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With inflation easing, the wages of working-class Americans are finally moving into the plus column. Average hourly pay for production and nonsupervisory workers — who make up four-fifths of employees — hit $30.27 in August, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to my organization’s analysis, working-class Americans’ wages, adjusted for inflation, have just edged higher than they were on Election Day, 2020. The average working-class American can now answer “Yes” to the question, “Are you better off now than you were under Donald Trump?” That’s obviously important for political symbolism. But the milestone for...

hile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed. He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock. “This was a false claim. I couldn’t believe that such a high official could make...

A California state senator forced a former staffer to do sexual favors for her while she was his boss as part of a “quid pro quo relationship” that left him riddled with back and hip injuries, a new lawsuit alleges. Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil’s former chief of staff, Chad Condit, slapped her with the lawsuit last week, alleging the lawmaker — a longtime Democrat who recently jumped ship to the Republican Party — pressured him into performing sex acts on her when they traveled for work. The married aide claims he relented and performed the acts on his boss over the...

In early 2024, the International Center for 9/11 Justice (IC911) embarked on the first stage of an in-depth study into what took place in the skies on September 11, 2001. On September 8, 2024, IC911 and UK Column held an online symposium where we commemorated the 23rd anniversary of that day and shared IC911’s research to date. The symposium evaluated three key claims of the US government’s account: That the alleged 9/11 hijackers could so smoothly and successfully commandeer all four airliners; That the alleged hijacker pilots could successfully fly three of the aircraft into their intended targets; That US...

Huge plumes of smoke and fierce fires erupted into the skies above the Russian city of Voronezh last night. Local residents in the southwestern Russian city recorded the devastating aftermath of an overnight Ukrainian drone strike. Videos showing a large fire in which explosions can clearly be heard were shared across Telegram. The explosive attack reportedly blew up an ammunition depot - the second time a drone strike has hit an ammunition depot in Voronezh in just two weeks. At the end of August, Ukrainian drones managed to blow up almost 5,000 tonnes of Russian weapons. Following this attack, explosions...

Florida and Texas are within the margin of error in the presidential race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris, according to a poll released Friday. The survey from Emerson College Polling/The Hill showed Trump leading Harris in Florida by 5 points, 50 percent to 45 percent, and in Texas by 4 points, 50 percent to 46 percent. The results are a bit closer than what some other polling has found on the races but not completely out of sync with recent polls that have shown a tighter race in those states. *** The forecast model from The Hill/Decision...

Attitudes on abortion are deeply entrenched and have motivated voters across the American political landscape for decades. But in a post-Roe world, with abortion access sharply limited or at stake in several states, voters who want to protect abortion rights are increasingly energized. Although the economy remains the No. 1 issue for voters, a growing share of voters in swing states now say abortion is central to their decision this fall, according to New York Times/Siena College polls earlier this month. This represents an increase since May, when President Joe Biden was still the Democratic presidential nominee. And by a...

A new round of polls from Morning Consult and Bloomberg News suggests that Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is beating or tied with former President Donald Trump in every major swing state. According to the survey of 4,962 registered voters conducted between August 23 and 27, Harris leads by 2 points in Georgia and North Carolina, 3 points in Michigan, 4 points in Nevada and Pennsylvania, a whopping 8 points in Wisconsin, and tied with Trump in Arizona.

"Because in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, we've got a golden rule: Mind your own damn business!" Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) declared during his acceptance speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. He was, of course, referring to the killing of unborn babies. "In Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, we've got a golden rule: mind your own damn business." Is that why Walz encouraged Minnesotans to...

Kamala Harris: “220 million Americans have died from COVID.”

More remarks that expose Vice President Kamala Harris’ totalitarian plans and oddball ideas have gone viral. The latest on the Democratic presidential nominee are her comments about seizing guns from law-abiding Americans, her former plan to eliminate private health insurance, and her bizarre claims that Covid-19 killed over 220 million Americans. The first vice president to believe computer data are stored in the air above one’s head, Harris is also notable for a faulty understanding of inflation and an oft-stated desire to redistribute wealth. The name for her ideology: Kamunism. Gun-grabber Kamala“The problem is that Congress does not have the...

As summer 2024 draws to a close, the U.S. finds itself once again grappling with a surge in COVID-19 infections. This wave has taken many people by surprise, particularly as the country has largely consigned the pandemic to the past. While public life has pretty much returned to pre-pandemic norms — something almost none of us would have believed in the summer of 2020 — the virus itself has not. Mutations of the virus continue to occur, and new variants are emerging, posing ongoing challenges to public health and safety. As we look ahead to the remainder of 2024 and...

Does anyone remember the Panic of 2020, also known as COVID? The Democrats are certainly hoping you’ve forgotten, especially the way they used the Red Chinese virus to bludgeon President Trump, and American society at large, into a form of public-health hysteria never seen before in world history. And they kept the grift going well into 2021, as a way to keep the Deep State’s boot on the throat of a formerly free people. But now… nothing to see here folks, never mind. Last week, at their convention, Dementia Joe Biden lied: “Well, during the pandemic, Kamala helped states and...

If you weren't aware, there is a spike in COVID-19 cases around the country. It's all over the place. Part of it is the return to schools, part of it is that it's really warm in parts of the country, so we're staying together indoors more, and part of it is that it's a communicable disease that isn't going anywhere.Every flu season, we get flu vaccines. Those vaccines are developed based on predictions of what the strain of flu is most prevalent that season. We don't worry about flu season because we as a society have internalized that it comes...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago is continuing to see a late-summer surge in COVID cases. Health leaders say more people are being diagnosed in emergency rooms, but new COVID vaccines are coming to pharmacies. "With lots of travel going on to summer events. It's an opportunity for viral illness to spread," said Alexander Sloboda, Chicago Department of Public Health. Health experts urge Chicagoans to take advantage of the new vaccine, if they have not had COVID recently. "We encourage all, anyone over 6 months," Sloboda said.

Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing coming out of their respective conventions: Almost no one cares about Covid anymore. Infections are running rampant after the Democratic confab in Chicago, with staffers on Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, reporters and other convention-goers all stricken — and in at least one case claiming the positive test was “worth it.” Cases also cropped up after the Republican National Convention in July. And yet the single most-animating issue of the 2020 election is an afterthought for the major-party nominees coming out of two of the 2024 campaign’s biggest milestones — even as...

WASHINGTON -- The federal government will restart its free at-home COVID tests program in September as officials prepare the country for the upcoming respiratory virus season. Dawn O'Connell, assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the Department of Health and Human Services, said Friday that this is the seventh time the Biden-Harris administration has allowed Americans to order over-the-counter tests at no charge. It's not clear when the website, COVID.gov/tests, will come back online. The website stopped accepting orders in early March. "As families start to move indoors this fall and begin spending time with their loved ones, both very...

Anthony Fauci was hospitalized this month after contracting West Nile virus. Fauci, 83, the country’s former COVID-19 czar, as hospitalized for six days and is now home where he is recuperating from the mosquito-borne disease, The Washington Post reported. “A full recovery is expected,” his spokesperson said, according to the Washington Post. The virus typically spreads when Culex pipiens, the common Northern house mosquito, bite infected birds and then bite people and other creatures, according to the CDC. West Nile virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the country, the agency said. The virus sent 1,800 to the...

The National Institutes of Health doesn't want you to use the words "animal," "testing" or "cruel" in comments on its social media pages. Too bad, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit told the agency.Animal experimentation is at the heart of First Amendment and Freedom of Information Act litigation against the feds, with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently defeating NIH in court and Judicial Watch suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for stonewalling its requests for communications about an alleged COVID-19 coverup.Neither agency responded to Just the News queries for their response...

A summer uptick in COVID-19 cases has Americans wondering how long the new surge will last. The United States is experiencing another surge in COVID-19 cases as the summer comes to an end. COVID-19 infections are increasing in 27 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Traces of the disease are becoming more common in wastewater, with the CDC’s wastewater surveillance system now reporting “very high” levels of COVID-19.