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A young woman spent hours trapped upside down after slipping between two boulders as she tried to retrieve her mobile phone during a hike in Australia. The woman - named in reports as Matilda Campbell - was walking in New South Wales' Hunter Valley region earlier this month when she fell into the three-metre crevice. It was the start of a seven-hour ordeal which would see emergency services undertake a "challenging" rescue - including moving several boulders. And even after managing to winch a 500kg (1,100lb) rock out the way, they still had to work out how to get the...

“I’ve had hard times, but the hardest time in my life was my #WalkAway. My #WalkAway journey started when I didn’t want to get the shot. I’m a lesbian and an environmentalist—very classically liberal. But when I didn’t want the shot, I was banished from much of my friend group. There was so much hypocrisy from the people who scream, ‘my body, my choice.’ The liberal in me is dead. The liberal in me that supported other liberals has gone away.”

Trump Media & Technology Group stock (DJT) hit its highest level since July on Tuesday, rising as much as 10% as investors bet on former President Donald Trump's improved odds of winning the November election in exactly two weeks. Shares in the company, the home of the Republican nominee's social media platform Truth Social, have seen a recent surge as both domestic and overseas betting markets shift in favor of a Trump victory, with prediction sites like Polymarket, PredictIt, and Kalshi all showing Trump's presidential chances ahead of those of Democratic nominee and current Vice President Kamala Harris. National polls,...

A new survey shows a proposed abortion amendment in Florida obtaining enough support to narrowly pass. The survey was conducted by the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab (PORL) and released on Monday, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. Support for the abortion amendment reached 60 percent, which is the requirement for any proposed constitutional amendment to pass in the state. Thirty-two percent are opposed to the measure and eight percent are undecided.

Some Democratic voters in Nevada recently told The New York Times that rising housing costs will keep them from voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in November. Times reporter Jennifer Medina interviewed several voters around the Las Vegas area who said they’ve been disillusioned by the Democratic Party because of homes becoming more expensive during the Biden-Harris administration and see no hope of Harris bringing them down if she remains in office. "They just promise things. But I don’t see nothing coming out for us," 54-year-old Las Vegas resident Maria Ocampo told the outlet, adding that Biden didn’t ease the...

Retiring President Biden stunned listeners Tuesday by calling for his predecessor Donald Trump to be jailed — 14 days before the presidential election in which Trump is the Republican nominee. “If I said this 5 years ago, you’d lock me up: we gotta lock him up,” Biden, 81, said during a visit to a Democratic campaign office in New Hampshire. After a four-second pause during which his audience enthusiastically applauded, Biden added: “politically… lock him out, that’s what we’ve got to do.” The president and his aides typically refrain from commenting on the four pending criminal cases against Trump, who...

General Motors CEO Mary Barra is still committing to taking the automaker fully electric by 2035, even as third-quarter earnings show Electric Vehicles (EVs) are still not profitable. “That is the plan we’re still executing,” Barra told the New York Times of GM’s plans to fully transition to EVs by 2035 regardless of who is in the White House. Barra first made the commitment in 2021 after President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office. The commitment, though, has not made EVs any more profitable.

McDonald’s shares dropped in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, which led to one death and ten hospitalizations. The CDC reported 49 cases of E. coli contamination in 10 states, with the majority of those cases in Colorado and Nebraska. According to the CDC, most people who were sick from the contamination reported eating a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder. As a precautionary measure, McDonald’s in several states has stopped serving quarter-pound beef patties and fresh onions until the source of the illnesses is confirmed. Investigators...

BREAKING: TRUMP WINS MCDONALD'S EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR! 1:24 seconds of hilarious fun with Shawn Farash doing an impeccable impersonation of candidate and former President Donald J. Trump McWinning at McDonald's! So funny and clever!

President Joe Biden says the quiet part out loud "We gotta lock him up" He said this on the campaign trail in New Hampshire

South Korea is considering directly supplying weapons to Ukraine as evidence increases that North Korean soldiers are preparing to assist Russia in its war against Ukraine. South Korea’s spy agency (NIS) said last week that North Korea had shipped 1,500 special forces personnel to Russia’s far east for training and acclimatising at local military bases for future combat alongside Moscow’s troops in Ukraine. Local media, citing the NIS, said Pyongyang had decided to dispatch 12,000 troops, formed into four brigades, to Russia. A senior official at the office of South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, said on Tuesday that Seoul...

Former President Donald Trump plans to tape an interview with Joe Rogan on Friday as part of his final push for votes ahead of the Nov. 5 election, multiple sources confirmed to The Post. Rogan, 57, has a massive and passionate following and is known for his idiosyncratic politics — making the interaction a potential harvest for the Republican nominee. “The Joe Rogan Experience” has an estimated 14.5 million followers on Spotify, Bloomberg News reported this year.

The new-ish restaurant has Michelin cred and 'The Cannoli God of Santa Cruz'About 75 miles south of San Francisco, Felton is known for the Bigfoot Discovery Museum and the Roaring Camp Railroads. But now, after earning a cult following for smash burgers and cannoli, a new bistro is making its case as a reason for trekking to this tiny town in Santa Cruz County. “Everything we do, technique-wise, you can find in Michelin-starred restaurants,” said chef-owner Lance Ebert, who in July launched Emerald Mallard in downtown Felton’s historic Cremer House. “But we want to execute this type of food for...

Two US service members were injured in Iraq in a joint US-Iraqi raid overnight that killed “multiple ISIS operatives,” according to a Defense Department spokesperson. “Overnight, CENTCOM [US Central Command] and Iraqi security forces conducted a partner raid in Iraq targeting several senior ISIS leaders,” said Ryder. “The raid resulted in the death of multiple ISIS operatives.” According to a statement by Iraqi Joint Operations Command, nine ISIS members were killed in the raid, including “the so-called criminal governor of Wali Iraq called Jassim Al-Mazrouei Abu Abdul Qader and other leaders from the front line.”

Clarissa Rippee, a Contract Specialist working in the General Services Administration (GSA) blew the whistle and exposed a $347 million contract for transporting unaccompanied minors. “My line in the sand moment was when I found out that GSA had awarded a contract to a company to transport unaccompanied minors,” shared current General Services Administration (GSA) Contract Specialist Clarissa Rippee, revealing shocking details about a $347 million contract awarded to the company responsible for transporting unaccompanied minors across the United States. “It felt like someone kicked me in the gut,” Rippee told James O’Keefe. Via O’Keefe Media Group: Rippee, who works...

The Trump campaign branded Labour a “far-Left” party that had “inspired Kamala’s dangerously liberal policies and rhetoric”. “In recent weeks, they have recruited and sent party members to campaign for Kamala in critical battleground states, attempting to influence our election,” it said in a statement. Ms Wiles compared the Labour activists’ participation to the Revolutionary War, saying: “In two weeks, Americans will once again reject the oppression of big government that we rejected in 1776.” In a press release, the campaign added: “When representatives of the British government previously sought to go door-to-door in America, it did not end well...

Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly has no campaign events scheduled for Tuesday (October 22), exactly two weeks before the 2024 presidential election. Harris' decision not to campaign on Tuesday drew criticism from her opponent, former President Donald Trump, who claimed that she's "sleeping," during a Latino roundtable event in Doral, Florida, on Tuesday (October 22). "She's not doing anything today," Trump claimed via the New York Post. Harris is, however, scheduled for interviews with NBC News' Hallie Jackson and Telemundo's Julio Vaqueiro in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The vice president's running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, is campaigning alongside former...

Former President Trump held a roundtable with Latino leaders in Miami on Tuesday, hours after a new poll showed him leading Vice President Harris in the key voting bloc by 11 points. The former president held the event at Trump National Doral Miami, where he was joined by Latino leaders like Florida GOP Reps. Maria Salazar and Carlos Gimenez, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Florida Sen. Rick Scott and Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo. During the event, Trump criticized Harris, who was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday and did not have any campaign events. "She’s sleeping right now, she couldn’t go on...

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has announced his endorsement of President Donald Trump, warning that a vote for Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris “is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin.”

I don’t recall any notions that Donald J. Trump was racist before announcing his candidacy. I had heard the opposite, black communities awarding recognition for Trump’s efforts on their behalf. Usually, I would hear something humorous about Trump in a Johnny Carson monolog, or the news media offers some news about Trump’s finances. A New York playboy, a bit of a scoundrel if you will. However, the media claimed that Trump was a racist. This notion extended the claim that since he once was racist he must still be racist. That begs an answer to this question, what were the...