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Nithya Raman is dominating Karen Bass in the Los Angeles’ mayor’s race, according to a bombshell new poll. The challenger has surged to an 11-point lead with less than six weeks until the vote, according to the UC Berkeley/LA Times survey. Far-left Raman is backed by 39% of likely voters compared with just 28% for Bass, the poll released Wednesday morning shows.But a whopping 33% remain undecided, leaving plenty of room for the race to move before the Nov. 3 election. Bass’ campaign quickly blasted the survey as an “outlier,” saying other recent polls have shown a much tighter contest.

A Pennsylvania man who survived gunshot wounds during President Trump's Butler campaign rally two years ago has died, sources confirmed. James 'Jim' Copenhaver, 76, died on Wednesday after surviving the terrifying rally that saw Trump shot in the ear on July 13, 2024. Copenhaver endured permanent 'life-altering' injuries after he was shot twice at the infamous rally; once in his left arm and again in his abdomen. The native of Moon Township, around 20 minutes from Pittsburgh, was in critical condition at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh before he was left numb from his knee to his hip. Joseph Feldman,...

Under a federal judge’s order, the Trump administration restored White House access Thursday to journalists from MS NOW, CNN and Politico who had their press passes revoked after President Donald Trump criticized the outlets’ coverage.

After spending months harping on the nation’s affordability “crisis,” Democrats have recently let slip that their real goal, if they get a majority in Congress, will be to impeach as many Trump administration officials as time allows over the next two years. They will market it as “holding the administration accountable,” but the goal is far more sinister – to purposefully cripple the administration, regardless of the danger it poses to the nation. In the past few days, articles in the Atlantic and MS NOW – two eminently reliable mouthpieces of the Democratic Party – said the party is considering...

Death, taxes and tolls may be inevitable in life, but a bill proposed by two members of Congress from New Jersey and one from New York would allow commuters to deduct tolls from their federal income tax. Yes, New York City’s controversial congestion pricing tolls would be included, in addition to transit fares.The Lowering Commuting Costs Act would create a federal income tax deduction totaling more than $4,080 a year or $340 a month, for personal commuting expenses, including the cost of gas, public transit and tolls.It was introduced Tuesday by U.S. Reps Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd Dist., Tom Kean...

...Critics asked whether we are in a “Constitutional crisis” and others slammed the president for defying the court’s order while they wondered what will happen next in this increasingly tense standoff. “The WH has generally avoided defying court orders but appears to have done just that this morning,” veteran journalist Brit Hume wrote on X in reaction to the White House committing to its media ban. “When do we start calling this a Constitutional crisis?” media reporter Edmund Lee asked.

Florida Democratic US Senate nominee Angie Nixon is staunchly against taxes assessed against her. She reasons "I've been a member of the Florida House of Representatives since 2020. That makes me a member of the government. It's the taxpayers' obligation to pay me. I shouldn't have to give any of that money I get back to the treasury. That makes no sense." She admitted "I have other jobs, but I'm no billionaire. The $270,000 in income I had to report as a political candidate doesn't mean I should have to pay taxes on it. Sen. Bernie Sanders used to complain...

The American dream now comes with upgrade feesSafe neighborhoods, good schools, space, and reliable services increasingly look less like the baseline and more like premium add-ons.Over the last few decades, many industries discovered they could grow their customer base and profits by selling a cheaper, inferior version of their product while degrading the experience for everyone. Air travel and theme parks are obvious examples. Both learned that the advantages of scale could outweigh the obligation to deliver a high-quality experience.That philosophy did not remain in the realm of economics. It spread slowly but surely into American public life. The United...

Joel Webbon made the case in a 21 September episode of The NXR Podcast, arguing that universal suffrage puts conservatives at a political disadvantage when Democrats promise voters government benefits. Webbon titled his episode The Right Must Embrace Socialism To Win, laying out what he described as a problem created by modern democratic politics.

[Catholic Caucus] The Supreme Destiny of ManThe Supreme Destiny of ManBy Roberto de MatteiCorrispondenza RomanaSeptember 23, 2026From October 7 to 14, 2026, the announced gathering will take place at the Vatican between Pope Leo XIV, the heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris, and the presidents of the Bishops' Conferences. The event is conceived with the aim of "proceeding, in mutual listening, to a synodal discernment on the steps to be taken to proclaim the Gospel to families today, in the light of Amoris Laetitia and taking into account what is being realized in the local Churches."In preparation for...

Trump Uses Executive Order to Expand Hunting and Fishing OpportunitiesPresident Trump signed an executive order Thursday expanding the amount of federal land available for use by hunters and fishermen and removing years of anti-hunting regulations.The White House noted that the order erases years of regulatory actions that targeted lead ammo and fishing tackle.... Link to the EO itself:https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reinvigorates-americas-hunting-heritage/"...The Order directs the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of Commerce to propose changes to polices that prevent access of public lands for recreation, infrastructure repair, and wildlife management, as well as to...

Sergey Ryabkov pointed out that Moscow's position on the matter had been set out in detail in a note recently handed to the British charge d'affaires in RussiaMOSCOW, September 24. /TASS/. The United Kingdom is providing the Kiev regime with "increasingly multifaceted support and assistance," thereby risking becoming a de jure party to the Ukraine conflict, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters. According to him, by providing the Kiev regime with "unrestrained and increasingly multifaceted assistance and support," London is directly violating "a number of legally and politically binding documents, both bilateral and multilateral." "The UK has thereby...

Why did the world's most powerful empire almost never use archers in battle? The Romans had access to bows. They trained archers. Yet they refused to make them central to their military strategy -- even as enemies surrounded them with arrows. It wasn't ignorance or cowardice. It was a deliberate choice rooted in Roman military philosophy, engineering, and culture. The Romans built their empire on heavy infantry, disciplined formations, and controlled violence. Archers -- with their unpredictability, distance, and dependence on open terrain -- threatened everything Rome's military system was designed to achieve. In this video, we uncover why the...

OVIEDO, Fla. - An 11-year-old boy in Oviedo will likely have to miss school to attend a mandatory court date after he was arrested, cited, and released to his parents for riding an electric dirt bike on the street without a driver's license. It comes as state and local governments, cities and law enforcement, continue to discuss how to safely regulate the rising use of electric bikes and scooters, micromobility devices, and standard motorcycles or vehicles. Florida 11-year-old arrested, cited for riding e-bike Chris Kirchner, the boy's father, said the sixth grader was riding his bike on the shoulder of...

Twice As Many Men Are Single Than Married Today. Are Women To Blame?Young men look at dating culture and see women who are prepared to choose husbands but less prepared to become wives.There are now roughly 30.4 million unmarried American men between the ages of 20 and 39, nearly twice the number of married men in the same cohort. The predictable explanation is that men are to blame. Pornography, gaming, delayed adulthood, declining ambition, fear of commitment, social awkwardness, the manosphere, and economic stagnation all make the list of reasons. But after years of dissecting so-called “toxic masculinity,” perhaps it...

Every year, the University of Wisconsin participates in the Big Ten Competition We Give Blood. We Give Blood is a program designed to create lifelong blood donors and help blood shortages around the United States. ... Gay men, bisexual men and transgender women who take PrEP or PEP — HIV prevention medications — are recommended to be screened out the moment they mention it on the donor questionnaire, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Although the FDA no longer asks about sexual orientation on the blood donor questionnaire, the underlying discrimination against gay men, bisexual men and transgender women...

House Judiciary Republicans just put a name and a paper trail on what Arlington County has been doing in practice. Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti is accused of running a two-track system: citizens get charged, illegal aliens get a workaround, and DACA recipients facing DWIs can be steered onto a “lateral charge” so their status stays intact. We can't even make this crap up. The county’s own trust policy, the GOP report says, even tells local cops not to initiate contact with ICE — violent felons, gang members, traffickers, and terrorism suspects included. ICE detainers get ignored, the suspects go back...

New York City has finalised a more than $131m settlement with DoorDash amid allegations that the delivery company underpaid its workers. The administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the settlement on Tuesday. It marked the largest settlement for delivery workers in any city in the United States, set to affect 260,000 workers. Of the total, $115m will go directly to the workers, while $16m will go towards civil penalties and other costs. A nearly 70-page consent order, provided to Al Jazeera by the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), found the San Francisco, California-based delivery giant failed to...

San Pedro Sula – A Honduran news outlet has reported: A caravan of approximately 400 Hondurans departed from the Gran Central Metropolitana bus terminal in San Pedro Sula bound for the United States, seeking better living conditions and opportunities for their families. People from different parts of the country began to gather at the bus terminal, from where they began their journey to US territory. Among the members of the caravan are families with children, who decided to begin the migration route despite the difficulties and risks involved in the journey to the United States. The high cost of living...

Innocent Florida father is under attack by left-wing activists and local agitators after stepping in to defend his son from a violent bully Despite law enforcement confirming that the father acted completely within the law to protect himself and his child, outraged activists, including local branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), are demanding that the father be locked up for assault with a deadly weapon. According to Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek, the dispute began Thursday, September 17, on a Martin County school bus headed toward South Fork High School, WPBF reported. A 16-year-old...