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Former President George W. Bush does not plan to endorse a candidate for president, his office told NBC News on Saturday.When asked whether the former president or his wife, Laura, would endorse a candidate or make public how they will vote, Bush's office said "no.""President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago," the office added.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) claimed Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that voting for former President Donald Trump or writing in a name was “to abandon the Constitution.” Host Jonathan Karl said, “There was a lot of talk during the primaries of the Nikki Haley voters, and some states seem like even when she stopped running, almost a third of Republican voters were looking for an alternative to Trump and voting for Nikki Haley. She’s now saying that she is, quote, on standby to campaign for Donald Trump to help him get re-elected. She’s also of course, called him unhinged,...

Dr. Zahi Hawass is seeking the repatriation of Egyptian artifacts from Germany, England and France. Zahi Abass Hawass (born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, serving twice. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert and the Upper Nile Valley. Dr. Hawass: When I discuss repatriation (the returning of artifacts to their home country) many people think that I believe that every Egyptian artifact belongs in Egypt, but that is not true. I have created this petition that you can sign so that unique...

If you ask the average man or woman on the street if crime is rising or falling in America, the solid majority response would be rising. Rasmussen Reports found the number of Americans who believe violent crime is rising very constant at 60%. Gallup found 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats believe that crime is rising. Roughly four times as many people think violent crime is rising rather than getting better. But the actual figures for violent crime are falling in almost every major city. Why the disconnect? Why are people convinced crime is on the rise? First of...

The new August jobs report shows employment numbers of U.S.-born workers and foreign-born workers going on two very different trajectories. Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an arm of the Department of Labor, shows native-born Americans lost more than 1.3 million jobs over the last 12 months, while foreign-born workers gained more than 1.2 million jobs. The news comes as U.S. job growth picked up in August but missed economists' expectations, while the unemployment rate changed little. As of August of this year, there are 129,712,000 native-born workers compared to 131,031,000 in August 2023, meaning a plummeting reduction...

The chairwoman of the Swiss organization "Operation Libero" practices shooting in her free time. She boasted on social media about the results of one of her last sessions... she used a painting of the Virgin Mary with child, published in an auction house catalog, as a shield. Now the activist is asking for forgiveness. As reported by the Swiss portal blick.ch, the image that Sanija Ameti shot was placed in the catalog of a large auction house. It is a work of art with a classical aesthetic, showing the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. Ameti posted a story...

Amazon has uploaded an image of a sexually suggestive art and design publication called "KINFOLK" instead of the proper cover for Bulletproof: How a Shot Meant for Donald Trump Took Out Joe Biden by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec, the first book about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The inappropriate cover image first appeared on Friday and was noted by Bulletproof author Posobiec, who tweeted "ATTN: I do not know what is going on but This is NOT the cover for Bulletproof, @Amazon. They are sabotaging the FIRST book every written about the Trump assassination." The news of the...

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The world order is “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War”, the U.K. and U.S. spy chiefs warned Saturday.Sir Richard Moore and William Burns – head of the UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) respectively – delivered their verdict in a Financial Times opinion piece, adding they saw the war in Ukraine coming “and were able to warn the international community”, in part by declassifying secrets to help Kyiv. (snip)“In the 21st century, crises don’t come sequentially,” they wrote. “While significant attention and resources are being deployed...

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on the suspicious ‘warning call’ that Apalachee High School reportedly received the morning of the shooting. From TGP: “New details have emerged from Wednesday’s shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, regarding a warning the school received prior to the gunman opening fire. Despite reportedly receiving a phone call stating that the high school would be the first of five targets, seemingly nothing was done to prevent the violence.” Now bombshell text messages have been released by the Washington Post, showing that the warning calls that were previously reported came from the shooter’s mother,...

24-117 Detectives Conduct Shooting Investigation in Unincorporated St. Petersburg Shooting InvestigationPinellas County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Operations Bureau Investigative Operations Bureau -Robbery/Homicide Unit Support Services Bureau -Forensic Science DivisionMatthew Weisner (Injured) DOB: 07/23/1985 Address: 2572 Ryland Falls Drive, LakelandAustin McMann DOB: 02/03/1994 Address: 5352 79th Street North, Unincorporated St. PetersburgMichael McMann DOB: 12/16/1987 Address: 5352 79th Street North, Unincorporated St. PetersburgAmber Souza DOB: 1/26/1986 Address: 4180 72nd Avenue North, Pinellas ParkPINELLAS COUNTY – Detectives assigned to the Robbery/Homicide Unit are conducting a shooting investigation in unincorporated St. Petersburg.According to detectives, on September 4, 2024, at approximately 8:37 p.m., deputies responded to...

Daily Readings from the USCCBHe put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!”—that is, “Be opened!”—And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. Mark 7:33–35One interesting point in this story is that the people who brought this deaf and mute man to Jesus begged Him to “lay his hand on him” so as to heal him. But what did Jesus do? Instead, He took the man away from the crowd, put His divine finger into...

Let’s take a break from current events and remember how the unexpected will always make its way on the front pages. Most of all, it reminded us that you never know what can happen in the last 60 days before an election.

[OFFICIAL.] WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 -- 10:30 P.M. To Maj. Gen. John A. Dix, New-York: The department is still without any dispatches from south of Nashville. It is supposed to be Gen. SHERMAN's design to withdraw his advance columns, and give his army rest in Atlanta, and reestablish himself securely there and restore his railway communications, broken by WHEELER and FORREST, before making further advances. No operations by the armies of Gen. GRANT or Gen. SHERIDAN are reported to-day. The Provost-marshal-General's office is busily employed in arranging the credits of the several districts, and is ordered to draft without...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large floating accumulation of debris in the Pacific Ocean, can be cleaned up within 10 years at a cost of $7.5 billion — or within five years with a more aggressive strategy costing $4 billion. That’s according to the Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization that has led the fight to remove the dangerous plastic from the Pacific — most of which, it says, consists of discarded fishing equipment from Japan and China. The patch is one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems — one that Vice President Kamala Harris said, incorrectly, can be...

Avideo of Vice President Kamala Harris embracing a crying woman on Saturday in Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state amid this year's presidential election, has taken off online. **SNIP** In a video posted to X, former Twitter, user Julia Hamelburg shared a video of Harris meeting with locals at a small business in Pittsburg as she hugged a woman who began crying. In the video, Harris can be seen embracing the woman and reassuring her that "we are going to be good, we are going to be fine. We are all in this together." As of Saturday afternoon, the video has...

“As long as Columbia continues to invest and to benefit from Israeli apartheid, the students will continue to resist” The radical, anti-Israel mob has returned to the campus of Columbia University, after taking the summer off. Despite having months to prepare for this, the school looked like it was caught flat-footed, as protesters picked up right where they left off last spring. What are these people going to have to do before authorities take them seriously? As Columbia resumes classes, student activists vow to carry on with protests against Israel Columbia University resumed classes Tuesday with students sunbathing and eating...

A single mom in Durham, N.C. is finally getting her home back after squatters took it over. Two people booked Farzana Rahman's two-bed, two-bath property via Airbnb for seven months. They then refused to leave when their stay was up in May 2024, claiming they're "legal residents" of the home. Rahman ended up taking them to court to get her property back. But after they didn't show up to the hearing, the judge sided with Rahman and issued an eviction order. The Durham Sheriff's County Office served it to the guests on July 3, 2024. Rahman changed the locks and...

For the first time in weeks, former President Donald Trump pulled ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in one of the most-watched national polls — raising the prospect that her momentum has fizzled out just ahead of their debate. Trump edged out Harris 48% to 47% among likely voters nationally, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll. Other polls have similarly begun to show the 45th president regaining ground against his rival now that the Democratic National Convention has wrapped up.

A longtime former California Democratic legislative leader announced Wednesday she no longer "recognize[s her] party," while noting she still considers many of its historical figures, including former President John F. Kennedy, her "heroes." Gloria Romero, who served as the state Senate majority leader for three years of her more than 10-year stint in Sacramento, slammed the current state of her former party. Romero said she had been a delegate to the Democratic National Convention for both Jesse Jackson and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., adding that many Latinos and Latinas are leaving the party for similar reasons. "Today, I say ‘Goodbye...