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Democrat voters in Michigan are jumping ship in droves after radical progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly clinched the Democratic Senate nomination Tuesday night. Even loyal MS NOW viewers and self-described liberals are openly declaring they will not vote for the socialist-backed candidate and will instead support Republican Mike Rogers in November. MS NOW host Chris Jansing herself reported the stunning defection: "And I want to tell you really quickly, as I was getting on the plane this morning, A guy who was a big fan of MSNOW said to me, 'I'm anxious to see who wins... I voted for Haley Stevens...

The gangbanging son of a Westchester County police bigwig had a Bronx court date just minutes before he allegedly opened fire on a rival – with his cop mom and ex-con dad as getaway drivers, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chase Lackard, 20, faced a judge on a 2024 gun rap just 20 minutes before the alleged June 29 drive-by gang shooting – with help from his mom, disgraced Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard, and drug-dealing dad James Lackard, according to prosecutors. “He’s captured on cameras running into this courthouse,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Keturah Ladd told the judge. “He...

PICKER: A lot of people have criticized market structure right now, levered ETFs, positioning and so forth. How concerned are you about the proliferation of levered ETFs on single stocks? DIMON: Well, leverage ETFs on their own are quite small. So I’d say not really. But there is what I call market leverage, prime broker leverage, hedge fund leverage, ETF leverage, treasury arbitrage leverage. I’m double-counting some of that. So, the market leverage is pretty high. Now, of course, we manage it client by client. And so you have seen disasters that people lose a lot of money, nothing really...

WASHINGTON — Iran’s mysterious, “probably gay” supreme leader is so elusive that even his own president isn’t convinced he met him in a bizarre one-on-one in the back of a dark car. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was whisked to a secret location in Tehran, shoved into the back seat of a dark car with blacked-out windows and told he was sitting next to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei — except he never actually saw the man, according to a bombshell report from Iran International. The bizarre cloak-and-dagger meeting reportedly lasted just a few minutes, not the cozy two-and-a-half-hour sit-down Pezeshkian bragged...

Wednesday's Morning Joe gave Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed a friendly platform, and failed to press him on the radical implications of two of his signature positions: Medicare for All, and his condemnation of Israel as an "illegal apartheid state" that is "bloodthirsty" and commits "genocide." [snip] El-Sayed also accused Israel of "genocide” and described its conduct under Netanyahu as “bloodthirsty,” the latter accusation having ugly echoes of antisemitic blood libels. Politicians who oppose support for Israel often claim they’re not anti-Israel—just anti-Netanyahu. Not El-Sayed. By branding Israel an “illegal apartheid regime” that predates and outlasts Netanyahu, he made explicitly...

The governments of Japan and the United States agreed in 2012 to move more than 9,000 of the nearly 19,000 Marines stationed in Okinawa more than 2,200 miles east to Guam, a U.S. territory.2 This process—finally begun in 2024—amounts to a withdrawal of forces from territory the United States has pledged to defend, and a de facto retreat from the most pernicious threat: the People’s Republic of China.National defense strategies from multiple administrations and both major U.S. political parties agree: China is the greatest threat to the United States and its interests.3 Few issues generate as much robust bipartisan support...

Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.In 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration proposed creating stronger cybersecurity guidelines to better safeguard the nation’s water supply from hackers.The steps were modest, but necessary, officials said at the time: Many municipalities lacked even basic protections, and the computers that monitor and adjust water quality, including chemical-treatment levels, were easy-to-find targets for a would-be intruder.The E.P.A. rescinded the order, however, after Republican-led states and industry groups sued to block its enforcement. They argued...

Explanation: Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings looping forwards and backwards. A day on Saturn is only 10 hours long, so two hours of observation covers quite a bit of its rotation. If you look closely, a ghoulish shadow appears and disappears as Saturn’s B ring rotates. Decades of observation with Voyager 2, Cassini, and Hubble show the appearance of Saturn’s spokes varies with the planet’s seasons. Like Earth, Saturn’s spin axis is tilted compared to the plane of its orbit around the Sun. During Saturn’s equinox,...

"The conservatives on here denying the affordability crisis are engaged in what I can only describe as an act of political suicide. They're also lying, which is the worst part. Grocery prices are up. Housing. Energy. Insurance. Health care. Basic living expenses. It's real. It's happening. Denying it just makes you look out of touch, deceitful, and untrustworthy. It's also a completely unnecessary and unforced error. No credible person is claiming that Trump caused these price surges. You don't have to disgrace yourself by denying the reality in front of your face just to prove your loyalty to Trump. The...

A Florida man was arrested after authorities say he stalked a woman he met on a dating app and stole a teddy bear containing the woman’s son’s ashes. According to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched on Aug. 1 to help Flagler Beach Police Department officers with an investigation into a suspect, identified as Justin Fountain, after a woman went to Flagler Beach police and said Fountain had “become increasingly controlling and aggressive.” “According to the victim, Fountain tracked her location, following her around Flagler County, and stole her child’s ashes from her despite her asking to stop...

Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time inside. Researchers tested whether this was merely a misleading feature of the light pulse by making extremely weak measurements of the atoms. Surprisingly, the atoms confirmed the same negative dwell time. The finding does not break standard physics, but it reveals that one of quantum mechanics’ strangest effects is physically measurable. ... Our experiment used photons – quantum particles of light – and the against-the-odds journey they must undertake to pass straight through a cloud of rubidium atoms....

Churchill Downs Incorporated and The New York Racing Association Introduce a Six-Race Championship Series, Running Across Three Iconic Racing Venues and Crowning One Champion CDI and NYRA Leaders to be Available for Joint News Conference Monday at 4 p.m. ET LOUISVILLE, Ky. (August 3, 2026) – Churchill Downs Incorporated (“CDI”) (Nasdaq: CHDN) and The New York Racing Association, Inc. (“NYRA”) announced today the creation of the “Thoroughbred Championship Series.” The new six-race competition will begin in 2027 and establish an annual season-long championship for America’s leading three-year-old Thoroughbreds. The country’s most iconic racing venues – Churchill Downs Racetrack, Belmont Park...

Space exploration enthusiasts have been tracking the unprecedented journey of SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype, which wound up floating in the Indian Ocean after the company’s latest test flight. Now, satellites have captured mind-bending images of boats working to haul the rocket back to shore. The saga of Ship 40 — as this specific Starship prototype is called — began on July 24 with the launch of SpaceX’s 13th fully integrated test flight the rocket system, which includes the upper spacecraft, or “ship,” as well as the Super Heavy rocket booster, the bottommost part of the rocket that fires the ship...

All churches that truly love Jesus serve coffee, but did you know that you can actually tell what denomination a church is by what coffee it serves? Here are 17 different forms of caffeinated goodness and what church you'll find them in: Dunkin' — Southern Baptist: Obviously. Medium roast — Non-denominational: Smooth and palatable. Grande Caramel Macchiato in a venti cup, upside down, with split milks, extra shots, and no top drizzle — some friggin' Acts 29 church: You know who they are. Boba tea — the Korean church that meets after your church: So many Hondas in the parking...

Less than a 1% lead? That's all Abdul El-Sayed has after (1) coordinated support from imams, (2) a wave of liberal endorsements, and (3) backing from an Arab Super PAC. NYT ScreenshotFreep. — El-Sayed's lead in the race was less than 1% when multiple outlets called it for him early.

Interesting. Almost no news is coming out of the Tyler Robinson trial for the killing of Charlie Kirl. The bias of he media is sooooooooooo obvious. Imagine if someone (would have to be an obvious lunatic - a trans will do) were to murder a Communist, Woke, Leftist, Muslim, Traitorous figurehead (pick one, just not a trans), there would be wall-to-wall 24/7 coverage with initiation of an exta hour per day to 25 demand by the Expand the Supreme Court activists coverage of the trial. The person would suddenly become a card-carrying MAGA operative, far-right Crusades member time traveler to...

The next American civil war may not involve any Americans. American pundits are predicting a new civil war between the red states and the blue states. That’s cute but the nation is already under a two-headed attack by Marxists and Muslims. We should worry about that because if they win, the battle royale will be between Red China and Iran over who gets to rule the scraps that are left of a once mighty American empire that fed the world. The Muslim battle plan is well-documented: Get the nose in the tent and crawl in. Once inside, demand people do...

The brother of American Olympic legend Alysa Liu is a transgender athlete dominating California high school girls’ athletic events, reports say. Jaylin Liu was formerly named Joshua before transitioning and identifying as female, according to Reduxx. He now competes in track and field girls’ varsity basketball and ultimate frisbee for both Albany High School and El Cerrito High School in California. He’s reportedly made his biggest impact in track and field, taking home every first-place finish in 200-meter and 400-meter girls’ races that Albany High School has entered this year. Jaylin recently took home the top spot at the Tri-County...

... On AI and distributism Vance starts the segment with a reference to the Catholic social doctrine of distributism (i.e. the ownership economy). ...there’s a Christian idea of political economy that’s actually been lost in American politics, where it’s like we think of it as libertarianism, the hardcore free market, versus socialism or communism. And there actually is a third way that has existed in pretty much all Christian economic thinking going back 2,000 years ago.Distributism has been around 140 years or so, and is typically traced back to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum,5 which Vance references later...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders he is planning to roll back abortion access even in states that have laws protecting it. On a private call last week hosted by the White House Faith Office, Blanche told the religious group Intercessors for America that moves to undo the Biden administration’s efforts to protect abortion are “taking longer than we want.” But Blanche assured them that the Justice Department (DOJ) is “working hand-in-hand” with federal health agencies, the White House and President Trump’s team “to get permanent solutions so the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.” The...