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A 2,800-year-old burial in Siberia that contains the remains of an elite individual, who was buried with at least one sacrificed human and 18 sacrificed horses, appears to belong to a culture closely related to the enigmatic Scythians, a new study finds.The kurgan, or large burial mound, was unearthed in Tuva, a republic in southern Siberia. It dates to the transition between the Bronze and Iron ages, and it's one of the earliest known of its kind to show Scythian burial practices...An excavation of the kurgan revealed horse-riding gear and artifacts decorated with animals, indicating that the elite person's culture...

A homeowner doing a basement renovation project near Paris unexpectedly found a skeleton, which later led to the discovery of nearly 40 burials, some of them dating to Roman times.During a basement renovation project, a homeowner near Paris unexpectedly unearthed a skeleton. The discovery eventually led to the excavation of a cemetery where dozens of people were buried, some of them up to 1,700 years ago.The oldest grave dates from the third century A.D., during the Late Roman period; and 10 plaster sarcophagi date from the early Merovingian period of Frankish rule, which lasted from roughly 476 to 750.The most...

Watch this new video I created. This continuing wish/plan of Obama's will come true if Kamala Harris and the deep state machine "wins/steals" the 2024 election. His tells us what he's going to do with that smirk on his face, like it's a joke. But he's not joking. He did it with Biden for his 3rd term and said so on the Colbert show. And now he's planning to do it with Harris for a 4th term. Enjoy! And feel free to circulate the video.

A new Quinnipiac University poll showed Vice President Kamala Harris is leaking support in Michigan and Wisconsin to former President Donald Trump. Trump is leading 51% to 47% in Michigan and 49% to 47% in Wisconsin, a staggering change in the same poll from mid-September, which showed Harris leading 50% to 45% in Michigan and 48% to 47% in Wisconsin. The poll also surveyed Pennsylvania and found Harris with a 49% to 47% lead, a three-point improvement for Trump from mid-September in the same poll.

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Israeli soldiers raised the Jewish state’s flag in Lebanon as part of its ongoing assault on Hezbollah terrorists.A trio of Israel Defense Forces members were seen planting the flag on top of rubble in Maroun El Ras in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, a video shared by KANN News shows.Maroun El Ras is less than 1 kilometer from the northern Israeli border. The IDF has “occupied” the village and destroyed houses from which Hezbollah was believed to have launched missiles at northern Israel, according to Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen.תיעוד: רגעי הנפת דגל ישראל במארון א-ראס שבלבנון@ItayBlumental(צילום: צוות אביר 91 ביחידת...

So much outrage (including from Vice President and Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris) about the claim in Bob Woodward’s upcoming book that Donald Trump during his presidency sent some test kits to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin at the height of the Covid pandemic when they were scarce in the United States. And about the famed journalist’s report that the former president called Putin seven times since the former left the Oval Office in January, 2021. (See, e.g., here.)And so little about by far the biggest outrage described in War (if true, of course – as with the above revelations): that...

Kamala Harris has a real shot at becoming president, but if she does, it will be because her voters hate Trump. It is impossible to believe that anybody thinks she is presidential material. She is stupid and proves it every time she opens her mouth.This shouldn't be a controversial thing to say. I know Democrats who will openly admit that they think Harris is awful--and her pre-candidacy poll numbers and disastrous 2019 presidential campaign prove that almost everybody knows that she is stupid and incompetent. That's why she was hidden from the media for so long and has gone through...

One of the most important variables that sticks out in polls is one that few people seem to have noticed: for the first time ever in Gallup polls, Republicans have a Party ID edge over Democrats right before a presidential election. "More Americans Identify as Republican Than Democrat. Here’s What That Means for the Election." https://t.co/lzNNZV0k7q— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) October 9, 2024NBC polls are showing the same thing, and the effect is not small. It makes a huge difference that the partisan tilt of the electorate has shifted. Beneath the headline results in many polls, something unusual has turned up...

We've been talking a lot about the momentum shifting toward former President Donald Trump as the election draws near. A likely part of it was just the polls properly adjusting, the RFK Jr endorsement, the JD Vance and Tim Walz debate, and, finally, people seeing more of Walz and Kamala Harris. The more they see of Harris, the more they don't want her.. That was true in 2020, and I think it's true now. Add in a knucklehead, and that doesn't help. The other part is that when you compare them Trump is just the demonstrably more knowledgeable and accomplished...

A North Carolina mayor has slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for lying about FEMA efforts to assist residents following the catastrophic hurricane Helene. Newland Mayor Derek Roberts, whose daughter’s house was destroyed by the hurricane, revealed she was denied the $750 FEMA payment. “My daughter, whose house got completely wiped out – she has no flood insurance – meets with a FEMA person, applies for everything, doesn’t get the $750 that Kamala says she’s supposed to get. Gets approved for $300 for personal items. What is that gonna do?” Roberts asked in outrage. More than a week after the storm...

Taxpayers in Pennsylvania were billed more than $2.5 million via Medicaid to pay for “irreversible sex change interventions” on children between 2019 and 2023, according to the organization Do No Harm.The Philly Leader reported that Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh were both named to Do No Harm’s “Dirty Dozen” list, consisting of the “12 worst offending children’s hospitals promoting sex change treatments for minors.”The Stop the Harm database, which is a project of Do No Harm, reported that hospitals in the Keystone State saw 822 minors who were “sex change patients” including 316 surgery...

Eighties hitmaker Greg Kihn, best remembered for his early MTV-era smashes “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and “Jeopardy,” died Tuesday at age 75. The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Kihn started his career as a folksy singer-songwriter in his hometown of Baltimore, but moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s where he formed the Greg Kihn Band alongside guitarist Robbie Dunbar, bassist Steve Wright, and drummer Larry Lynch. They released five albums on the indie label Beserkley Records that attracted little public attraction despite strong reviews and their reputation as a killer live act. “The rap...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades. Southeastern Morocco’s desert is among the most arid places on earth and rarely experiences rain in late summer. The Moroccan government said two days of rainfall in September exceeded yearly averages in several areas that see less than 250 millimetres annually, including Tata, one of the areas hit hardest. More than 100 millimetres of rain were recorded in Tagounite, a village about 280 miles...

Political journalist Mark Halperin on the independent streaming platform 2Way said the Harris campaign is worried about losing 6 of 7 battleground states while the Trump campaign feels good about them. In July, Halperin predicted President Biden would drop out of the race. MARK HALPERIN: We're talking about Harris a lot on this program for a couple reasons. We know what Trump is. We don't need to spend every episode talking about January 6. We'll talk about it if people want to bring it up. What's happening now with Kamala Harris is this is an experiment. Can you win a...

Of all the 15 Florida counties under mandatory state evacuation orders, 14 are dominantly, if not overwhelmingly, Republican. The total number of registered Republican voters in those 15 counties is slightly over two million, while the number of registered Democrats in those same counties is about 1.2 million. Approximately 800,000 more registered Republicans than registered Democrats in the state of Florida are being told to get out of their homes. And that may have an enormous impact. In the 2020 election, there was a huge 77 percent turnout rate in Florida – meaning nearly one out of every eight eligible...

The former crown prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, called for an end to the Islamic Republic government to bring peace to the Middle East in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. Pahlavi, whose family was exiled from Iran following the 1979 revolution, has called for an end to the current government in Tehran and the reinstatement of democracy in the nation. After saying that Iran facilitated the October 7 attacks in Israel and fueled sectarian conflicts in countries across the Middle East, he also emphasized that this is "not the Iranian people's war," and promoted ousting the...

Following in the footsteps of NFL star Tom Brady, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, and the mayor of Flavortown, David and Victoria Beckham have reportedly purchased a Miami Beach mansion for a posh $60 million.The couple’s rumored new stateside “Beckingham Palace” features 9 bedrooms, as well as the run-of-the-mill pool, spa, gym, and cinema that come almost as standard among the area’s sprawling waterfront estates. Whether it will hold its value, even with all of those amenities, is another question altogether.Indeed, the annual UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index for 2024, which analyzes residential property prices in 25 major cities worldwide,...

A Georgia environmental official died after suddenly collapsing near the state Capitol on Tuesday during a public meeting on last month’s toxic chemical plant inferno outside Atlanta, officials said. Kenny Johnson, the Rockdale County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor, testified alongside business owners and leaders about the BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, about 25 miles outside Atlanta, which spewed clouds of hazardous chlorine gas and smoke throughout the area. Shortly afterward, the 62-year-old collapsed and was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said that due to the circumstances of Johnson’s death,...

The state has unearthed hundreds more people than previously known who were improperly registered to vote under Oregon’s motor voter law. The latest tally includes 302 people identified on Monday, according to an “after-action” report ordered by Gov. Tina Kotek. The latest numbers add to the 1,259 people who officials with the state’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Services office and Secretary of State had earlier revealed were registered in error. [snip] Griffin-Valade said she was confident the recently identified errors would not alter the election. Tobias Read, the Democrat who is running to be the next secretary of state, said...