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The most serious allegation concerns Wikipedia. Harris’ book contained roughly two paragraphs copied from Wikipedia without citation.”.. The New York Times immediately pounced on Christopher Rufo’s report about instances of plagiarism in VP Kamala Harris’s book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. The publication showcased its own plagiarism expert, who shrugged off the examples given to him: “This amount of plagiarism amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud.” The NYT didn’t give Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today the complete dossier. The expert tried to cover for the NYT because the article stated...

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Kamala Harris told supporters Thursday that she “stood up to veterans” in a brutal gaffe that capped off a long day of campaigning in Wisconsin. Harris, 59, was in the middle of touting her tenure as California’s attorney general when she mistakenly bragged about standing up to America’s war heroes. ... Some in the crowd appeared to groan, while others laughed at the blunder. ... Jim Ridderbush, a local union leader, introduced Harris as “the president of the United States” before she took the stage — in another apparent gaffe. ... Harris told her Green Bay supporters that her plan...

This is a summary generated by ChatGPT. RethinkX reveals the shocking exponential growth of battery storage worldwide (00:00) Battery storage is growing faster than any other industry worldwide, driven by demand from solar and wind energy. (00:35) Tony Seba and RethinkX reveal that battery storage is expanding at an unprecedented pace, positioning companies in the sector for potential billions in profit. (01:04) The combination of solar and batteries is now the cheapest energy source globally, surpassing traditional fossil fuels. (02:05) By 2030, it will be possible and affordable to meet 100% of global electricity demand through solar, wind, and batteries,...

"1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults". The recurring joke was that under Obama and Biden, the economic projections always had to be revised downwards and under Trump, they had to be revised upwards. Now the reverse is happening to crime statistics. Democrats and their media have been hyping false claims that crime is down. Biden claimed that crime was at a 50-year low. I’ve dissected some of these false claims in the past, but a key point in the debate was that some of the FBI crime data was missing because the way data was reported...

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A Honduran illegal immigrant deported from the U.S. two times was sentenced to 37 years in prison after being convicted of engaging in organized criminal activity in North Texas. Collin County, Texas District Attorney Greg Willis’ office announced the sentencing Thursday of Sergio Cardenas-Salinas, 30, of Houston, for leading an organized criminal operation responsible for a series of high-profile home burglaries.... ... the Houston-based burglary ring was made up of individuals from Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela. The suspect targeted residents who were of Middle Eastern, South Asian and Asian descent, as the burglars believed they stored large amounts of cash...

RTX Corp., the defense contractor formerly known as Raytheon, agreed Wednesday to pay more than $950 million to resolve allegations that it defrauded the government and paid bribes to secure business with Qatar. The company entered into deferred prosecution agreements in separate cases in federal court in Brooklyn and Massachusetts, agreed to hire independent monitors to oversee compliance with anti-corruption and anti-fraud laws and must show good conduct for three years.... The biggest chunk is a $428-million civil settlement for allegedly lying to the government about its labor and material costs to justify costlier no-bid contracts and drive the company's...

On the first day of early voting in North Carolina, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz hit the campaign trail in Durham on Thursday evening, making a personal revelation about his mother. During his campaign rally, Walz said that his mother has to wait for her social security check every month to feed herself. According to Forbes, Walz has an estimated net worth of over $1 million.... "When my mom looks for that Social Security deposit to be made in her bank account, that's how she's going to feed herself. That's how she's going to get things done..." Walz claimed.

Video of interview embedded. Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a founding member of Hamas, says to Chris Cuomo om 'News Nation' that the U.S. should now pressure Egypt to send troops into Gaza. "Sinwar is dead but the war is not over", Yousef lafter wrote on social media, "Those who call for the end of war are disconnected from reality". "The United States must give Israel all the necessary support to take over Rafah immediately", he added, "And the U.S. government must remove Ayatollah from power". .....

With Sinwar dead, the Biden Team is scrambling for a Hamas and Hezbollah victory assisted by Israeli talking heads. Even before final confirmation of the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the talking heads on Israeli television began to press to leverage this development for a deal which would end Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Now the Biden team, including Secretary of State Blinken, has announced that they are redoubling their efforts to end Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. To be clear: the window dressing of freeing the hostages is front and center. But...

Illegal aliens now have an on-ramp to Medicaid – as many as 22 million of them. This budding crisis is a major danger to our health care system and American taxpayers...The Biden-Harris White House is shattering a system that was already cracking... When people apply, states typically check their citizenship status with the federal sources, but if the data doesn’t match, states give applicants a 90-day grace window, known as a "reasonable opportunity period" to collect documentation. .. Once the 90 days end, the state is no longer empowered to stop them from getting another grace period. In other words,...

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A series of recently published opinions and letters present varying perspectives on the current state of US dental care all emphasize the need for evidence-based practices and changes in economic models. The conversation kicked off when Paulo Nadanovsky, DDS, Ph.D. and colleagues presented "Too Much Dentistry," arguing that dental diseases and procedures are highly prevalent, costly, and often exceed spending on other major health conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. They suggest that dental care in the U.S. is driven more by economic pressures and patient trust than clinical evidence, leading to excessive diagnoses and interventions. Examples offered include the...

Okean Elzy is one of the top bands in Ukraine. It has a kitschy, stadium rock style, and songs with patriotic themes that for decades have provided the soundtrack to anti-Russia protests. Tickets to its concerts are highly prized. But they suddenly became available after the first of three sold-out concerts in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Friday night. The reason? Draft officers and the police had waited outside the concert hall, looking for men trying to dodge military service in the country’s war with Russia. They asked men to see their draft papers and detained those who had not registered....

It’s a day that the freedom loving world has been waiting for, Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and October 7th mastermind has officially been eliminated by the IDF. What does this mean for the war against Hamas in Gaza? Could this monumental day pressure the release of the remaining Israeli hostages? How will the Iranian regime respond to yet another crucial tentacle in their terror network being taken out? Watch now.

Pregnant women with either low or excessively high levels of folate in their blood may face a greater risk of their children developing congenital heart disease (CHD), according to a study. Folate is a B vitamin. The role of folate in preventing CHD is unclear. Researchers found a U-shaped relationship between the mothers' serum folate levels during early pregnancy and the risk of CHD in offspring. This indicates both low and high folate levels are linked to an increased risk of CHD. The study involved 129 children diagnosed with CHD and 516 without. Maternal blood samples were taken around the...

[Catholic Caucus] Synod proposal of ‘doctrinal authority’ for local bishops receives major backlash from participantsWhile there is no official acknowledgement of a controversy, reports indicate that there is widespread resistance to proposals that call for fragmentation of Church governance.Debate has swept through the Synod floor as members have pushed back against the suggestion that bishops’ conferences might be given “doctrinal authority.”Though the Synod on Synodality is closed to the outside world and information is carefully managed via the secretariat for information, nevertheless rumblings of considerable debate have made their way through the concrete walls of the Paul VI Hall where...

A study has found that nearly all pregnant women ingest the fungal toxin zearalenone (ZEN), which mimics estrogen in the body and hinders reproduction in some animals. Researchers detected ZEN or its metabolites in 97% of urine samples from pregnant women and 84% of placentas. ZEN is a type of mycoestrogen, an estrogen-like compound produced by certain molds that contaminate grains, meats and processed foods worldwide. It's most common in crops such as corn, wheat and barley. ZEN is so structurally like the hormone 17β-estradiol that it binds with estrogen receptors. Large doses reduce the number and size of offspring...

Andrew Garfield recently told People magazine that Mel Gibson “deserves to make films” and has “done a lot of beautiful healing with himself.” Gibson’s career in Hollywood nosedived after his infamous DUI arrest in 2006, which included the “Braveheart” Oscar winner making comments disparaging Jewish people. Gibson directed Garfield in the 2016 war drama “Hacksaw Ridge,” for which Garfield was Oscar nominated for best actor. The filmmaker landed a best director nom. “I learned a lot, actually. I learned that people can heal. I learned that people can change, that people can get help. I learned that everyone deserves respect,”...