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Donald Trump's victory yesterday sparked a barrage of calls for a hike in UK defence spending amid fears the US could pull out of NATO. A string of former defence secretaries said ministers should set a timetable for increasing military funding to 3 per cent of GDP in case Mr Trump reduces support for UK-backed campaigns, such as the war in Ukraine. And new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch rounded on Sir Keir Starmer over the issue during her first Prime Minister's Questions, challenging him to commit to hiking spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP. During the US election campaign,...

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Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign fell $20 million in debt during the final week of her campaign, according to several sources. Christopher Cadelago, the California bureau chief for Politico wrote in a post on X that Harris’s campaign had “ended with at least $20 million in debt,” according to two sources familiar with the situation. “Harris raised over $1 billion and had $118 million in the bank as of Oct. 16,” Cadelago added in his post. https://x.com/ccadelago/status/1854342667251187795 A Kamala campaign staffer confirmed to Breitbart News that the reports that Harris’s campaign was “$20 million” in debt “is real,” adding that...

An Israeli teenager was killed by a Hezbollah rocket in the north on Wednesday, after the terror group also fired rockets twice throughout the day at central Israel, demonstrating it maintains the capability to launch long-range attacks even as the Israeli military pursues its ground operation in southern Lebanon.A barrage of rockets at northern Israel Wednesday evening killed a teenager, whose body was only discovered hours later in Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk near Acre.The Magen David Adom ambulance service said that a farmhand who found the body led medics to the site, where they located the victim suffering from severe shrapnel...

NASA today insisted stranded astronaut Sunita Williams is safe and healthy amid growing public concern for her health. But the space agency again refused to give any details about four astronauts who were mysteriously hospitalized late last month after returning from a separate space mission... A doctor raised concerns about Williams this week after a photo showed her looking 'gaunt', suggesting she had lost a significant amount of weight after spending more than 150 days stuck on the International Space Station.... Concern over Williams came less than two weeks after the hospitalization of four NASA/SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts, who splashed down...

Breathe deeply and savor the musky scent of broken leftist dreams. Mmmmmmm. Smells like freedom! Now, we must get busy pummeling our enemies. Some silly people will say that you shouldn’t kick an opponent when he’s down. That’s actually the best time to kick him. This is no time to go wobbly. We beat the left decisively and completely. Their humiliation is complete. They thought they had us at their feet and at their mercy. They thought they could throw our avatar in jail and thereby disenfranchise and silence us. They thought they were going to be in power forever...

A furious former Biden staffer has blamed Kamala Harris and the Democratic party for their electoral loss.MSNBC's Symone Sanders-Townsend appeared on Morning Joe on Wednesday to discuss president-elect Donald Trump's landslide electoral win.The former advisor to president Biden and Harris said ousting Biden from the election was one of the reasons Harris lost the election.'The people that said Joe Biden was the problem… Where's my camera?' Sanders-Townsend said, 'I will just note that it is probably not the best idea that Democrats orchestrated a stab fest, a proverbial stabbing in the front of the sitting president of the United States...

A German newspaper published an explicit single world headline after Donald Trump emerged as the victor in the 2024 presidential election. Die Zeit, which is the country's biggest weekly paper, posted a reaction piece this morning headlined : 'F***'. The piece outlined factors that could result in scenarios for his political opponents, and was penned by Nele Pollatschek for the outlet, which has been published in the city of Hamburg since it was founded in 1946. In the article, seen by The Latin Times, she wrote: 'Last time, Trump's advisors stopped him from doing too much nonsense. 'Except that he...

A lawyer in Melbourne, Australia has been referred by a federal circuit judge to the Office of the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner after filing a summary of authorities that do not exist, which he prepared using Gen AI assistant Leap LawY. The case, which happened in the summer but we first became aware of thanks to coverage on 10 October by The Guardian newspaper, was heard by Justice Amanda Humphreys. Subsequent research confirms that another lawyer has fallen foul of Gen AI hallucination, and filing case law without verifying the accuracy of the information. Justice Humphreys adjourned divorce...

Effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting still holds narrow lead By Liz Ruskin & Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage - November 6, 2024 Ballot Measure 2, the effort to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting and open primaries, was winning slightly as election results continued to come in early Wednesday, with about 97% of Alaska precincts counted. Wednesday results showed Ballot Measure 2 ahead by 4,289 votes, out of a total of more than 256,000 ballots cast. That’s a margin of less than 2 percentage points. The other initiative on Alaska voters’ ballots, to increase the state’s minimum...

Arizona AND Nevada are finally called for Donald J. Trump!But watch out! Despite maintaining a razor thin 0.1% lead, Sam Brown's chances of winning the U.S. Senate seat have been decreased to just 38.7%.

THIS IS A MUST-SEE!!This is the most brilliant AI production I've ever seen. It's a celebration of the Trump victory and the wailing of liberals. It is amazing. Below are a few previews. I LOVE every single liberal covering their face with their hands including Xi and Zelensky! Even the CATS get in on the act! It is too, too hilarious. It's 2 minutes 15 seconds long, so not a big time commitment, but you WILL love it. Guaranteed.

Democrats’ dream of blocking a Republican governing trifecta is dwindling down to a handful of West Coast races, as California’s large cache of still-untallied ballots and its notoriously slow count now take center stage in the national political drama. The party had long seen the nation’s two blue bulwarks — New York and California — as the decisive staging ground for its quest to retake the House majority. In the Empire State, it flipped two GOP-held seats, a rare bright spot in an otherwise nightmarish election night for Democrats. But after Republicans ousted two Pennsylvania Democratic incumbents, the GOP appears...

Donald Trump is projected to win the state of Arizona, clinching a major battleground state, according to Decision Desk HQ. Arizona is one of seven swing states that held the key to whether Trump or Vice President Harris returned to the White House. The Grand Canyon State went for Trump in 2016 by 3.5 points, but the former president narrowly lost it in 2020 against President Biden by just over a quarter of a percentage point. Trump has secured the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House following a roughly 100-day campaign between him and Harris. With the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Secret Service report into the July assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump said multiple staffers knew about clear line-of-sight risks but found them “acceptable” and that farm equipment intended to obstruct the view from the nearby building where the gunman opened fire was never used. The internal review released Friday is the latest in a list of reports and investigations into the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania... The internal review also said that a Secret Service counter-sniper team did not pick up a radio that the local law enforcement...

Wow! Grammy-Award winning singer Lee Greenwood released a jazzed-up version of his signature song “God Bless the U.S.A.,” with an accompanying goose-bump-producing patriotic video on Tuesday. “Nearly 10 Years Ago, Donald Trump started using God Bless The USA as his walk out song at every rally and event. Little did I know 40 years ago that my song would play a key part of such a historic presidential campaign. To President Trump and the millions of supporters, Thank You!” Greenwood wrote in a social media post. “I am proud to have voted Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of...

Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump have agreed the relationship between the UK and US is "incredibly strong" and will "continue to thrive", Downing Street has said. In the first phone call between the pair after the US election, the PM offered his "hearty congratulations" to Trump after his "historic victory" and said he looked forward to working closely with the President-elect, a No 10 spokeswoman said. It comes after Kemi Badenoch urged Sir Keir to apologise for "derogatory" comments made about Trump by David Lammy before he was foreign secretary. In her first appearance in Parliament as Conservative leader,...

U.S. Border Patrol agents reacted ecstatically to news that President-elect Donald Trump will return to the White House after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris. “We have hope. We can take care of our country and our citizens. Do what we took an oath to do. Bring pride back to our agency,” a senior Border Patrol agent in Texas wrote in a text message Wednesday morning. “We felt like we were forced to turn our backs on our country! No more!!!”... Paul Perez, president of the National Border Patrol Council union, told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that he expects the...

All the top left wing “analysts” including Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Nate Silver, James Carville etc predicting a nice win for Kamala.

A military judge ruled Wednesday that plea deals sparing accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other terrorists the death penalty must remain in effect. The stunning move comes three months after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revoked the shocking plea deals handed out to Mohammed and two alleged accomplices by the Office of Military Commissions in July. ... The order, issued by Air Force Col. and Judge Matthew McCall in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba ... Family members of the victims of the heinous terror attack, which killed nearly 3,000, were outraged by the judge’s ruling.