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State Rep. Angie Nixon upset Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vindman in Florida’s Democrat Senate primary on Tuesday night.Nixon, who ran to the left of the TDS-addled Vindman, defeated the fired National Security Council (NSC) aide by a 56-44 percent margin.Vindman has built his campaign around his obsessive hatred of President Donald Trump and anyone who supports him, repeatedly calling President Trump a “Russian asset” and calling the MAGA movement a “nihilistic cult bent on establishing dictatorship.”

Golden State motorists and business owners are fuming over fresh regulations set to spike the price of new car tires — saying the new rules will further squeeze drivers already battling sky-high costs. On Monday, the California Energy Commission unanimously green lit the new rules to phase out the sale of replacement tires that don’t meet the state’s energy-efficiency standards. The change could potentially wipe out 70% of the tires currently available to California drivers, opponents say — and inflate the cost of an average set by hundreds of dollars. “I already can’t afford to buy a new set of...

Likely prompted by the runaway success of a certain classically oriented movie in theaters this summer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned the oldest preserved fragment of The Odyssey to one of its galleries, where it can be seen and appreciated after a long time out of view. The relic is now on display in Gallery 162 in the museum’s section devoted to Greek and Roman Art. In a round-up of Odyssey-related collection treasures on its website, the Met describes the relic as the first early Ptolemaic fragment of the text ever discovered and notes: “Dating from around 285–250...

Since Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took office in October 2022, German aid organisations have, according to Rome's figures, brought around 22,500 migrants to Italian ports. The dispute between Italy and Germany over the sharing of responsibility for migrants is becoming increasingly heated. The Italian Interior Ministry has now released new figures on private rescue vessels and is demanding financial compensation from Germany. Since Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took office in October 2022, German aid organisations have, according to Rome's figures, brought around 22,500 migrants to Italian ports. In total, about 42,300 people have arrived in Italy on board...

David Krumholtz is “frustrated, fed up, fried” after more than 30 years in Hollywood. The “Oppenheimer” actor, 48, declared that he is taking an “indefinite break” from acting as he took issue with how actors are treated and fears that he could go “broke.” “I kinda sorta put my acting career on hold the other day. It’s been something I’ve been petrified to do for years,” Krumholtz wrote in a now-deleted post on Threads Monday. “Specifically, the fear was that I’d go broke and not be able to handle being out of the game.” SNIP “A huge wave of relief...

Any vessel moving cargo between two American ports must be built in an American shipyard, be American-owned and be three-quarters American-crewed. An American-built cargo ship costs $190 million to $250 million to build; the same vessel costs about $30 million from a foreign shipyard. It adds up, but not many people trace it to a statute they're mostly unaware of. One side is lobbying. The other is you, and you're busy. Fewer than 100 oceangoing ships qualify under the Jones Act today, and the American tanker fleet is so thin that moving oil from Texas to the Northeast costs about...

A bill to regulate car tires was passed by the California Legislature 20 years ago but never implemented. “The California Energy Commission dusted off a 20+ year old bill to pass new rules restricting tire sales in the state,” KCRA’s Ashley Zavala reported Monday. “The CEC has not regulated tires before. I asked Commissioner (former State Sen) Nancy Skinner if she pushed it & why this sat dormant until now.” Assembly Bill 844 “directs the California Energy Commission to adopt a Replacement Tire Efficiency Program to ensure replacement tires for passenger cars and light-duty trucks sold in California are at...

Alaska Senate Primary Results 2026 Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan is seeking a third term and faces a serious Democratic challenger, former Rep. Mary Peltola, who has won statewide previously despite Alaska’s usual GOP lean. Alaska runs all-party primaries, with the top four finishers regardless of party advancing to a general election decided by ranked choice voting. MARY PELTOLA and DAN SULLIVAN are advancing to the general election Mary Peltola DEM 63,364 48.0% Dan Sullivan GOP 56,510 42.8% (Incumbent, the real Dan Sullivan) Daniel Sullivan Jr. GOP 3,222 2.4% (the fake Dan Sullivan, did not have the Rep designation on the...

The Treasury Department on Wednesday said it will more than double the size of its government debt repurchases, sending yields sharply lower at a time of substantial market stress. With fixed income markets under pressure and yields surging to levels not seen in nearly 20 years, the announcement targets the sensitive longer-duration part of the Treasury market. Under the accelerated buyback, Treasury, led by Secretary Scott Bessent, will target the 10- to 20- year and 20- to 30-year portion of the market, which has seen a buyers’ strike since late June. The government will “at least double” the maximum size...

Dear Friends; Two of the best out there on end times teaching and cutting edge biblical current events; All things are EXPONENTIALLY growing and moving our nation and the world to the Day of the Lord! Even if you are not a believer, you cannot neglect that America is too far gone, and godless evil is saturates our nation. We need more than President Trump ( thank God for him). This discussion of today’s America with Jan and Michelle is very sobering and pointing us all to the only hope America and this high tech godless last days world has;...

Mike Pence spent most of his life and his political career selling America a very curated version of himself. Mike sold us this deeply Christian, socially conservative, old-school persona, a man who believed in traditional marriage, traditional views on sex, and two genders. Long after Pence was gone from Team Trump, he was still describing the trans movement as this “radical gender ideology. He openly opposed trans military service, he backed restrictions on gender-transition procedures for minors, and he insisted over and over that there are only two genders. This was Mike Pence’s persona, and nothing could shake it. Until...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Israel struck an air base in northwest Syria early Tuesday, saying it aimed to prevent Turkish troops from deploying there. Turkey, which has close ties with the Syrian government and has been providing assistance to Syria's military, has tense relations with Israel. The rival countries have sought to curb each other's influence in neighboring Syria. Eight strikes hit the runway of the Abu Duhur air base in the northwestern province of Idlib, causing damage but no casualties, state TV said. Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani told reporters in Damascus that Syria condemns the "Israeli aggression," adding that...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The city and Norfolk Police Chief Mark Talbot are named in a pair of related lawsuits over the hiring of a transgender police recruit. The lawsuits, totaling $20 million and filed last week and Monday in Circuit Court, were brought by a current officer on suspension and another officer who was fired earlier this year. Officer Meghan Grabow’s lawsuit alleges she was in a women’s locker room in 2024, when a department recruit she describes as a “biological male self-identified as a woman” entered that locker room. According to the lawsuit, Grabow was in her underwear,...

We are less than three months from the midterm elections, and for all the billions of dollars that will be spent convincing Americans otherwise, the choice facing voters is remarkably straightforward. Do Americans want government guided by common sense? Or by crazy, woke ideas that have endlessly proven to make our lives worse? If they prefer the former, they can let Republicans continue driving American prosperity. If they prefer the latter, they can give Democrats the wheel. The individual issues may change: crime, immigration, abortion, elections, education. But the throughline remains remarkably consistent. Vile ideas that would have once been...

Ahmed al-Sharaa – Montage Image Wiki Commons A former al-Qaida terrorist is now sitting on a treasure trove of nuclear material that can be weaponized. A United Nations team has excavated a ‘previously undisclosed site’ in Syria and found several tons of nuclear material from the days of the Bashar al-Assad rule. The agreed plan was for the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove the material from Syria – but that’s not what’s going to happen, anymore. Syria is now holding the nuclear material, and refuses the handover, saying ‘it will remain under IAEA safeguards for peaceful civilian use’. The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is defending its prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, saying “there is no serious dispute" that a social media post of seashells he made last year could be understood as a threat against President Donald Trump. Prosecutors also called into question Comey's account that he had found the seashells in the numerical arrangement of “86 47” while walking on a beach in North Carolina and suggested that his May 2025 post on Instagram was a thinly veiled attempt to sell copies of a forthcoming novel about a social media personality whose words have...

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard’s health was ailing for more than a year before his death on Monday. As far back as March 2005, the rock band announced on Instagram that Beard was temporarily stepping away from their Elevation tour to “attend a health issue requiring his focus in the near term.” “He is looking forward to a speedy recovery,” the band noted at the time. He was noticeably absent for the band’s The Big One! tour, which started in March, and fans on Reddit noted in May that he hadn’t appeared onstage. ZZ Top later made headlines when they...

Red Bull confirmed the driver change on Wednesday following earlier reports that Isack Hadjar would be unable to compete at Zandvoort, with Lawson stepping up from Racing Bulls to partner Max Verstappen. Both Red Bull and Racing Bulls announced the reshuffle through brief statements, with Yuki Tsunoda returning to the sister team to fill Lawson’s vacant seat alongside Arvid Lindblad. Red Bull confirmed Hadjar sustained the injury during Formula 1’s summer shutdown, although it provided no further details on how it occurred or the extent of the damage. “Oracle Red Bull Racing driver, Isack Hadjar, has sustained a wrist injury...

American workers' wages are once again failing to keep up with inflation — a painful financial déjà vu of the pandemic years. The repeat situation may feel even more acute given that many workers are still catching up from the 2021-2022 inflationary bout, when companies gave workers only moderate pay raises that fell short of four-decade-high price increases, according to new economic research. From February 2021 to June 2022, real wages — or the purchasing power of the average American's paycheck — fell by more than 4%, according to the paper from the University of Chicago and ADP researchers. That...

Harvard University has agreed to pay a $53 million settlement after its former morgue manager stole and sold body parts donated for scientific research, with a court reportedly approving the plan on Tuesday. Cedric Lodge, who managed the morgue at the prestigious Harvard Medical School before being fired in 2023, was sentenced to eight years in prison in December after pleading guilty to trafficking stolen remains. Investigators said Lodge and his wife took body parts from the school "without the knowledge or permission of his employer, the donor, or the donor's family" and shipped them to buyers in other states...