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Outraged Chicago residents and conservative leaders ripped Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday for allowing “out of control” homeless encampments to grow at O’Hare International Airport. “It’s part of the ongoing disintegration of Chicago,” Republican political operative Dan Proft told The Post. “[Lightfoot] holds the primary responsibility.” “She pounds her fists at a podium and says ‘We’re gonna do this and we’re gonna do that’ for public safety — and it doesn’t get done,” said Proft, who hosts the Windy City radio show AM 560 The Answer. “The situation at O’Hare is unprecedented,” he added. “It’s as bad as [Chicagoans] can...

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was placed on lockdown Wednesday after receiving a “suspicious phone call” one day after the fifth anniversary of the massacre that left 17 dead. The school sent a notification to parents informing them that the school was under a “secure code” and that no one was permitted on the campus at that time, according to WPLG. School officials also said that there was an additional police presence in the area. “No immediate threat has been identified at this time, and students and staff are safe,” Broward County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Gerdy St....

Nikki Haley, NIKKI HALEY Here’s who is running for president in 2024 Haley calls for US to move on from ‘faded names of the past’ Trump attacks Haley on Medicare, Social Security cuts MORE(NIKKI HALEY) the newly minted Republican presidential candidate, called on Wednesday for mandatory “mental competency tests” for politicians older than 75, an implied dig at President Biden and her onetime boss, former President Trump. Speaking at a rally in Charleston, S.C., kicking off her 2024 White House bid, Haley ran through a litany of political promises, including enacting term limits for members of Congress and cracking down...

Two more eastern Oregon counties have reportedly voted in favor of the Greater Idaho movement. Its purpose is to convince state legislatures to move the Oregon-Idaho border, turning conservative counties of Oregon into counties of Idaho. In a Wednesday news release, the movement said it had seen victory in Morrow and Wheeler counties, clinching 60% and 58% of the votes as of that morning, respectively. ts website showed May election results in all three counties that voted on the issue had improved by 4 percentage points after election night due to the slow counting in the state's elections and the...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The latest numbers from the race between Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican Joe Kent for Washington's 3rd Congressional District seat show Kent more than a thousand votes closer to Gluesenkamp Perez than on election night. The most recent vote count from the state shows Gluesenkamp Perez with 102,124 votes and Kent with 92,224. In the primary election, Kent came from behind to defeat Jamie Herrera Beutler, also a Republican.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials on Thursday released their first new wolf management plan in almost a quarter-century but the document doesn’t establish a new statewide population goal, a number that has become a flashpoint in the fight over hunting quotas. The Department of Natural Resources adopted a wolf management plan in 1999 that calls for capping the statewide population at 350 animals. As the number of wolves in Wisconsin has increased — the DNR released estimates in September showing that the population currently stands at 970 — hunters have used that 350 number to justify generous quotas,...

Last Friday, John Fetterman stepped on a stage in Erie, Penn., to give his first public rally since he suffered a stroke on May 13. The Democrat running for Senate in Pennsylvania received a hero’s welcome from the crowd, who twirled Pittsburgh Steelers Terrible Towels in the air. The six-foot-eight, bald and goateed Fetterman sported his signature black hoodie with the sleeves pushed up to reveal large tattoos, as he went on to offer a comeback story that has always been his brand. “Three months ago my life could have ended, but I’m so grateful to be here as well,”...

Republican candidates have some convincing to do among their base, as Democrats hold the early advantage in battleground Arizona. The latest Fox News Poll of Arizona registered voters finds incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly with an 8 percentage-point lead over Republican Blake Masters (50% to 42%) in the U.S. Senate race. That’s outside the poll’s margin of error. Kelly’s support is just shy of his 2020 vote share when he narrowly beat Republican Martha McSally (51.2% to 48.8%). Kelly’s lead comes from 95% support among Democrats. Masters fails to garner the same party loyalty, as only 82% of Republicans back...

A Nebraska woman and her 17-year-old daughter are facing felony charges after the mother allegedly helped her daughter abort, burn and bury her fetus. Celeste Burgess was reportedly nearly six months pregnant when her mother, Jessica Burgess, helped her carry out an abortion. The pair claimed Celeste, then 17, accidentally had a stillbirth while in the shower before they placed the fetus in a box, burned it and buried it on a property located north of Norfolk. Jessica, 41, was hit with five felonies pertaining to the incident. Celeste, who is being tried as an adult, was charged with three....

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), a close ally of Donald Trump, says the FBI seized his cellphone just one day after the agency conducted a raid on the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence. The congressman told Fox News he was traveling with his family on Tuesday when three FBI agents approached and served him with a warrant for his cellphone. It’s not clear why the FBI confiscated his phone, but Perry denounced the move as a “banana republic tactic.”

(The Hill) – The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” started off as a dig at President Biden that spread quickly online and became a political slogan adopted by the president’s critics on the right, including former President Trump. The phrase became popular among Trump’s base after a reporter interviewing NASCAR driver Brandon Brown mistakenly interpreted the crowd’s background chanting of “f— Joe Biden” as “Let’s Go Brandon.” But recently, the use of the phrase has shown signs of shifting. The precursors to the “Dark Brandon” meme first started to make the rounds online shortly after Biden was elected, when a Chinese...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KOIN) — Though the vote tally is not final, GOP challenger Joe Kent has taken a lead of 960 votes over incumbent Jaime Herrera Beutler in the race for second place in the Washington 3rd Congressional District primary. Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez remains solidly in the lead by around 17,000 votes. Since Washington primaries select the top two finishers regardless of party affiliation, the candidate who places second will face Perez in the November election.

Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, blasts President Joe Biden’s FBI and Department of Justice for the Monday raid on former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida. Oz made his comments in a Tuesday morning tweet: "America is bitterly divided, & what Pres. Biden’s FBI and DOJ did last night will only make things worse. Americans have every right to be upset & demand answers on why this raid happened in the most aggressive action taken against a former president ever in our nation’s history."

(CNN)Rep. Liz Cheney has become an unexpected hero for Democrats. She was one of the few Republicans to vote to impeach President Donald Trump last year, has served as one of his most vocal critics in the GOP and is the vice chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. But we shouldn't mistake adoring press coverage and bipartisan bona fides for popularity in the place where popularity matters most for Cheney: Wyoming. A look at the data reveals that Cheney should be regarded as the clear underdog in her efforts to...

Patrick Byrne, the founder of Overstock.com and co-creator of The America Project, will hold a special screening of his documentary The Deep Rig, based on his bestselling book of the same name. On the heels of the release of Dinesh D'Souza's film 2000 Mules, which documented widespread voter fraud and lack of election integrity in the 2020 elections, businessman-turned-activist Patrick Byrne is planning a re-release of his bestselling book and documentary The Deep Rig, which addressed how election fraud cost President Donald J. Trump re-election to the White House in 2020. Since D'Souza's film 2000 Mules showcased ballot fraud done...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold a hearing on the evening of July 14, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The hearing will be the second one to take place next week and is aimed at reaching a broad television audience during prime viewing hours. Some committee members, including Republican Representative Liz Cheney, have argued that former President Donald Trump should be held criminally liable for allegedly encouraging the attack on the Capitol by his supporters, in which several people died.

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris tried Wednesday to “reassure” Cherelle Griner that the administration is working on getting her wife, WNBA star Brittney Griner, released from a Russian jail — a day after Cherelle said it was “very disheartening” that she hadn’t heard from the White House about efforts to free the hoopster. Biden “offered his support to Cherelle and Brittney’s family, and he committed to ensuring they are provided with all possible assistance while his administration pursues every avenue to bring Brittney home,” the White House said in a readout of the conversation. Noting that Brittney Griner...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is leading his Democratic gubernatorial challenger, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, by 6 percentage points, according to a new poll released Wednesday. A University of Texas-Texas Politics Project Poll found that 45 percent of Texas registered voters surveyed would vote for Abbott if the election were held that day, compared to 39 percent who would vote for O’Rourke. A separate 10 percent said they had not thought about it enough to have an opinion, while another 3 percent said they would choose someone else. Broken down by party, the candidates are the overwhelming favorite within their...

Pollster and consultant Douglas Schoen said Hillary Clinton should run for president again in 2024 and she would be one of the best options for the Democratic party right now. In an opinion piece for The Hill, published on July 3, Schoen dismissed current President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' chances due to their waning popularity. Schoen also noted that he and former New York City Council President Andrew Stein wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journalin January of this year emphasizing why Clinton would be a good candidate. "Our reasoning was that President Biden's low...

Friday marks the third day of protests over the Akron police shooting death of 25-year-old Jayland Walker, an Akron DoorDash driver who was killed by multiple shots following a police chase on Monday. Previous protests were small, a couple dozen people. But as news of Walker's death spread across the city and national organizations like Black Lives Matter took note, today's protest downtown is expected to grow. Reporters and photographers from The Akron Beacon Journal will be reporting live from today's protest. Follow their reporting as it unfolds below. The details surrounding Walker's shootings remain unclear. Police have offered a...