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BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The sister of Corey Comperatore, a firefighter who was fatally shot in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler County in July, remembered her brother ahead of an emotional weekend. Comperatore was in attendance at the July 13 Butler Township rally when gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed on top of the roof of the AGR building and fired eight shots, hitting Trump, killing Comperatore and critically injuring two others. . . . And the former president hasn't forgotten them. He called after his second assassination attempt. "He was very...

Yes, we’re back to my favorite source of The Radical Left’s dogma, The Nation! To give you an idea of of radicalized today’s Democrats have become, @ 20 years ago I’d read The Nation as a barometer for where the Dems might be in 20 years, today they read like the official DNC platform. Don’t believe me? Have a gander! Tim Walz’s Long Game Will Pay OffBy getting brutally slapped around by JD? It’s a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them!Extremist, Hypocritical, Weird: JD Vance Offers a Whole Array of Targets for Tim WalzOn this...

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Shares of 23andMe are now worth pennies. The company’s valuation has plummeted 99% from its $6 billion peak shortly after the company went public in 2021. ... What is the company’s plan for all the data it has collected since it was founded in 2006? ... When signing up for the service, about 80% of 23andMe’s customers have opted in to having their genetic data analyzed for medical research. The company has an agreement with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, or GSK, that allows the drugmaker to tap the tech company’s customer data to develop new treatments for disease. ...HIPAA, does not...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to them, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.” Luke 10:13Have you ever sat in sackcloth and ashes? In the Gospel passage above, Jesus gives clear indication that doing so is a holy sign of responding to His preaching. He states that the pagan towns of Tyre and Sidon would have certainly sat in sackcloth and ashes if they would have been privileged to witness the...

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas' words have come back to haunt him as video from earlier this year touting the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA’s) preparedness before Hurricane Helene exposed shortcomings in the organization. Mayorkas this week warned that FEMA was running out of funds as hurricane season continued to slam the southeastern United States. The organization has enough funds to deal with the aftermath of Helene but would not have enough to "make it through the season." "FEMA is tremendously prepared," Mayorkas assured reporters in a video from July. "This is what we do, this is what...

You know the names. East Palestine. Maui. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia. It was a year before Biden/Harris made landfall in East Palestine and more than a year after the train derailment, the town is still suffering Many residents of East Palestine, Ohio, have warily returned to their homes after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of dangerous chemicals into the air and water earlier this month. The towering smoke cloud from the burning vinyl chloride has drifted away, and the track has been cleared. Trains are now running again through...

(Woke Preacher TV) A majority-black Delaware Baptist church announces its support for “Sarah” McBride, a Democrat who, if elected, would be the first transgender member of the House Of Representatives. Pastor C.T. Curry of Ezion Fair Baptist Church calls McBride a would-be “Congresswoman,” plugs the candidate’s campaign website for the purpose of donations, and says “I hope and trust that the Lord will give her favor.” McBride says he is an ordained Presbyterian elder. It’s unclear which denomination he belongs to, but an August article from CQ Roll Call says his family attends the PCUSA’s Westminster Presbyterian in Wilmington. Cribbed...

In one of the more dishonest omissions ever seen on Fox News – which is saying something – viewers of Thursday’s episodes of The Ingraham Angle and Jesse Watters Primetime were left with the impression that victims of Hurricane Helene are getting shafted by the federal government. Fox News has been working feverishly to reelect Donald Trump, whose false election claims the network promoted and, in return, got the business end of a $787.5 million settlement in a defamation case last year. For Fox News, it’s the cost of doing business, which is lying. To wit, on Thursday, Laura Ingraham...

Elon Musk said on Oct. 3 that he will attend former President Donald Trump’s upcoming rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.“I will be there to support!” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform that he mostly owns.Trump has a rally scheduled for Saturday at the Butler Farm Show, where he was struck by a bullet during an event in July.Authorities say Thomas Crooks, who was shot dead by a U.S. Secret Service agent, attempted to assassinate Trump.About 30 minutes later, Musk shared video footage of Trump rising to his feet and holding a fist up after surviving the attempted assassination. Musk...

President Trump on Saturday night delivered remarks on the increase in violent crime as a result of Kamala Harris’ failed border policies in Prarie du Chien, Wisconsin. More than 15 million illegal aliens – mainly military-age men – have invaded the US under Kamala Harris’s watch. ICE revealed last week that there are currently 13,000+ illegal aliens convicted of homicide AND 15,000+ illegals convicted of sexual assault who are roaming the US thanks to ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris.

U.S. job gains increased by the most in six months in September and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, pointing to a resilient economy that likely does not need the Federal Reserve to deliver large interest rate cuts*** In addition to the better-than expected increase in nonfarm payrolls reported by the Labor Department on Friday, wages rose at a solid pace last month. The closely watched employment report also showed the economy added 72,000 more jobs in July and August than previously estimated. The report followed on the heels of annual benchmark revisions to national accounts data last week that...

It is hypothetically possible to sit in Anytown, U.S.A., and request that a UOCAVA ballot be emailed to you, while claiming you are abroad.How long do you have to live in the United States before you can vote here? You might be surprised to learn that the answer is never. People born in other countries to parents who are U.S. citizens are themselves considered U.S. citizens and may vote in U.S. elections, even if they have never set foot in the United States and never intend to.These so-called “never resided” voters are welcome to vote absentee in all federal elections...

The battle for the City of Philadelphia may not be a slam-dunk for Democrats, and local and national officials are worried. They see the numbers—they’re not stupid. The Philadelphia Inquirer decided to get into the trenches in the brawl for the City of Brotherly Love, where they found Democrats have significant problems when it comes to keeping their historical voter blocs intact. It’s not about the result here since the city isn’t going to flip red. However, Biden only won Pennsylvania with 80,000 votes, and marginal shifts among the white working class can alter the race. To compound matters, non-white...

What is going on with Quinnipiac? Quinnipiac for those who don’t know is a polling group that shows up every election cycle, and their track record is, how shall I say this? For the last decade, Quinnipiac polling been insanely off the mark when it comes to their final polling vs the actual results.. and have always, always had Democrats grossly outperforming their real numbers in nearly every poll they have ever done… I don’t mean high but still inside the margin of error (MOE), I mean off at times multiples of their MOE and ALWAYS showing democrats over performing....

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) weighed in on the deadly hurricane which wreaked havoc in her state of Georgia and across the southern United States on Thursday, suggesting that the hurricane had been controlled. After the Hurricane Helene death toll rose to over 200, Greene wrote in a social media post, “Yes they can control the weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”

Only time will tell which polling methodology was correct, but Donald J. Trump is performing better than ever, especially in the Midwest. Kamala Harris isn’t breaking away like she needs to regarding countering the underestimated Trump vote. Joe Biden was ahead of Trump by several points in the waning weeks of the 2020 election and still just squeezed by; he only won Pennsylvania by 80,000 votes. It wasn’t necessarily a landslide. Trump only needed 46,000 votes to be re-elected in 2020, so Harris only being ahead by two to three points isn’t enough. With the latest slew of polling data,...

Trump-haters Liz Cheney, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Cassidy Hutchinson, and Sarah Matthews will hold an “in a fireside chat” in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on October 9 to discuss the alleged dangers of former President Donald Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper reported Thursday. The event will provide the disgruntled women with relevancy as they continue to make a name for themselves based on their association with Trump and his administration. Alyssa Farah Griffin, the White House director of Strategic Communications and assistant to Trump in 2020, is now an entertainment personality on The View. She is also paid by CNN to offer commentary...

VIDEOJack Smith just announced his October Surprise from the Humorverse. All people speaking in the Humorverse are subjected to Truth Rays which means even a dirtbag such as Jack Smith is forced to tell the truth.

A heartbreaking photo shows newborn twin boys killed alongside their mother when a tree crashed through their trailer home in rural Georgia during Hurricane Helene — before key family members even got to meet them. The month-old boys, Khyzier and Khazmir Williams — who are the youngest known victims of the catastrophic hurricane — were hunkering down with their 27-year-old mom, Kobe Williams, in Thomson last week when they were crushed, their grief-stricken family has revealed. The twins’ bodies were discovered lying underneath their mother when relatives dodged fallen trees and downed power lines to check on the trio just...