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Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the third quarter of 2026 (July, August, and September), according to the advance estimate released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). In the second quarter, real GDP increased 2.2 percent. The contributors to the increase in real GDP in the third quarter were increases in investment, consumer spending, and government spending that were partly offset by a decrease in exports. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) responded to a question on if a Democratic socialist can be elected president in 2028 by saying that “I think there are great communicators. And regardless of the moniker or the labels you put on them, a lot of the things those candidates say are actually important things,” and labels aren’t that important to people. Host Kasie Hunt asked, “If the margin is small enough that some of the Democratic socialists in the party are likely to, potentially, be able to control the floor, what is the risk, for...

“This could snowball quickly as staffers seek safe harbor,” renowned George Washington University Law Professor Johnathan Turley explained Wednesday in his analysis of a New York Times report that Alaska Democrats schemed to deceive voters in the midterm elections. Democrat Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign sought out and convinced a retired teacher with the same name as her Republican opponent to put his name on the ballot in an apparent effort to dupe voters, The The New York Times reported Wednesday, citing its review of communications and interviews. “If true, the report raises concerns over filings by Peltola in...

Anyone can add information to the pages of Wikipedia, even without an account. However, senior volunteer editors have a tight grip on what remains. Oftentimes, information is removed minutes later if they don’t like it.If that information comes from The Gateway Pundit, Newsmax, Breitbart, Media Research Center, O’Keefe, and others on the right, it will likely be removed.Wikipedia editors have determined that almost every conservative news outlet is unreliable and disallowed their content in some fashion.In fact, The Gateway Pundit finished a study on this, and it is worse than we thought.LEFT SOURCES ALLOWED: 37 of 75 reviewed (49%).RIGHT SOURCES...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris declared packing the U.S. Supreme Court and reworking the Electoral College “first priorities” during a New Hampshire campaign swing for U.S. Senate nominee Chris Pappas and other Granite State Democrats Saturday. Harris, who sits atop the national polls for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary, made a three-city campaign swing through the state. She pumped up volunteers at a Portsmouth phone bank and poured beers at Feathered Friend Brewing in Concord. Then she joined Pappas on stage for a taping of an episode of the “My Body. My Pod.” podcast with Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO...

Federal investigators found evidence during the Obama administration suggesting that Rep. Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage to a man suspected of being her brother was intended to help him obtain a green card, but the case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded the suspected offense fell outside a five-year statute of limitations, according to a new report.The FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in the summer of 2016, current and former officials told The New York Times in a report published Thursday.The officials' account challenges Omar's characterization of the earlier inquiry as having debunked allegations that she married her...

An investigation has revealed that California awarded $18.2 million in state childcare grants to a nonprofit that claimed to have over 40 locations but actually operates only one facility. An investigation by The Center Square revealed that the William Law Foundation secured the massive award through the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) General Child Care and Development Program grants. The allocation was intended to fund care for more than 1,000 children across 10 counties but the nonprofit has only its Bakersfield facility which provides care for no more than six children. Executive Director William Edwards told the Center Square...

Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro declared himself the leader of Brazil's opposition Wednesday after arriving in the United States with his family, accusing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government and Brazil's powerful Supreme Court of orchestrating political persecution following a disputed presidential election. In a defiant statement resembling the declaration of a government-in-exile leader, Bolsonaro vowed to direct Brazil's opposition from American soil, comparing his struggle to historic resistance movements led by Charles de Gaulle and Venezuelan opposition figures. "I want to tell not only my 60 million voters, but the Brazilian people, that I am the leader," Bolsonaro...

If this is what they say in public, imagine what they say behind closed doors. Here are a few conservative events IN THE LAST WEEK on college campuses across the nation where the mostly peaceful Left has demonstrated violence and bloodlust. [Warning: Extremely wicked, foul-mouthed human beings who demonstrate our need for a Savior] [TWEET LINKS AT SITE................] The University of Oregon event on Wednesday drew a particularly large number of Antifa-type protesters. Did you know that hundreds of millions of your tax dollars went to funding that university this year? Again, if this is what they say in public...

On Wednesday, the Justice Department said FBI and ICE agents will not serve as poll monitors during the midterm elections, addressing concerns over federal law enforcement presence at voting sites.The NAACP filed suit to bar law enforcement from monitoring, arguing the Trump administration's plans amount to voter intimidation as it pursues increasingly aggressive election oversight and voter-registration data collection.While FBI and ICE agents are excluded, the Justice Department confirmed employees from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, ATF, DEA, and one CBP official will serve as monitors, prohibited from carrying firearms.Eric Neff, acting chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division...

The FDA will newly exclude from donating blood some straight people who engage in anal sex, despite 30 years of evidence that including them has not posed a risk of HIV getting into the blood supply. ________________________________________

King Tides are a seasonal recurrence. Also seasonal in recent years are the attempts to explain the flooding caused by those tides as being due to rising sea levels. Among the media outlets at the forefront this year with the rising sea levels shtick is USA Today as you can see in this Monday story by their Climate & Environment correspondent Dinah Voyles Pulver, "Record high tides slam US coasts. Here’s what’s driving them."Most of what Pulver says is "driving" the high tides makes sense:

On Tuesday, the parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, sued OpenAI in California state court, alleging ChatGPT effectively practiced medicine without a license by designing a dangerous medication tapering schedule.The lawsuit alleges ChatGPT coached Wan to sidestep her doctors while tapering off her anti-seizure medication, even advising her to lie to medical examiners; Wan died from sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in February.In chat logs reviewed by the Times, the chatbot advised Wan to "accept the 5mg tablet, but you know in your heart that it is for cutting the dose," while dismissing her head...

Elon Musk’s shift to the right, support for Trump, and defense of free speech have turned a former liberal darling into a target of the Left’s growing hostility toward billionaires. As the midterms approach, the Left has gone nearly berserk in its hatred of trillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Yet its escalating venom would have been almost inconceivable before 2022, when Musk publicly declared that he would be voting Republican. Before Musk’s recent political reversal (he voted for both Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020), he was beloved by the Left as the first successful upstart challenger to...

Former special counsel Jack Smith obtained draft fundraising emails and donor information from hundreds of President Trump’s supporters following the 2020 election, according to documents obtained by The Post. The records show that Smith was hoovering up details about potential donors to the Trump Make America Great Again Committee (TMAGAC) by obtaining draft fundraising appeals in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked for his supporters to contribute as “2020 Election Day Donors.” Smith’s team obtained the materials as part of the FBI’s “Arctic Frost” probe into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, an effort that culminated in the Jan....

For a country that over the last 25 years has come to associate religious scandal with the Catholic church, Julie Roys is here to tell us something: Other Christian churches also have their fair share of failings, whether involving sexual abuse, financial misconduct or some other hypocrisy running counter to Jesus’ teachings. The proof is Roys’ news web site called Roys Report that regularly publishes articles — many investigative in nature — on troubles in evangelical Christian congregations and organizations. “There are wonderful pastors out there,” Roys said. “But there are a lot of bad ones, too.” “It’s not just...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon's top military planner as President Donald Trump considers renewed strikes on Iran following next week's midterm elections. Army Lt Gen Brett Sylvia was removed as head of strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after he reportedly leaked classified information about the war in Iran and the war between Russia and Ukraine.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – A woman wearing a full black burqa approached the podium during public comment at a Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners meeting Tuesday and played a recording of the Islamic call to prayer without first making a statement, prompting board Chairman Dave Eggers to try to stop the recording and have her removed from the podium. As the recording played, a board member reminded the woman that public comment was intended for members of the public to address commissioners, not to play recordings.

Pilots flying over Ohio contacted air traffic control after spotting a strange object near their plane, only to be told nothing was registering on radar.An account posted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) on October 26 described a silver, pill-shaped UFO that appeared almost stationary as the aircraft approached.One pilot captured a photograph of the object, which he described during a follow-up interview with NUFORC investigator Ben Hansen. The encounter occurred on August 16.‘The surface was silver and highly reflective, like pure polished metal,’ reads the investigator’s report, which identified the pilot only as ‘J.’‘J described the UAP as...

Basketball player Sophie Cunningham waved the checkered flag at the Formula 1 Grand Prix auto race, and the left had a cow. So-called “progressives” are ignorant, bitter, nasty, wannabe tyrants who contribute nothing to the society that they so wish to destroy. And nothing escapes their claw-like grasp and fetid commentary, no matter how mundane and benign. WNBA basketball player Sophie Cunningham, for example, causes them to explode into fits of demented rage, seemingly by simply existing. This is largely because she is white, attractive, likely heterosexual, and believes that men should not be allowed into women’s locker-rooms and bathrooms...