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"The North American economy remained robust overall thanks to the consumption of high-income earners, despite a persistently inflationary, elevated interest rate and deteriorating employment environment," Seven & I Holdings said in an earnings release. "In this context, there was a more prudent approach to consumption, particularly among middle- and low-income earners."

CNN ANALYST: Democrats are very worried now. The face in PA, MI and WI has tightened severely. And Harris is doing about 6 points worse in the polls than Biden was in 2020.

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (10/12/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God the Holy Spirit (Promise of The Father) Luke 24:4949 And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore Police confirm a 17-year-old is in grave condition after pulling a gun on a driver near southeast Baltimore's Brewers Hill community. The Southeastern District Police Community Relations Council told FOX45 News the teen was attempting to carjack the driver. The Baltimore Police Department's Media Relations is not confirming that narrative but says the driver and juvenile exchanged gunfire. According to BPD, on October 8 around 2:15 a.m., an officer was flagged down by a citizen while in the 3100 block of Boston Street, advising he was shot. Medics responded and took the 31-year-old man to a...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, Oct. 11 -- Midnight. Philadelphia is in a blaze of glory. Union City and County ticket elected by eight thousand majority. RANDALL, Dem., elected to Congress in the First District; O'NPIL, KELLEY, MYERS and THAYER in the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Districts, elected by increased majorities. Pennsylvania will gain five Union Congressmen, sure. PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, Oct. 11. FIRST DISTRICT. Eleventh Ward, Democratic majority 488; Union gain, 72. SECOND DISTRICT. Tenth Ward of Philadelphia, (official); Union majority 1,132; Union loss, 94. FOURTH DISTRICT. Twenty-ninth Ward of Philadelphia, Kelly, Union, (reported) 200 majority;...

While Kamala Harris’s numbers are starting to come back to earth after a disastrous vice presidential debate, things have never looked better for the Californian’s campaign. As much as people have come to rely on the ebbs and flows of public opinion, longtime strategists know that there’s a better predictor of how Democrats will do — and that’s the evangelical vote. Or, as the 2024 numbers warn, the lack thereof. According to some truly shocking statistics from George Barna at Arizona Christian University (ACU), as many as 41 million Christians plan to sit this election out — more than enough...

- Wayland McQueen is a far-left, pro-Antifa comedian and actor who has, until now, found limited success. He does improv gigs at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. In a Twitter post from 2022, he explains what white privilege is and tells you why you need to acknowledge your white privilege. As of 2024 he is single. - Lanre Idewu is an immigrant from Nigeria. He is also an actor who works at the D.C.-based OCTET Productions. He has many intimate pictures with the Obamas and the Bidens. Idewu, who is bisexual, has done gay-for-pay movies and nude solo...

(AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced hope Friday that the war with Russia will end next year, speaking during a visit to Berlin to ask for sustained military support. As Ukraine faces a gruelling third winter at war, Zelensky has been seeking support on a two-day whirlwind tour of European capitals that took him to London, Paris and Rome. Visiting Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Zelensky, dressed in his trademark military clothes, thanked Germany for its backing and said that “it is very important for us that this assistance does not decrease next year”.

Speaking to a crowd of thousands of MAGA faithful in Aurora, Colorado, Donald Trump announced a brand new illegal migrant operation named after the town. 'Operation Aurora' will target the notorious transnational Venezuelan criminal gang Tren De Aragua. Trump delivered the new policy objective while standing next to blown-up mugshots of several of the gang members apprehended by the Aurora Police Department.

China on Thursday urged nuclear-armed countries to make a commitment to no first-use of nukes and said that any attempt to smear or distort China's nuclear policy would be "in vain." "Nuclear-weapons states should negotiate and conclude a treaty on 'mutual no-first-use of nuclear weapons' or issue a political statement in this regard, in order to prevent nuclear arms race and reduce strategic risks," said Sun Xiaobo, director general of the Department of Arms Control under China's Foreign Ministry, according to a translation of his comments provided by the Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United...

A new video promoting Vice President Kamala Harris for president is making a splash as it appeals to men by redefining masculinity in 'cringey' terms. The video features various men declaring their interest in 'manly clichés' like bears, drinking bourbon, eating steaks, fixing cars, and lifting weights. But it goes on to say only 'man enough' men will endorse a woman for president - like Kamala Harris - sparking social media criticism from users calling it a 'train wreck.'

Wildly popular podcast host Joe Rogan is seemingly set to sit down with former president Donald Trump as the race for the White House enters its final few weeks. The 57-year-old comedian and UFC commentator had previously said in 2022 that he would never have Trump on his podcast over fears it would help the Republican's campaign. In recent times however, Rogan has somewhat changed his tune on having trump on his highly popular show 'The Joe Rogan Experience'.

A new Kamala Harris ad features men who are supposedly “man enough” to vote for her. Because, of course, every man who doesn’t vote for Harris hates women! Duh. It has absolutely nothing to do with her incompetence, attitude, and not telling us how she’ll be different from Biden. They all declare they’re “a man” before telling us why. Here are a few snippets. I’m laughing so hard. Like snort laughing. “I’m man enough to enjoy a barrel proof bourbon.” “I’m man enough to deadlift 500 then braid my daughter’s hair.” “You think I’m afraid to rebuild a carburetor? I...

The Protestant reformers held the almost unanimous view that the Papacy was the predicted Antichrist of Bible prophecy. They shared several theological concepts: • The fourth beast of Daniel 7 is a symbol of the Roman Empire. • The “restrainer” in II Thessalonians 2 is also the Roman Empire. • The Antichrist is not an individual, but rather a succession of popes who, taken together, constitute an apostate religious system. • The time periods in symbolic prophecy are to be understood figuratively, not literally. • The “temple” in which the Antichrist sits is not the literal Jerusalem temple but rather...

COVID-19, that modified bat virus first spotted near a Chinese research institute that was toying around with those dangerous pathogens, undoubtedly was and remains a threat to many people. But the shots that the world's pharmaceuticals created to battle it also have been found to be related to heart diseases and failures as well as a multitude of other health threats. Now even the World Health Organization, that bureaucracy that worked with China first to conceal the threat, then demanded entire populations be forced to take the experimental COVID shots, has admitted that they are problematic. To the point they...

Last night’s Univision “town hall” with Kamala Harris was billed as an exciting opportunity for “undecided Latino voters” to question and evaluate the potential next President of the United States. The corporate press release from Univision advertises it explicitly as such: But viewers at home would have been wholly unaware that this billing was false. As I discovered, having been granted the sacred opportunity to view the event from an adjacent room on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, the carefully curated “town hall” audience was actually comprised of avowed Harris supporters. “I already knew I was going to...

A few months into Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential run, her handlers faced a dilemma. Should they continue cocooning the candidate or unleash her on the public? Both options came with serious political risks. Sure, Democrats could keep pretending Harris was a generational talent, but her refusal to sit down for an interview, much less give a press conference, was eroding this fantasy.

Telling it like it is............. 0:54 Video at link................

Since the Tesla and Space X owner purchased Twitter (now X) in 2022 for $44 billion, he’s assumed the mantle of “free speech” warrior. I put free speech in quotations because we’re not talking about the kind of free speech people fight and die for under dictatorships or theocracies. Musk’s idea of “freedom” is amplifying hate speech, sowing misinformation, stoking conspiracies, propping up nationalists in places like India and Argentina, and complying with censorship requests from authoritarian regimes like Turkey's. As for our presidential race here at home, Musk's misleading election claims on X were viewed 1.2 billion times between...

“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?” (Romans 6:3). Believers are united with Christ. A person who believes Christians are free to continue sinning betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of what a Christian is. Christians are not merely guilty sinners declared righteous by God because Christ has satisfied the demands of God’s righteousness on their behalf. That truth, which theologians call justification, is indeed an essential one. But there is much more to salvation than justification. Believers are also placed into union with Jesus Christ....