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The nation’s two largest states by land area gave Democrats a boost in the battle for Senate control Saturday, with candidates in Texas and Alaska hitting 50% or more in new polls. Both races would represent pickups if Democrats are able to hold on and win on Nov. 3, which is just a month away. In Texas, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico leads Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, 51% to 45%, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released Saturday. President Trump’s approval rating in the state stands at 40%, compared with 57% who disapprove. The poll, which examined...

QThestorm @17QStorm·6h They parked $2 billion in a fund called Medicare Improvement and never sent a dollar to a senior.Created in 2008. Every president since left it sitting there. The White House says no administration has ever used it.Trump just did.Direct deposit. Early October. More than 20 million people on Medicare Part B. Dual eligibles whose premiums Medicaid already covers, and high earners paying the income surcharge, do not get it.He called it what Congress treated it as. A slush fund. Named for Medicare. Used as an offset for everything except the people in the name.Eighteen years on the shelf....

Another diocesan priest links up with SSPX, bishop removes faculties The bishop of Knoxville, TN, who suppressed the Latin Mass earlier this year, has now revoked the faculties of a diocesan priest who has associated himself with the SSPX. The bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, has revoked all the faculties of a diocesan priest who has associated himself with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). A strongly-worded statement issued by the diocese said that Bishop James Beckman had withdrawn all faculties, permissions, and authorizations previously granted to Fr. David Mary Engo for ministry within the diocese. “He is not authorized...

Millions of Brazilians will vote Sunday in an election dominated by two rivals: incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted in a failed coup attempt after he lost to Lula four years ago. Twelve candidates are on the presidential ballot, but only Lula and Bolsonaro are thought to have a real chance of becoming Brazil’s next head of state. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the top two advance to a runoff Oct. 25. Lula, who at 80 is one of the world’s...

In an exclusive interview with Reuters, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine will step up attacks on Russian oil refineries in response to Moscow's new policy of airstrikes aimed at forcing people to leave Kyiv and other cities

President Donald Trump railed against Sen. Tom Cotton in a series of posts on Saturday, accusing the Arkansas Republican of holding up a bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent and encouraging people to call the senator at his cellphone number. “Everybody in Arkansas, Tom Cotton, a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill. It’s called, ‘The Sunshine Protection Act’ or, ‘We Don’t Want to Change Our Clocks Twice a Year Act,’” Trump posted on Truth Social. “To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for...

After a few days campaigning in safe conservative territory, President Donald Trump on Saturday takes his midterm tour into Ohio, a battleground state that’s home to one of the top-tier Senate races this cycle. Trump has embarked on what he says will be a 32-day blitz ahead of the Nov. 3 elections, hitting the deep red states of Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama this week. Saturday's rally is just outside Dayton, Ohio, where he'll stump for key candidates in competitive races for the House, Senate and the governor’s mansion in Columbus. Perhaps the most pivotal of these races is the Senate...

Secretary Marco Rubio@SecRubioFor more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States.The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country.The American people deserve to know.ransomnote: After reading the report Rubio linked, CUBA | THE CAPITAL OF 21st CENTURY COMMUNISM (PDF), I realized that the concluding paragraph (see last paragraph indented below), was likely written for people like me who did not realize just how weaponized CUBA has been. As a failed nation, I did not see its profound success in...

Boulder’s climate lawsuit would return the U.S. to the era of the Articles of Confederation. The Supreme Court kicks off a new term Monday with a case ostensibly about climate change but with much bigger stakes. The real issue in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County is whether states and localities can turn federalism on its head to dictate policy for the rest of the country.Boulder and more than 30 other state and local governments have sued oil and gas producers for alleged damage caused by their global CO2 emissions. Boulder wants compensation for wildfires, the costs for mitigating pest infestations,...

Explanation: On sol 1943 of its journey of exploration across the surface of Mars, the Curiosity Rover recorded this selfie at the south rim of Vera Rubin Ridge. Of course a sol is a Martian solar day, about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day. Curiosity's sol 1943 corresponds to Earth date January 23, 2018. Also composed as an interactive 360 degree VR, the mosaicked panorama combines 61 exposures taken by the small car-sized rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). Frames containing the imager's arm have been edited out while the extended background used was taken by the rover's Mastcam...

Andy Burnham’s personal preference to rejoin the European Union after the next election is supported by almost half of all voters, a new megapoll has found, although cabinet ministers concerned about reopening Brexit divides are privately urging him to proceed with caution. The poll by the Messina Group (TMG) found that renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU could boost Labour’s vote share by as much as seven points, if the prime minister offered a fresh referendum in which he campaigned to re-enter the bloc. Almost a third of voters said an in-out referendum would be needed first, while more...

3 October 2026 Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time All Saints Catholic Church, Diocese of Middlesbrough, UKFirst readingJob 42:1-3,5-6,12-17In dust and in ashes I repentThis was the answer Job gave to the Lord:I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform.I am the man who obscured your designs with my empty-headed words.I have been holding forth on matters I cannot understand, on marvels beyond me and my knowledge.I knew you then only by hearsay; but now, having seen you with my own eyes,I retract all I have said, and in dust and ashes I repent.The...

A South Carolina restaurant is facing backlash after the owner falsely accused a Black couple of refusing to pay for their meal. In a now-viral video, Christopher Phillip Wallman Jr., owner of The Grill, a restaurant in Manning, South Carolina, announced his false accusation to all of his customers in an apparent attempt to embarrass the couple. “I want everybody to hear this now. This lovely couple has ordered $137 of food that they’re refusing to pay," Wallman said. The couple shut down the allegation, saying they were only asking that the fried pork chops they sent back to the...

The American presenter Tucker Carlson has claimed Britain would have been better off losing the Second World War to an incredulous Jacob Rees-Mogg – but says he is not a Nazi supporter. The US commentator was widely mocked after his most recent episode of the Tucker Carlson show, featuring former Tory minister Mr Rees-Mogg, aired last night. In the online show, Mr Carlson claimed Britain 'destroyed their empire and their country fighting this war that they still pretend was a good idea but it wasn't'. The former Fox News presenter – who once described Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust denier, as...

The midterm polls suck, and they might be right – if you believe them, we could be headed for anything from a blue tsunami to a blue wave to a blue trickle. But that’s a big if. To avoid that conclusion, you have to believe that the majority of polls, which are undeniably showing most of our key Senate candidates losing, are inaccurate. Now, this is where it gets tricky, because we want to believe in a massive polling miss. We want to believe that the polls are skewed Dem-ward. We want to believe that there are Republicans out there...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) plans to try to block Democratic nominee and New York socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier from taking her seat in Congress if she wins the Nov. 3 election — over her saying she used the American flag as a napkin. Burchett told The Post he intends to make the unusual parliamentary move when the new Congress convenes in January — using a simple majority to prevent newly elected lawmakers from being seated before they take the oath of office. “You take an oath to uphold the Constitution, and and you’re pretty much disavowing it right there. I...

Liberal female blames capitalism for America's problems and then she's asked, "How does capitalism cause the problems in this country?" and "What is capitalism?" She has no idea and can't answer the questions.

Leawood Police Department officers in Kansas noticed a dog in the middle of the street with no owner in sight, and it started barking at them. An officer approached the pup and said, "Hi, why don’t you go on back home?" The officers followed the dog back to its home, where police say the owner had fallen and been on the ground for more than 3 hours. "Thanks to the resident’s loyal companion, our officer was able to find them and get them the help they needed… The resident was treated by medical personnel and is now recovering safely...

As a young, unsaved man, I was very much into the heavy metal scene, not just participating in the lifestyle and culture, but also in the playing this music. A song that we used to play and listen to continually was a song by Iron Maiden called “The Number of the Beast”. The intro of this song begins with a man with a very eerie voice quoting Revelation 12:12, 13:18. "Woe to you, O Earth and Sea for the Devil sends the beast with wrath because he knows the time is short Let him who has understanding reckon the number...

Even as President Donald Trump was on his way to the Port City for a political rally Friday, three University of South Alabama students were making appearances in federal court to answer to charges of making threats against him. Amare Jemal Woods, Cameron Lamark Lewis and Kayla Leaann Smith are charged with threats against the president. A federal magistrate judge ordered all three to be detained following on a detention hearing Monday. Affidavits filed by federal law enforcement officers allege that the defendants made violent threats over social media in the run-up to Trump’s rally. The University of South Alabama...