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Joe Rogan just dropped the 3-hour interview segment with President Donald Trump. The Joe Rogan podcast is the #1 rated show in 97 countries including the USA. Here is the interview everyone was waiting for.

On this day, October 25th, 2024, we gather around a cosmic campfire to celebrate the marvelous and mystical journey of Jon Anderson, the voice of Yes, the bard of boundless imaginations, as he turns 80. This is not merely a birthday but a grand celestial nod to a man who has gifted us worlds upon worlds of sound—an eternal traveler whose voice has always been our guide through galaxies of the unknown and the fantastical. Jon Anderson is not just a musician. He is a dream-weaver, a spiritual shaman whose career—both with Yes and in his solo voyages—has never been...

Wausau Mayor Doug Diny had just finished a city directors meeting when he walked into his office to find three law enforcement agents rooting through his possessions. Suffice to say, the mayor was “surprised.” But Diny said he knew what this raid was all about. As The Federalist first reported a week ago, Democrat Attorney General Josh Kaul has ratcheted up his nationally watched investigation into the mayor for removing an unsecured absentee ballot drop box from outside city hall. For Diny, it all feels “very political,” an investigation and a raid the Wall Street Journal editorial board has described...

While Congress stagnates, America’s state houses are drafting and passing policies affecting millions. Now, more than ever, those legislative bodies operate without input from an opposition party or dissenting governor.Illustration by The Epoch Times, ShutterstockAs of Oct. 21, there are 23 Republican trifectas, 17 Democratic trifectas, and 10 divided governments where neither party holds trifecta control, according to Ballotpedia. A trifecta means one party holds the state governorship and a majority in the state house and senate.Heading into November’s general election, legislative supermajorities exist in 57 of the 99 legislative chambers in the union, according to data compiled by state...

More members of Congress, 329, co-sponsored the Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA) than nearly any other legislative proposal in 2024, but that may not be evidence of lawmakers’ eagerness to fix what ails the retirement pension program—the bill doesn’t address the fundamental insolvency issue.The SSFA would end two provisions of current law that reduce benefits for millions of public employees at all levels of government with separate pension systems. Eliminating the provisions means more Social Security benefits for such workers.In other words, the SSFA would increase the total amount of Social Security benefits paid out without providing new revenues to...

Increased use of natural gas for power generation has made the United States more dependent on fossil fuels for its electricity supply this year than China, the world’s top carbon emitter.Since June 2024, high U.S. summer electricity demand has been mostly met by increased gas-fired power generation, while a rebound in hydropower in China has limited to some extent the share of coal in its electricity supply.As a result, fossil fuels – including natural gas and coal – have had an average share of 62.4% of total electricity output in the United States since June. This compares to a lower...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid reacted to Israel launching strikes against Iran in response to Iran’s earlier attack on Israel by stating that it seems as though Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is determined to escalate a regional war.” And doesn’t want conflict in the region to end. Reid said, “There’s no pathway to end the conflict because it does not appear that Bibi Netanyahu, — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants it to end. Yahya Sinwar, who was the military leader of Hamas, is now dead. That is now confirmed. The Israeli government has made...

The Washington Post has decided not to endorse a candidate for president this year. Ed has a post coming up discussing the matter, so I won't go into the reasoning or provide an analysis of what is behind that decision. Ed has been in this business longer than I have and is, frankly, better at that sort of thing. He is one of the best analysts I have ever met and a lot more dispassionate in his analyses. The Post, as far as I know, is the second major newspaper to bow out of the endorsement scramble this year after...

The senior was stretchered off the field during the Wolfpack’s game against Wake Forest on October 5 after taking a hit to the head. He has not played since the injury. “As you all know I have battled injuries my whole career, but this is one that I cannot come back from,” McCall said in an Instagram post. “I have done everything I can to continue, but this is where the good Lord has called me to serve in a different space. Brain specialists, my family, and I have come to the conclusion that it is in my best interest...

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Devi Harris, a Barack Obama campaign insider, who also serves on influential policy making committees of the Democratic National Committee and was one of the headliners of the only Indian-American event at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, said her grandmother in Chennai who scrupulously follows the campaign, had told her when she spoke to her on the phone before she left for the convention in Denver, "You let them know I am going to the temple everyday and praying for Barack Obama. "It's very exciting and certainly my grandmother and our family members, not...

The 5th Circuit’s ruling in a Mississippi case could have implications for other states with similar laws. A federal appeals court Friday ruled invalid a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they are postmarked by then. The ruling came less than two weeks before the Nov. 5 presidential election and could have implications for other states with similar laws. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit did not rule on how the state should handle ballots for this election, saying that matter should be addressed later...

Donald Trump is currently the 2024 Presidential Candidate of the Republican Party. He previously served as America’s 45th president, and is also a businessman and media personality

The Navy is failing to build warships on time or on budget. Putting campaign donations and local employment interests above national security, members of Congress have been unwilling to take bold action to fix things. An absence of skilled workers, inefficient unions, and COVID-19-related challenges have further complicated matters. The next president and Congress thus face a choice. Either they accept China’s dominance of the western Pacific Ocean or they do the once unthinkable and appropriate funds to build warships in the dockyards of allied nations such as South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Time is not a luxury...

Political analyst Jonathan Alter commented Friday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on President Donald Trump‘s rise in the polls, which he attributed to voters not grasping “fascism.” Host Wolf Blitzer said, “Trump’s latest praise for dictators as a new ABC poll finds that nearly half the country thinks Trump is a fascist, will put those numbers up on the screen there you see 49% believe Trump is a fascist and yet our new CNN national poll today shows the race is tied you can see it over there, 47% to 47%. How do you square that?”

With less than two weeks until Election Day, law enforcement officials are confronting a rising wave of threats to election workers and political activists in a presidential contest hurtling toward a bitterly contentious coda and a potentially unsettled aftermath. On Monday, the Justice Department unsealed a complaint against a man in Philadelphia who had vowed to skin alive and kill a party official recruiting volunteer poll watchers. On Tuesday, the police in Tempe, Ariz., arrested a man in connection with shootings at a Democratic campaign office, which resulted in no injuries, and other acts of political vandalism. On Wednesday, prosecutors...

Legendary ABC News anchor and reporter Tom Jarriel, who gained prominence for his coverage of Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination and the Richard Nixon administration, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 89. Jarriel’s storied career spanned nearly 40 years after he joined the network in 1965, covering MLK’s murder three years later.

President Biden appeared to suggest Friday that former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) is either dead or divorced— and no longer his friend — in an apparent gaffe shortly after he told members of a Native American community that there is “nothing wrong with me.” “Thank you to Sen. Mark Kelly, a great friend — who also was married to an incredible woman who was my friend,” the 81-year-old president told the Gila River Indian Community, just south of Phoenix. Kelly, a Democratic senator from Arizona, has been married to Giffords — who is very much alive — since 2007. The...

Democrats blocking the early voting sites gives credence to concerns that the left is trying to suppress the vote in the deep-red area. The havoc wrought by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina brought disaster to homes and families, but that has not stopped Democrats from blocking the approval of emergency early voting sites in the heavily Republican area. The refusal to act forced the GOP-led state legislature to intervene.

Angel Mom Patty Morin says Vice President Kamala Harris’s failures at the United States-Mexico border cost her daughter her life. Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five children, was murdered allegedly by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member. During a town hall this week with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Harris defended her and President Joe Biden’s record on immigration, where about eight million migrants are estimated to have arrived in the U.S. since early 2021.