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Most Americans were glad that Donald Trump dodged a bullet at the fateful rally in Pennsylvania. But not everyone was pleased that 20-year-old assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was such a bad shot. Until now, many assumed that only a few bad apples wanted the Republican candidate to take a round to the head. Not so, says alarming new research from a UK-based academic. Eric Kaufmann says a shocking third of Democratic voters wished Trump had left his July 13 campaign event in a body bag. Among progressives, the figure is much higher, says the University of Buckingham politics scholar. A...

Kamala Harris made a polarizing cameo on the season nine finale of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars as she urged viewers to make their voices heard at the polls. While making history as the first-ever sitting Vice President of the United States to appear on Paramount+ series' popular reality series, the politician, 59, reminded Americans of the big issues at stake in the 2024 election. In her first campaign ad, which featured Beyoncé’s hit song Freedom playing in the background, Harris showed her support for LGBTQ+ individuals by featuring footage of her among a crowd waving Pride flags. She, then,...

Gina Carano said she was 'moved to tears' after a judge ruled that her lawsuit against Disney can proceed, after the company tried to have it dismissed. The actress, 42, sued the mega-entertainment brand for discrimination in February 2024, with the assistance of Elon Musk, over her 2021 firing from the Star Wars series Mandalorian. Carano had played Cara Dune for the first two seasons of the hit show, which streams on Disney+. She was fired after she compared the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany to conservatives in modern America in a social media post. In April, Disney argued...

A New Jersey stripper who has owned up to selling several hundred fake COVID-19 vaccination cards at $200 a pop had her sentencing remanded because she brought her young children to court. Jasmine Clifford, 34, had been facing approximately one to three years in a state pen after pleading guilty in April Released in early 2022 in the wake of her arrest the summer before, she made no arrangements for her two preteen sons on Friday. Judge Marisol Martinez Alonso suspected it was a ploy to further stall proceedings, but gave her until July 25 to make the necessary arrangements....

A Democrat mayor has sparked outrage online - and among his own constituents - claiming Donald Trump faked the assassination attempt at a rally Saturday that left a bystander dead. The mayor of Washington's Aberdeen, Douglas Orr, went so far as to claim the former president, who is currently running for a second chance at the White House, may have been inspired by tactics used at pro wrestling matches. Orr posited that Trump may have cut his ear as part of the stunt, and is asking that independent doctors review his injury. The apparently spelling-challenged mayor put the outlandish conspiracy...

Whatever you say I will do. Fidias Panayiotou Member of the European Parliament from Cyprus.

Whistleblowers from Disney have provided O’Keefe Media Group with Disney’s internal communications, including group chats, bulletin boards, the company’s employee roster and employee websites, and the company’s Slack channel. “What we’ve discovered is so shocking that it makes the Disney Tapes series look like child’s play,” says James O’Keefe, founder of O’Keefe Meda Group. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month, O’Keefe Media Group revealed in part three of the Disney Tapes series that Disney’s Creative Marketing Director by day and professional drag queen by night, Amit “Genie” Gurnani, revealed Disney’s “unspoken” LGBTQ agenda for children. This only scratched...

A disturbing video shows the moment a pervert fled a Philadelphia Dollar Tree store after committing a lewd act on another customer. The unidentified suspect could be seen sprinting out the door and running through a parking lot, as the alleged victim yells after him, 'You go to hell b****!' in a viral video shared by Internet personality Collin Rugg. She then starts crying as the suspect flees the scene. ...... They say the suspect is known to frequent the shopping plaza and the nearby I-95 underpass, where he sometimes parks his vehicle. The suspect is described as a black...

Bryan Kim, 35, who now goes by 'Amber FayeFox Kim', was caught having intercourse with 25-year-old Sincer-A Marie Nerton at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) on March 14. Months later, Kim, who identifies as female, has been moved back to the Monroe Correctional Facility for men. 'The reason for Kim's transfer was due to ongoing safety concerns,' a Department of Corrections official told the National Review. Kim was convicted in 2008 of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder for fatally stabbing his father, Richard Kim, and bludgeoning and strangling his mother, Terri Kim In March, a corrections officer...

Huma Abedin is engaged to George Soros' son and heir Alex. The Democratic insider, 47, and the younger Soros, 38, got engaged six weeks ago and were spotted recently celebrating in Italy, according to Page Six. The couple confirmed their engagement on Instagram shortly after Page Six published their story, with Soros writing: 'this happened…we couldn’t be happier, more grateful, or more in love.' Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s former deputy chief of staff, was previously married to disgraced New York politician Anthony Weiner. It will be the first marriage for Soros, who has been named as the heir to his father's...

Singaporean comedian Kumar revealed he considered gender reassignment when he was younger in the latest episode of The Daily Ketchup Podcast published yesterday (July 8). The 55-year-old, who is promoting his upcoming comedy show Kumar Uncut, was asked if he had ever wanted to be a female. "Yes, when I was very young. But I changed my mind," he admitted candidly. When asked to elaborate, Kumar shared that if he had gone through the process then, he wouldn't have been who he is now. "I would've gone to the streets, I would've ended up being a prostitute," he said. Kumar...

KFC has enraged some Canadians after quietly switching to Halal chicken and removing pork from its menu to abide by Muslim dietary restrictions in Ontario. The American company sent a memo to its Ontario franchises in May informing them of the initiative, which they called 'a testament to our commitment to provide diverse and inclusive menu options.' The memo outlined that the Ontario restaurants - except those in Thunder Bay and Ottawa - must ensure all chicken products are Halal Certified and that pork products be discontinued. Moreover, KFC said it trained restaurant staff on 'Halal operational Procedures.' Ontario has...

Since 2017, self-driving cars owned by Chinese companies have traversed 1.8 million miles of California alone, according to a Fortune analysis of the state's Department of Motor Vehicles data. As part of their basic functionality, these cars capture video of their surroundings and map the state's roads to within two centimeters of precision. Companies transfer that information from the cars to data centers, where they use it to train their self-driving systems. The cars are part of a state program that allows companies developing self-driving technology -- including Google-spinoff Waymo and Amazon-owned Zoox -- to test autonomous vehicles on public...

The police said a 38-year-old man was arrested for voyeurism.One woman decided to take matters into her own hands after experiencing two incidents of voyeurism by two different men on the same day. By using herself as a bait and secretly recording him, she managed to get one of the culprits nabbed. Sharing the June 4 encounter in a TikTok video, the woman said she had first felt "violated" after a man allegedly took upskirt videos of her at Scarlett Supermarket in Nex. He had followed her from one store to another in the mall for half an hour. The...

A Salinas man is recovering in a Bay Area hospital after he lost a hand from an illegal firework. It was Monday night when firefighters responded to the intersection of Boronda and Independence in north Salinas on reports of a man screaming and trying to flag down drivers. “When our fire department, paramedics and police arrived at the scene, they did encounter the male with the extensive injuries to his hand and his face, obviously suffering from a severe explosive injury,” said Salinas fire Chief Sam Klemek. Firefighters say the man, believed to be homeless, blew off his right hand...

One of the 229 people diagnosed with mpox in Ireland during the recent outbreak had 75 different sexual partners in the 21 days before they developed symptoms of the disease, a new study has revealed. The review of cases also found that 96.5 per cent of confirmed infections had been sexually transmitted. All but three of the infected patients were men, and 98.6 per cent identified as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men (gbMSM). The youngest patient was 16 and the oldest was 68, and more than one in four (28.3 per cent) were HIV positive, according...

Democrats at a raucous Atlanta watch party weren't just unphased by President Joe Biden's rocky performance - they loved it. The party boasted an open bar - a food spread with tacos, chicken tenders and pie - and an energetic deejay, who blasted top tunes from a table adorned with a giant pair of aviator sunglasses, after the 90-minute showdown wrapped. Attendees cheered for Biden and booed former President Donald Trump during the concluding minutes of the face-off and then gleefully joined first lady Jill Biden in calling the Republican a liar. 'What did Trump do?' she asked, 'Lied!' the...

Riffing on what he sees for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday that he deeply believes that there will not be “just one AI.” Touting the value of open source to put AI tools into many people’s hands, Zuckerberg took a moment to disparage the efforts of unnamed competitors who he sees as less than open, adding that they seem to think they’re “creating God.” “I don’t think that AI technology is a thing that should be kind of hoarded and … that one company gets to use it to build whatever...

A single Reddit post exposed a student at an elite college as a fraud who lied his way into the school - and had major legal consequences. Aryan Anand, 19, was exposed as a total fraud after a Reddit post revealed his web of lies. Anand pleaded guilty to forgery in Northampton County following revelations that his entire application to the university was fabricated. The international student was caught after investigators found a post written by an anonymous user they believed to be Anand on the Reddit forum titled, 'I have built my life and career on lies.' The post...

A group of 16 Nobel prize-winning economists have issued a stark warning that inflation would be worse under Donald Trump. The former president would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the US economy, the Nobel laureates said in a letter first obtained by Axios. 'While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden's economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump,' the letter read. The warning was spearheaded by American economist Joseph Stiglitz, who won the prestigious honor for economics in 2001. Inflation remains a hot topic for...