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WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump directed prosecutors Wednesday to search for and provide to the former president’s lawyers any Justice Department information related to a separate investigation into Mike Pence’s handling of classified documents. Trump’s lawyers had argued that that information could be relevant to their defense o the extent it shows that Pence, Trump’s vice president, had “an incentive to curry favor with authorities” and implicate Trump while facing his own investigation into the retention of classified documents in his Indiana home.... U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered Smith’s team...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A student loan cancellation program for public workers has granted relief to more than 1 million Americans — up from just 7,000 who were approved before it was updated by the Biden administration two years ago. President Joe Biden announced the milestone on Thursday, saying his administration restored a promise to America’s teachers, firefighters, nurses and other public servants. He celebrated it even as his broader student loan plans remain halted by courts following legal challenges by Republican-led states... In all, the program has erased $74 billion in loans for public workers.

The first flutter of panic is beginning to grip the Harris-Walz presidential campaign and Team Trump is starting to believe that maybe their man might win after all. The momentum is back with Donald Trump and the Kamala Harris campaign is an increasingly unhappy, floundering ship with less than three weeks to go. But the Democrats are being forced to confront something even more existential than the possibility of defeat on November 5: that perhaps, for them, demography is not their party's destiny after all. It's long been a comforting axiom of Democratic thinking that the more non-white America becomes,...

17 October 2024 Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop, Martyr on Thursday of week 28 in Ordinary Time St. Ignatius of Antioch Roman Catholic Church, Tarpon Springs, FL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEphesians 1:1-10Before the world was made, God chose us in ChristFrom Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, to the saints who are faithful to Christ Jesus. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.Blessed be God the Father of our Lord...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris angrily dodged questions on border policy, Iran and President Biden’s fitness for office in an contentious interview with Fox News host Bret Baier — as more polls showed her losing the initiative in the race for the White House. The 26-minute interview with the Democratic nominee kicked off with a tense grilling by Baier on immigration policy — with Harris repeatedly refusing to say that terminating former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy was a mistake. Baier’s first question schooled Harris about the effects of the current administration’s more permissive policies, which allow...

“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace” (Romans 6:12-14). Believers are to yield themselves to God, not to sin. Three key words in Romans 6 define the believer’s relationship to sin: “know” (vv. 3, 6, 9), “consider”...

This film was made to sell to high school media departments who purchased it to show to their juniors and seniors. Students in public high schools were being exposed to the concept of propaganda, especially given the context of World War II and the early Cold War. At this time there was an emphasis on educating citizens, including school children, about the role of propaganda. Would anyone make a film like this to run in schools involving media fake media or not?

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Bill Clinton gave Donald Trump a free ad the other day when he hit the campaign trail in Georgia and declared that Laken Riley would still be alive if the illegal migrant who allegedly killed her had been “properly vetted.” The 78-year-old former president was trying to defend Kamala Harris’ record as the border czar, who presided over the invasion of more than 10 million illegal migrants. “You had a case in Georgia not very long ago . . . a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant,” Clinton said Sunday. “Well, if they’d all been properly vetted...

Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin has fallen behind Republican rival Eric Hovde for the first time in a new poll. It's just three weeks until the election on November 5, when voters will decide on the next president of the United States and the composition of the Senate. Baldwin and Hovde are vying for a seat in Wisconsin, one of the three crucial swing states, along with Michigan and Pennsylvania, that Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are working tirelessly to secure. Hovde, who is running on a campaign to "restore the American dream," has a one-point lead in a head-to-head ballot...

Oct 16, 2024 Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to the View host Sunny Hostin calling Black men who voted for Donald Trump "crazy".

Fresh national polling shows swing-state voters are more likely to support Donald Trump than the overall population, offering some clarity on whether he can overcome Kamala Harris in three weeks. The Harvard-Harris survey conducted between Oct. 11 and 13 finds that while the vice president leads by a single point overall with the 2,596 likely voters polled, it’s a different matter with the 898 battleground voters in the seven states that will almost certainly decide the election. In Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which together have a trove of 93 electoral votes, the former president is...

CALL TO ACTION #1: GET OUT THE VOTE! Republicans only win when they SUPPRESS the vote - specifically women & people of color. A yard sign will not be enough to save your country. The race to hold the US Senate is way too close… so close that the national Democratic Party is asking volunteers to knock doors in-state rather than going to Pennsylvania. We've learned time and again that democracy isn't going to save itself. Reader, it’s time for YOU to step up and do something. So we are kicking off the largest Get Out the Vote effort in...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...

Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted,” Admits Shadowbanning Tactics "Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted,” reveals @Meta Senior Software Engineer, Jeevan Gyawali ( @JGyawali ), to an undercover @OKeefeMedia journalist during a hidden camera date. He confirmed, “The person would not be notified,” but would see a decline in their post engagement and impressions, explaining that Meta’s “Integrity Team” is responsible for controlling content through “civic classifiers,” a system that “shadowbans” posts without notifying...

There are three weeks until the presidential election, but the postmortem analyses have already begun. One of the most prominent diagnoses came from former President Barack Obama last Thursday. At a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, with its mix of blue-collar labor jobs and white-collar tech and medical careers, Obama addressed one of the biggest warning signs for Democrats: an enthusiasm gap, especially among Black men. Donald Trump, who has been running for the same office nearly nonstop since 2015, still has a base of energized voters so loyal they’d swim Pittsburgh’s frigid three rivers in January to get to the...

Models Valentina Sampaio and Alex Consani strutted down the runway at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York City on Tuesday, becoming the first transgender women to walk in the iconic fashion show. Sampaio shared a video of herself walking in the show — sporting shimmering black lingerie, gigantic black bows tied to her back and a lioness teased hairdo — to her more than 400,000 Instagram followers on Wednesday, thanking the brand for “making a long-held dream come true.” “The Victoria’s Secret family has shown the world that being trans is just as exceptional and beautiful as anyone...

Strange things are afoot at the Marist Circle-K. On our earlier post on polling and trendlines, a couple of commenters pointed out that the RCP average lead for Kamala Harris increased slightly today after a couple of new national polls dropped. One of these, Marquette Law, shows the national race a dead heat at 50/50. The other, however, came from Marist and shows Harris with a five-point lead and a majority at 52/47. Their previous two iterations put Harris up by 2 at the end of September, and by one at the beginning of the same month:Harris (52%) leads Trump...

A secretive US spaceship will attempt flight maneuvers above Earth that have never before been performed. We are talking about the Boeing X-37, a reusable robotic spacecraft. The X-37 is boosted into space by a launch vehicle and re-enters Earth’s atmosphere landing as a spaceplane. The project began as a NASA project back in 1999, but it was transferred to the US Department of Defense in 2004. The X-37 is presently operated by the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, in collaboration with United States Space Force. It is used for ‘orbital spaceflight missions’ that are intended to...