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The humble origins of a classic Godfather quote."Watch out we don’t exterminate you!" Spoken by Richard Castellano's Corleogne capo Peter Clemenza, this jokey line foreshadowed one of The Godfather's many deaths, but it was a line from earlier in the film that set up the most memorable quote from Paulie Gatto's death scene: "Leave the gun, take the cannoli." While perhaps not as easily applicable in life as "an offer he can't refuse" or "sleeping with the fishes," it's brilliant all the same, and legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola joined ReelBlend to talk his passion project Megalopolis and shine some...

NEW: Democrat groups release an ad of a young man m*sturbating in an effort to get people to vote for Kamala Harris. The Democratic Party: The party of abortion and p*rn addicts. Progress Action Fund and Defend the Vote have released a $2.5 million ad campaign with the 30-second ad. The ad was called “Republicans Rubbing You the Wrong Way,” with an actor playing a Republican congressman watching the young man rub one out. The ad campaign is being displayed on streaming services in all seven swing states.

Less than a fortnight before polling day, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are locked in a nail-bitingly close US presidential election race, triggering pessimism among Democrats and confidence among Republicans – even though polls suggest both candidates have a near equal chance of entering the White House. The Guardian’s 10-day polling tracking average shows Harris, the Democratic nominee and US vice-president, maintaining the single-point advantage over her Republican rival she had a week earlier, 47% to 46%. Surveys for the seven battleground states are equally cliffhanging and provide little obvious clue as to who will reach the threshold of 270...

A World War II soldier who was killed in the mountains of France during a German offensive in 1944 has been identified, and his remains will be reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, military officials said this week. Jeremiah P. Mahoney, 19, of Chicago, was killed on Jan. 17, 1945, in the Vosges Mountains of France during a weeks-long battle.

Former first lady Michelle Obama implied that people who don’t support Vice President Kamala Harris for president are sexist and racist, and she questioned if voters were “ready for this moment.” During a Harris rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday, Obama spoke about how the race between Harris and former President Donald Trump was “too close.” The former first lady added that Harris was “an extraordinary human being” and candidate, and would be an “extraordinary president.”

HOLY SMOKES. Trump was just endorsed by numerous Imams, mayors and Muslim community leaders in Michigan. No Republican has ever received this kind of support before. This is the final blow to the Harris campaign.

France hosting a conference to raise support for humanitarian aid for war-torn Lebanon. One billion dollars raised to deal with a conflict that is likely to get worse as Israel tries to weaken Hezbollah to a point where the Lebanese army and or Christian factions in the country may be led into conflict with Hezbollah alongside the Israelis... Meanwhile the debate about France's new 'austerity' budget is underway. Like the previous government, the new one does not have a majority in the National Assembly... Today in Paris a protest of the "austerity" budget organized by "Les Patriotes" a faction that...

Delta Airlines has filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike following a global outage in July that costed them over $500 million. On Friday, Delta filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike in Georgia accusing the security software vendor of breach of contract and negligence following an outage in July that affected millions of computers and caused 7,000 flight cancellations. Other airlines recovered faster than Delta, which said the incident reduced revenue by $380 million and cost $170 million. The flawed software update impacted computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Days following the outage, Delta hired David Boies of law firm Boies Schiller Flexner...

Former President Donald Trump believes he can win New York state, the former president said on a tele-rally Saturday night with House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Breitbart News exclusively learned. The tele-rally, lead by Stefanik, dialed out to nearly one million Trump supporters to push early voting, a source familiar with Stefanik’s effort told Breitbart News. “We want to get everybody out [to vote] because we think we could actually win New York,” Trump told supporters on the call. “We’re leading, as you know, in all the swing states, and I think we’re leading potentially very big. We set...

Leonardo DiCaprio is endorsing Kamala Harris for president, with the Oscar-winning actor expressing support for the Democratic nominee in a video Friday. “Climate change is killing the earth and ruining our economy, we need a bold step forward to save our economy, our planet and ourselves,” DiCaprio said in the video posted to Instagram. “That’s why I’m voting for Kamala Harris.” DiCaprio, long an outspoken advocate for addressing the climate crisis, has supported Democratic candidates in the past. In early 2020, he attended a fundraiser for Joe Biden at the home of former Paramount Pictures chief Sherry Lansing. His Instagram...

Last week, Phillips 66 said it would shut down its Los Angeles oil refinery by the end of next year. Now, refining peer Valero Energy Corp is suggesting it could be next. Valero, the United States’ second-largest refiner by capacity, is keeping all options “on the table” for its two California refineries. According to the company’s Chief Executive Lane Riggs, this is due to the increasing regulatory pressure that has pervaded California.

Vice President Harris leads former President Trump among Hispanic male voters by 2 percentage points, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. Democrats have historically led the race for Hispanic male voters, but Trump is closing in on that gap, the poll found. Forty-two percent of Hispanic male voters said they support Trump, while 44 percent support Harris, according to the poll. At this point of the race in 2020, President Biden led the same group by 19 percentage points in the Reuters/Ipsos polling. The survey shows that 37 percent of registered Hispanic voters prefer Trump, compared to 30 percent in...

‘The Biden-Harris administration is engaging in obstruction and outright abuse of power to prevent us from removing noncitizens from our voter rolls,’ Ohio Secretary of State LaRose said. ... American elections should be decided by Americans — which is why states across the country have taken steps to remove noncitizens from their voter rolls. But the Biden-Harris administration is stymieing these efforts with roadblocks and lawfare. Ohio.. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sued the Biden-Harris administration on Thursday alleging the Department of Homeland Security refused to provide the state with access to records from the Systematic Alien Verification and...

A “frustrated” Michelle Obama attacked Donald Trump during her first campaign trail appearance for Kamala Harris, worrying that the US “will blow this opportunity to finally turn the page on the ugliness” by re-electing the former president. The former first lady did not shy away from slamming the 45th president and his supporters alike during an impassioned speech at Harris’ rally in Kalamazoo, Mich. — her first time stumping for the vice president since the Democratic National Convention in August. Trump supporters and undecided voters hold Harris to a high and unfair double standard while letting the ex-commander in chief...

GOLDEN MOMENTS Once upon a time, there was a little boy from "the wrong side of the tracks" who grew up admiring a beautiful house high on the hill overlooking his town. Fortunately, he never lacked for any of the necessities of life, but he hated being "poor." He noticed that people treated him differently, and it pained him to see his parents work so hard just to make ends meet. It just didn't seem right that some should be so favored and others should have so little. But his parents has instilled some rather clear "core values" in...

Hillary Clinton sounded the alarm that Donald Trump is a fascist during an interview Thursday night with CNN's Kaitlan Collins

For years, Stacey Abrams was held up as the paragon of a Georgia Democrat, with a national ID that could even propel her to the White House some day. But these days, so close to another election that could hinge on Georgia, she’s practically invisible. “It kind of feels like she’s fading in the background,” one Democratic operative told NOTUS. “Like, not trying to be mean to her, but, you know, you lost a lot.”

Rapaport told those comparing Trump supporters to Nazis rallying at Madison Square Garden to 'Get the f--- out of here'Comedian Michael Rapaport on Friday condemned liberals for making reckless Nazi comparisons, saying on the social media site, "Keep HITLER'S name out of your mouth unless you’re referring to HITLER!" Rapaport, who spent years criticizing former President Trump before softening his rhetoric toward him over Israel, said that one is free to make many insults toward him, but should not use Hitler, Nazis and the Holocaust for cavalier comparisons against mere political opponents. "[K]eep HITLER'S name out of your mouth unless...

Former porn star Mia Khalifa mocked US service members in a social media video that went viral, saying she hoped they’d get “their little brain[s] all scrambled up” for fighting wars overseas. “Good morning to everyone who is not in the US military,” Khalifa starts the video posted to her X account. “Good morning to everyone who is sitting at home and not on soil that doesn’t belong to them, fighting a war for a country that doesn’t care about them.” “I hope you go over there and get your little brain all scrambled up with PTSD and come back...

Bill Maher and Megyn Kelly sparred over election denialism in the 2024 presidential contest — with the former Fox News host calling Hillary Clinton “the original election denier.” The two first discussed the current race, with both agreeing Republican nominee Donald Trump would likely have a negative reaction if he loses the race for the White House. “He’ll either say, ‘It was rigged’ or ‘It was the most perfect, beautiful election ever,’” Maher said during the interview with Kelly on his show “Real Time.” Advertisement