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The United States must recalibrate its nuclear deterrence posture and align the stockpile to address the realities of the current threat environment.The current landscape, however, is characterized by rapidly evolving threats, which have reinstated the salience of nuclear weapons and deterrence, albeit in a more complex and multidimensional framework. In addition, the age of the U.S. stockpile has reached an all-time high; the average age of U.S. warheads is between 25 and 30 years old, and no new warhead designs have been introduced since the early 1990s.3 Further, all legs of the triad’s delivery systems are serving well past their...

🚨SHOCK POLLS BY QUINNIPIAC🚨 Michigan now: 🔴 Trump +3 Last month: 🔵 Harris +5 Wisconsin now: 🔴 Trump +2 Last month: 🔵 Harris +1 Pennsylvania: 🔵 Harris +2 Last month: 🔵 Harris +6 Quinnipiac always *overestimates* the Democratic presidential candidate.

A Queens-based developer who set his sights on the redevelopment of Harlem more than a decade ago has filed plans to bulldoze a historic church in the neighborhood after acquiring the property over the summer, records show.

Many have questioned the accuracy of official inflation statistics, with dozens of academic papers written on the topic and doubts voiced by sources ranging from the New York Times1 to former President Donald Trump. This matters not only because of the political salience of rising prices, but also because official inflation numbers are used to calculate real economic growth by adjusting nominal dollars to inflation-adjusted dollars. In this study we aim to quantify some of the more egregious biases in inflation statistics in order to get us closer to a true understanding of inflation since 2019, hence of true economic...

Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz suggested in an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes that aired on Tuesday that his “misspeaking” does not matter because Minnesotans know and support him. “I think folks know who I am. And I think they know the difference between someone expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a date wrong by — you — rather than a pathological liar like Donald Trump,” he responded when asked about his lie that he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square Massacre when he was actually in Nebraska. When pressed on whether he could be trusted...

The Harris campaign quickly stepped in and issued a statement after Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz said the electoral college “needs to go” in favor of a national popular vote. The Minnesota governor made the comments during a fundraiser at the home of California Governor Gavin Newsom in Sacramento. “I think all of us know the electoral college needs to go,” Walz said. “But that’s not the world we live in.”

South Korea’s Excess Deaths Skyrocket Among Vaccinated Population South Korea’s almost universally Covid-vaccinated population has suffered a staggering five-fold surge in excess deaths since Covid mRNA shots were rolled out for public use. Prominent Korean researchers are raising the alarm after obtaining official data that exposes the massive spike. A trio of researchers from the city of Daegu located in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea published their findings in a report on excess death data during the Covid pandemic from 2020 to 2022. The report was published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine & Public Health. The study was led...

Last week a judge unsealed a 165-page legal brief with damaging new revelations about Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The revelations have been widely discussed and debated — but the timing of the release should receive more scrutiny, because the Department of Justice should not have allowed the information to be disclosed so close to Election Day. This event is the latest of many examples of Biden administration officials paying insufficient public attention to executive branch rules that are designed to ensure that prosecutions are, in appearance and reality, conducted fairly and apolitically.

CNN reporter Priscilla Alvarez said Wednesday on “Inside Politics” that Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign was having “flashbacks to 2016” when Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump. Alvarez said, “This has been a campaign that was described by multiple Democrats, allies, aides to the vice president as a good vibes campaign. But what’s also creeping in now is that anxiety. The reason for that is because these polls are not really moving despite multiple battleground blitzes, despite the opportunities she has had across media outlets. There is still not a lot of movement from voters who are moving more...

A decade after the first state moved to legalize recreational marijuana, the dangerous effects of the drug are coming to light. Across the country, physicians are seeing more people with marijuana addiction, psychosis including delusions or paranoia, schizophrenia, and a serious syndrome involving severe vomiting as more people use the drug, The New York Times found. The outlet examined medical records, insurance data, and spoke to hundreds of doctors and marijuana users. Emergency rooms are seeing more people present with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a condition involving “severe vomiting,” nausea, and pain caused by heavy marijuana consumption. The condition can cause...

This woman should be in JAIL............. 0:10 VIDEO AT LINK..................

A Kamala loss would mark the ultimate "I told you so" moment. Hell hath no fury like a corrupt politician scorned. You can’t help but notice that “Dark Brandon” isn’t exactly falling in line these days. President Joe Biden finds himself a victim of the Democrat establishment mutineers, stripped of an opportunity at two-term greatness, and with quite a few interesting incentives coming into the November election.

Kamala Harris is so lost and confused that she needs help completing a simple briefing with the assistance of her handlers. Even worse, she cannot keep it a secret anymore. As NBC News reported, Harris and her boss Joe Biden took part in a briefing on Wednesday regarding preparations for Hurricane Milton as it bears down on Florida and updates on recovery efforts from the deleterious impacts of Hurricane Helene. As TGP readers know, Milton is expected to bring widespread destruction to the western side of Florida, particularly the Tampa Bay and Sarasota areas. Those who do not flee these...

A flight from Seattle to Istanbul, Turkey made an emergency landing in New York on Wednesday morning after one of its pilots died mid-flight. A Turkish Airlines pilot “lost consciousness” mid-flight forcing the co-pilot to reroute to JFK in New York. Turkish Airlines confirmed Capt. İlçehin Pehlivan, 59, died before the plane landed after medical intervention failed to resuscitate him. The pilot was in perfect health and had his last health examination in August. “Having worked at Turkish Airlines since 2007, İlçehin PEHLİVAN was 59 years old. A periodic health examination was carried out on 08.03.2024 at the Aviation Medical...

Private Harris campaign polling shows Vice President Kamala Harris is in a lot of trouble, political analyst Mark Halperin said on The Morning Meeting with Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine. Despite Harris being up three points nationally according to the New York Times poll, Halperin said he sees her support as precarious. While highlighting key states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, where Harris’s polling deteriorated, Halperin explained that the Wall Street Journal reported that Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) campaign shared negative polling with the paper, indicating broader implications for Democratic candidates in Senate races linked to Harris’s performance.

PENNSYLVANIA: Harris 49%, Trump 46%, other candidates 2% MICHIGAN: Trump 50%, Harris 47%, other candidates 2% WISCONSIN: Trump 48%, Harris 46%, other candidates 2%

Hurricane Milton is set to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday in the Tampa, Fla., region after undergoing a rapid intensification this week that saw it become the third-fastest storm on record to reach Category 5 status, the most extreme classification on the hurricane scale. Less than two weeks earlier, Hurricane Helene escalated in a similarly short time span in the Gulf of Mexico before ravaging the southeastern U.S. The warming climate has been a large factor in these storms’ high intensity, as well as the pace of their intensification — and if temperatures continue to rise, future storms...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has officially announced the payment dates for the upcoming cost of living adjustment (COLA) increase in benefits. Beneficiaries will soon learn the exact percentage of the COLA, which the Senior Citizens League (TSCL) predicts will be between 2.73% and 3.2%. The Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzes inflation data annually to determine the necessary increase to ensure Americans can maintain their purchasing power... Analysts anticipate a decrease in the COLA for Social Security benefits in 2025 compared to previous years due to easing inflation. The SSA will announce the 2025 increase on October 10, with the...

This morning, two activists pasted a photograph of a Palestinian mother and child over the protective glass of Pablo Picasso’s 1901 painting Motherhood (La Maternité) at the National Gallery in London, in a bid for attention to the dangers faced by families in Gaza. After pasting the image, Jai Halai, a 23-year-old employee at the National Health Service, and Monday-Malachi Rosenfeld, a 21-year-old student, poured red paint on the gallery floor before their arrest. A video posted to the Youth Demand X page captures Rosenfeld seated in front of the faux-blood splatter, saying to a crowd of onlookers, “All of...

Authorities are investigating a Miami millionaire’s alleged plot to kill his estranged wife several times over a period of years by hiring hit men and poisoning her with fentanyl, police say. “I’ve been in law enforcement for 27 years, and something like this … it seemed like something out of a Hollywood movie, but this was unfortunately real life,” Pinecrest Police Department Chief Jason Cohen told Fox News Digital. On June 23, Alessandra Pino, 26, called 911 and said somebody had just pointed a gun at her as her mother was pulling into the driveway of their house. “Oh my...