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The children of Oklahoma icon Merle Haggard are set to honor their father with a tribute concert that will include a statue unveiling in Muskogee. According to event organizers, Haggard’s children Ben and Noel’s tribute concert alongside many other artists will take place where it all began at the Civic Center on October 10, 2024. Country music mega-star Merle Haggard. known for many hits including a ‘Okie From Muskogee’ will be honored with a commemorative landmark in the City of Muskogee. Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame set to honor Merle Haggard with bronze statue The Merle Haggard statue advisory board...

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that it’s time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be willing to give ground in talks with Hamas and that if a deal in Gaza is struck, “it will also shape the way in which Israel views the nature of its retaliation on Iran.” After Krishnamoorthi stated that the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar increases the likelihood of a hostage deal because Sinwar changed his demands in negotiations, Host Jim Sciutto asked, “[T]here were also times in the negotiations when U.S. negotiators felt that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was...

Vice President Kamala Harris has close ties with a Democrat who tried to make child pornography possession a non-felony in California, the Daily Caller has learned. Mark Leno, a Democrat politician who served in the California State Senate until November 2016 and is someone Harris has called a “dear friend,” authored a piece of legislation that would have allowed pedophiles to possess up to 99 items depicting child pornography before they could be charged with a felony, according to former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. At the time, McCarthy was serving as the California Assembly Republican leader and said...

On the face of it, Wall Street seems to like Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan. Last week, the nation’s second-biggest bank said its earnings fell less than expected, and the media portrayed it as a victory. The stock went up. Ask analysts and investors, and there’s a vague consensus: Hey, the CEO has been there for 15 years. Let the board grant his wish: Let him run the place for five more — until he’s 70. Inside, however, the troops are getting restless, and for plenty of reasons. Culturally, Moynihan is an odd fit for an outfit that’s based...

A pro-Trump choir from Japan performs “God Bless America” in MAGA caps and carrying American, Japanese, and Trump flags in Pennsylvania at the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival on Sunday. “ILLEGAL US PRESIDENT, ABSOLUTELY NO THANKS!” and “FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT” were written on banners. “We love Trump! We love Trump!” chanted the delegation from Japan as they waved a cardboard cutout of the former president. “We need Trump!”

Gold Crown Politics projects Trump will win the election garnering 312 electoral votes to Harris' 226 electoral votes. Trump will win all seven swing states.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari has revealed declassified footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his family on the night of October 6, 2023, less than 24 hours before the Hamas massacre on Israel. In the footage, Sinwar and his family can be seen in a tunnel, stockpiling food, mattresses, and other necessities, seemingly preparing for a lengthy stay underground. "According to our intelligence, Sinwar hid mostly underground, in the area between Khan Yunis and Rafah," Hagari said. Hagari also noted that the IDF found tissues with Sinwar's DNA on them in Rafah, adding that Sinwar mostly remained underground. "He came...

Bevelyn Beatty Williams turned herself in to federal prison on Wednesday after the Biden-Harris Department of Justice charged her with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for preaching the Gospel outside of a New York abortion facility. In recent years the Biden-Harris administration has used the FACE Act to maximal convictions and sentencing for pro-life activists, turning misdemeanors into felonies.

Heidi Matthews, a law professor at York University in Toronto, specializing in international criminal law and laws of war, calls for an investigation into the elimination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israel. In a statement published on Twitter, Matthews wrote: ''A wounded fighter attempting an escape is not hors de combat; this is why Israel claims Sinwar was killed while trying to escape. While he was wounded in a first attack & fled to the building in which he died, the video shows him seated when he was killed." ''The physician who conducted Sinwar's autopsy confirmed the cause of...

A Chinese cutter blasted a Philippine fisheries vessel with its water cannon at Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Tuesday morning, officials in Manila said on Tuesday.The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, a civilian department meant to assist and regulate Philippine fishing efforts, said two offshore vessels were harassed by two cutters from the China Coast Guard and a warship from the People’s Liberation Army Navy. According to the agency, BRP Datu Cabaylo (MMOV-3001) and BRP Datu Sanday (MMOV-3002) were at Scarborough Shoal to resupply fishermen fishing near the disputed maritime feature.A video released by Philippine state...

Explanation: These six panels follow daily apparitions of comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as it moved away from our fair planet during the past week. The images were taken with the same camera and lens at the indicated dates and locations from California, planet Earth. At far right on October 12 the visitor from the distant Oort cloud was near its closest approach, some 70 million kilometers (about 4 light-minutes) away. Its bright coma and long dust tail were close on the sky to the setting Sun but still easy to spot against a bright western horizon. Over the following days,...

An incident in the South China Sea last month saw 10 Vietnamese fishermen beaten by officers from China’s Maritime Safety Administration near the Paracel Islands, reported local media.According to Vietnamese accounts, Maritime Safety Administration vessels 101 and 301 from the Sansha City United Law Enforcement Unit surrounded the civilian vessel on the morning of Sept. 29. Three rubber hulled inflated boats were deployed by the patrol ships to board the fishing vessel, which was attempting to escape. Despite attempts from the QNg 95739 TS to prevent the boarding. Their efforts were unsuccessful.Four of the Vietnamese fishermen were severely injured during...

The Philippines and its allies, including Canada, Japan and the U.S., kicked off the maritime phase of Exercise Sama Sama 2024 in the South China Sea this week.Derived from the Southeast Asian-focused Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training series of maritime security exercises, the originally bilateral exercise has grown to become Manila’s premier multilateral naval drill. This year’s Sama Sama, translating to “together” in Tagalog, includes high-end training activities for the Philippine Navy, including over-the-horizon targeting, counter-unmanned aerial system drills and hunting a simulated submarine with allied ships.While the Philippine Navy has been slowly modernizing with new warships and technologies amid...

The CSG took part in the one-day Joint Sword 2024B exercise on Monday. After sightings on Sunday and Monday, aircraft carrier CNS Liaoning (16), cruiser CNS Anshan (103) and destroyer CNS Urumqi (118) were sighted sailing in an area 304 miles south of Yonaguni Island on Tuesday afternoon. The ships subsequently sailed toward the South China Sea.The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force confirmed that Liaoning carried out 90 launches and recoveries of its embarked fighter aircraft and 50 take-offs and landings of its embarked helicopters. JMSDF destroyer JS Kirisame (DD-104) conducted surveillance and information gathering, according to the release, which noted...

During the exercise, PLA Eastern Theater Command ordered 125 sorties by aircraft, helicopters and drones near the island, the Taiwan Ministry of Defense said on Monday. Ninety of the aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone. Seventeen PLA Navy ships and 17 China Coast Guard ships operated around Taiwan, with some vessels approaching the island in close proximity.Earlier on Sunday, the MND reported that PLAN ships, including carrier CNS Liaoning (16) sailed through the Bashi Channel, which lies between the Philippines’ Mavulis Island and Taiwan’s Orchid Island, to enter the Western Pacific. In Monday’s press conference, the MND issued a...

With billionaire Mark Cuban continuing to debase himself in absolutely humiliating fashion for Kamala's campaign, Americans shuddered to think what could be in the pictures that Kamala is using to blackmail him. "It must be so, so horrifying. Like, I can't even imagine how bad it must be for him to do this," said local man Steve Kapchinski. "I don't even want to think about it." Speculation has risen that Harris must have proof of Cuban being on the Epstein list, which the campaign has used to blackmail Cuban into acting like a lesbian with the IQ of a tree...

Admiral Dong has the distinction of being the first Commander of the East China Sea Joint Operations Command Center (ECS JOCC), having served from July 2013 to November 2014 while he served as one of the deputy commanders of the East Sea Fleet. Established in 2013, the ECS JOCC was the PLA’s first joint operations command headquarters responsible for the operational coordination of the PLAN, PLA Air Force (PLAAF), and other forces—including the China Coast Guard and Strategic Rocket Forces—against Taiwan.3 Admiral Dong’s various appointments should be a reminder of the importance the CCP places on the PLAN and the...

A rare copy of the US Constitution that was found inside a filing cabinet sold for $9 million at auction this week. It took just seven minutes for the nearly 237-year-old document to clinch its hammer price, Andrew Brunk, the owner of Brunk Auctions, told CBS News. Most bids were placed over the phone, while two came in online and one buyer was at the North Carolina auction in person, Brunk said. The final price, including the buyer’s premium, was $11,070,000. The buyer will remain anonymous.

A Democrat politician went to a restaurant. He turned to the people on his left and told them he would pay for their meals if they supported him. The people on the left were glad to receive stuff for free, and rousingly agreed to support the Democrat politician. The Democrat politician then turned to the people on his right and demanded that they give him their money. The Democrat politician threatened the people on the right. The people on the right must give him their money or he would have them attacked by the press and labeled as “mean-spirited” and...

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according to a landmark new report. Decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have collided with the human-caused climate crisis to put “unprecedented stress” on the global water cycle, said the report published Wednesday by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, a group of international leaders and experts. The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from...