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OK. I just watched Vice President Vance speak, at the convention. He gets it. 100 percent. Nice wife and family too. Sorry we only get CNN here, but he gets it. Just like Trump gets it. Good choice. Genuinely nice guy.

In an excerpt of a recent conversation between former President Donald Trump and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted online, Trump suggested vaccines given to children to protect them from disease are harmful. He also exaggerated the number of vaccines given to children and he falsely claimed they lead to sudden, visible changes. Neither campaign has responded to requests for comment. TRUMP: "A vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a, you know, 10-pound or 20-pound baby" and “then you see the baby all of a sudden starting...

o understand the full political significance of J.D. Vance’s selection as Donald Trump’s running mate, one has to look back more than 30 years, to a time when Vance himself was just a boy. In the early 1990s—in the afterglow not of nuclear war, but of a miraculously peaceful end to the Cold War—conservative thinkers and statesmen started to think again. “Capitalism” no longer simply meant the opposite of Communism. American foreign policy could no longer be oriented toward containing or rolling back a Soviet Union that no longer existed. And the counterculture of sex, drugs, and alternative lifestyles—which had...

Who's Ready to Fight! Fight! Fight! We can continue posting stories from the attempted assassination of our President Donald J. Trump that are slanted and biased... ...or... We can seek to have a coordinated effort of our own. Let's start with the $DJT stock. It got shorted to the moon - with the short buyers betting that the stock would take a massive dump on Monday July 15, 2024. It would have, if the assassination attempt was successful. Who took out those short positions? Most of us don't have access to that data. Some of you in the financial space...

You know how writing things down generally sticks them in your brain better? That's true when you're taking notes to remember something or when you're planning your day. When it comes to productivity, several of the most recommended methods ask you to write stuff down. From a to-do list or daily action plan to a nighttime review of everything you did (or didn't do), if you're serious about harnessing the power of specific productivity techniques, you'll end up writing at some point. You should designate a specific spot to get that done.

NATIONAL HOT DOG DAY National Hot Dog Day in July celebrates a summertime staple on a bun. Enjoy one piping hot and add some relish and mustard to go! One thing we want to know - is it a sandwich or not? #NationalHotDogDay Celebrated every year during National Hot Dog Month, this day pays homage to the frankfurter, the footlong or wienie, wiener, wienerwurst or even red hot. They taste just as great no matter what we call it. Over 25 million hot dogs are sold at baseball stadiums each year. We make them a variety of ways. They're portable...

Neigh-sayers galloped outside Manhattan Criminal Court Monday afternoon to call for a shutdown of the city’s carriage horse industry as a handler of a horse that died two years ago faced his first day of trial — or so they thought. Ian McKeever, who is facing animal abuse charges in connection to the death of his carriage horse Ryder in 2022, was not able to appear in court Monday due to a scheduling conflict with his attorney, The Post learned. Despite the adjournment, roughly 30 demonstrators remained in the scorching heat for the “Criminal Horse Abuse Trial for Ian McKeever”...

The e-commerce leader in Europe is Amazon - but Chinese ventures into international e-commerce, for example AliExpress or more recently Temu, have made inroads. The following infographic, via Statista's Anna Fleck, looks specifically at the example of the Chinese company Pinduoduo, drawing from ecommmerceDB figures. You will find more infographics at StatistaAccording to this data, Pinduoduo will only be 13 percent behind Amazon in terms of gross merchandise volume in 2024. To put this in perspective: in 2019, Amazon's gross merchandise volume was more than twice as large as that of Pinduoduo.Pinduoduo also owns the online marketplace Temu.The Temu app...

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Hickcock45 and Son here! How you all doing? Got some bad news today to share with you. Don't know where you're seeing this - whether you're on the Hickcock45 Clips Channel or the Hickcock45 Main Channel or the Hickcock45 Talks Channel. We're posting this on all three channels today. We just had a chat with our Google rep and, John, you want to share? Yeah, he shared some unfortunate news with us. Some of you may have seen that YouTube changed their policy on gun videos in June 18th and we were not aware how much that was going to...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its growth forecast for the Saudi economy due to ongoing oil production cuts by OPEC+. The IMF now sees 2024 growth clocking in at just 1.7%, nearly a percentage point lower than its earlier projection of 2.6%. The effects of the cuts are expected to spill over into the coming year, with the IMF projecting GDP growth of 4.7% in 2025, a downward revision of 1.3 percentage points from April...Last year, the Kingdom's private-sector investments expanded by a brisk 57 percent, reaching a record high of 959 billion Saudi Riyals (254 billion dollars),...

Donald Trump’s decision to pick JD Vance as his running mate is a clear sign that the former president is determined to re-harness the populist and working-class energy that propelled his first campaign in 2016. The immediate task is to present that agenda in a winsome way to the country. In crucial ways, Vance has already demonstrated that he’s up to it, and it helps that the other side is in disarray following Joe Biden’s precipitous decline. Should the Trump-Vance 2024 ticket win – and polls indicate they will – the deeper challenge will be preserving that energy in office...

CHICAGO — Officials from the National Weather Service (NWS) have confirmed that five tornadoes touched down in Chicagoland, including one in the City of Chicago, as a round of intense evening storms swept through the region on Monday. Officials from the Chicago NWS said in a post on X on Tuesday afternoon that three EF-1 tornadoes and two EF-0 tornadoes touched down across parts of Chicagoland. Officials said one of those tornados, an EF-1, hit the ground on the near West Side of Chicago to the far western portions of the Loop.

MILWAUKEE — President Biden could secure the Democratic nomination for a potential second term as early as this month thanks to electronic voting by delegates, The Post has learned — a move seen by critics as trying to shove him through the process. Electronic delegate voting had been discussed before the embattled 81-year-old president’s disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump on June 27. But details about the timeline are only taking shape now, and the perception among some party stalwarts is that his camp wants to hurry things along — while critics try to slam the brakes on the process...

Big Tech consumes more than many countries.. Tech giants Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh each of electricity during 2023, surpassing the consumption of more than 100 countries, new research has claimed. Analysis by Michael Thomas, shared on X, claims both Google and Microsoft consumed the same amount of energy as Azerbaijan, which has an estimated GDP of $78.7 billion. Google’s 2023 revenue stood at $307.4 billion, and Microsoft’s at $211.9 billion. The massive energy usage underscores the substantial environmental impact of these companies. But it also serves as a reminder of their sheer scale, and the positive impact...

The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But perhaps no single person was affected as severely as Johanna Groothuizen. Hanna – the name she goes by – is now missing her right breast after her skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction surgery was swapped out for a simple mastectomy at the last minute. I never thought it was going to be due to a cyberattack by Russian hackers. That was not something that I would have...

@elonmusk This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. RE: @libsoftiktok Gavin Newsom signed AB1955 today which bans schools from making rules requiring parental notification if a child identifies as transgender. ... @elonmusk I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children

.....After decades of being patched up on the cheap, London’s rental homes are in a state of comical disrepair. In one flat, my housemate and I spent an entire night trying to stop our sink from flooding the kitchen, which it tended to do whenever we used the washing machine thanks to a creative plumbing job the landlord had done while cramming another bedroom into the flat. I’m 28 now, and there’s a Section 21 notice in my inbox. My current landlord has decided to raise the rent beyond what I can afford, having already bumped it up last year...

As a cold front gains momentum, severe thunderstorms, many packing high wind gusts, will erupt and roll from the eastern Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and middle Mississippi Valley to the Appalachians and Atlantic Seaboard into Wednesday and beyond in some cases, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. The storms can trigger regional power outages and lead to major travel delays as they approach and pass through the major metro areas. Tree and property damage will be likely in some communities. In recent days, severe storms have packed quite a wallop in the Midwest and part of the interior Northeast. During Monday night alone,...

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