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Can you guess the source? A prestigious Jesuit university, which receives millions in funding from the hardline Islamic regimes of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, is facing accusations of promoting pro-Hamas propaganda and fomenting antisemitism through its Gaza Lecture Series.Georgetown University, which has thus far received $934 million from Arab-Muslim sources, is being slammed by Israel for inviting UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese to deliver the October 28 presentation in the series titled “Anatomy of Genocide in Gaza.”In an August 30 tweet, Israel blasted Georgetown, noting that the UN representative “justified the October 7 massacre and has spread countless antisemitic blood...

Taylor Swift's online support for Kamala Harris' presidential run has gained the approval of WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark. In an Instagram post published after Tuesday's debate between Harris and Donald Trump, the pop star girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced she will be voting for the current Vice President rather than her Republican challenger. Now Clark has 'liked' Swift's post, potentially indicating that the former Iowa star will be putting her support behind Harris as well....

"Reuters interviewed 10 people who were still unsure how they were going to vote in the Nov. 5 election before they watched the debate. Six said afterward they would now either vote for Trump or were leaning toward backing him. Three said they would now back Harris and one was still unsure how he would vote."

Conspiracy theorists claim they have 'busted' Kamala Harris for using a secret earpiece during last night's presidential debate. arris, who has previously suggested that Bluetooth headphones pose a 'security risk', was accused of wearing earphones disguised as pearl earrings to aide her during the 90-minute contest against Republican rival Donald Trump on Tuesday. Critics have baselessly alleged the gold pearl loops - which Harris, 59, has worn before and are believed to be from Tiffany's - are actually a pair of smart audio earrings engineered by German start-up company NOVA. The only similarity between the two sets of earrings appears...

Bernhard Weiss was the Jewish police chief of Berlin who modernized German law enforcement... He went to law school, and then volunteered for the military and served in World War I, one of only a few Jewish officers in the German army. For his bravery he received the nation’s highest military honor, the Iron Cross First Class. During the years of the Weimar Republic (1918 to 1933) Bernhard led the effort to transform the Berlin police department into an effective and humane “citizens force.” He created the first modern forensics department, using the latest technology in microscopes, polygraphs and hematology....

President Biden told reporters Tuesday that he’s heading up to New York City and “doing 9/11” in a gaffe that was ruthlessly mocked by social media users. The 81-year-old president, who was forced to end his re-election bid in July over mounting questions about his mental acuity, made the verbal blunder as he previewed his near-term travel plans. “I’m going up to my granddaughter’s birthday in New York,” Biden said on the White House lawn as he prepared to board his Marine One helicopter. “Then we’re going to watch the debate and tomorrow I’m doing 9/11,” the president added, with...

Last week’s online controversy was the interview with Darryl Cooper, whom host Tucker Carlson called “(maybe) the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.” In the interview, Cooper not only claimed that Winston Churchill was a psychopath but also that he was “the real villain” of World War II. Though Cooper admitted Hitler was evil, he also argued that history’s most notorious villain was, in fact, backed into a corner by Churchill, who was bent on war from the beginning. Thus, it is Churchill and not Hitler, Cooper claimed, who should bear most of the blame for...

A pastor who received a life sentence of hard labor in North Korea said he witnessed the hearts of his captors soften after they heard his sermons, a miracle that gave him hope that the country will one day embrace the Lord.South Korea-born Canadian Pastor Hyeon Soo Lim spoke last Friday during Liberty University's convocation in Lynchburg, Virginia, as he was in town for the Unify Korea Summit.The two-day summit was hosted by Liberty's John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, the Global Studies Department and the Unify Korea student club."I couldn't move even a single step freely," Lim said about...

Former President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday he did a “great job” facing off against Vice President Kamala Harris despite the presidential debate being “unfair” and “rigged.” The Republican nominee, 78, took aim at the ABC moderators for repeatedly fact-checking and debunking him during Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia. “It was three on one,” Trump said during an early morning appearance on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” “I thought I did a great job.” “It was a rigged deal, as I assumed it would be, because when you looked at the fact that they were correcting everything and not correcting with...

According to authorities, all of the hijackers who committed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were foreigners. All of them entered the country legally on a temporary visa, mostly tourist visas with entry permits for six months. Although four of them attended flight school in the United States, only one is known to have entered on an appropriate visa for such study, and one entered on an F-1 student visa. Besides the four pilots, all but one of the terrorists entered the United States only once and had been in the country for only three to five months before the...

Do lefties ever have the slightest amount of self-awareness? Were the stakes for the future of the country — or, as one site of the fascist far left put it, “the climate for the next million years” — their machinations over Comrade Kamala falling back to Earth would be truly entertaining. And if they knew we were keeping a close watch on them (and of course archiving their antics, as always), they might be a bit self-conscious. Because at a minimum, it’s like witnessing a train wreck in slow motion — while they’re dragging us along.Their problem is that their...

DEBATE ANALYSIS: Trump Showed Righteous Indignation, Kamala Peddled Smug, Scripted Platitudes. In tonight’s ABC Presidential debate, one candidate – Donald Trump – displayed vivid, righteous indignation, channeling frustrated Americans on the critical topics of the economy, foreign policy, immigration, and especially trade. The other, Kamala Harris, came off as scripted, platitudinous, and hollow on major policy points.

resident Trump came out the clear winner in the presidential debate, presenting the case for his re-election, laying out the Harris-Biden failures, and confidently going on Fox News to comment on his performance afterwards, as the Kamala Harris camp threw out the possibility of a second debate, in October. Candidates who are losing are the ones who like do-overs. The moderators -- ABC's David Muir, and Linsey whatshername stunk, with unusual bias seen in both, fact-checking Trump while giving Kamala a pass on obvious and tired whoppers, pushing the abortion-as-health-care narrative, they were vile, and shouldn't be allowed to ever...

A panel of campaign strategists and election analysts who watched Tuesday night’s feisty debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris had different takes on the night’s festivities — but did agree on one thing when they spoke to The Post: That Harris had outperformed her boss, President Biden. Rob Ryan, Republican consultant “Much like Joe Biden in the last debate, Vice President Harris had a bad makeup job. Her face looked washed-out, while Trump had color and looked far younger than his 78 years. “Trump gets an B+ for his disciplined demeanor. For the most part...

“The President is the worst president in U.S. history, and the Vice-President is the best vice-president in U.S. history.” This was the grim final assessment one might conclude in the wake of last night’s debate, for anyone who watched. It was a grim assessment depicting the precarious condition of our country now led by deceitful leftists bent on destroying the eternal values of our Constitution and the righteous morals that underlie that holy document. Kamala Harris, filled with broad smiles and confident vigor, spent the debate denouncing and accusing the former president with aplomb and a surprisingly upbeat spontaneity. She...

Everything you have been taught, all your life, about the police and the courts and the justice system is a lie. Take all your mental images, everything you learned in primary school, every episode of "Perry Mason" or "Law and Order" or "The Rookie", crumple them up, throw them away. Banish them to a corner of your mind prominently labeled "fairy stories for little kids". That is not how any of this works. The police do not exist to protect you from criminals. Detectives do not exist to investigate crime and find the offenders. Courts do not exist to find...

During an interview on Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central” that took place before that night’s presidential debate, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby responded to a question on if Vice President Kamala Harris worked in lockstep with President Biden on the withdrawal from Afghanistan by stating that “she was at the center of” “the policy discussions and the planning that went into the withdrawal,” “as she would be as Vice President.” Co-host John Berman read from the House Republican report on Afghanistan and asked, “The idea of Harris working in lockstep with President Biden on the Afghan...

Megyn Kelly comments on the moderators' performance at Tuesday night's presidential debate: (video at link) MEGYN KELLY: I'm disgusted. I'm ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do. The person who runs ABC News is a close personal friend of Kamala Harris and is responsible for Kamala Harris and her husband meeting. They did Dana Walden's bidding tonight. It was three against one on that debate stage this evening. Hi, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. A special program tonight for you, reacting to the debate. It was three against one. It's very...

Kamala Harris was widely seen as dominating Tuesday's presidential debate against Republican former president Donald Trump, but a group of undecided voters remained unconvinced that the Democratic vice president was the better candidate. Reuters interviewed 10 people who were still unsure how they were going to vote in the Nov. 5 election before they watched the debate. Six said afterward they would now either vote for Trump or were leaning toward backing him. Three said they would now back Harris and one was still unsure how he would vote. ... Although the sample size was small, the responses suggested Harris...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy have arrived in Kyiv on a joint visit as Ukraine continues to press for the right to use US and British long-range missiles against Russia. Earlier, US President Joe Biden said his administration was "working" on whether to lift the restrictions. The policy will come under further scrutiny when UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets Biden at the White House on Friday. At the moment, the US and UK have not given Ukraine permission to use long-range missiles against targets inside Russia for fear of escalation.