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We don’t agree with Democrats often, but Bill Clinton truly nailed it Monday when he admitted Laken Riley’s murder “probably wouldn’t have happened” if migrants had “all been properly vetted.” Correct. Bubba was supposedly stumping for Kamala Harris, trying to defend her horrific record as border czar, when he accidentally told the truth. The 22-year-old Georgia student’s accused killer, Jose Ibarra, had crossed into the United States illegally in 2022 and got promptly released into the interior. Clinton tried to shift blame to Donald Trump, who he claimed is responsible for killing that “bipartisan border bill” that Democrats insist would’ve...

he Israel Air Force has not struck Beirut in the last four days, at the direction of the political echelon. Kan 11 News reported on Monday evening that the instruction was delivered in writing on Friday morning, after the unusual strike in western Beirut, in which dozens of people were killed and injured. The report also said that the ministers of the Security Cabinet were excluded from the decision to avoid attacks in Beirut. Cabinet sources said that the decision was not brought up for approval in recent discussions, and they heard about it for the first time in the...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Albuquerque Police Department, Chief of Police Harold Medina, and former APD officers under federal investigation involving APD's DWI unit on behalf of alleged victim Carlos Smith. The ACLU is also suing DWI defense attorney Thomas Clear and his paralegal, Ricardo "Rick" Mendez. Smith claims he was victimized by the APD's DWI Unit's "extortion" scheme. KOAT spoke with Smith's attorney on why he is seeking justice. KOAT reached out to APD regarding the lawsuit. The 17-page suit filed in Second Judicial District Court also alleges former APD officers, including officer...

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A has demonstrated that a progressive run–walk interval training program, delivered digitally and supported remotely, is not only effective in reducing pain and disability in adults with chronic low back pain (LBP) but is also safe and acceptable for participants. The 12-week program showed promising results in improving pain intensity and physical function. Current treatments for LBP often include exercise to reduce pain and improve physical function, yet there is limited research on the role of running as a viable option. Despite concerns about the safety of running for those with LBP, recreational running has been linked to lower rates...

The dissociation between pathological caloric testing and a normal video head impulse test can differentiate between Meniere disease (MD) and vestibular migraine (VM), according to a study. Vergil Mavrodiev and colleagues examined the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values (PPV and NPV) of the dissociation between a normal/pseudo-normal video head impulse test and reduced caloric testing to differentiate between MD and VM in a retrospective analysis of 2,101 patients. The examination group included 1,100 patients: 57 and 43% had MD and VM, respectively. The comparison group included 1,001 patients with other peripheral, central, or functional vestibular disorders. The...

SNAP recipients across Georgia are facing a tough challenge, as hackers have reportedly wiped out funds from their food assistance cards, leaving many without essential support. It was nearly $1,000 Branaita Jones says a thief took from her Georgia SNAP account hundreds of miles away. “I called the food stamp people and they said somebody took my food stamps in New York,” Jones told Channel 2′s Investigative Reporter Ashli Lincoln. The Department of Human Services says recipients like Jones are one of thousands who’ve reported stolen funds from their EBT cards. [snip] The Georgia Department of Human Services announced plans...

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris could sit down with popular podcaster Joe Rogan for an interview in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday. Harris campaign officials met with Rogan's team this week but an appearance has not been confirmed yet, two of the sources said. Rogan, who runs the most popular podcast in the United States, has a highly coveted and devoted following that leans young, male and numbers in the tens of millions. The interview will offer Harris an opportunity to make her case to his followers,...

Vice President Harris is being accused of plagiarizing from several sources in her 2009 book on policing that was released while she was district attorney of San Francisco. The book, "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer," was co-authored with Joan O'C Hamilton. The so-called "plagiarism hunter," Austrian professor Stefan Weber, found 27 times that Harris, the 2024 Democrat nominee for president, and her co-author allegedly committed some form of plagiarism. He found that "24 fragments are plagiarism from other authors, [and] 3 fragments are self-plagiarism from a work written with a co-author." Manhattan Institute senior...

One day each month, Charlie Kirk, one of the country’s most influential Republican activists, holds an event called Freedom Night in America at Dream City Church, a Pentecostal megachurch on the outskirts of Phoenix. “I truly believe that God has voted early in this election,” he said on a Wednesday in early October, addressing well over 1,000 people from a stage bathed in red, white and blue lights. “I believe that God voted early on July 13, when he spared the life of Donald Trump.” Kirk was only 18 when he helped found the group Turning Point as a sort...

A polyamory cult has fenced off a huge portion of land in southwestern Colorado and attempted to claim it for themselves under the Homestead Act of 1862. The Free Land Holders have fenced off about 1,400 acres of San Juan National Forest land. The group were formerly associated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other well-known figures, including imprisoned FLDS President Warren Jeffs, who called himself a prophet and is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault. The group, an offshoot of the mainstream Mormon church, encourages members to engage polygamy. 'The...

CV NEWS FEED // Michigan’s bishops and other Catholics are crying foul after Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer posted a video mocking Holy Communion on social media. In the video, Whitmer stands wearing a Harris-Walz campaign hat and places a Doritos chip on the tongue of a kneeling pro-abortion writer. The song “Dilemma” by Nelly ft. Kelly Rowland plays in the video as the governor places the mock communion on the tongue of left-wing Canadian columnist and content creator Liz Plank. Plank, who has written for MSNBC and was behind an initiative called “Hotties for Harris,” has repeatedly expressed pro-abortion...

Every man has a hobby or two. Some, like stamp collecting or bowling, reveal very little about his character. Others ... well, let me point you in the direction of Donald Barr, father of former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr. When Donald wasn’t doing his 9-to-5 work as headmaster at the exclusive New York City private school Dalton, he was busy writing some rather peculiar science fiction. His 1973 novel, "Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale," envisions a universe where the elite indulge in the most depraved of activities. On the planet Kossar, trafficking, sexual debauchery, and the enslavement...

Air fryers are certified miracle workers when it comes to getting dinner out on the table quickly. How do they work, though? They cook your meals using bursts of hot convection heat. The result is a series of savory, crispy foods that you'd never guess were cooked in an air fryer. And they're great for anything from chicken thighs to a filet of salmon. But while there are plenty of things that you can cook in an air fryer, there are only a few that you should.

European leaders will discuss new approaches to migration when they meet later this week, including the controversial prospect of setting up hubs outside the EU to process asylum claims. The idea has been talked about in a growing number of European nations as a solution to the complex question of immigration. It would involve establishing bases in so-called third countries to house people who are trying to claim asylum in Europe until their applications have been decided. Italy is presently funding the building of this sort of centre in Albania to process some of the migrants trying to get into...

The person arrested with firearms near Donald Trump's California rally in what was called a "Third Assassination Attempt" recently in Nevada at Bundy Ranch... (Comment) In my experience some good honest folks show up around the Bundy's but also showing up operatives for the FBI and or... Down in the area devastated by Hurricane Helene stories of threats made to federal emergency management employees... The situation in Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying the Indian government was supporting criminal activities... Mr. Trudeau made a tough public statement before the media...amidst intense domestic political pressure... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said...

Jill Biden warned that women could die under a Donald Trump presidency as she stressed the importance of reproductive rights in this year's election. The first lady, during a rally in Arizona to get out the vote for Kamala Harris, warned that Trump was turning the country back to its pre-Roe vs. Wade time after his picks to the Supreme Court helped strike down the landmark abortions rights ruling. 'Secrecy, shame, silence, danger, even death. That was the reality back then, and that's where Donald Trump has left women today,' she said. She noted after Roe was repealed, she was...

Havana (AFP) – Thousands of Cubans, led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and other leaders of the communist-run island, marched in Havana on Monday to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The demonstrators, including some 250 Palestinian medical students living in Cuba, carried a large banner that read "Long live free Palestine," while the president and his allies wore traditional keffiyeh scarves. "For a whole year our Gaza has not had a single day of calm, not a single day of peace and our people in the West Bank suffer daily aggression while the world remains paralyzed and unable to stop...

Former President Donald Trump holds a three-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the swing state of Pennsylvania, according to a recent poll. A poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports and American Thinker between October 9-13 found that 50 percent of likely voters in Pennsylvania would vote for Trump in the upcoming presidential election, while 47 percent of likely voters would vote for Harris. The poll surveyed 1,072 likely voters in the state and had a “margin of sampling error” of +/-3 percentage points.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to a demand by U.S. President Joe Biden that Israel will not attack Iran’s oil facilities or nuclear sites in retaliation for a ballistic missile attack earlier this month. As Breitbart News reported, Biden supported Israel’s right to defend itself, after surviving the largest ballistic missile attack in history largely unscathed, but also said that Israel should not hit Iran’s nuclear program or oil facilities.