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CV NEWS FEED // A poll of early voters in Florida shows that the state’s abortion amendment is just short of passing, with less than 58% of early voters supporting it. The measure needs 60% of the votes to pass. Florida Politics reports that a poll from St. Pete Polls shows that 37% of early voters opposed Amendment 4, which would allow abortion up until viability (around 24 weeks) or “when necessary,” as CatholicVote previously reported. Another 5% of early voters did not respond to whether or not they voted in favor of the ballot. St. Pete Polls found that...

We’re down to the final days of the presidential election. I can hear your whoops and hollers of joy from my keyboard! No doubt you’ve grown weary of non-stop campaign ads. We all have. But this suffering is worth it if it would move every Christian to vote pro-life up and down the ballot. I often say I wouldn’t vote a dogcatcher into office unless he or she was pro-life. People usually snicker and roll their eyes, but my point is every politician climbs their own personal ladder to political success. That may be the school board, a member of...

Hugh Hewitt, an establishment media conservative commentator, abruptly departed a live episode Thursday of Washington Post Live’s First Look after its host berated him for recapping election integrity initiatives that were held up in court. WaPo’s associate editor Jonathan Capehart appeared to be embarrassed by the departure of Hewitt, who called the show “the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of,” implicitly likening it to a campaign ad for Kamala Harris. A recent Gallup poll found Americans’ trust in the media to report current events “fully, accurately and fairly” has plummeted to a record low. Only 31...

Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo but appears as only a faint smudge in the eyepiece of a small telescope. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight in this remarkably deep and detailed galaxy portrait, a telescopic image that spans an area about the angular size of a full moon. In it, the giant galaxy's elongated yellowish core is dominated by the light from old, cool stars. Beyond...

Doctors in New York City are describing the first known U.S. cases of sexually transmitted ringworm, which can cause a nasty rash that can take months to bring under control. Photo by A. Caplan/MMWR/HealthDay News Doctors in New York City are describing the first known U.S. cases of sexually transmitted ringworm, which can cause a nasty rash that can take months to bring under control. Despite the name, ringworm isn't any kind of worm but instead is a fungus, Trichophyton mentagrophytes. It's more commonly known as jock itch (when it affects the groin area) or athlete's foot, and can produce...

CNN — Election polls can’t foretell who will win the presidential election. They’re inherently imprecise. They carry the potential for error. All that being the case, polls this year have found plenty that’s meaningful about how voters think about politics in 2024 – from Americans’ broad-ranging pessimism about the political landscape to the deep divide in values between supporters of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. As a rule, polling provides a snapshot of opinions, rather than a prediction about how people may act in the future – whether that’s how they’ll eventually vote or any other decisions they might make....

This year's ozone hole over the Antarctic is one of the smallest ever recorded and scientists say the ozone layer should fully recover by 2066. Image courtesy of NOAA Climate.gov Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A hole in the atmosphere's ozone layer is the seventh-smallest since recovery began in 1992, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday. The hole annually opens over the Antarctic at the southern pole and is much smaller than in most prior years, the NOAA announced. NOAA and NASA scientists estimate the ozone layer could fully recover by 2066 and no longer have a hole opening...

The Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Tim Walz, called Elon Musk a “gay guy.”

When Camila Bortolleto was 9 years old, her parents brought her from Brazil to the U.S. Bortolleto’s parents are undocumented, but in 2013 she was approved for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed her to get a job and, with it, job-based health insurance. Bortolleto, now 36 and living in Connecticut, left her job at a nonprofit in June, which meant losing her health insurance and leaving her with no other options: DACA recipients have been barred from receiving government-funded health insurance. That changed Friday, when tens of thousands of DACA recipients became able to sign up...

I voted today in Raleigh NC and the early voting line was pretty long. I'm in a traditionally Republican precinct so this seems like pretty heavy turnout for the R's. Any other local reports are welcomed to this thread.

Maybe Trump-bashing isn't all its cracked up to be. It’s hard to measure the intensity of negative media coverage of former President Donald Trump, but it’s safe to say it’s rising as Election Day approaches. What’s interesting to note is that in the face of unrelentingly negative coverage — at a high level now, but negative for a long time — the public views Trump more favorably than it has since he entered politics. Asking voters whether they have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of a politician is a staple of polling. The politician is referred to as being underwater...

More polling suggests the presidential race in Pennsylvania will be every bit as close as it was in 2016, when Donald Trump won, and in 2020, when he lost. But a key piece of data points to a flaw in the model and potential attrition that could hamper Kamala Harris’ hopes to pick up 19 electoral votes and score a promotion when votes are counted next week. The Suffolk University-USA Today survey of 500 likely voters shows the race couldn’t be tighter. Harris and Trump pick up exactly 243 voters each; with rounding, they’re tied at 49%. Nine voters refused...

Billionaire Kamala Harris surrogate Mark Cuban knew he’d made a major unforced error with his Thursday remarks insulting Republican women on “The View” — he came well prepared to an interview with a conservative female host soon after, The Post can exclusively reveal. “Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever,” Cuban declared days before the election on the ABC gabfest promoting Harris for president. Georgia radio host Martha Zoller had a unique opportunity to confront him, having scheduled an interview tied to a roundtable he was holding in the Peach State. The Talkers Magazine 2023 Woman...

Republican voters who left the Democrat stronghold of California for neighbouring Nevada could help win the swing state for Donald Trump, supporters and a senator have claimed. Some 150,000 Californians have moved across the border since 2020, and now make up 20 per cent of the state's population. It is not clear how many of these are Republicans, but the gap between registered Democrats and GOP members has been narrowing - from 111,000 in 2020 to 71,000 in 2023.

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GREECE, N.Y. — A 15-year-old boy may face permanent damage after he was stabbed on an RTS bus in Greece. Nahziiryahzihn Ali, 18, is accused of stabbing the teenager during a fight on the bus just before 7 p.m. Wednesday on Long Pond Road near the Mall at Greece Ridge. Police said he started fighting with the victim, then stabbed him in the eye. The victim is facing vision loss and likely will lose his eye completely. Ali has been charged with first-degree assault and is in the Monroe County Jail on $5,000 cash bail. The 15-year-old boy was taken...

Bait and Nintendo Switch... Exciting news, Nintendo fans! The video game giant just revealed something huge! Could this be it? The fabled Nintendo Switch 2 announcement that internet leakers have been teasing for months?! Nope, it’s just Spotify for Nintendo music.Last night, Nintendo revealed Nintendo Music; a music streaming app that comes as a packaged deal for anyone with a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.Anyone who has been desperately searching for a way to listen to the Pikmin 4 soundtrack while they pump iron down at the gym is probably thrilled, but the other 99.99% of the internet is not best...

The law is the law, and Jimmy Kimmel broke it. Or at least, he broke the law as it has been outrageously interpreted according to President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, which prosecuted and jailed Douglass Mackey for making an almost identical joke to the one Kimmel made on Wednesday night. During his monologue, Kimmel said, “If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday.” Get it? He’s joking about how he hopes Trump voters don’t vote in time. But is it a harmless joke or a case of “election...

An migrant who was arrested at the border for crossing illegally before being cut loose has been charged with raping a five-year-old girl on Long Island. Wilson Castillo Diaz, 26, of Westbury, is accused of raping the young victim at an undisclosed location on October 16, according to Nassau County Police. Diaz, who illegally crossed the US border near Rio Grande, Texas in April 2014, was arrested by US Border Patrol agents and then released.

Americans are being left outraged as Covid era mask rules appear to be creeping back into daily life. This week a hospital system in Monterey, California, which treats nearly 400,000 patients a year, reinstated its face mask mandate for visitors and patients. Meanwhile several counties in the Bay Area have also brought back mask rules in healthcare facilities ahead of flu season.