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ThePersistence @ScottPresler BREAKING The New Jersey gubernatorial election is TIED! 🟥 Jack Ciattarelli: 43% 🟦 Mikie Sherrill: 43% I’m asking everyone across the country to focus your time, talent, & energy on New Jersey.

The FBI has acknowledged it had 275 plainclothes agents in the massive crowds on Jan. 6, 2021, more than four and a half years after questions were first raised about the level of FBI involvement that day, Blaze News has learned. A senior congressional source said the number is not necessarily a surprise, since the FBI often embeds countersurveillance personnel at large events. But given the FBI’s until-now steadfast refusal to disclose the level of its presence at the Capitol, the figure might still be viewed with skepticism in some quarters. The news comes in the wake of claims by...

Poland has barred pro-Russian Moldovan politician Irina Vlah from entering the country for five years, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, accusing her of helping Moscow interfere in Moldova’s upcoming parliamentary elections. "Irina Vlah, a Moldovan politician who is assisting Russia in interfering with preparations for the parliamentary elections in Moldova, will be banned from entering Poland," the Polish foreign ministry said in a statement. Moldova is set to hold a high-stakes parliamentary vote on Sunday that could determine its European path. Officials in Chișinău and Western capitals have accused Moscow of trying to sway the outcome and undermine the...

Well, I feel obliged to post this here because I have now been the victim of fraud three (possibly four) times in the last month. The first and second incidents took place in Dallas at the end of August. I did not know until I looked at my bank statement that my debit card had been used at a Dallas area restaurant. My husband's debit card had been used at a different Dallas area restaurant. We live in San Antonio, so it's not like we were in the Dallas area and forgot that we stopped for bites to eat. My...

The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recommended that its citizens immediately leave Belarus and refrain from traveling to the country, the Polish embassy in Minsk reported. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends refraining from any travel to the Republic of Belarus and calls on Polish citizens currently in the Republic of Belarus to immediately leave its territory, using available commercial and private means“, the embassy's press service said.

In 1964, U.S. minimum wage was $1.25 an hour. That’s 5 quarters, which at the time were made of 90% silver. There was 0.18 oz of silver in each coin. With silver priced at $44/oz today, the melt value of those 5 silver quarters is now $39. So minimum wage in 1964 was equivalent to $39 an hour today, as priced in silver. 1964 would be the last year that U.S. quarters and dimes contained silver. The half-dollar was reduced from 90% silver to 40% from 1964-1970, but even that became untenable eventually. One catalyst that led the government to...

Keeping Pyongyang's coffers full icon North Korean-linked crews connected to the pervasive IT worker scams have upped their malware game, using more advanced tools, including a backdoor that has much of the same code as Pyongyang's infamous Lazarus Group deploys. In a white paper [PDF] presented at Virus Bulletin 2025, ESET researchers Peter Kálnai and Matěj Havránek identified new links between DeceptiveDevelopment's malware and the Lazarus Group's PostNapTea RAT. DeceptiveDevelopment, a North Korea-aligned group that has been active since at least 2023, overlaps with the Contagious Interview and WageMole campaigns, plus a gang that CrowdStrike tracks as Famous Chollima. Its...

Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitorsDespite protest letters, concerns that it's biased and untrustworthy, model tweaks to appease its billionaire boss, and even a past incident where it called itself "MechaHitler," xAI's Grok is still being made available to government agencies for mere pennies. The GSA announced that it has awarded yet another OneGov discount contract on Thursday, this time to Elon Musk's xAI outfit. The agreement will see xAI offer Grok to federal agencies for just $0.42 per agency for a period of 18 months - six months longer than companies like OpenAI, Google,...

Brussels Airport has been plunged into disruption this weekend after a cyberattack hit one of its external service providers, paralysing check-in and boarding systems and forcing airlines to adapt quickly to keep passengers moving. Flights cancelled as systems crippled\ The issue began on Friday september 19, when hackers targeted the IT systems of a company responsible for check-in and boarding operations at the Belgian hub. By Saturday morning, at least nine flights had to be cancelled, while many more suffered heavy delays. Brussels Airlines, the airport’s flagship carrier, managed to avoid outright cancellations. However, the airline admitted that it was...

Nate Robinson spotlights fentanyl’s devastation with a stark Philly video.Former NBA guard Nate Robinson recently used his platform to shed light on the devastating impact of fentanyl addiction. On Instagram, Robinson shared a disturbing video from Philadelphia that showed individuals slumped over and staggering in public, their movements eerily resembling “zombies.” The clip was set to Rae Sremmurd’s hit song Black Beatles, the same track once associated with the lighthearted “Mannequin Challenge.” The mix of the upbeat song with such grim scenes made the footage even more jarring. “Man who put this music over this post? Smh. Swaelee the song...

Dennis Prager on Charlie Kirk. Please watch.

4,202,720 views May 23, 2017 "King Crimson performed Heroes at the Admiralspalast in Berlin as a celebration, a remembrancing and an homage. The concert was thirty nine years and one month after the original sessions at the Hansa Tonstudio overlooking the Berlin Wall. This is released in the Fortieth Anniversary year." - Robert Fripp.

DUNNELLON, Fla. - Authorities have issued a Florida Amber Alert for a missing 17-year-old Marion County boy who is believed to have been a victim in a shooting. What we know: The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has issued an Amber Alert for 17-year-old Caden Speight of Marion County. Authorities said Speight was last seen in the 12800 block of Southwest Highway 484 in Dunnellon. The Marion County Sheriff's Office has confirmed to FOX 35 that deputies were investigating a shooting in the same area and believe Speight may be a victim.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that she had a source within Fox News’ war room who leaked data to her team about how things were looking on election night during an appearance on The View Tuesday. Recalling the night of the 2024 election, Harris told the co-hosts of The View that her husband, Doug Emhoff, “told me that he had been out campaigning with my brother-in-law in Pennsylvania, and we met back up in D.C., and I remember him being a little out of sorts, but there was so much happening.” She continued, “But on his way back from...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Following multiple brazen Bay Area jewelry store heists in the last month, ABC7 News heard from a security expert and a community advocate on the concerning trend and why we might be seeing an increase in these robberies.

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Gentle Care Animal Hospital in Edmond is closed after owner Dr. Christopher Rispoli’s post about Charlie Kirk's assassination sparked backlash. The Edmond veterinarian who wrote a now-deleted post, but widely shared, about the assassination of Charlie Kirk has issued his first public statement. Gentle Care Animal Hospital in Edmond has been closed since its owner, Dr. Christopher Rispoli, faced backlash over a social media post about Kirk's assassination earlier this month. The clinic’s staff and Rispoli have now each issued statements addressing the fallout. The clinic closure represents a nationwide wave of firings, closures, and job losses related to comments...

Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on criminal charges related to allegations that he lied to Congress during testimony in 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information. Comey is facing one count of false statements and one count of obstruction of justice, according to a release from the Department of Justice.

Early voting in Virginia began just last week, but the first wave of ballots already shows Republican-leaning House of Delegates districts pulling ahead of their Democratic counterparts. Of the 20 districts with the highest number of ballots cast so far, 11 are strongly Republican or lean Republican, five are strongly Democratic, and four are competitive, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project. In total, 35,224 votes had been cast statewide as of Monday, nearly all of them in person. Fewer than 1,000 ballots were cast by mail. And while Virginia does not register voters by party,...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It’s not every day that Austin Mayor Kirk Watson starts an Austin City Council meeting talking about bong hits. But today’s meeting — at least until public comment had wrapped up — was anything but standard. “If Anita Bong Hit is here, but I haven’t seen any of the Bong Hits in a long time…even though bong hits have long been an iconic part of Austin, Texas and brought much happiness to our city. In fact, if any of the Bong Hits are here, it would be a high point in our day for us to get...