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A 17-year-old boy is in custody and police are searching for three other suspects after masked gunmen opened fire at a school bus with children on board in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, officials announced Friday. Jaki White-Marshall, 17, of Coatesville, was arrested and charged as an adult with aggravated assault and other offenses. The incident occurred on Thursday, Oct. 10, around 2:30 p.m

Heading into the final three weeks of the 2024 election, Senator JD Vance of Ohio will still not say whether his running mate won or lost the last race for the White House.In an interview with The New York Times that will be published on Saturday, Mr. Vance repeatedly refused to acknowledge former President Donald J. Trump’s defeat and went to even greater lengths to avoid doing so than he did during the vice-presidential debate earlier this month.When asked about the previous election during an hourlong interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a host of “The Interview,” a Times podcast published each...

Another Miami Dolphins WAG is wading into politics. Devon Mostert, wife of running back Raheem Mostert, blasted Kamala Harris for sparring with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene — going so far as to call the vice president “textbook trash.” Mostert fired off a handful of bombastic Instagram Stories after Harris alleged that DeSantis snubbed her call after Helene made landfall in the Sunshine State on Sept. 26. SNIP “In case you missed it, Kam Kam went on a media rant yesterday about how selfish and utterly responsible DeSantis is. The math ain’t mathing, sis,” Devon’s...

The Republican National Committee (RNC), the Georgia Republican Party, and Fulton County Republican Party are suing the Fulton County Department of Registration & Elections office for failing to hire a sufficient number of Republican election workers. Specifically, as of yesterday, county Election Director Nadine Williams has only hired 15 Republicans out of 804 total election workers. Commenting on the lawsuit, RNC Chairman Michael Whatley stated: “Fulton County has failed to comply with the law and put a partisan thumb on the scale, excluding fully qualified Republican poll workers from working the 2024 general election. This is our country’s most important...

NIFB pastor Steven Anderson was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for 24 hours, according to a since-deleted post from his Facebook page. The controversial Arizona pastor from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ, has been under fire these past few weeks after his four oldest children started speaking out publicly against the firebrand KJV-Onlyist, alleging vicious instances of domestic abuse against their mother, as well as physical and psychological abuse against themselves and their siblings, as can be seen in the articles below. Anderson’s son Isaac made the initial claim that his father was institutionalized against his will....

Former President Donald Trump predicted to supporters in President Biden’s birth city of Scranton, Pa., Wednesday that the commander in chief will break with Vice President Kamala Harris before next month’s election. “He looks better now than I’ve ever seen him looking,” Trump said, referring to Biden’s appearance since dropping his re-election bid July 21. However, the 45th president, 78, also suggested that Biden was “angry” since he was forced to quit the race by a Democratic “coup.” “He’s angry, he’s angry at her,” Trump mused. “There’s going to be an explosion before the election with them. Those two are...

In 1978, I visited my first war zone, Beirut. There were, in fact, several wars going on. The Israelis had made an incursion in the south, but there was chaos everywhere, with various local militias squaring off in the streets. Two of them had battled each other for control of the Holiday Inn. Imagine that. Beirut, clearly, had been a civilized and sophisticated city; parts of it still were — and yet it was descending into the unthinkable. The lesson was stark: My American soul, my life experience, had assumed that civilization was a rock-solid given, especially in historic cultural...

The dramatic rise in early voting has led many to think the election might be effectively over days or weeks before Election Day. The data thus far show that won’t be true — and the numbers aren’t comforting for Democrats. Early voting is nowhere near what some people estimated: 4.2 million Americans have already cast their ballots, per John Couvillon, a Republican political strategist who provides daily updates on early and mail voting. That sounds like a lot, but it’s a pittance compared with the 158.6 million votes ultimately cast in 2020. More important, it’s significantly less than this point...

Former President Donald Trump traveled to a gang-ravaged Denver suburb Friday to announce plans to invoke a 226-year-old law to dismantle and deport illegal immigrant criminals across the US. The Republican nominee, 78, told supporters in Aurora, Colo. he would go after the Venezuelan gang “Tren de Aragua” (TdA), whose members have infiltrated the city of just under 400,000. At least 10 soldiers of the violent prison gang have been arrested in Aurora, where criminals have wreaked havoc and even taken over apartment complexes. “What are they doing to Colorado? They’re ruining your state,” Trump asked at the top of...

7 min speech by Vivek in Scranton, PA

Politico managed to make itself the butt of a really bad joke when it made a desperate attempt to prop up Vice President Kamala Harris by selling Bidenomics as the best thing since sliced bread before the November election. Politico’s tone-deaf Oct. 10 headline of its asinine story spoke for itself, and simultaneously condescended to its readers: “Harris is riding a dream economy into the election. It may be too late for voters to notice.” Ah, another media diatribe about how struggling Americans are just too stupid to see how star-spangled awesome the Biden-Harris economy is, eh Politico? The dense...

Traffic was shut down on Interstate 65 in Autauga County[Alabama] Friday afternoon after a chase involving a woman wanted in a shooting in Texas, officials said. The chase and standoff started after the woman taken into custody in Autauga County allegedly shot someone when she pursued her ex-boyfriend to the Bellaire, Texas police station, officials said. According to Bellaire police , dispatchers received a 911 call at 2:30 a.m. Friday on a report of a woman in a Mercedes SUV following a group of individuals in a Ford truck. The occupants of the Ford reported that the female was the...

...Donald Trump has survived two recent assassination attempts and his officials have asked for a string of extra protections during the final month of campaigning, according to sources familiar with the matter. Those include traveling on military jets, extra flight restrictions over his residences and events, and prepositioning ballistic glass in battleground states for open-air rallies. The requests are unprecedented for a presidential nominee. But insiders say it would simply match the protection afforded the president or that given to Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky, who flew on a military C-17 plane during his recent visit. ... President Joe Biden was...

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and retired Gen. Mark Milley has called former President Trump “a total fascist” and believes he is the most dangerous person to the U.S., according to excerpts from the forthcoming Bob Woodward book. “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country,” Milley told Woodward for the book War, which was previewed by The Guardian. “A fascist to the core.” Milley, who was...

There are several factors to take into accountWho doesn't have a beer, a glass of wine or a glass of spirits every so often? Well, experts warn of the danger of doing so too often, as it can lead to short- and long-term problems for the brain, as revealed by neurologist Dr. Richard Restak in his book 'Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind'. What can happen to our brains? Alcohol consumption is an ingrained part of social culture, where bars are the main meeting point and beer, wine or spirits come naturally. However, alcohol consumption...

Hurricane Milton tore through the west coast of Florida, ripping the roof off Tropicana Field — and doing serious damage to the floundering Kamala Harris campaign. With her gale force winds of desperation, the veep has tried so hard to appear presidential by inserting herself into the storm effort this week. But she’s come across like a party crasher trying to get into the VIP section of an A-list soiree. A political interloper. A useless limb. Or, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said more bluntly this morning on “Squawk Box”: “She has no role in this process.” Still, Harris worked...

Vice President Kamala Harris is promising Latino voters that she will open the borders to a vast number of economic migrants and will grant shares of their U.S. citizenship to millions of migrants who have sneaked into Americans’ society. Harris did not explain to swing-voting Americans with Latino ancestry why their concerns about the economy should be subordinated to her goal of welcoming millions of desperate, job-seeking migrants. However, those migration goals are sought by the Democrat party’s donor base of West Coast investors and Wall Street money managers — and are included in her 82-page economic plan. On October...

Democratic elitists have a habit of disregarding your legitimate concerns, refusing to address your questions and shaming you into giving them your support. With identity politics at the forefront of the Democratic Party strategy, they’ve now drafted Barack Obama to enforce demographic-specific shaming tactics. The target of harassment: black men. At the Kamala Harris campaign’s Pittsburgh office, Obama lambasted black men for their lack of “energy,” which he claimed to be more pronounced with the “brothers.” SNIP Obama continued, “I’ve got a problem with that because — because part of it makes me think, and I’m speaking to men directly...

I just watched Mr. Jones last night. I knew about Walter Duranty lying in the New York Times about Stalin's mass starvation of the Kulaks in Ukraine (Holodomor) and the Pulitzer prize the NYT received for his false reporting, but no real details. Mr. Jones is an excellent but disturbing movie. Nothing has changed in the intervening eighty years. The NYT is just as sleazy as it ever was, and the elite (represented by Mr. Duranty) every bit as debauched and evil as they ever were. And, frighteningly enough for me, I see parallels in what was done to the...

Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers. The affected robots were all Chinese-made Ecovacs Deebot X2s — the exact model that the ABC was able to hack into as proof of a critical security flaw. Minnesota lawyer Daniel Swenson was watching TV when his robot started to malfunction. "It sounded like a broken-up radio signal or something," he told the ABC. "You could hear snippets of maybe a voice." Through the Ecovacs app, he saw that a stranger was...