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Tonight's Israeli airstrikes in southern Beirut called the largest ever... 18 killed in an Israel air attack in Tulkarem in Samaria... The United Nations Security Council expressing its full support for Secretary General Antonio Guterres. This follows Israel's entry ban... In Memphis a split verdict at the federal trial of three former black police officers... The dockworkers strike on the eastern and southern coast of the United State suspended... Russia continuing its strikes against jihadist bases in Syria... Here in the United States more than 200 now confirmed dead as a result of Hurricane Helene... At least 78 are dead...

Banned Book Week was last week. Did you miss it? For anyone who took it seriously, let me just say this: Banned Book Week is a complete fraud. The books highlighted during Banned Book Week are the opposite of banned. If you look at any list of so-called banned books, you'll see titles that have been continuously promoted world-wide and most have sold millions of copies. They're not banned. They're everywhere. And given the cultural climate, you already know what kinds of books these are. Most are books that in any other era would have been correctly classified as obscenity....

If you spend most of your life driving or taking public transportation from point A to point B, there's nothing quite like breaking from planes, trains, and automobiles and exploring a destination on foot. Doing so allows you to slow down and savor all the sites around you, no parking necessary. With that in mind, we have rounded up 12 of the most beautiful walkable cities around the world (with a few in the U.S.) to inspire your future travel plans. There are certainly many benefits to exploring with your own two feet, and we give all of the cities...

We seem to be at war with China, but the Asian nation is the only one acting like it, and I surmise this can be for only one of two reasons—either, a) a complete lack of awareness and ability, or b) intentionality. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have a severely soiled reputation (having brought the U.S. to the brink of collapse), but arguably, their biggest failure is that of diplomacy, or foreign affairs. They wouldn’t recognize impending disaster if it hit them in the face: the Afghanistan withdrawal, the de facto invitation to all the world’s impoverished foreigners, Israel and...

Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday unsealed Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page “immunity motion” arguing that Trump is subjected to presidential immunity following the Supreme Court’s ruling. Chutkan unsealed the 165-page monstrosity to do the maximum damage to Trump before the election. This is Jack Smith’s dirty October surprise. Jack Smith rejected Trump’s claims of immunity and said his actions on January 6 were “private.” “The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct. Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent President during...

ERIE, Pa. — Democrats have been losing voters in Pennsylvania over the past four years, and Republicans are salivating over the prospect of former President Donald Trump recapturing the biggest swing state in the Nov. 5 election. Nearly 300,000 registered Democrats have dropped off the rolls since 2020, and Republicans have netted about 50,000 new registered voters in a state that President Biden won by roughly 80,000 votes. In Luzerne County, near Mr. Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Democrats held a 20,000 registered voter advantage in 2020. As of last week, they trail Republicans by a few hundred votes. Mr. Trump...

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: This election season, some voices are not getting the attention - the scrutiny they should. That's according to McKay Coppins' new piece in the Atlantic titled "Lord, Help Us Make America Great Again." He's written about the prayers that kick off Trump rallies, analyzing every one from November 2022 to June 2024. McKay Coppins, welcome to the show. MCKAY COPPINS: Thanks for having me. RASCOE: You've been covering politics for years now. When did you decide or when did you think these prayers that are given by preachers at the beginning of Trump rallies - that they...

This week President Biden once again took a victory lap on crime, trumpeting preliminary FBI data on trends in 2024. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office,” he bragged in an official statement. Yet, with crime a central issue in this year’s election, he and the mainstream media have carefully ignored evidence that the FBI may be fudging its numbers — much like the way the Bureau of Labor Statistics massively overestimated the number of jobs created during the Biden-Harris administration Last month, new FBI data showed that reported serious violent crime (murder, rape, robbery,...

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LOS ANGELES – Garth Brooks, one of the biggest stars in country music history, has been named in a lawsuit accusing him of raping a hair and makeup artist he employed in 2019. The lawsuit, obtained by Variety and CNN, mentions two specific incidents in which Brooks is accused of committing sexual assault and battery against the woman. In the first, the plaintiff, identified only as “Jane Roe,” claims she visited Brooks’s house to style his hair and apply makeup when he “grabbed her hands and forced them” on his genitals and asked her to perform oral sex. The woman...

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Thursday that it would provide up to $360 million in public funding to construct a 320-mile line connecting the ERCOT grid to power grids in the southeastern U.S. According to the DOE, the line, called the Southern Spirit, will be used to "enhance reliability and prevent outages" during potentially catastrophic weather events. ERCOT's grid, which can draw power from other grids but is otherwise contained in its own bubble, infamously failed in February 2021 during a significant freeze that gripped the entire Lone Star State. Also known as Winter Storm Uri, the freeze led...

We’re only one month away from the U.S. presidential election, and anticipation is at an all-time high (and so is misinformation). Several politicians are trying to mitigate misinformation in the light of AI-generated and AI-manipulated content, and one of them is California Governor Gavin Newsom. He brought a law that would combat AI deepfakes, but a California judge blocked it.Newsom was in the news recently for shooting down SB 1047, the bill that would have brought some major regulation to major AI companies. He didn’t pass the bill for a handful of reasons including a lack of specificity regarding the...

This horrifying story comes from Gaza:A young hostage kidnapped by ISIS terrorists at age 11 and then held by Hamas for a decade has been rescued by Israeli forces in Gaza after a months-long operation led by the US, officials said Thursday. Fawzia Amin Sido, 21, was freed earlier this week, with footage showing her being embraced tightly by her emotional family soon after touching back down in her native Iraq. “Fawzia, a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq and brought to Gaza at just 11 years old, has finally been rescued by the Israeli security forces,” tweeted David...

The groups holding these events are quite openly and publicly telling you who they are and what they believe, and that's important information to have.At various universities around the country, Students for Justice in Palestine and other pro-Hamas groups are holding events on October 7. Some of these events celebrate Palestinian "resistance," while others, throwing in a blood libel for good measure, commemorate a non-existent genocide of Palestinians by Israel since the war in Gaza began. Let's recall what happened on October 7, 2023. Thousands of Hamas terrorists, followed by "civilian" hangers-on, attacked border towns in southern Israel along with...

Desperate residents of Hurricane Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina are relying on home-grown rescue efforts instead of waiting for the Biden-Harris administration’s financially depleted FEMA to get its act together. Not content to hold out hope for help some fear might not arrive in time, a handful of grassroots rescue operations have sprung up to render assistance by air, land and even on four legs. With hundreds more missing in the remote, unforgiving terrain and communication services damaged or nonexistent, the search for survivors grows more dire with each passing hour. Local airports like City of Statesville Regional Airport and Hickory...

New York Times writer Mara Gay said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) was a “truth teller” who makes normalizing former President Donald Trump’s policies harder. Gay said, “It’s interesting we are looking at these male voters who are Republicans who are saying enough. This isn’t about strength. It’s about not wanting to be completely insane and live in a world of chaos. Because J.D. Vance the other night really did his best to launder Trumpism as something that is normal and has a soft face and is perfectly respectable. You know, it’s funny we talk...

MADISON, Wisconsin — On an oppressively hot August day in downtown Madison, the signs of this famously liberal city’s progressive activism are everywhere. Buildings are draped in pride flags and Black Lives Matter signs are prominently displayed on storefronts. A musty bookstore advertises revolutionary titles and newspaper clippings of rallies against Donald Trump. A fancy restaurant features a graphic of a raised Black fist in its window, with chalk outside on the sidewalk reading “solidarity forever.”Yet the Green Party, which bills itself as an independent political party that has the best interests of self-described leftists at heart, is nowhere to...

During a Thursday rally in Saginaw, Michigan, former President Donald Trump expressed frustration over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's lack of funds, attributing the shortfall to spending on illegal migrants instead of critical domestic needs like disaster relief. The rally, broadcast live on Newsmax, featured Trump criticizing the Biden administration's handling of Hurricane Helene's destruction. "Can you imagine another four years like we've lived the last four?" Trump asked the crowd. He pointed to recent natural disasters, saying the federal government cannot provide adequate aid.

Country music star Garth Brooks has been accused of raping and battering a woman who claims she worked as his hairstylist and makeup artist. The lawsuit, filed in a California court on Thursday by a woman only referred to as “Jane Roe,” states the Grammy Award-winning singer allegedly raped her in a hotel room during a work trip where she felt “trapped” and alone with Brooks. In addition to sexual assault and battery, Brooks, 62, is also accused of repeatedly exposing his genitals and buttocks; talking about sex and sharing sexual fantasies with Roe; regularly changing his clothing in front...

DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately. The temporary end to the strike came after the union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies, reached a tentative agreement on wages, the union and ports said in a joint statement. A person briefed on the agreement said the ports sweetened their wage offer from about 50% over...