interfere in our upcoming elections … yet again.