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Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly struggling to prepare to debate former President Donald Trump on Tuesday due to an overwhelming amount of policy details. Harris, who is now the Democrat nominee without receiving one primary vote, is conducting debate prep to avoid being shellacked again after the 2020 cycle when then-Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard held Harris accountable for her radical left record. To void a second catastrophe, the Harris campaign is trying to knock off the vice president’s “rust as a debater and her tendency to overprepare and fixate on the details,” nearly a dozen people involved with or...

[Catholic Caucus] Data and the Traditional Latin MassSome of the preliminary results suggest the TLM community, while drawn to a different aesthetic than the typical parish experience, holds onto the beliefs of the Catholic faith more consistently than the wider population of Catholics.Recently rumors have been flying that Pope Francis is preparing to impose stringent restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass. Of course, unfounded rumors out of the Vatican are not new, and some journalists have not been able to identify anybody who has actually seen the document in question.Still, even if it ends up being in the class of...

Big news: Last week I messaged executives from Coors Light, Molson Coors to let them know that I planned to expose their woke policies. Today they’re preemptively making changes.. Here are the changes: • Ending participation in the @HRC’s woke Corporate Equality Index social credit system. • No more DEI based training programs. • No more donations to divisive events. • Ending ERG groups in favor of BRG groups open to all employees, no longer designed to focus on race or sexual orientation. • No more supplier diversity goals. • No more executive/employee compensation tied to DEI hiring goals. This...

Hunter Biden is pleading guilty to at least some of the nine tax charges against him, in a stunning last-minute reversal at his criminal trial in Los Angeles. The change was not due to a plea deal, with prosecutor Leo Wise telling Judge Mark Scarsi on Thursday: 'this is the first we're hearing of this'. The stunning revelation was made by Hunter's attorney Abbe Lowell in front of the judge, while 120 potential jurors waited next door to be selected for his trial. Lowell cited legal cases and precedents suggesting that by pleading guilty, the judge would have to decide...

Hunter Biden will accept a guilty verdict in his tax evasion case in California, his lawyer Abbe Lowell said Thursday, as jury selection was about to begin. Lowell said the president's son would submit what's known as an Alford plea, meaning he would accept a guilty verdict while maintaining his innocence. Court is in recess until 2 p.m. ET while the government reviews the law on this issue. Prosecutors said this is the first they're hearing of Biden's plea. Biden is charged with failing to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes while living an "extravagant lifestyle." In December,...

The president's son was indicted in December on three felony and six misdemeanor counts alleging that he failed to pay his taxes over several years. LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden intends to change his plea in the federal tax-related charges against him, his attorney Abbe Lowell said on Thursday. The reversal was made shortly before jury selection was expected to begin in what would have been Biden's second trial this year. The only surviving son of President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden is the first offspring of a sitting president to stand trial on criminal charges. Shortly after the announcement, the...

A lawyer for Hunter Biden told a federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday morning that there was no reason to proceed with jury selection in his criminal tax case because the son of President Joe Biden intends to change his plea. Hunter Biden had previously pleaded not guilty in the case. This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.

About 25 years ago, I had the privilege to sit down to interview the late George Gallup, Jr., the esteemed pollster whose father founded Gallup Polls. One of the things Gallup, Jr. said that I’ve never forgotten was his response to my question: Is America pro-abortion rights or pro-life? He said 20% of Americans are strongly pro-choice. 20% are strongly pro-life. And the other 60% are in the “mushy middle,” and they can go either way depending upon what you ask and how you ask. I imagine that is still roughly the case.

Donald Trump is outlining his economic platform during a speech in New York City on Thursday. The former president's policies will include billionaire Elon Musk's recommendation to create a government efficiency commission to conduct 'a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.' The remarks are meant to more specifically detail Trump's plans for the future of the economy as the issue is often cited by voters as their No. 1 issue this election cycle. And Trump holds an advantage over Vice President Kamala Harris among voters who think he would better handle the economy and inflation crisis....

The sibling rivalry continues. Abon’go Malik Obama, the half-brother of former President Barack Obama, stole the spotlight from his relative Wednesday by revealing that he would once again be voting for Donald Trump this November. “I am Malik Obama. I’m a registered Republican and I’m voting for President Donald Trump,” the Kenya-born naturalized US citizen posted on X.

Every day, more information comes out arguing against the government narrative that a “lone wolf” attack lies behind the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump. The Biden Administration’s feeble attempts through surrogates to deflect and deny have become standard and boring. The variations are endless but the content is the same: ∙ “I can’t comment at this time until we have more information.” ∙ “I can’t comment at this time until all the reports are in.” ∙ “I will have to get back to you on that.” ∙ “I can’t comment on an ongoing investigation.” Shortly after the shooting, a...

Private sector payrolls grew at the weakest pace in more than 3½ years in August, providing yet another sign of a deteriorating labor market, according to ADP. Companies hired just 99,000 workers for the month, less than the downwardly revised 111,000 in July and below the Dow Jones consensus forecast for 140,000. August was the weakest month for job growth since January 2021, according to data from the payrolls processing firm. “The job market’s downward drift brought us to slower-than-normal hiring after two years of outsized growth,” ADP’s chief economist, Nela Richardson, said.

America can no longer ignore the consequences of its failed experiment with sanctuary cities and unchecked illegal immigration. The problem has metastasized beyond our southern border and now threatens communities throughout the nation... The latest outrage is happening because of the loud-and-proud sanctuary city of Denver, Colorado, where foreign gangs have found sanctuary alongside the illegal immigrants. Mayor Michael Johnston, the third-worst sanctuary mayor in America, has championed an effort to fund myriad programs for illegal aliens at the expense of police, public parks, and Department of Motor Vehicles budgets, among other legitimate concerns of citizens. As a result, nearly...

Dallas Police Department confirmed Tren De Aragua is in North Texas committing crimes.. The notorious South American mob best known for sex trafficking girls and women and exploiting their fellow Venezuelans, crossed the US-Mexico border in recent years .. mixed in with asylum-seeking migrants, and is behind a crime wave stretching from Miami to New York. Last week in Aurora, Colorado, gang members were seen in a video storming an apartment complex armed to the hilt with assault rifles and banging on doors. In North Texas, the criminal organization's presence had been rumored for at least a year, but for...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition kicked off Wednesday amid speculation that more Jews could vote for former President Donald Trump over concerns about Israel and antisemitism. The gathering, which typically draws hundreds of donors and activists, as well as politicians and candidates, is being held in September this year, rather than in the winter, to have the biggest possible impact at the start of the fall campaign season. American Jews vote overwhelmingly for the Democratic Party, and align themselves with the political left. (Jews in other countries, including Israel, tend to favor...

Libertarian Eric Joss, who was running in Colorado’s eighth congressional district, ended his campaign on Tuesday to endorse Republican challenger Gabe Evans after Evans signed the Libertarian Party of Colorado’s Liberty Pledge. The Libertarian Party of Colorado announced Joss’ exit from the race in a live video on X that afternoon. According to the party, the Joss and Evans campaigns reached a mutual agreement in which Evans signed a version of the party’s Liberty Pledge which was negotiated between the two camps. In exchange, Joss threw his support behind Evans. The party further added that the decision consolidated “opposition votes”...

A team of researchers from Sweden and Spain have conducted a comprehensive archaeogenetic study on a community that lived on the border between the northern Christian kingdoms and Al-Andalus during the early Medieval period. This dynamic era, especially in the Iberian Peninsula, was marked by religious competition, power struggles, and significant human mobility—factors that shaped the foundation of modern Europe.In the study, published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers focused on Las Gobas, a rural site in northern Spain's Burgos province, near the village of Laño. The community existed from the mid-6th to the 11th century and is notable...

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R) filed paperwork this week to run for governor next year in the state. Sears’s paperwork was accepted by Virginia’s Department of Elections on Wednesday, according to Nexstar’s Richmond affiliate WRIC. The Hill is owned by Nexstar Media Group. The development comes after Sears’s team said on Wednesday she would be making a “special announcement” in Virginia Beach on Thursday. Sears is the first Republican to jump into the off-year race that will likely dominate campaign news next year. Late last year, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) launched her own campaign for the governor’s mansion. The...

Claims His Former Colleague Alvin Bragg's Case is "Nonsense" And Alleges He Was "Stacking Charges" “He[Alvin Bragg] was just stacking charges and rearranging things just to make it fit a case.” “I think the case is nonsense.”

A rattled Vladimir Putin has admitted that Russia is ready for peace talks with Kyiv as Ukraine continues its blistering offensive in Kursk. The Russian despot said at the 2024 Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok today: 'Are we ready to negotiate with them? 'We have never refused to do so, but not on the basis of some ephemeral demands, but on the basis of those documents that were agreed and actually initialled in Istanbul,' referring to a failed peace deal from talks in the Turkish city early on in the war. Although the Kremlin says these conditions for peace talks...