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BREAKING: Senator @RogerMarshallMD of Kansas has confirmed that the professor who suggested men who don’t vote for Kamala be shot is no longer an employee at University of Kansas.

The Trump campaign reportedly has requested military aircraft and other increased security measures for former President Donald Trump in the final weeks leading up to the Nov. 5 election. The New York Times reported Friday that the requests came after Trump campaign advisers received briefings in which the government said Iran is still actively plotting to kill the former president. Trump advisers have grown concerned about drones and missiles, the outlet added. Newsmax reached out to the Trump campaign for comment. The Washington Post reported that the Trump campaign also has requested expanded flight restrictions over Trump's residences and rallies,...

New York Times writer Mara Gay said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that podcaster Joe Rogan was converting angry men to fascism. Gay said, “My thoughts are I hope that women seeing this who are over half the population and vote more consistently than men. I hope that they see this and that they coalesce around the obvious choice. White women, I’m talking to you as well.” She continued, “I just think we really also might want to take a moment to, as Barack Obama did yesterday, speaking specifically to black men, but I think this is actually for all...

The California Air Resources Board is set to vote on new regulations next month, and if passed, they could pass costs over to customers at the gas pump. According to the Los Angeles Times, the plan would limit the carbon intensity in fuels by expanding a program instituted in 2011 that penalized refineries that create high-carbon fuel, like diesel and gasoline. New regulations would increase the penalties, thus increasing the price of production. In September of last year, CARB estimated the regulations could raise gas prices by 47 cents per gallon, but analysts, according to The Times, say customers at...

For the first time, the Democratic National Committee will invest in an advertising campaign dedicated entirely to LGBTQ publications in large metropolitan areas and several key battleground states. The DNC will roll out the ad campaign, worth at least $100,000, on Friday morning in 16 publications across eight states, and it is estimated to reach more than 1 million voters in the first week. Those publications include the Washington Blade and Metro Weekly in the Washington, D.C., area; Out South Florida; Qnotes in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Las Vegas Spectrum; Georgia Voice; GoGuide Voter’s Guide in Iowa; Dallas Voice; Philadelphia...

Could Republicans Gain another Senate Seat? Sorry for past week, had some things going on so I couldn't post. Anyway, it does appear, unsurprisingly to me at least, that polling is clearly indicating Trump with the momentum and clearly taking the lead, and starting to run away with this race. I will go into this in another article, but a more interesting thing is going on in PA, at least for me. I always expected the polls to start to adjust to reality, Kamala had a few months of hiding and finally had to start actually facing the press, and...

A food processing company has recalled nearly 10 million pounds of meat and poultry products manufactured at an Oklahoma plant due to listeria concerns. “BrucePac, a Durant, Okla. establishment, is recalling approximately 9,986,245 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat and poultry products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. “The ready-to-eat meat and poultry items were produced from June 19, 2024, to October 8, 2024. These products were shipped to other establishments and distributors nationwide then distributed to restaurants and institutions,” the FSIS stated. According to the New York...

The California Air Resources Board is set to vote on new regulations next month, and if passed, they could pass costs over to customers at the gas pump. According to the Los Angeles Times, the plan would limit the carbon intensity in fuels by expanding a program instituted in 2011 that penalized refineries that create high-carbon fuel, like diesel and gasoline. New regulations would increase the penalties, thus increasing the price of production. In September of last year, CARB estimated the regulations could raise gas prices by 47 cents per gallon, but analysts, according to The Times, say customers at...

A fossil of the winged-seed, Alasemenia, sourced from the Jianchuan mine in Xinhang Town, China. Credit: Deming Wang Researchers have uncovered a new plant seed fossil called Alasemenia, which is among the earliest known examples of a winged seed. Researchers have uncovered one of the earliest known examples of a winged seed, providing valuable insights into the origins and early evolution of wind dispersal strategies in plants. The study, recently published in eLife, details the second-earliest known winged seed – Alasemenia – from the Late Devonian epoch, roughly 360–385 million years ago. The authors use what the editors call solid...

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump does not want to debate Vice President Kamala Harris again because “he got his ass kicked.” Co-host Joe Scarborough said, “You talked about the debate. Why do you think Donald Trump won’t debate her again?” Emhoff said, “Well, you saw the first debate, didn’t you?” Scarborough said, “Yeah, yeah.” Emhoff said, “Yeah. That’s why. He got his ass kicked. And so he’s afraid that that’s going to happen again. Rather he’s spreading this fog, this fog of misinformation and disinformation and gaslighting rather than face...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spent less than six hours visiting hurricane-hit areas of North Carolina on Thursday — before retreating to Washington to grab an early takeout dinner at Nobu. Mayorkas touched down in the Tar Heel State around 10 a.m. before jetting back to the nation’s capital, where he was spotted by The Post at 5:15 p.m. carrying bags of food from the posh international Japanese restaurant chain — where sushi and sashimi selections are priced at $60 a plate and the highest-grade Wagyu steaks go for $40 per ounce. ...

Russian leader tells Iranian president two countries have similar views on world affairs, as Iran provides Russia with drones for war in Ukraine, is accused of supplying missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iran’s president on Friday at a time when Tehran is supplying weapons for Moscow’s war in Ukraine and concerns are growing over escalating attacks between Israel and Iran and its terror allies.

A verdict came down in the murder trial of a Capitola woman who was killed by her boyfriend back in Dec. 2023. A former San Francisco rock band member, Theobald "Theo" Lengyel ,54, was found guilty in the murder of Alice “Alyx” Herrmann. He was found guilty of first-degree murder. Prosecutors had alleged Lengyel strangled his then-girlfriend Alice Herrmann, 61, and then buried her body in a Berkeley park. The former tech worker and saxophonist in funk-metal band Mr. Bungle has not denied killing Herrmann but his lawyers say the circumstances do not rise to the category of first-degree murder;...

Tua Tagovailoa is resting. After suffering a concussion, he is currently away from the gridiron. Despite that, he and his family are making headlines. This time for their political stance. The nation is entering election mode soon. And everyone is already talking about the nominees. Tua and his wife, Annah, are supporters of Donald Trump because of his family stance. The former president recently housed 275 linemen free in his Doral Miami Resort ahead of Hurricane Milton. QB’s wife posted an IG story in his support and wrote, ‘My President.’ The quarterback from Hawaii has a long association with Donald...

Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle stated on Thursday that she is resubmitting a FOIA request she originally made earlier this year. McArdle had previously requested information from the Central Intelligence Agency regarding details on “any operations or activity in the [Libertarian Party].” In a recent statement on X, McArdle expressed her belief that the Libertarian Party has been “a victim of COINTEL PRO tactics for many years, if not decades,” and confirmed that she would resubmit her previous request this week on Friday, October 11. She also said she would begin releasing sections of a redacted report, which she...

The governing body of Brown University, an Ivy League school known for its left-wing politics, rejected a proposal Wednesday to divest the university’s holdings from Israeli companies or companies with ties to the Israeli military. The Brown Daily Herald reported: Brown University will not divest from companies with Israeli military ties, its governing body voted Tuesday. The decision, announced publicly Wednesday, follows a recommendation against divestment issued by Brown’s Advisory Committee on University Resource Management, or ACURM. The committee voted 8-2 against recommending divestment, with one member abstaining. As Breitbart News had reported in May, Brown University was the first...

But nothing looks like anything the Fed wanted to see. The Fed’s financial plans are running off the rails already. With summer just gone by and the Fed’s first rate cut barely out of the station, already the bond vigilantes are pushing bond interest rates back up, and voting Fed members are already talking about stalling their future rate cuts—all due to inflation being back on the rise. The timing of inflation’s arrival is as I expected, but it is not at all what the Fed was hoping to see. Bond investors are referred to as “vigilantes” when they bring...

The former president is holding a rally in a Colorado city he falsely claims was overtaken by violent immigrants from Venezuela. The city’s leaders, Republicans and Democrats alike, tried to pre-emptively fact-check him. Mike Coffman, the conservative Republican mayor of Aurora, Colo., had a message for former President Donald J. Trump before the Republican nominee for the White House came on Friday to a city he has repeatedly painted as having been taken over by vicious migrant street thugs.The visit, Mr. Coffman said in a statement to The Times, “is an opportunity to show him and the nation that Aurora...

Amid the raging controversies over illegal migrants, hurricane recovery, a cost-of-living crisis and reproductive rights, an endorsement decision by a labor union might barely register. But the Teamsters' refusal to back Kamala Harris and the Democrats could prove one of the more telling moments of the 2024 race so far. Representing truckers, railroad workers, brewers, and other blue-collar trades, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is the largest labor union in America – and one of the most masculine. With rare exceptions, they have always supported the Democrats, the so-called party of the working man.

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Tobin says synodality implements Pope Francis’ ‘program’ for the ChurchWith ‘Amoris Laetitia, Fratelli Tutti, Laudato Si’,’ Pope Francis has ‘distilled wisdom’ from previous synods, opined Cardinal Joseph Tobin at a Holy See press briefing today.Newark’s Cardinal Joseph Tobin has linked some of Pope Francis’ more controversial texts, such as Amoris Laetitia, to the Synod, saying that synodality is a key part of Francis’ “program” which makes the Church “live and act” differently.With “Amoris Laetitia, Fratelli Tutti, Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis has “distilled wisdom” from previous synods, opined Cardinal Tobin at a Holy See press briefing today.Tobin drew...