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The Donald Trump campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, alleging that the Washington Post has made illegal in-kind contributions to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign through its fawning coverage. According to the six-page complaint, the Washington Post made the in-kind contributions through an alleged “coordinated communications” strategy that benefits the Harris campaign, relying on a Semafor report that showed the paper was paying to boost critical Trump content and “neutral” Harris articles. “To wit, one of the promoted articles highlighted how the Harris digital team was pushing content on social media claiming people were leaving...

The Daniel Carter Beard Bridge and both sides of Interstate 471 over the Ohio River between downtown Cincinnati and Newport remain shut down Friday after a massive fire damaged the bridge. State inspectors are examining the bridge right now and hope to open the northbound side of the bridge as soon as it’s safe, said Matt Bruning, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transporation. There is no timeline yet when the bridge might fully reopen but the southbound side along I-471 could be closed for “weeks,” he said. Cincinnati Fire Chief Frank McKinley said the cause of the fire and...

Day #44 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the last couple of months. We are coming down the home stretch here, and it looks like this will be done by the second week of November! And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity threads like this,...

It’s still anybody’s guess who will win the race for the White House but one prominent prediction market, reflecting bets on the outcome, is suggesting that there may be momentum for Kamala Harris. Thomas Peterffy, founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers, said in a statement Friday morning that Harris “engineered a surprisingly ferocious comeback” on the company’s ForecastTrader platform on Thursday night. He noted that the probability of her defeating Donald Trump rose from 38% a day earlier to 44% late Thursday, adding that there was volume of about $40 million for the Harris trade. ForecastTrader is one of several...

VIDEOPlease do not discourage this TDS Leftist's extreme PARANOIA if Trump is re-elected. In fact I would definitely encourage it for him and his fellow TDS leftists. Perhaps it will encourage some of them to flee the country. In this guy's case, I wouldn't be surprised if he goes full survivalist for four years and take refuge in a deep cave with no communication with the outside world so he can't be traced. Imagine what a Shmoe this clown would feel like when he emerges from his cave many years later and find out his Trumpocalypse predictions never happened and...

Alpha News visited Blue Earth County, Minnesota, the hometown of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, to ask residents what they thought of him. Walz, a former football coach at Mankato West High School, has a past filled with over exaggerated claims and falsehoods. The local sentiments also indicate that Walz’s Minnesota roots is not be enough to sway voters in his favor.

Harris is the future. Trump is the past. And on Election Day, American voters will embrace that change. Kamala Harris is going to be the next president of the United States. On January 20, 2025, she will become America’s first woman president, America’s first woman of color to be commander-in-chief and America’s first person of Asian heritage to become the country’s chief executive. Born in late 1964, she will bring the perspective of a new generation to the presidency. Whereas Joe Biden brought the experiences of growing up middle class in the industrial heartland of America, Harris will bring the...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A pair of local parents were in for a shock Halloween night after discovering a stray piece of candy in their child's bag of needles. According to Jim and Grace Kohler, the candy was not discovered until late Halloween night, after their son Ben had gotten home and was sorting through his haul of used hypodermic needles and shattered crack pipes. "He dumped it all out on the kitchen table and we were just sort of poking through it all," Jim recalls. "Then I caught a glimpse of a brown, red, and blue wrapper through...

Proposed Amendment 28 of the United States Constitution.Preamble: Whereas, the United States of America operates as a Republic and is governed by representatives who are elected by the people, it is therefore vital that all levels Government insure the integrity of all elections by these means: 1. ensuring that only eligible citizen voters participate; 2. ensuring that all eligible citizen voters have exactly one opportunity to participate in each election; and 3. ensuring the results reflect the intentions of the electorate to the highest accuracy possible. Section 1: The ability to vote in any state or Federal elections is a...

Caleb James Williams was arrested and accused of brandishing his weapon at two women, ages 71 and 54, police said. Police arrested an 18-year-old wielding a machete with an 18-inch blade outside a polling station in Florida on Tuesday, saying he was part of a group of teenagers accused of intimidating Democratic supporters. The teenager, Caleb James Williams, was arrested after 4 p.m. when officers were called to the Beaches Branch Library in Neptune Beach. Williams was arrested on charges of aggravated assault, accused of brandishing his weapon at two unidentified women, ages 71 and 54, and improper exhibition of...

Donald Trump is on the cusp of an improbable comeback victory in the 2024 presidential election because the American people would not let him fail. The campaign and its staff worked incredibly hard, and from the outside, the 2024 effort seemed to be the most well-organized, and professional, of Trump’s three attempts at the presidency. Yet there were moments when Trump seemed to falter, and when he was lifted up by people who decided, on their own, that they would not let him lose. Take, for example, the song “Fighter,” written by Breitbart News’ own Jon Kahn and recorded in...

Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Friday on CNN’s “News Central” that “voter suppression activity” was occurring in Georgia despite record turnout. Co-anchor Kate Bolduan asked, “Early voting has been just breaking records from day one in Georgia. You have been working on improving voter turnout in Georgia for years. What do you think is driving this surge in early voting this time?” Abrams said, “Well, while we are excited about who’s showing up we have to understand that turnout does not mean there is not voter suppression activity. A lot of those voters in 2020 were able...

Four days before Election Day, former President Donald Trump leads Vice President Kamala Harris in the crucial battleground states of Pennsylvania, Nevada and North Carolina. A new telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and American Thinker finds that, if the election were held today, 49% of Likely Pennsylvania voters would vote for Trump, while 47% would vote for Harris. Two percent (2%) say they would vote for some other candidate and another two percent (2%) are still undecided.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ridiculed Donald Trump on the campaign trail after the former president appeared to briefly struggle while climbing into a garbage truck. Trump staged the moment to hit at President Joe Biden for calling Trump supporters garbage – or at least seeming to do so in a mangled comment during a zoom fundraising call. Trump's team engineered a PR coup by having the former president get inside a garbage truck to condemn his rival, then appear in a safety vest during an election when working class voters are key. But footage of Trump briefly missing the truck's...

The former mayor of a small town near the University of Maryland has been arrested on charges related to tens of thousands of child sex abuse images allegedly found in his possession, authorities said. Joel Biermann, who served as mayor of University Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, from 2022 to 2024, was taken into custody from his home on Monday by the FBI, local police revealed to 7News on Wednesday. (warning - disturbing material)

Hugh Hewitt Schools Jonathan Capehart on What it Means to be a Real Journalist

The United States and Russia are very close to engaging in 'direct military conflict,' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in an interview published Friday in a Turkey daily, just days ahead of a US presidential election. 'Under the current president (Joe Biden), who has taken the downward spiral of Russophobia in the US to its logical conclusion, our countries are on the brink of direct military conflict,' he told the Hurriyet daily, without elaborating. Asked about next week's US election pitting former Republican president Donald Trump against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, Lavrov said the outcome would make little difference...

he latest employment situation report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), released Friday morning, showed that the economy added only 12,000 jobs in October, or 12% of the 100,000 additions expected. It's the smallest gain in four years, since December 2020. The report "showed a material weakening in job growth," EY Senior Economist Lydia Boussour told Entrepreneur in an emailed statement.

PARIS (Reuters) - A gangland shootout set off a clash involving hundreds in the city of Poitiers overnight, leaving five people injured, French officials said on Friday, highlighting the challenges faced by the new government in tackling violent crime

The Uber passenger charged with a hate crime for pepper spraying a Muslim driver in Manhattan is a former sorority girl who was fired from her PR job over the shocking incident. Manhattan College graduate Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, had just started a promising career at a New York public relations firm when she was caught on dashcam springing forward to spray her rideshare driver in July, horrifying the pal who was with her. However, her employer, D Pagan Communications in Melville, fired her over the shocking incident. Agency president Debra Pagan confirmed to PR Weekly that Guilbeault had left the...