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(Headline USA) Former President Barack Obama’s half-brother revealed this week that he would be voting for former President Donald Trump again this November. Abon’go Malik Obama, a Kenya-born naturalized U.S. citizen, posted on X: “I am Malik Obama. I’m a registered Republican and I’m voting for President Donald Trump.”

Vladimir Putin's lover snapped with impatience at a weeping young gymnastics star in the same week she was revealed to have two young sons with the Kremlin dictator. -snip- But extraordinary footage from this week shows Kabaeva - an Olympic gold-medal winning rhythmic gymnast - berating talented Karolina Tarasova during a training session in Sochi, reducing the teenager to tears. The girl, from Putin-occupied Donetsk in Ukraine, is a student at Kabaeva's elite gymnastics Sky Grace Academy in Sochi, which released the videos of the grumpy secret Kremlin first lady, who appears to be wearing a wedding ring, possibly suggesting...

Like any competent magician, Attorney General Merrick Garland is a master of distraction. His clever trick on Wednesday involved announcing a nonsensical indictment against Russia to draw attention away from his party’s growing foreign influence predicament. “As alleged in our court filings,” Mr. Garland said, “President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, including Sergei Kiriyenko, directed Russian public relations companies to promote disinformation and state-sponsored narratives as part of a campaign to influence the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.” A second indictment accused Russian nationals of funding a media company featuring a handful of conservatives and disaffected former liberal journalists. Only the founder...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a cold reception after he brought donuts to a group of construction workers in an attempt to frame the media narrative of him being a “man of the people.” This is why leftists have to stage their events, otherwise they get exposed. This is exactly what happened to Trudeau, and his attempt to appear to care for the common man backfired spectacularly. One worker told off Trudeau, “I don’t believe you for a second.” The work then told the Canadian leader how expensive everything is for his family. He then told Trudeau that he’s...

NAGOYA -- Toyota Motor plans to significantly slow its production of electric vehicles, cutting its global output forecast for 2026 to 1 million cars, some 30% lower than the previously announced sales forecast for the same year, Nikkei has learned. The Japanese automaker's decision to cut EV production was prompted by the slowdown in the global EV market. Toyota has notified its parts suppliers of the decision.

Hunger reached its highest point in the United States in nearly a decade last year, with 18 million households, or 13.5%, struggling at some point to secure enough food, a Department of Agriculture report released on Wednesday said. Hunger has been on the rise in the country since 2021, after years of decline. U.S. Census Bureau data last year showed a rise in food insecurity after the end of programs that expanded food aid during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned that mass illegal immigration into the U.S. is purposely being driven by Democrats because it allows them to gain new voters and remain in power. During his podcast, Cruz slammed Kamala Harris and the state of the border, highlighting how the current administration is using s illegal immigration into the United States to boost its political weight. The Texas Republican argued that Democrats want to increase the illegal immigrant number y "by 20 million, to be 30 million, to be 40 million," explaining that in doing so, they will "win every election forever and ever."

As noted in Vice President Kamala Harris’s CNN interview last week, she and former president Donald Trump have never met face-to-face. That will change on Sept. 10, when the two will share a stage in their only scheduled presidential debate, which will be held in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center.

With regard to the new movie "REAGAN," I fully admit to a very large and enduring bias in favor of the former president. I worked as a writer in the White House of President Ronald Reagan from 1987 until the end of his administration in January 1989. More than that, I was blessed to share a deeply personal and emotional moment with the president. He had invited me to the Oval Office to commend me for something I had written. As we flowed into a very warm discussion, I mentioned that my parents, like his father, were dysfunctional alcoholics. As...

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In a significant political gathering, Vivek Ramaswamy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) were seen backstage at Tucker Carlson's live show in Anaheim on September 5, 2024. The event, which was part of Carlson's nationwide tour, was an opportunity for the three influential figures to interact and discuss pressing political issues.

They say history repeats itself. Properly forewarned, it doesn’t have to. As Americans prepare to write a pivotal history for the ages this November – one way or another – it might be helpful to take a quick look at an earlier moment in time when a much divided, fractured world faced a pivotal challenge, and how complacency sealed its fate. Constantinople, the city founded by Constantine the Great in 330 AD and later protected by the Theodosian Walls, stood as the capital of the Roman Empire for 1,000 years. (What we refer to as the Byzantine Empire was at...

Anti-Trump billionaire businessman and investor Mark Cuban unwittingly criticized Kamala Harris’s plan to tax unrealized gains, admitting it would tank the stock market. During an interview with CNBC, Cuban suddenly became flustered when the hosts pointed out that Harris’ plan was not only a bad idea but that the Vice President had not been clear about her policies. Realizing that he had just told the truth on national TV, Cuban tried to walk back his criticism and defend Harris, which only made things worse. Cuban became increasingly agitated, stuttering and repeatedly saying “no.” During a speech in New Hampshire this...

Just what the keffiyeh sanctions and inspires. The new academic year has scarcely begun, and Hamas supporters on campus are already signaling that they haven’t lost a bit of their fanaticism. If anything, they’re even more menacing. An incident at the University of Pittsburgh Friday evening shows that American college and university campuses are becoming increasingly dangerous places for Jewish students and other supporters of Israel, who are being threatened and brutalized all in the name of the “liberation” of “Palestine.”The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported recently that a man named Jarrett Buba, who at 52 years old is unlikely to be...

What does USAID and its overbearing director Samantha Power have to hide? The Biden administration has been pumping huge amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza. This aid is being sent behind the scenes; the amounts are not made public. Congress did not give its approval for such amounts of aid, so much of which — as everyone now knows — ends up with Hamas, that routinely steals aid meant for all the people in Gaza. Now the USAID Agency is being investigated for its role in delivering such aid, but instead of handing over records requested by a government watchdog...

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in August, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in construction and health care. {snip} The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised down by 61,000, from +179,000 to +118,000, and the change for July was revised down by 25,000, from +114,000 to +89,000. With these revisions, employment in June and July combined is 86,000 lower than previously reported.

And the solution The Palestinian Authority (PA) is having money troubles. Very big money troubles, and of course it blames Israel for all of its financial woes. But those woes are entirely the fault of the PA itself. More on where its money goes, and why that leads Israel, for justifiable reasons, to withhold some of the tax revenue it collects on behalf of the PA, can be found here: “Palestinian Authority losses due to terror payments has reached 6.96 billion shekel – in last five years alone,” by Itamar Marcus and Ephraim D. Tepler, Palestinian Media Watch, August 27,...

What’s the deal with converts to Islam? Last April, a teenager in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, named Alexander Scott Mercurio was caught plotting jihad massacres in local churches, “using weapons, including knives, firearms, and fire.” On New Year’s Eve in 2022, a 19-year-old named Trevor Bickford traveled from his home in Wells, Maine, to Times Square, where he attacked three NYPD officers with a machete. In April 2021, a Zion, Illinois, man named Edward Schimenti got thirteen and a half years in prison for aiding the Islamic State (ISIS).These are just three men who are on a long and ever-lengthening list...

“The lies then and now are mind boggling. The people who continue to lap up the lies are beyond reach. The poison unleashed into the population will be with us a long time.” — Edward Dowd. How is it that our country turned into some kind of theme park spook ride, a cheesy-looking haunted house of programmed frights, howling holograms, phantoms with their hair on fire, doors slamming open on glimpses of hell, ill-winds and foul odors, climaxing in a tableau vivant of death-in-life neverending? I’m sure that this will surprise you, but you can choose to be sane. How?...

During an interview with FOX 5 New York on Thursday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) defended the city offering migrant families money to exit the shelter system instead of changing the right to shelter law by stating that the right to shelter law isn’t the issue here because migrants are “here legally, and it is the responsibility of the federal government to not say New York City must pick up the price tag for it.” Co-host Bianca Peters asked, “[Y]ou’re going to be offering migrant families up to $4,000 to exit the city shelter system. What do you...