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…JuiceBox purveyor Enel X Way North America announced Wednesday that it is shutting down its United States charger operations. Drivers will no longer be able to use their phones’ apps to access JuiceBox charger devices at homes or out in public. The news means the end of app-based tools like scheduling charges, which are particularly useful for Californians seeking off-peak electricity prices, and features for checking charging statuses and histories. In other words, they’re losing their “smart” status. JuiceBox customers took to Reddit’s r/electricvehicles forum to complain about the company and express their confusion. “My concern is how things like...

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff reportedly paid $80,000 in “hush money” to his former nanny as part of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) but was not prosecuted, unlike Trump. Former President Donald Trump was prosecuted in New York and convicted on 34 counts for failing to list NDA payments to porn star Stormy Daniels (a.k.a. Stephanie Clifford) as campaign expenses (he denies the affair). The UK Daily Mail revealed in August that Emhoff’s first marriage broke up because of his affair with the family nanny, whom he allegedly impregnated. The affair was hidden during Harris’s Senate and presidential campaigns.

Where As: *Seeking political office is a high responsibility and demanding of a supreme level of trust between officeholders and citizens and *Ethical conduct and ESPECIALLY adherence to National and State Constitutions, as well as other existing laws is mandatory and *It is a crime to lie to a law enforcement officer during the course of their investigation and *It is unethical and in many cases a crime to lie within a contract and *It is a crime to lie under oath in a court of law and *It is a crime to fabricate false and misleading data on engineering...

Suspects’ tattoos and social media posts indicate possible ties to a violent Venezuelan gang. The two Venezuelan men accused of the brutal murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston are being investigated for possible links to the transnational criminal organization Tren da Aragua.. In June, 22-year-old Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and 26-year-old Franklin Jose Peña Ramos — both of whom were unlawfully in the United States — allegedly lured Nungaray under a bridge after she stopped at a convenience store. The males, who were charged with capital murder for her death, allegedly stripped her, bound her wrists and ankles, and sexually...

@charliekirk11 I was just sent this clip with the caption: "Damn he's good." Yes, JD Vance is very good at this.

Special counsel Jack Smith laid out new evidence to support his assertion that Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election were taken as a private candidate, rather than his official capacity as the president, in a much-anticipated 165-page filing unsealed Wednesday that detailed Trump’s private interactions with his vice president and others. The filing described what the then-president told key figures in his orbit, including vice president Mike Pence, attorney Rudy Giuliani and senior White House and Republican Party officials, though it shielded some of their names. It also detailed what Trump was doing on Jan....

Hurricane Helene (1958) became a hurricane on Sept.24th. and reached category 4 strength on Sept. 26. Hurricane Helene (2024) became a hurricane on Sept.24th. and reached category 4 strength on Sept. 26. What are the odds of that happening?

"Israel just made all the Middle East happy tonight." — Israeli-Lebanese Christian journalist Jonathan Elkhoury, X, September 27, 2024. "As a Lebanese, this is one of the happiest days in Lebanon's history.... As a human being who holds peace before my eyes, this is the most important day for our region. Nasrallah and Hezbollah have terrorized the Lebanese people since the 1980s.... Every Lebanese and every decent human being should feel joy at the downfall of one of the greatest evils of our time. Now, we have a real chance to look forward... and sitting down with Israelis and the...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz tried again Wednesday to explain his repeated false statement that he was in China during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 — telling reporters in Pennsylvania that he “got his dates wrong” and suggesting he makes verbal mistakes “like everybody else.” Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, was questioned during Tuesday night’s debate over a report that indicated that he was not in Hong Kong like he repeatedly previously claimed — but was actually back home in Nebraska. “Look, I have my dates wrong. I was in Hong Kong and China in 1989,” Walz said Wednesday....

In a sprawling legal brief partly unsealed on Wednesday, the special counsel, Jack Smith, laid out his case for why former President Donald J. Trump is not immune from prosecution on federal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.The redacted brief, made public by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington, adds new details to the already extensive public record of how Mr. Trump lost the race but attempted nonetheless to cling to power.Part of the brief focuses, for example, on a social media post that Mr. Trump sent on the afternoon of the attack...

At least three women have claimed they had trysts with Robert F. Kennedy Jr over the last year during his failed presidential run after linking up through an anti-vaccine group he chairs, according to a report. Two sources told Mediaite on Wednesday they had direct knowledge of the woman’s allegations as Kennedy, 70, is already entangled in another alleged sexting fling with New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi. The outlet also reviewed texts from a woman detailing an alleged relationship with Kennedy this year. *** The trio of women know Kennedy from the Children’s Health Defense, which is an anti-vaccine...

Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. A further seven soldiers were wounded, some of them seriously, according to the army, citing two separate battles. The Hezbollah militia claimed to have destroyed three Israeli battle tanks that had advanced on the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras. There was initially no confirmation of this from Israel.

The University of Wyoming women's volleyball team became the third in the nation to forfeit a game to San Jose State this season.Wyoming joined Boise State and Southern Utah, all of which did not give a specific reason for the forfeit."After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San Jose State University," the volleyball program said in a statement on Tuesday. "Per Mountain West Conference policy, the conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming."

Many believe that St. Brendan, an Irish monk, discovered parts of the Americas long before Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Others suggest he may have landed on islands like the Canaries, Azores, or Madeira. However, ancient Irish records don’t make it clear where he truly traveled there. Some researchers claim that groups such as the Phoenicians, Japanese, Chinese, and Basques arrived long before Columbus, following the Native Americans, according to The Irish Times. However, this part of history provides little solid proof. Because of this, myths have sprouted alongside reliable theories and facts. Some of these myths are spread by...

[cut] Callista and I went to bed on Tuesday night convinced that Sen. Vance had won a substantial triumph. In that victory, he also vindicated President Donald J. Trump’s gamble in selecting a running mate so early in his career. At 40, with only two years in the U.S. Senate, Vance is only a few months older than Richard Nixon when President Dwight Eisenhower picked him to be the Republican vice presidential nominee in 1952. Nixon would remain a major part of the political scene for 42 years. That would give Sen. Vance a potential role in American government and...

Social media marveled at JD Vance's 'pretty eyes' as Google searches for eyeliner exploded during his VP debate against Tim Walz. The high-stakes showdown between GOP Sen. J.D. Vance and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz comes with just 35 days left until the election and with polls showing it could be one of the closest races in decades. However, some on X getting a first look at Vance seemed entranced by the Ohio Senator's eyes. Even Democrats seemed taken with Vance, one writing: 'I don't know much about Vance, but I'm entranced by his icy blue eyes,' before clarifying she wasn't...

A major turning point on Mary Sheppeard’s road to healing came two years ago when she attended Good Friday services for the first time in nearly 60 years. The 74-year-old Albuquerque resident had struggled for years with the trauma she’d endured after being sexually abused by a priest in Holy Ghost Catholic Church when she was 17. “I just made a decision: I was done letting that priest run my life,” said Sheppeard, who is now a parishioner at Holy Family Catholic Church in Albuquerque and a clinical social worker. “... I finally got healing.” A new plaque outside the...

Was talking with my nephew from Georgia. He stated "... if we lose North carolina due to lack of voting precincts that people have access to, we lose the election." Do you Freepers think the same? If true, do you think that the corrupt administration is not sending FEMA to North Carolina in order to swing the state for Dems?

25 News is learning more about the case against the disgraced Waco priest accused of sexually assaulting at least 10 women so far. Lauren Adams talked to the lead investigator on the case and he says four of the victims were connected to Baylor. Anthony Odiong is behind bars facing numerous sexual assault charges. So far 10 victims who have come forward, and seven of the women were abused in McLennan County. Odiong was the catholic priest of St. Peters Catholic Student Center in Waco and St. Mary’s of the Assumption in West from 2007-2012. St. Peters serves Baylor and...

From Matt Taibbi: So let me pause to say something about America’s current intellectual class from which the anti-disinformation complex works. By the way, there are no working class censors. The dirty secret of content moderation all over the world is that it’s a tiny sliver of educated rich correcting everybody else. It’s telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it, basically. The problem is America has the most useless aristocrats in history. Even the French dandies who were marched to the razor by the Jacobins were towering specimens of humanity compared to the...