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TUCSON, Ariz. — Former President Barack Obama on Friday contrasted former President Donald Trump’s character with that of the late Sen. John McCain during a packed rally at the University of Arizona. Obama, who faced off against McCain in his successful bid for the White House in 2008, offered only kind words for his onetime political foe during his Friday remarks on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign. “Being here in Tucson, I’m thinking about my friend John McCain,” said Obama, speaking to several thousand Arizonans. “I don’t want to overromanticize our relationship,” Obama continued, earning laughter from the crowd. “But...

"Whoever BELONGS to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not BELONG to God." __The Lord Jesus in John 8:47 But the good news is: The Lord Jesus is the Light of the world. The Lord Jesus said I came not to condemn the world, but to save the world. And the Father sent His Son into the world not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Moreover . . . "God our Savior . . .wants all people to be saved and to come to...

CNN — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is in talks with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to join him on the trail in the final days of the 2024 race as he seeks to broaden his appeal among female voters, two sources familiar with the talks told CNN. No events have been finalized, however, some of the discussions have centered on a potential joint appearance at a Fox News town hall in late October, the sources said. The talks were first reported by The Bulwark. Trump has held a number of town halls moderated by prominent Republican women, including...

The development is a complete U-turn from the BRICS initiative where the alliance is pushing de-dollarization narratives around the world. Sources say India is unhappy with the narrative pushed by its BRICS counterparts, China and Russia. According to sources, India believes that China is using BRICS as a stepping stone to strengthen its dominance around the world. India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar confirmed that the country is not interested in the dedollarization agenda.

The US is investigating the leak of Israel's highly-classified plans for retaliation against Iran, CNN reported, quoting three people familiar with the matter. One of the sources confirmed that the leaked documents were authentic. The documents, dated October 15-16, began circulating Friday after an Iran-affiliated account named, "The Middle East Spectator," posted them on Telegram.

Is your government slowly becoming tyrannical? Aristotle warned us 2,300 years ago. In this eye-opening exploration of Aristotle's analysis of tyranny, we delve into the timeless insights of one of history's greatest political thinkers. Drawing from Aristotle's great work "Politics," we uncover the mechanisms of tyrannical rule that are as relevant today as they were in ancient Greece. Discover how Aristotle's experiences with the Thirty Tyrants of Athens and his personal relationship with the tyrant Hermias shaped his understanding of unjust rule. Learn the tactics tyrants use to rise to power and maintain their grip on society - from manipulating...

Former NFL star Antonio Brown has continued to show his support for former president Donald Trump ahead of next month's US presidential election. The controversial former wide receiver arrived at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pennsylvania for the Republican candidate's latest rally. The ex-Steelers star, who left Pennsylvania in 2018 when he was traded to the Raiders, is expected to address the crowd of Trump supporters after teasing his appearance on social media earlier this week. The Super Bowl winner arrived alongside fellow former Steeler, Le'Veon Bell, who donned a t-shirt featuring photos of Trump and opponent Kamala...

Megan Marshack, an aide to Nelson Rockefeller who was with the former New York governor and vice president when he died under circumstances that spurred intense speculation, has died in California at age 70. Marshack died on Oct. 2 of liver and kidney failure, according to a self-penned obituary posted by a funeral home in Sacramento, California. Her brother said she died at a live-in medical facility in Sacramento. Marshack, who had a long and varied career in journalism, suddenly gained national attention after the four-time Republican governor collapsed and died of a heart attack on the night of Jan....

Edina acknowledged that the ballots were "left unattended" but were "not tampered with.".. City and county officials have responded to a photo posted online that shows boxes of ballots left unattended in an open trunk outside Edina City Hall Friday. “Do these ballots look secure to you?” Senate District 50 Republicans posted on the social media platform X. ... A communications director for the city responded to the post, writing: “The vehicle pictured is a Hennepin County courier that came to pick up Edina’s absentee ballots this morning. Inside his vehicle are ballots that he picked up from other cities...

An Australian state police chief apologized to the Jewish community on Saturday after a sergeant allegedly performed an outlawed Nazi salute. The 65-year-old instructor on domestic violence policy and law at the Victoria state police academy in Melbourne is facing charges for the gesture and for praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with the words, “Heil Hitler” on Tuesday and Wednesday in front of academy staff and recruits, Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said. “I want to express just here at the outset my disappointment, my disgust, my anger at this appalling conduct,” Patton told a press conference. “There is simply...

For years, Black men have been an integral part of the Democratic coalition. In 2012, 87 percent of Black men backed former President Barack Obama; in 2016, 82 percent backed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and in 2020, 79 percent backed President Joe Biden, according to NBC exit polls. This year, 70 percent have said they’re backing Vice President Kamala Harris, per a recent New York Times/Siena poll. As those numbers make clear, the group overwhelmingly supports Democrats, but their loyalty has begun to wane, a shift that stretches across the last several campaigns. That attrition has something to...

amala Harris and rapper Lizzo held a campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday. Harris needed a celebrity rapper to drum up support. But Lizzo never performed. A visibly exhausted Kamala Harris was on stage in Detroit for only six minutes and 36 seconds. In contrast, President Trump was on stage in Detroit Saturday night for 1 hour and 27 minutes. WATCH:

CLAIM: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) claimed during Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate debate Friday night with Republican businessman Eric Hovde that the pro-migration Senate legislation was the “toughest border bill” in years. VERDICT: False. The bill would have allowed up to 5,000 illegal aliens to enter the U.S. Southern border daily, and its toughness pales in comparison to the comprehensive House border security bill, H.R. 2.

Winston Churchill's aristocratic daughter-in-law and confidante Pamela Harriman is considered "the greatest courtesan of her era". Decades after her death, she still divides opinion – was she a smart power player, or "shameless" and "repellent"? You could call her by her six names: Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman – a British aristocrat who ended up a Washington power player and the US ambassador to France, having touched many famous lives in 20th-Century politics and culture. When she was just 20, her father-in-law Winston Churchill engaged her as "his most willing and committed secret weapon" (as a new biography puts...

Sex, sexual ambiguity, race, incompetence, war mongering and foreign interventions. While those are familiar issues in 2024, they’re merely echoes of earlier times… like the election of 1800! The presidential campaign of 1800 was the sequel to the first truly contested American presidential election in 1796 and featured the same two primary players. John Adams won and Thomas Jefferson lost and became vice president – the only time in history that’s happened. Although friends, the men became viscous rivals – although never actually campaigning themselves – and the campaigns were as brutal as any seen in modern times. With the...

Joseph Malinowski, who gained internet fame because of his risky decisions to ride out Hurricane Helene and Milton on his 20-foot sailboat, was arrested Friday on multiple charges including failing to appear in court, Tampa police said. Malinowski, 54, known as "Lieutenant Dan," was arrested on two outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court and a misdemeanor charge of trespassing in a city park after warning, police said in a statement. Officers warned Malinowski on Thursday that he was creating a health hazard because he did not have an “accessible marine sanitation device aboard his unregistered vessel and did...

An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula. Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland. Gibbet Hill was originally published in a Dublin newspaper in 1890 - when the Irishman started working on Dracula - but has been undocumented ever since. Stoker biographer Paul Murray says the story sheds light on his development as an author and was a significant “station on his route to publishing Dracula”. The ghostly story tells the tale of a...

I'm in one of the world's volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano. A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano's crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away. Krafla has erupted around 30 times in the last 1,000 years, and most recently in the mid-1980s. Bjorn Guðmundsson leads me to a grassy hillside. He is running a team of international scientists who plan to drill into Krafla's magma. “We’re standing on the spot where we are going to drill,” he says. The Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) intends to advance...

Residents in a rural California city say they have been driven apart by an influx of 'radical city liberal folk' into their neighborhoods. Inyo County, a community of 19,000 people on the border between the Eastern Sierra and Nevada state line, was historically a Republican stronghold in the Blue-leaning state of California. But while it hadn't backed a Democrat for president since 1964, a flood of city residents fleeing for the suburbs in the pandemic has radically changed its politics - allowing Joe Biden to win in 2020 by just 14 votes. Now, with just three weeks until the election,...