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In an interview on Stephen A. Smith's SiriusXM political show "Straight Shooter with Stephen A.," former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) said the Democratic Party is fighting a civil war. STEPHEN A. SMITH, HOST: What about your thoughts about Governor Kathy Hochul endorsing him, supporting him? It's one thing for Bernie Sanders to do it. He's a progressive leftist and doesn't mind socialism at all. It's one thing for AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, doing the same thing. It's another thing entirely for your former lieutenant governor to be willing to do that. What should that say to New Yorkers in your...

Republicans are winning the shutdown, and even CNN has to admit it. We turn now to my favorite pollster, Harry Enten, who has some shocking news for his colleagues at the network. Take a look. That’s right: GOP poll numbers are actually up! The way Republicans are choosing to handle the shutdown is actually resonating with voters. And not just their own voters, but also with independents. Republican voters, the MAGA base, they’re excited that the party is sticking to its guns, and independents are also rewarding them for it. I think that’s very telling. GOP voters do not want...

Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can. Can Donald Trump legally run for a third term as president of the United States? No. Can Trump serve as president for a third term? No. Is there some untried or untested constitutional theory that could potentially allow Trump to serve again? No. Can he run for vice president? No. Can he run for Congress, get elected as speaker of the House, and serve as president after the president and vice president resign? Well, he can run for...

The left wing and media rage hysterically from one Trump psychodrama to the next, while President Donald Trump trolls both on social media. But all that is verbiage. What matters is the data and facts of Trump's first nine months since January 20, 2025, in comparison to either former President Joe Biden's prior year or the averages of his four years in office. Take the border. No one knows how many illegal aliens entered -- or stayed in -- the U.S. during Biden's four years of open borders. What is clear is that he set a presidential record of well...

Harvard students are distraught over the university's recent report calling on administrators to reel in grade inflation. The Ivy League institution released a report on Monday that found more than 60% of grades awarded are now A's, up from about 40% a decade ago and just 25% twenty years back, leading the university to doubt the "integrity of our grading." Students are now panicking over Harvard's suggestion of limiting the number of A+ grades professors can award in order to crack down on grade inflation, according to The Harvard Crimson. "The whole entire day, I was crying," Sophie Chumburidze, a...

“Here, Congress appropriated $6 billion to SNAP in 2024as a contingency reserve through 2026, ‘to be used in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations.’” ========================================================== Federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to use contingency funds to cover SNAP benefits starting tomorrow. The administration said it could not use the $5 billion contingency fund. The Democrat officials who challenged the administration claimed the Agriculture Department (USDA) has a “separate fund with around $23 billion” that it could use for SNAP. However, US District Judge Indira Talwani in...

FBI agents were conducting operations in Dearborn and Inkster early Friday. It is unclear if these activities are related to a possible terrorist attack plot that was stopped by the FBI. The Brief. The FBI was in Dearborn and Inkster on Friday morning. It is unclear if what they were doing is related to a possible terror attack that was thwarted by federal authorities. Details about the foiled terror attack are limited, but led to multiple arrests in Michigan, the FBI director said.

🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Jasmine Crockett claims Republicans keep walking up to her saying, "I love you!" 😂 "Cities, airports, people walk up to me. They tell me they have a difference on politics, but they LOVE ME!" 😭

JUICE might be bound to Jupiter, but it is fortuitously in place to peek at this object from beyond the stars. Comet 3I/ATLAS looking stunning! Image credit: International Gemini Observatory /NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist, Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) (CC BY 4.0) ================================================================ Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to be studied from not one but two locations in deep space. The comet has just gone through perihelion, the closest approach to the Sun, but unfortunately, it is on the opposite side of our star....

When you use skin color and chromosomes as criteria for filling positions of trust, as opposed to filling those positions with the best people regardless of skin color or chromosomes, you will not, unless by accident, get the best people for the job. No public figure in recent memory exemplifies this maxim more than Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. But that does not even tell half of the story. According to The New York Times, Jackson has found herself increasingly at odds not only with SCOTUS’ nominally conservative majority, but also with her fellow liberals, Justices Elena Kagan and...

National broadcasters dedicated zero air time to informing the public about the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” scandal, a sprawling surveillance operation after Jan. 6 that probed more than 150 Republican lawmakers and entities close to President Donald Trump. According to analysis by media watchdog group NewsBusters, while documents continue to reveal Operation Arctic Frost ensnared more and more GOP legislators, major networks ABC, CBS and NBC over the past week have thus far failed to report on the bombshell developments. NewsBusters’ Curtis Houck highlighted the networks’ lack of coverage, noting Fox News’ Brett Baier did the story justice. However, even after...

Distressing footage showed a female migrant scream 'help me, I have my papers' as she was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at Salt Lake City airport. Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, 39, was dragged away by plainclothes agents at the Utah travel hub on Wednesday. Footage emerged of her arrest, with Leiva seen being grabbed her by the arms as she was placed in cuffs, pulling her up from the floor as she kicked out her legs and stamped her feet. She let out bloodcurdling cries as they did, saying: 'Help me, help me, I have my papers. Help...

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Explanation: Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major) and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimated distance. The massive star that created the bubble, a Wolf-Rayet star, is the bright one near the center of the nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun and are thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova phase of massive...

A federal judge in Rhode Island has temporarily ordered the Trump administration to continue funding benefits for SNAP, the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. "The court is orally at this time, ordering that USDA must distribute the contingency money timely, or as soon as possible, for the November 1 payments to be made," said U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr.

Check this out: That's a video posted by "Ella Mae" over on TikTok. Her followers thought it was funny. Other very "tolerant" people decided to dress as the ghost of Charlie Kirk, mocking his public assassination in front of his wife and children with a .30-06 round to the neck. This woman in Los Angeles even wore her costume to the gym because she was so proud of it. Next, there's this very inclusive and kind young man, reportedly from Maine, who couldn't help but smile as he showed the world his mockery of a murdered husband and father. He...

More than 300 piles of cremated human remains have been found scattered across the Nevada desert. A man discovered them near the remote town of Searchlight, about an hour outside Las Vegas, on July 28. A team from Palm Mortuaries and Cemeteries arrived at the scene on Wednesday to remove the piles. They found about 315 sets of ashes and placed them each in individual urns. It comes after officials launched an initial investigation which confirmed in August that the mounds were human, 8 News Now reported. However, no traceable information could be salvaged from the 'cremains' - a term...

AOC and Mamdani the Commie are ascendant in the leftist cold civil war because the sane have been silenced by fear. It can be quite amusing and disturbing at the same time when someone who has lost the plot openly states that "... we are not the crazy ones. They want us to think we are crazy. We are sane." But there she was the other night, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez herself, making that claim. Because it's the same as someone claiming he is patriotic – if you have to speak up and say it, no one believes you are. The...

To return Americans to the Moon, SpaceX aligned Starship development along two paths: development of the core Starship system and supporting infrastructure, including production facilities, test facilities, and launch sites -- which SpaceX is self-funding representing over 90% of system costs -- and development of the HLS-specific Starship configuration, which leverages and modifies the core vehicle capability to support NASA's requirements for landing crew on and returning them from the Moon. SpaceX is working under a fixed-price contract with NASA, ensuring that the company is only paid after the successful completion of progress milestones, and American taxpayers are not on...

A pair of greedy sisters were filmed attacking supermarket staff and hurling racist slurs while allegedly stealing lobster, steaks and truffle butter. Olivia L. Byrd, 37, and Rahjane J. Byrd, 28, were caught on camera swinging at employees inside a Market Basket in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, last weekend. Wild footage captured inside the store caught the moment the two violently punched an employee and hurled bags at them while shouting their heads off. One of the sisters was seen clobbering a worker in the head, while the other charged at another employee, swinging a blue bag at them. As the...