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Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz says sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was killed as part of a ‘foreign operation’, but refused to divulge which government was responsible for his death. Gaetz made the comments during an appearance on Benny Johnson’s show. In August 2019, Epstein was found unresponsive in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City after supposedly committing suicide by hanging. Multiple violations of normal jail procedures allied with the convenient failure of two cameras in front of Epstein’s cell prompted conspiracy theories suggesting Epstein was murdered in order to keep his high profile client list...

"Former President Barack Obama has a “tough talk” at the Black voters for Harris event in East Liberty. He addressed that Black men have not been as enthused about Harris as during his first run, and he sought to encourage them to join Harris’ movement" Ryan Deto X

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A group of volunteer helicopter pilots is helping get aid to some of the most remote storm victims in North Carolina.

Sharing platform Reddit has removed a popular forum that focuses on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The “Thomas Crooks” subreddit was banned for supposedly violating Reddit’s rules against posting violent content. The assassination attempt against Trump occurred on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, which ended with the death of Thomas Crooks by Secret Service snipers. The shooting has now become one of the most historical events in United States history and will likely be discussed for years to come, but not on Reddit. Reddit’s decision to ban the topic has raised concerns about its limits on free...

LONDON -- The average size of global wildlife populations have declined by 73% in 50 years, a new study by the World Wildlife Fund has found. The study, titled the 2024 Living Planet Report, monitored wildlife populations of 5,495 species of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles between 1970 and 2020. Its findings reveal declines in “every indicator that tracks the state of nature on a global scale." “The findings of this report are alarming,” said Anke Schulmeister-Oldenhove, the senior forest policy officer at the WWF. “EU consumption continues to be a major driver of global biodiversity loss, particularly in...

Former President Donald Trump is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in all seven swing states, according to an internal poll from his campaign. The poll, conducted by Tony Fabrizio and John McLaughlin, finds Trump with leads ranging from one to five percentage points in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, according to a memo: Arizona: Trump: 49 percent (+3) Harris: 46 percent Undecided: 5 percent Georgia: Trump: 50 percent (+5) Harris: 45 percent Undecided: 5 percent Michigan: Trump: 49 percent (+1) Harris: 48 percent Undecided: 3 percent Nevada: Trump: 50 percent (+3) Harris: 47 percent Undecided:...

For more than two years now, higher prices have been pinching consumers’ wallets and testing their patience — but there’s at least one part of their monthly budget that has more breathing room these days. For the average U.S. worker, it now takes fewer hours of work to afford a week’s worth of groceries than it did five years ago, in August 2019. That’s according to a MarketWatch analysis of wage and inflation data that shows how the price of food relative to wages has fluctuated in recent years. In other words: Despite substantial post-pandemic increases in food costs, wages...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” host and NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell stated that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris “especially” “wanted to be part of the crisis response” to Hurricane Milton. Mitchell said, “[T]his is a bit of a balancing act, because the president, the Vice President, responding to the hurricane, especially she wanted to be part of the crisis response, but also, [there] are very few days left, 26 days until Election Day. So, she’s got to balance what she does.”

More Americans are awakening to the warnings of Elon Musk. In a speech at Trump’s triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania, Musk unequivocally stated: “President Trump must win to preserve the Constitution. He must win to preserve America.” Over the past month Musk has repeatedly posted: “If Trump is not elected, this will be the last election.” These statements are not hyperbole, but grim reality. Elon Musk, as do many naturalized legal immigrants, understands that the United States is unique among all nations past and present and that in 2024 America is sitting precariously on the edge of a precipice. If...

Robert Roberson is set to be the first person to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis unless Texas officials intervene. On Monday, Roberson's attorneys filed an emergency motion asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to halt Roberson's Oct. 17 execution... According to Roberson's attorneys, he woke up to find his 2-year-old daughter Nikki lying on the floor at the foot of the bed one night in 2002. They say Roberson comforted her, put her back to bed and went back to sleep himself. He found Nikki unconscious with blue lips when...

Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to unseal Special Counsel Jack Smith’s evidence attached to the 165-page ‘opening brief’ which was already used to attack President Trump. This is Jack Smith’s dirty October surprise. Trump’s lawyers earlier Thursday asked Judge Chutkan to keep Jack Smith’s evidence appendix from public view. President Trump’s lawyers argued in a two-page filing that Jack Smith was trying to interfere in the election by publicly docketing more evidence in the January 6 case. “There should be no further disclosures at this time of the so-called ‘evidence’ that the Special Counsel’s Office has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized —...

Regular readers of Revolver will know that no elected official has done more than Congressman Thomas Massie to amplify and advance our groundbreaking coverage on the January 6 Fedsurrection. It was only because Thomas Massie was willing to pursue Revolver’s pipe bomb coverage that we learned, among other things, that the former head of the FBI’s pipe bomb investigation claimed the geofencing data that would have identified the bomber was “lost.” And of course it was entirely thanks to Massie’s persistent and judicious efforts that the single most important and damning piece of J6-related footage was released. The footage in...

Robert Jenrick proposed that Britain should pay France to take back small boat illegal migrants. The Tory leadership contender suggested a one-for-one deal with France where Britain would take one of their successful asylum seekers in return for the French accepting back an illegal Channel migrant who had reached the UK. The proposal was revealed in a note written by Mr Jenrick, when he was immigration minister, for Rishi Sunak to present to French president Emmanuel Macron at an Anglo-French summit in Paris in March 2023. However, Mr Macron rejected the proposal despite the offer of an “ex gratia payment”...

Caroline Calloway said she is going to “die” after she refused to abandon her Florida home in a “mandatory evacuation” zone ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall. “So if you’ve been following Hurricane Milton, I’m going to die,” the 32-year-old, known as the “world’s worst influencer,” said via her Instagram Story Tuesday. “It’s supposed to make landfall in the Sarasota-Bradenton area. I’m in Sarasota, I live on the water. It’s a zone A, mandatory evacuation.” Calloway also shared a video of Tampa Bay Mayor Jane Castor warning residents that those who stay behind “will die” when the monstrous storm hits. The...

Former President Barack Obama will kick off his blitz on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris today in Pittsburgh.

“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer…”—Hannah Arendt

Synod cardinal says the Catholic Church needs to be ‘further enriched’ by ‘other churches’Cardinal Kurt Koch confirmed to LifeSiteNews that study on the role of the pope continues, as the implementation of synodality and ecumenism could change the manner of how the papacy is understood and exercized.The prefect of the Vatican’s office for ecumenical relations with other Christians confirmed the fundamentally ecumenical nature of the Synod on Synodality today, while also telling LifeSiteNews that a study about how the role of the papacy could change in light of ecumenism and synodality continues.At a synod press briefing focused on the theme...

One person was killed Thursday and several others were injured after equipment malfunctioned at a tourist mine near Cripple Creek, the Teller County sheriff said at a news conference. Rescue operations are underway to assist 12 others still trapped about 1,000 feet underground at the Mollie Kathleen Mine, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said. He said the incident occurred around noon at about 500 feet below ground when the elevator system failed. The sheriff said he would not release more information about the person who died other than “all I can tell you is we lost someone.”

I hope they are all sanctioned, and the sanction is disbarment. If they are just reprimanded that would be an insult and an injustice which would allow them to do this again to any political opponent. At the very least Trump should be able to sue for his legal fees which could be in the ballpark of $20 MM.