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An “art exhibit” in Los Angeles designed to protest against Donald Trump “spreading hate” featured participants kicking around a soccer ball shaped like the former president’s head. Yes, really. A a rubber or latex object made to look like Trump’s dome was booted around by players during an indoor game at Superchief Gallery in Los Angeles last weekend. The art installation was created by a group called INDECLINE and was first debuted the Trump soccer ball four years ago when they invited people at the Mexican border to kick it around. Laughably, the art collective claimed the point of the...

After Trump came onto the political scene, and especially after he was elected in 2016, the us-vs-them mentality immediately took shape. Anyone who refused to “resist Trump” was seen as a threat to the country, and I was fully on board with that mindset. It all felt righteous at first. But eventually, the tactics deployed to fight Trump became repetitive, boring and ultimately fruitless. Polling shows that he has increased his support among Black and Latino voters despite wall-to-wall coverage on his unsavory, racist or bigoted remarks. Several years of media raising alarm over Trump’s threat to democracy has only...

AZ, Trump +3; GA, Trump +5; 50-45%; MI, Trump +1; NV, Trump +3; NC, Trump +1; PA, Trump +1; WI, Trump +1

The Biden-Harris administration gave a six-figure subsidy to a China-linked electric vehicle company in late 2022 and, roughly a year later, its president showered the Democratic presidential ticket with tens of thousands of dollars in donations, records show. BYD Americas received $395,000 through the Biden-Harris administration’s Clean School Bus program in October 2022, according to Environmental Protection Agency documents. Ke Li, the president of BYD Americas, then made four large donations to support President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign on Nov. 14, 2023, funds that were transferred to Vice President Kamala Harris in July after the president dropped out of the...

It was a routine day in August for Shelley Gentner, but when she checked her mail and read a letter from the Brunswick County Board of Elections asking her to verify her information, she knew something was wrong. “What was attached to [the letter] was a voter registration application form,” Gentner explained. That form Gentner described was a copy, one someone had sent to the Brunswick County Board of Elections office impersonating her. “It had my birthday which was not correct. It had the last four digits of my social which was not correct,” she said. The form did have...

Democrat strategist James Carville and radio host Charlamagne tha God, two prominent supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris, are expressing concerns over her campaign’s lack of a message for the American people. With less than a month until polls open, they’re getting a little antsy. Charlamagne, who previously praised Harris as a candidate with “'super main character energy,” now feels all of the energy has shifted to the Trump campaign when it comes to relating to the people. “You'll listen to a lot of reporters and they'll be talking to Trump or JD Vance and they'll be talking to them...

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was seen in a video posted by a leftist influencer feeding the woman Doritos while on her knees. In the video, posted by leftist influencer @feministabulous, Whitmer is wearing a Harris-Walz hat in what appears to be a mockery of Catholics. X users blasted the video of a pro-abortion governor and pro-abortion influencer mocking the Catholic faith. The video and the ensuing outrage it provoked among Catholics comes at a precarious time for Democrats, especially in Whitmer’s home state of Michigan. In an interview with Breitbart’s Matt Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Faith and Freedom founder...

Today in 1954, David Lee Roth was born, making him 70. Although David Lee Roth has enjoyed success as a solo artist, he is best known for his work as lead singer for Van Halen. Nicknamed “Diamond Dave,” Roth was a member of Van Halen from 1974 to 1985, in 1996, and from 2006 to 2020, when the band disbanded. The apex of Roth’s time with Van Halen came in 1984, when they released the album 1984 — their most critically praised and commercially successful album — that features such hits as “Jump,” “Panama,” “Hot For Teacher,” and “I’ll Wait.”...

Twice in the last five years, Apple hosted behind-closed-doors conferences for police agencies from across the world, bringing cops together at the tech giant’s Cupertino headquarters to discuss the best ways to use its products, Forbes has learned. Dubbed the Global Police Summit, the most recent event took place over three days in October 2023 at Apple Park. It was timed to precede the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in San Diego that year, according to emails obtained by Forbes via a public records request with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD). There’s a widespread perception that...

Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A crash on a California highway caused an hours-long "traffic yam" when one of the vehicles lost its load of sweet potatoes into the roadway. The California Highway Patrol's Merced post said on social media that traffic on southbound Highway 99 in Livingston was brought to a standstill when a crash involving a truck caused the vehicle to drop hundreds of sweet potatoes onto the roadway. Travelers were advised to find alternate routes while officials worked to clear the tubers from the highway. Traffic resumed after a clean-up operation that lasted for several hours.

The Kremlin is reported to have lost control of the situation and is preparing for a war between the two republics. Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced a blood feud against three politicians from Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, sparking fears of a major interethnic conflict. The North Caucasus is populated by a variety of different ethnic groups, the majority of whom are Muslim and who live in several republics - these include Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia. Relations between Chechnya and Dagestan have been tense for years over a land and border dispute, that is threatening to explode. Chechnya's brutal...

Political analyst Mark Halperin said this week that both Democrats and Republicans believe former President Trump’s chances of winning the election are looking strong after seeing recent private polling data. Appearing on a livestream on his media platform 2WAY, Halperin said people on both sides of the political aisle familiar with the polls have told him they’ve seen Vice President Kamala Harris’ electoral prospects slip, and that they’re leaning towards a Trump victory being in the cards. "In the conversations I'm having with Trump people and Democrats with data, they are extremely bullish on Trump's chances in the last 48...

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell told reporters Wednesday that FEMA has enough money to address Hurricanes Helene and Milton, after Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said the agency “does not have the funds” to make it through hurricane season. “I have funding and sufficient resources to support the ongoing responses to Hurricane Helene as well as Hurricane Milton,” Criswell said Wednesday, according to the Hill. The remarks come after Mayorkas told reporters on October 2, just days after the southeast was devastated by Hurricane Helene, that FEMA would not have enough funding to make it through...

Two southern California women say they were removed from a Spirit Airlines flight last week for wearing crop tops. A flight attendant instructed the friends to disembark their New Orleans-bound flight before the plane could depart from Los Angeles international airport, they told a local news station. The friends, Tara Kehidi and Teresa Araujo, were wearing sweaters when they boarded the plane, but removed them because the air conditioning was not functioning. “We were wearing crop tops ... just like a little bit of stomach showing,” Kehidi told the ABC news affiliate KABC. When a male flight attendant told her...

'I worry that we are expecting too much,' says transit union president of delays OC Transpo staff are researching where to buy more diesel buses — something the city had never intended to do again — as it gives up on plans for high-capacity electric buses and struggles to maintain its aging conventional fleet. The capital's public transit agency gave an update Thursday for its e-bus procurement. It includes information about the latest round of delays and the city's decision to give up on purchasing any of the longer, 18-metre (60-foot) electric buses. "If we lose that, does this mean...

Poor Kamala has struggled during interviews to think of any differences between herself and President Biden, so the Babylon Bee has graciously decided to help her out! Here is a helpful list of the 10 clear, distinct differences between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden:Kamala Harris: Brain-dead. Joe Biden: Actually dead.

Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance, will visit Greensboro, North Carolina to participate in a town hall on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 6:00PM EDT.

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – West Virginia’s special session started on Monday and resumed Sunday evening.While child care and a reduction in personal income tax are at the top of many’s minds, a resolution that said the State Legislature would “not recognize an illegitimate presidential election” is turning heads.(snip) The resolution said the state wouldn’t recognize the election of a Democratic candidate if the Republican presidential or vice presidential candidate is “assassinated, seriously injured during an assassination attempt, incarcerated, defacto eliminated or barred from the ballot in any states, or is the subject of legal actions that preclude their effective campaigning.”It...

A press conference was held today by the Hostages Families Forum in response to UNRWA being among the nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced tomorrow. Ayelet Samerano, mother of Yonatan Samerano who was murdered on October 7th and whose body was taken to Gaza by an UNRWA social worker, spoke at the press conference. She was joined by Daniel Carmon, the Deputy Permanent Representative at Israel's UN mission and Ambassador to India, and Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch. Ayelet stated, "In the first few months after October 7, we reached out to many human...

A new law requires California students to learn Native American history in a way that includes the mistreatment and perspectives of tribal members.