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One day after The Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate in this year’s election or in the future, its billionaire owner remains silent as the newspaper’s staff are in turmoil. Jeff Bezos has so far declined to comment on the situation, even as his own paper’s journalists reported that it was Bezos who ultimately spiked the planned endorsement. A source with knowledge told CNN on Friday that an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris had been drafted before it was squashed. In the last 24 hours, at least one editor has resigned, and high-profile Post staffers...

24 STRAIGHT MINUTES of Democrats denying election results

After Kamala Harris' rally in Houston, Texas, a rally goer was seen YELLING at a baby in a stroller. People standing by appeared to jeer and join in, but at least one woman attempted to intervene.

Thousands of ballots that have already been cast in Mesa County, Colorado are being examined for evidence of fraud after election officials identified at least a dozen fraudulent ballots. On Thursday, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced in a press conference Thursday that a criminal voter fraud probe was being opened in the county. “It appears that as of now approximately a dozen voters in Mesa County had their ballots intercepted before they arrived to them and cast without their knowledge,” she said. The fraud was discovered when election workers were going through the signature verification process. Staffers compared...

In the United States, giving someone a thumbs up making a horn shape with your fingers are usually considered to be friendly gestures. But in other countries, those hand signals might have an entirely different and potentially insulting meaning. When traveling abroad, you should always be aware of local customs and etiquette rules. Rather than risk offending a local, take some time to learn about what’s considered impolite before you travel to an unfamiliar location. To start, here are six common hand gestures that you should avoid using in certain countries.Reverse “V” Sign – United KingdomIn the U.S., holding your...

A young woman at a Kamala Harris rally is facing backlash after screaming in a child's face while the young girl sat in her stroller next to her. The young woman, who is yet to be identified, started screaming in the child's face and was then pulled away by another onlooker. She was videoed yelling into the young girl's face, she said: 'I don't give a ****, your dad's a ****.' The man had already been surrounded by unhappy Harris supporters and 'Boos' were heard before the young woman began yelling at the child. He then picked the young girl...

A year ago, it was unthinkable for Israel and Iran to be directly attacking each other’s territory. The two countries have carried on a shadow war for years, with Israel targeting Iranian nuclear scientists, Iranian supply convoys in Syria and the like, while Iran sponsored proxy attacks on Israel by Hamas and Hezbollah, among other militant groups. But the two countries refrained from directly bombing each other. Now, what was unthinkable has, alas, become routine.Iran crossed a red line on April 13 when it launched some 300 drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike in Damascus...

CNN.com - Transcripts Aired October 22, 2024 - 22:00 ET This is a rush transcript. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Scott Jennings, CNN senior political commentator: I think, first of all, I don't know John Kelly, but I agree. I think he's an honorable person. His family and his son certainly made the ultimate sacrifice for the country. So, he certainly earned an opinion here. And he's earned a political opinion. But I think like everything else with Donald Trump, opinions vary, whether you're coming out of the military or the private...

The Harris campaign is playing defense by recruiting thousands of lawyers to advise and support their election strategies around Election Day.Democrats are bracing for former President Donald Trump’s campaign and allies to initiate legal battles over the 2024 election results if he loses, actions Republicans took following the 2020 election.More than 400 lawyers have been hired to draft legal memos in preparation for possible litigation, according to the Wall Street Journal, with thousands of pages already filed. About 10,000 lawyers are also at the ready in crucial swing states with more specific knowledge of each state’s rules.The Democratic National Committee...

The ERB guys are back with Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris. Very funny and well done.

Former President Donald Trump and previous members of his administration say that claims made by former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly are “patently false.”Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, worked for the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019. He has spoken out multiple times against Trump during the election—most recently in interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic.In those interviews, Kelly said Trump fitted the general definition of a fascist and alleged that the former president said he wanted “German generals,” like Nazi leader Adolph Hitler had.Several members of the Trump administration, including former Vice President...

Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose affair with President Bill Clinton shook the nation, is now offering 25 ways to “calm the f—k down” before the election — including an eyebrow-raising recommendation to relieve stress by reading literature on feminism and abortion and through having “sex” — a suggestion seen as tone-deaf given her own controversial past. In a recent piece in Vanity Fair, Lewinsky offers a slew of tips to ease election season stress, covering topics from playing board games to spending time outdoors. However, her closing recommendation — a suggestion to use sex as a “distraction”...

Commercial satellite imagery showed that Israeli airstrikes hit buildings during an attack on Saturday that Iran used for mixing solid fuel for ballistic missiles, according to separate assessments by two American researchers. The judgments were reached by David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector who heads the Institute for Science and International Security research group, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst at CNA, a Washington think tank. They told Reuters separately that Israel struck Parchin, a massive military complex near Tehran. Israel also hit Khojir, according to Eveleth, a sprawling missile production site near Tehran. Reuters reported in July...

A campaign marked by Donald J. Trump’s apocalyptic extremes has turned even darker in its final days.With voting already underway in battleground states, the former president on Friday escalated his threats to prosecute and imprison a wide range of people involved in elections and politics. Hours later, on the hugely popular “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, he said that the “enemy within,” a phrase he has used to describe political opponents, poses a bigger threat to the nation than North Korea.For eight years, Democrats have warned that Mr. Trump’s political ambitions have fueled some of the nation’s deepest divides. But...

The Kamala Harris rally in Houston last night was billed as a Beyoncé concert. Everyone, including the media, believed the singer would perform after the announcement was made earlier in the week, but all she did was walk out and make a barely audible speech for a few minutes. Then the rally descended into complete chaos.This is the extent of her appearance:Beyoncé showed her support for Vice President Kamala Harris at a campaign rally focused on abortion rights in Houston on Friday. https://t.co/0AX0WPM4as pic.twitter.com/BnNMlJLcB8 — ABC News (@ABC) October 26, 2024Firstly, you can’t hear a word she’s saying.What’s so difficult...

The eye-watering financial cost of the migrant crisis hit $150 billion last year and is causing devastating consequences for residents of hard-hit cities struggling to cope with the influx, The Post has learned. Of that figure, calculated by Washington DC-based non-profit Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), $67 billion came from the federal government, but majority of the burden was shouldered by states and local governments. More than 15.5 million migrants are in the US, receiving millions in funds from FEMA. Chart showing where FEMA Shelter and Services funds were allocated in fiscal year 2024, which ran from Oct. 1,...

The political leaders of the Dutch Government have found an agreement on tougher measures regarding asylum after an eight-hour meeting. Under the agreement secured late on October 24, there will be several measures introduced to tighten migration policies but a so-called “asylum crisis” will not be invoked. Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) had been pushing for significant restrictions on mass migration and asylum for the Netherlands but had to compromise with his party’s coalition partners.Asylum was the leading topic and the PVV first had to find common ground with the centrist NSC party, as both have tended to lock horns...

A day in the life of President Trump, campaigning from before dawn to well after dusk

Actor James Woods slammed Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) as a “dangerous monster.” In a post on social media Wednesday, Walz wrote, “I want to talk to all the guys for a second. Think about all the women in your life that you love — daughters, wives, moms, cousins, neighbors. This election is about their lives and protecting their freedoms.” Woods responded to Walz’s remarks, writing, “That’s why we are protecting them from you, and your promotion of mentally ill men in their bathrooms.” “You, the destroyer of their bodies, their dreams, and their...

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