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President Donald J. Trump will visit Gas South Arena on Wednesday, October 23rd. I am not aware of what time he will speak, but was told to be available all day.

The multi-front wars in the Middle East are escalating at an alarming rate, as the Iranian regime is trying to build an Islamic alliance against Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli forces plunge deeper into heart of Hezbollah territory in Lebanon. Can the IDF continue to eliminate terror threats in neighboring countries when their adversaries are attacking from all sides? Watch now.

Shades of a football coach explaining away his team's loss by blaming the refs. Rather than focusing on Kamala Harris's evasive performance in her Fox News interview, today's Morning Joe trained its fire on Bret Baier. Mika led the hit parade, branding Bret's performance an "embarrassing, bad-faith effort by a once-respected host." She also claimed that Baier is "a man who spent his life as a down-the-middle journalist, seeming to throw it all away for his audience of one [i.e., Trump.]" Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

WASHINGTON — President Biden griped to former President Barack Obama that “she” is “not as strong as me” — with Obama agreeing “that’s true” — in a stunning off-mic conversation deciphered for The Post by a professional lip reader. The apparent candid assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris’ standing going into the Nov. 5 election occurred Wednesday afternoon as America’s two most recent Democratic presidents conversed at Ethel Kennedy’s memorial service in Washington. “She’s not as strong as me,” said Biden, 81, according to the translation, which was produced by analyzing the on-video lip movements during the discussion. “I know...

Israel confirmed Thursday that its soldiers had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during a battle the day before in Gaza. That would have been impossible if President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris had their way. Nevertheless, Biden tried to take credit in a statement welcoming Sinwar’s death on Sunday: Shortly after the October 7 massacres, I directed Special Operations personnel and our intelligence professionals to work side-by-side with their Israeli counterparts to help locate and track Sinwar and other Hamas leaders hiding in Gaza. With our intelligence help, the IDF relentlessly pursued Hamas’s leaders, flushing them out of...

CNN's Kaitlan Collins wasn't happy with how Fox News handled its interview with Kamala Harris. The anchor specifically called out Fox's Bret Baier for not playing Donald Trump's original 'enemy within' comments when asking the vice president to respond to his reaction to her criticism of his remarks. Baier's under 30-minute interview with Harris on Wednesday was extremely contentious.

Fox News host Bret Baier revealed some rocky details about his interview with Kamala Harris , including that she showed up very late for their sit-down and that she tried to filibuster with her answers to prevent him from pressing her on hot-button issues. Baier suggested it was like the vice president's team was trying to 'ice the kicker,' comparing it to a football coach calling a timeout before a field goal attempt in an NFL game to give the kicker time to prepare for the big play. He also said if he didn't frequently interrupt the VP, he likely...

A Meta engineer admitted that Facebook has been 'automatically demoting' posts criticizing Kamala Harris in an undercover sting. Senior software engineer Jeevan Gyawali was caught by a hidden camera while on a date discussing how Meta's algorithms and content moderation practices reduce the visibility of certain politically charged posts without informing the users. He provided an explanation to the unknown woman who sat at the other side of the table, saying if someone posts about Harris is 'unfit to be president because she does not have a child' that 'kind of s*** is automatically demoted.'

Answer: Risk of Tempting Dispair, (Causing Doubt One Can Become a Child of God), Leading Others to Commit the Unforgiveable Sin. Good advice to conflict prone people is, "Most People Aren't Against You, They're Just For Themselves". But the main exception is, people who are defective, who know they are, who have personality flaws not their fault, but who haven't achieved the adjustment of looking squarely at the ugly picture in the mirror, and acknowleding, "I am a less than perfect specimen (and I need God's mercy every day"). So we deny reality, in the face they can't see as...

One of the two bodyguards found dead alongside Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday was an employee of the United Nations, according to a report Thursday. As Breitbart News reported, Sinwar’s death was confirmed Thursday after infantry and armored troops engaged three terrorists hiding in a building in southern Gaza, in Rafah, near the Philadelphi Corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border. He was found with two other terrorists. One of them was a senior commander of Hamas terrorists in the Khan Yunis area. The other, according to Israeli news website Ynet, was a teacher employed by the United Nations Relief and...

Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib recently sent a letter to Kroger over the grocery giant’s purported plan to introduce digital price tags that could be changed in an instant to raise or lower prices for shoppers based on the time of day, the weather, or any other number of factors. But one particular detail in Kroger’s plan is raising the most eyebrows: The company intends to put cameras in stores that would be used for facial recognition. News leaked over the summer that grocery giant Kroger was partnering with Microsoft to use electronic shelf labels, shortened in the grocery industry as...

[Catholic Caucus] Synod members look at how synodality relates to papal primacyEncouraging greater “synodal” practices in the Catholic Church should help the church find a greater balance between the power of the pope and the power of local bishops in their dioceses, said theologians participating in the Synod of Bishops.The balance between the authority and jurisdiction of the pope as the bishop of Rome and the authority of local bishops — a balance that would allow for greater diversity within the universal church — also would benefit efforts to restore Christian unity since for many other Christian churches, the way...

A stuffed Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany. Image credit: Mazur Travel/Shutterstock.com Scientists claim to have pieced together the most complete genome of a Tasmanian tiger to date – with the help of RNA from a head that’s been preserved in alcohol for over a century. The potential breakthrough is the latest chapter in an effort by Colossal Biosciences and the University of Melbourne’s Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Lab to resurrect the extinct animal, also known as a thylacine. The team estimates that their new genome of the animal is over 99.9...

Scientists working in the remote rainforests of Madagascar say they’ve discovered seven new frog species whose calls sound similar to Star Trek sound effects, which are often heard on the iconic TV franchise’s various series. Due to these auditory similarities, the researchers have named the newly discovered amphibians after seven of the franchise’s most iconic captains. “Not only do these frogs sound like sound effects from Star Trek, but it seems also fitting that to find them, you often have to do quite a bit of trekking!” quipped senior study author, Assistant Professor Mark D. Scherz from the Natural History...

America Is Undergoing a Political Realignment When I was growing up, the left regularly criticized Big Pharma and its influence on American politics. As recently as 2015, progressive stalwart Elizabeth Warren had “Big Pharma in her sights.” The right, meanwhile, was slow to criticize pharmaceutical companies. That dynamic was even evident in lobbying, with about 55 percent of Big Pharma’s political contributions going to Republican candidates from 1989 to 2020. Yet today, that dynamic has been completely reversed.In 2020, Big Pharma gave over 60 percent of its political contributions to Democrats. Party leaders promptly backed COVID-19 vaccine mandates across federal...

Will Israeli air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities spark a larger shooting war between the two belligerent countries? Any aerial attack by Israel against Iran would be difficult. Israel has no long-range bombers to hit the nuclear sites that are over 1,000 miles away. Jet fighters would require a significant number of bunker-busting bombs that may have limited efficacy. The Israeli jets would need to be re-fueled, and the air force has limited means to conduct these operations (except for re-fashioned 707 tankers). The Israelis would have to fly over Iraqi air space, which is anathema to Baghdad. Plus, the...

Teary-eyed sources at the Washington Post have just confirmed that the paper's entire staff has just been given the day off to mourn the loss of the Hamas leader who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in 2023. According to mid-level WaPo editors who spoke under condition of anonymity, all of the staffers, writers, and editors had managed to drag themselves into work but were simply too dispirited to do anything more than a few half-hearted tweets critical of Trump and JD Vance. "People were crying everywhere," said one WaPo writer. "In the breakroom, in the bullpen, in the editor's office...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that supporters of former President Donald Trump are addicted to his lies, adding, “They want to believe it.” Behar said, “To the lying, though, George Conway, I like George Conway, I wish he would come on here, he says that his base is addicted to the lies, you know. They are addict. And I have a friend who was a drug counselor and he said that nothing trumps an addiction, an addiction trumps everything.” Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “You have to admit it.” Behar said, “Even relationships which is why...

In her first formal sit-down interview with Fox News, Vice President Harris tangled repeatedly with anchor Bret Baier as he pressed her on immigration policy and positions she took in 2019 when she was running for president that she no longer holds. About half-way through the intense 30-minute interview, Baier asked Harris a question she didn’t answer very well in more friendly interviews last week on The View and on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: What would she do differently from President Biden? This time, she was prepared.

The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after pleading guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred after the Southport stabbings. Former childminder Lucy Connolly published a post on her X account, which she later deleted, that called for "mass deportation now", and for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire, adding: "If that makes me racist, so be it." Her comments were viewed 310,000 times and reposted by 940 other X users. She wrote the post on the day three young girls were killed in a knife attack at a...