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A suspected drunk driver "almost struck" Vice-President Kamala Harris's motorcade after driving the wrong way down a highway in Milwaukee on Monday. When police stopped the suspect's vehicle, officers found an open can of beer in his vehicle, according to the arrest report obtained by a local radio station. After a field sobriety test, the unnamed 55-year-old driver was taken into custody for driving under the influence. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, was in Wisconsin for a campaign event alongside former Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney in the town of Brookfield. According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's office, the incident took...

The Kamala Harris campaign is getting a little Hollywood treatment with former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton starring in a video produced by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams, in which the former secretary of state attempts to sale Harris to voters who may still be on the fence. “Kamala is the right person for this time in our country She has the character, experience and vision, to be our next president. But the excitement and energy that she has already generated, I think, points to a generational change that she is going to exemplify. She is going to spearhead into...

A Spanish women’s soccer club has sparked outrage after fielding two “bearded guys” who are transitioning from female to male — including one who scored one of the winning goals. The transgender uproar exploded when the Club Esportiu Europa team fielded the two players — Alex Alcaide Llanos and Nil Alcon Labella — in a Catalan women’s league match against Terrassa over the weekend, Marca reported. Both players, who took to the pitch with their facial hair clearly visible, are currently banned from playing in the men’s league because thLlanos has been undergoing hormone treatment for at least five years,...

ANKARA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Here are some of the issues underpinning ties between Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, who met on Wednesday in Russia on the sidelines of the summit of the BRICS grouping which NATO-member Turkey has voiced interest in joining:... In recent months, Turkey has also voiced a desire to join the BRICS group, which originally consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and has expanded to include Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Ankara sees BRICS as an opportunity for more economic cooperation with member states, rather than an alternative to its...

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Nicole Powers used to compete against women — but Powers came to the realization that it was unfair. Powers is a transgender woman who has golfed against biological females. Powers has also competed in many other sports. “I had to take a step back and realize that biological realities are real and competitive advantages will always exist despite the number of years or whatever surgeries and hormones you’ve done, and then understood that my place is not in women’s sports,” Powers said in a recent interview with OutKick. Powers said coaches and other competitors have even said, “‘You belong here.’...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ claim that she “will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive” is the climate-policy equivalent of President Barack Obama’s famous lie about the Affordable Care Act: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” But while Obama at least managed to get a law passed, the Biden-Harris administration has tried to transform the automotive industry without even persuading Congress. To be sure, while serving in the U.S. Senate in 2019, Harris enthusiastically co-sponsored legislation mandating that all new car sales be electric by 2040. But as vice president, she...

The Trump campaign embraces followers of Jesus, former President Donald Trump made clear this week after Vice President Kamala Harris seemingly mocked a man at a Wisconsin rally for shouting, “Jesus is Lord!” “While Kamala said that people who believe in Jesus don’t belong to her rallies, in our Movement — We love Christians, we welcome believers, and we embrace followers of Jesus,” Trump wrote on Instagram, sharing a video showcasing this contrast. The video first showed Harris at a Wisconsin rally reacting to someone who shouted, “Christ is King!” and “Jesus is Lord!” while she talked about making abortion...

Vice President Kamala Harris admitted during an interview with MSNBC that she wants mass amnesty for the millions of illegal immigrants who have come to the United States during the Biden-Harris administration. Telemundo host Julio Vaqueiro grilled Harris on her plans for addressing the massive issue, a longtime weak spot for Democrats even before the border crisis started when Joe Biden became president. "Right now, we're talking about border security, and there's nobody, no Democrat, talking about pathway to citizenship, immigration relief, benefits that migrants bring to this country," Vaqueiro said to Harris. "I am. I am talking about it....

CDR Poole has been assigned to the Office of Naval Re-search (ONR) since November 2001, working with the Naval Research Science and Technology Action Team (NRSTAT), ONR-Global and, currently, the Tech Solutions Program. A native of Albany, New York, Rich currently resides in Washington, DC. Mr. Christley is a retired Senior Chief Petty Officer who served from 1962 to 1982 on seven submarines ranging from diesel boats to fast attacks and missile submarines. After working in the field of submarine noise reduction until 1997, he started a third career in fine arts. Jim presently resides with his wife Peggy in...

Female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to transgender rivals competing against them in women’s sporting categories, an eye-opening United Nations report has revealed. The study — titled “Violence against women and girls in sports” — stated that more than 600 female athletes have been bested at various events by competitors who were born male. “According to information received, by 30 March 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports,” the report said. “The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an...

The NYPD is investigating the disturbing staged accident on the Belt Parkway that went viral on TikTok — as experts said such insurance scams are on the rise in New York because fraudsters are “getting away with it.” A police spokesperson said Tuesday that detectives have interviewed victim Ashpia Natasha about the Oct. 16 caught-on-dashcam crash, in which another driver reversed into her front bumper on the busy Queens highway just before several passengers spilled out and tried to claim they were hurt. “The investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Criminal Enterprise Investigation Unit’s Fraudulent Collision Investigation Squad,” a department...

Vice President Kamala Harris cited remarks by John Kelly, Mr. Trump’s former White House chief of staff, who told The New York Times that the former president meets the definition of a “fascist.” She will do a town hall with CNN tonight. Mr. Trump has two events in Georgia.Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that former President Donald J. Trump has grown “increasingly unhinged and unstable,” putting his fitness for office at the center of her closing message with less than two weeks until Election Day. It was the latest effort by Ms. Harris to remind voters why they rejected...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Rep. Colin Allred (D) are in a virtual dead heat in the state’s Senate race, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey found Cruz just ahead of Allred by 1 percentage point, 48 percent to 47 percent, with 5 percent undecided.

Explanation: What if a rocket could return to its launch tower -- and be caught? This happened for the first time 10 days ago, after a SpaceX Starship rocket blasted off from its pad in Boca Chica, Texas, USA. Starship then split, as planned, with its upper stage landing in the Pacific Ocean. The big difference was the lower stage, Super Heavy Booster 12, was caught by its launch tower about 7 minutes later. Catching a rocket for reuse is a new and innovative way to help reduce the cost of rocket flight by making rockets more easily reusable. Starship...

Graphical depiction of Betelgeuse and the Betelbuddy. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation. ===================================================================== New research has revealed that the star Betelgeuse is likely sharing its orbit with a companion astronomers have nicknamed “Betelbuddy.” According to the new findings, unexpected dips in the star’s brightness observed in 2019 caused some scientists to speculate Betelgeuse may soon enter its supernova phase. As a result, media outlets quickly dubbed the tenth brightest star in the sky the doomed star. Now, an international team of scientists says they’ve ruled out all conventional explanations for the star’s change in brightness, a phenomenon witnessed by observers dating...

A 14-year-old Florida boy killed himself after a lifelike “Game of Thrones” chatbot he’d been messaging for months on an artificial intelligence app sent him an eerie message telling him to “come home” to her, a new lawsuit filed by his grief-stricken mom claims. Sewell Setzer III committed suicide at his Orlando home in February after becoming obsessed and allegedly falling in love with the chatbot on Character.AI — a role-playing app that lets users engage with AI-generated characters, according to court papers filed Wednesday. The ninth-grader had been relentlessly engaging with the bot “Dany” — named after the HBO...

A new continuous glucose monitor (CGM) that is not only non-invasive but that predicts blood sugar levels from ECG data promises to shake up diabetes management. The device is being showcased at the 2024 Taiwan Innotech Expo. Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) have revolutionized diabetes management by providing around-the-clock blood sugar levels and trends, as well as access to comprehensive data that enables medical professionals to make personalized adjustments to insulin therapy. In essence, CGMs allow for better blood sugar control, thereby reducing the risk of diabetics developing disease-related complications. However, current CGMs have some limitations. They’re invasive, requiring the insertion...

Former President Donald Trump is on track to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris in Texas next month, according to a range of recent polls, which put the Republican presidential nominee ahead by between 4 and 12 percentage points. The surveys undermine the claims by some Democrats that Texas, traditionally a GOP stronghold, could be in play. Former gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke, in a recent interview, described it as "the sleeper battleground state."

Hundreds of female golfers have complained about the participation of Scottish-born transgender player Hailey Davidson in the penultimate stage of the LPGA Tour’s qualifying competition. Davidson, a 31-year-old professional originally from Ayrshire but now based in Florida, has said that the intention is “to make Scotland proud” by earning a card on the women’s premier circuit. But after progressing through August’s first stage of Q-School , the former player on a US male college team was accused of acting “unfairly”, with Amy Olson, a two-time major runner-up, railing against Davidson being allowed to compete. “These women have worked too hard...