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Donald Trump is stuck. He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. His instinct is to promise the moon, and he’ll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room. He also knows, however, that he has no choice but to dance with the date that brought him. He can’t abandon the groups, interested parties and constituencies that put him in the White House to execute their agenda — to exercise their will. The problem comes when most voters don’t want what your partners hope to do with the power...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won an appeal over having his name removed from the state's presidential ballot on Friday, delaying the expected mailing of the state's absentee ballots on Friday. It's unclear if this ruling, which reverses a lower court's denial, will be appealed. But it will at least temporarily delay the distribution of mail ballots. As a third-party presidential candidate, Kennedy had fought to secure ballot access in North Carolina. But after he dropped out of the race and endorsed former President Donald Trump, he sought to remove himself as an option for voters, as polling indicates his presence...

GROWING up in a huge mansion, filled with unlimited toys and animals sounds like any kid’s dream - unless you’re the child of Vladimir Putin. It has been revealed that the Russian president has two secret sons, Ivan, nine, and Vladimir Jr, five, with glamorous Olympic gymnast partner Alina Kabaeva - who once posed naked for Maxim. Putin - who also has three daughters - was apparently so happy when his eldest son was born that he shouted: “Hurray! Finally! A boy!” However, he has been hiding his sons from the world at his heavily guarded Lake Valdai residence for...

Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News star turned podcaster, has come under fire for hosting a Holocaust revisionist on his show, who posited that it was Winston Churchill, not Adolf Hitler, who was the “chief villain” of World War II — drawing a rebuke from conservative lawmakers as well as the White House. The comments were made by the podcaster Darryl Cooper on Mr. Carlson’s show “Tucker on X” on the social media platform. Mr. Carlson, who has hosted the show since Fox severed ties with him in 2023, introduced Mr. Cooper as “the most important popular historian working in...

Reagan star Dennis Quaid faced a series of hostile questions from CNN’s Chris Wallace over the actor’s public support of former President Donald Trump, with the left-wing TV host speculating that Ronald Reagan wouldn’t have approved of Trump’s presidency. Dennis Quaid sat down on this week’s episode of the Max streaming series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace. “You’ve come out for Donald Trump in this election,” Wallace asked at one point. “And I’m a little curious about that because a lot of people say that there would be no room for Ronald Reagan in Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Quaid replied:...

Samuel "Skinny" M. Holland worked for the Union Terminal Railroad as a Signal supervisor for railroad track and track signals. Mr. Holland watched the motorcade of President John F. Kennedy from the overpass in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. He said when Kennedy was shot he saw a puff of gunsmoke under the branches of a tree on the grassy knoll. ''"There was definitively a shot fired from behind that picket fence, and I can't see how they could doubt that a 4th shot was fired"

A 64-year-old retired U.S. Army colonel was shot three times during the purchase of a dump trailer brokered on Facebook Marketplace. The shooting happened late Sunday afternoon in Cullman County, and the 21-year-old suspect entered the country illegally roughly two years ago, said Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry. “I’m pissed off today,’’ Gentry said during a Wednesday press conference. “I’m pissed off that we’re even having to have this conversation.” The suspect was identified as Abel Medardo Sacrab-Chen of Guatemala. Sacrab-Chen was shot by the victim during the incident. Sacrab-Chen is charged with first-degree robbery and certain persons forbidden to...

Newsweek reports that a kite-shaped ring with a piece of garnet in its center was uncovered at the site of Burghead Fort, which is located on the coast of northeastern Scotland, by researchers from the University of Aberdeen. Burghead Fort was a seat of power used by the Picts between the sixth and tenth centuries A.D. "There are very few Pictish rings which have ever been discovered and those that we do know about usually come from hoards which were placed in the ground deliberately for safekeeping in some way," said archaeologist Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen. "We...

President Kamala Harris made her way to the Omni William Penn Hotel where she will be staying for a few days. That certainly caused some commotion, with roads closed and spectators hanging around to see if they could get a glimpse of Harris. And, of course, this activity draws those crowds to the surrounding businesses. "It was good to know that she’s going to be here for a few days, so hopefully that will bring more money, more business," said Shalona Kennedy, assistant manager at Jimmy John's. "It’s not a terrible thing. It’s not terrible for business or anything," Talia...

Ten medieval burial mounds, or kurgans, have been discovered in central Kazakhstan, according to a Live Science report. Archaeologist Zhanbolat Utubaev of the Margulan Institute of Archaeology said that three of the mounds are topped with stone ridges known as mustaches. Excavation of one of the kurgans without a mustache uncovered the remains of a man and a triangular arrowhead. The kurgans are thought to have been constructed by a nomadic group prior to the Mongol conquest of the region in the thirteenth century, Utubaev concluded.

Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The beleaguered Boeing Starliner spacecraft that took two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station will attempt to make its uncrewed return to Earth on Friday evening, the company has announced. NASA on Thursday issued a timeline and a set of criteria for the Starliner's departure from the ISS and return to Earth. The space capsule has faced a host of issues since well before its launch, and continued to experience problems even after arriving at the ISS, which ultimately culminated in Boeing making a deal with competitor SpaceX to bring the astronauts back home in...

According to a Haaretz report, a new study of the Roman structures at Masada conducted by Guy Stiebel of Tel Aviv University, Hai Ashkenazi of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and their colleagues suggests that the final siege at the hilltop desert fortress at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War (a.d. 66–73) lasted a couple of weeks, and not a couple of years, as had been previously thought.The first-century a.d. historian Josephus Flavius recorded that the fortress was captured from the Romans by a group of Jewish rebels known as the Sicarii in A.D. 66.A Roman legion surrounded Masada with...

Shipping giant Maersk said on Thursday that ongoing disruptions to global shipping that attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen have caused are making shipping increasingly expensive. Maersk’s update confirmed that its predictions in July of a “cascading impact” from the Houthi attacks, affecting far more than shipping lines that run through the Red Sea, have come true. As for the Red Sea shipping lane, Maersk cited data that conclude transits of the Suez Canal are down by 66 percent since Houthi attacks began prompting shippers to reroute their vessels around Africa. “These disruptions have led to service reconfigurations...

Donald Trump appeared at a federal appeals court in New York as he seeks to overturn the verdict in the $83.3million lawsuit that found him liable for defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll. The former president's motorcade was seen pulling up to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan Friday morning where attorneys presented oral arguments before a panel of three judges - all of whom were appointed to the bench by Democratic presidents. All phones and other electronics were banned from the courtroom. The Republican nominee is contesting the May 2023 verdict stemming from his alleged mid-1990s encounter...

Alec Baldwin could face a retrial in the death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins as prosecutors claim the actor’s legal team employed trickery to sway the court into dropping involuntary manslaughter charges against him last month. Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey has filed motions to reconsider the dismissal of the manslaughter case with the hopes of continuing to pursue charges against the “30 Rock” star after they were thrown out last month by State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer over allegations of prejudice. Morrissey insisted there was no “cover-up” of key evidence by the prosecution as alleged, and claims Baldwin’s...

A man who stoked a fire outside a hotel housing more than 200 asylum seekers has been jailed for nine years - the longest sentence passed to date after widespread violence erupted across the UK last month. Thomas Birley, 27, was seen piling chipboard onto a burning bin outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, South Yorkshire, during rioting on 4 August. Sheffield Crown Court heard those inside feared they were "going to burn to death", while Judge Jeremy Richardson KC described it as "one of the worst of many cases" he had dealt with.

Senator JD Vance, the running mate of former President Donald J. Trump, has declined to denounce the right-wing talk-show host Tucker Carlson for praising and airing the views of a Holocaust revisionist who falsely claimed that the Nazis’ destruction of European Jewry was not an intentional act of premeditated genocide. Mr. Vance is scheduled to appear onstage Sept. 21 with Mr. Carlson in Hershey, Pa. Mr. Carlson no stranger to controversy, but his recent interview with Darryl Cooper, whom he described as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” has faced particularly fierce blowback. The Nazis’...

According to research by the Rheinneckarblog, Emrah Ibrahimovic (18) is an Islamist Neo-Nazi from Austria with Bosnian roots. Apparently radicalized at least on the Internet with IS propaganda from the offshoot al-Nusra-Frint and another offshoot HTS. But the weapon, a Karabiner 98 with bayonets, and the clothing in red, black and white, probably identifies him as a Bosnian SS thug in the service of the National Socialists. A central figure here is Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who made a pact with Adolf Hitler in the joint fight against "world Jewry". Al-Husseini is considered the mentor and mastermind...

‘In many ways, my life is what I always dreamed it would be, except for one glaring difference: I am not a mother. I wish I was.’A math Ph.D. in The Wall Street Journal agonizingly sketched out every high-IQ woman’s life dilemma last weekend: Do you sacrifice motherhood to chase a world-class career? She did, and it broke her heart.“In many ways, my life is what I always dreamed it would be, except for one glaring difference: I am not a mother. I wish I was. My childlessness is something I grieve every day,” Eugenia Cheng writes.Cheng presents herself as...

Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy released a white paper breaking down the scale of the ongoing border crisis taking place under the Biden-Harris administration. Millions of illegal migrants have been released into the interior United States since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris entered the White House, a record number of suspected terrorists have reached the border and hundreds of Americans have died on average from fentanyl poisoning every day, according to a report compiled by Roy’s staff and exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Republican lawmaker is calling on Congress to take more permanent...