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Coffee has been the fulcrum of life here for almost three centuries, since enslaved people cut the first French coffee plantations into the mountainsides. Back then, this was not Haiti, but Saint-Domingue — the biggest supplier of coffee and sugar consumed in Parisian kitchens and Hamburg coffee houses. The colony made many French families fabulously rich. It was also, many historians say, the world’s most brutal. Ms. Present’s ancestors put an end to that, taking part in the modern world’s first successful slave revolution in 1791 and establishing an independent nation in 1804 — decades before Britain outlawed slavery or...

Daily Readings from the USCCBSomeone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.” Luke 13:27We should definitely take our Lord’s words spoken above to heart. It’s easy to presume we will be saved. It’s easy to simply presume that God is kind and that we are good people at heart and, therefore, salvation is assured. But that’s not what Jesus says. So who will be saved? When we get to Heaven, God willing,...

Super Micro Computer (SMCI.O) said on Wednesday Ernst & Young had resigned as its auditor, sending its shares tumbling more than 30% and deepening investor worries about accounting practices at the artificial intelligence server maker.The company in late August delayed the filing of its annual report, citing a need to assess "its internal controls over financial reporting", after Hindenburg Research disclosed a short position and made claims of "accounting manipulation".Super Micro disclosed on Wednesday EY had in late July raised concerns about its governance, transparency and internal control over financial reporting, after which the company appointed a special committee and...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to move forward with its removal of roughly 1,600 alleged noncitizens from its voter rolls just days before the 2024 election. The high court granted a request from state officials to pause a lower court order that blocked Virginia from continuing its systematic voter removal program that was launched in August, exactly 90 days before Election Day. A provision of the National Voter Registration Act requires states to complete programs aimed at purging ineligible voters from registration lists up to 90 days before federal elections. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and...

President Trump in the Executive Box at Game No. 5 at Yankee Stadium would be epic. He would have 50,000 giving him a standing ovation. Let's see if Kamala shows up at Game #6 (if needed) at Dodger Stadium, and how the crowd there would greet her.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of New York’s Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club,” 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris argued that her proposed down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers won’t “have an unintended effect, because that increases the demand for home ownership, which is going to have an impact, also, on supply.” And talked about parts of her plan to boost housing supply. Harris said, “$25,000 down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, let me tell you why that’s not going to have an unintended effect, because that increases the demand for home ownership, which is going to have an impact,...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Saturday, Oct. 29 -- 11:50 A.M. Our special correspondent at the headquarters of the Fifth Corps, transmits the following to this Bureau: NEAR HATCHER's RUN, Va., Friday, Oct. 28 -- 8 A.M. The movement of this army on the Boydton Plank Road, and so on to the southside Railroad was partially successful, inasmuch as we gained possession of the Plank Road, and seized a portion of the enemy's works. The line as established was found too lengthy, and the Second Corps were withdrawn from the Plank Road, and brought up closer into line....

These soldiers may view their Russian tour with pride and as a chance to make good money, see a foreign country and win preferred treatment for their families back home. “None would think they are going to Russia to die,” Choi said. “But I think they're cannon fodder because they will be sent to the most dangerous sites and will surely be killed.”

Shocking footage shows US Marshals aggressively arresting an Arizona woman who they thought skipped out on probation 25 years ago — but they got the wrong person and instead pulled their guns on a grandmother who had never heard of the suspect. “I truly felt like I was being kidnapped,” 66-year-old Penny McCarthy told ABC 15 after the outlet obtained bodycam footage from the arrest. “Turn away. Turn around. Turn away. We’ll discuss it later. Turn away. You’re gonna get hit,” the officers roared at her. “Can you prove you’re the police?” McCarthy asked — but the officers refused to...

Despite this, virtually none of the false and misleading tweets from Kamala Harris’ campaign have Community Notes appended to them. One likely explanation for this discrepancy is that the Harris campaign is directing volunteers on its Discord server to vote down Community Notes even when those notes accurately say the campaign is being deceptive. In the example below, after a @KamalaHQ tweet claimed Trump referred to Americans who don’t support him as “dangerous people,” Timothy Durigan, an employee of the Democratic National Committee, urges campaign volunteers to vote down a Community Note that accurately pointed out the Kamala campaign was...

Half of Gen Z voters — and 1 in 4 U.S. voters overall — have lied to people close to them about who they're voting for, according to the latest Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll. Why it matters: Voters 18-27 who came of age during the hyper-polarized Trump era appear to be among the most sensitive to perceived pressure and judgment from friends or loved ones. "There's a new privacy emerging here, where it's far more convenient to either lie or not talk about it," said John Gerzema, CEO of The Harris Poll, which is not affiliated with...

Catherine Herridge interviewed the IRS whistleblowers who told her American taxpayers receive unequal treatment. Some US taxpayers are identified as “sensitive investigations.” They are the powerful, elite people, the important people. They also explained that they knew Joe Biden was “The Big Guy.” However, they were not allowed to ask about “The Big Guy.” They All Knew The IRS whistleblowers say the FBI, IRS, and Justice Department knew immediately that the Hunter Biden laptop was real in late 2019 and that 51 former intelligence officials’ statement that the laptop had the “classic earmarks” of a Russian information operation was unfounded....

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A shocking scene reportedly unfolded at a satellite election office in South Park Ice Rink in Bethel Park, PA, where early voters, who had been waiting for hours, witnessed ‘vanloads’ of ‘non-English-speaking citizens’ allegedly escorted to the front by “translators” to cast their ballots. According to X user Emma Cawwod, at least “three buses” arrived, with individuals being guided in by representatives from “Vote Today PA,” a vote mobilization group funded by the progressive organization Working Families Power, which advocates for causes like “economic fairness, racial justice, gender equity, climate sustainability.” Some of these individuals were seen wearing hooded sweatshirts...

“Good rule of thumb: those who frequently use the word “disinformation” are the ones most likely to be pushing it” — Elon Musk. What were they thinking after they shoved “Joe Biden” into the abyss, like an old refrigerator over the edge of the landfill, and afterward settled — instantly it appears, with no process at all — on Kamala Harris to lead the party to victory in the fall election? I will tell you: they were not thinking at all. The collective mind of the Democrat elite was a vast vacuum devoid of thought, mass, or light, like a...

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) blasted Silicon Valley investor and Vice President Kamala Harris supporter Vinod Khosla, as he doubled down on President Joe Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage.” Khosla is one of the many billionaires backing Harris and he is completely undeterred by Biden’s now viral remarks about half the country. “Garbage is an understatement for MAGA extremists,” he said in part: This prompted Vance, Trump’s running mate, to openly wonder if Harris will return his contributions. “One of Kamala Harris’s biggest donors is doubling down on calling half the country ‘garbage,'” Vance observed, asking, “Will Kamala and her campaign...

The U.S. economy posted another solid though slightly disappointing period of growth in the third quarter, propelled higher by strong consumer spending that has defied expectations for a slowdown. Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced during the three-month period from July through September, increased at a 2.8% annualized rate. The report confirms that the U.S. expansion has continued despite elevated interest rates and long-standing worries that the burst of fiscal and monetary stimulus that carried the economy through the Covid crisis wouldn’t be enough to sustain growth. However, resilient consumer spending, which accounts for...

Terrifying body camera video showed the moment US Marshals arrested an innocent Arizona grandmother under the barrel of a gun after mistaking her for a completely different person. The two-minute video, obtained by ABC15 after six months of hounding the federal government, showed rifle-wielding officers shouting commands at 66-year-old Penny McCarthy. McCarthy was confused and frightened during the March 5 incident, not even aware at first that she was being pursued by US Marshals. 'We have an arrest warrant,' a federal agent is heard saying on the video. 'For me?' McCarthy responded. 'Yes. For you,' the officer said. 'Who am...

Crossing the Grand Canyon (Lake V Gallego) I really haven’t spoken about Kari Lake and her bid to become the Senator for AZ this cycle, largely because the polling has consistently shown her opponent holding a fairly sizable lead. Polling has fairly consistently shown Gallego ahead by 4-5 points on average. I have always fount this to be a bit curious, given how close she came in 2022 to winning the AZ governorship, but I am not intimately familiar with AZ politics and have no contacts on the ground there to provide first hand accounts about the situation. Lake ran...

As Phoenix police deal with the fallout of the violent beating of a deaf man and face the threat of federal oversight, the department is now set to face a lawsuit after a man suffered third-degree burns across much of his body during a detainment. Michael Kenyon, who has not been charged with a crime for the incident, spent more than a month hospitalized with burns on his face, arms, chest, and legs. Some chunks of flesh are now missing from above his knees. Michael Kenyon 2.png Michael Kenyon “Phoenix police are demonstrating an utter disregard for human life over...