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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As authorities sought to piece together the puzzle of glaring security failures in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the Secret Service vowed to find out what went wrong at the Trump rally as soon as they figure out who left cocaine in the White House. "One mystery at a time, people," Secret Service spokesperson Jeanine Harper. "We'll get right on that once we finally get to the bottom of this conundrum about who could have possibly left a bag of cocaine in the White House. All in good time." Federal agents reportedly remained stumped...

"Some people are a bigger problem dead, than they are when they're alive." sings a Puerto Rican singer in one of his songs. You kill the wrong person (i.e. The Archduke Ferdinand) and you can start trouble you never imagined and which will engulf you and probably EVERYONE you know. Folks need to calm down and take that to heart. What we ALL need is mouth control. What help would be the arrest of the primary offenders who stirred this all up recently and over several years: Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Woopie Goldberg, Joy Behar,...

According to sources, the United States Secret Service plans to beef up Trump's security team with a squad of blind midgets. "I have personally vetted these seeing-impaired persons of limited stature and certify them ready for deployment," Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in a statement. Republican leadership questioned the effectiveness of these new agents but the agency dismissed their concerns as bigoted. "They asked why they were so short and also why they kept bumping into things, and that's just not acceptable," Direct Cheatle said. "They are as devoted to their duty as they are physically handicapped." "I can...

OpenAI’s rumored project Strawberry is focused on enhancing the reasoning capabilities of its AI models. Strawberry is rumored to be based upon the QStar AI advance. QStar was a reasoning advance that supposedly triggered the power struggle inside OpenAI and temporary firing of CEO Sam Altman. Strawberry supposedly enables AI to perform long-horizon tasks (LHT), which require a model to plan ahead and execute a series of actions over an extended period of time. This technology aims to improve AI’s ability to understand and interact with the world, allowing it to autonomously search the internet and conduct deep research. By...

A Canadian biology professor shocked social media with their comment on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who shot Donald Trump, opened fire at the former president with an AR-style rifle from a roof 130 yards from the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday at 6.15pm. Many have used the attempt on a former president's life to ask for toned down rhetoric from both sides of the political spectrum. Shoshanna Jacobs, a biology professor at Ontario's University of Guelph, received condemnation from all sides after quote-tweeting a video of the shooting, when...

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who shot Donald Trump, was once rejected from his high school rifle club and considered a danger. The registered Republican and 2022 high school graduate opened fire at the former president with an AR-style rifle from a roof 130 yards from the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday at 6.15pm. Now, disturbing anecdotes have emerged from those who knew Crooks dating back to his days at Bethel Park High School. Crooks tried out for the school's rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, said Frederick Mach, a...

Journalism, in part, is the work of turning up stones. Sometimes a reporter finds nothing underneath. Other times, he uncovers shock, scandal, or corruption. An entire twentieth-century lore, beginning with The Jungle and culminating in the Watergate reporting, portrays the reporter as a man who stands against the corruption of institutions. But as the Left, which invented muckraking, has consolidated its power over those same institutions, the story has been recast. Now, reporters for prestige publications defend, rather than interrogate, the organs of power. They seek to propagate official narratives and to discredit those who would question them. The establishment’s...

Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao breaks down which countries host the most top 100 universities in the world, as per the World University Rankings 2024, sourced from Times Higher Education.The ranking measures 1,906 universities across 108 countries on 18 performance indicators across broad pillars like teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.The U.S. Dominates in Higher EducationNot only does the U.S. have the most top 100 universities (36), it is also the most represented country (169 universities) in the entire ranking catalog of nearly 2,000 schools.Adding the U.S. number to that of Canada’s (3) gives a regional total for...

There's nothing new in historians claiming that Abraham Lincoln was bisexual or gay. The "theory" took root in the 1970s during the gay awakening and has hung around on the fringes of historical scholarship ever since. Now, a serious documentary purports to "prove" the point using newly unearthed letters, documents, and photographs. Abraham Lincoln slept in the same bed with men — a common practice in 1840s America where a judicial circuit rider like Lincoln would have been forced to share a bed with other travelers while practicing law — and also wrote "passionately" about male friends and acquaintances. What...

They are going to hammer us with this "our democracy" crap in the continuing mis-education of the public school initiated DIS-education.I remember "vocabulary words" in elementary and Junior High and they were all English and grammatically/etymologically correct.There is no such thing as "our democracy", just like there is no such thing as our truth or my truth.

Federal agents are 'confident' they will nail the suspects involved It was reported that they are planning to charge suspects with first-degree felonies Those involved in Perry's fatal overdose could face a minimum of 20 years in prison The federal agents investigating Matthew Perry's death are 'confident' they will be able to charge the suspects involved in his fatal drug overdose. On Friday, it was reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is planning to charge 'multiple people' with drug distribution resulting in death or great bodily injury. For the first-degree felony charge, they could be facing a sentence of...

With President Biden's poll numbers continuing to fall and projections for November's elections looking grim, desperate Democrats called the January 6 buffalo guy on the phone to see if he'd be willing to stage another insurrection. "Yes, is this Jacob Chansley? Yes, I'd like to order an insurrection," Nancy Pelosi said to the infamous QAnon Shaman. "I know we've been saying insurrections are bad and stuff, but things are looking ugly for us and we've tried just about everything we can do to turn it around, but it's not good." "If you could maybe overthrow the government and force Biden...

U.S. — As the November presidential election continued to draw closer, prominent Democrats gave the American people a stern warning about the prospect of a terrifying fascist state where government shrinks and people can afford groceries. The potential future, which Democrats pleaded with voters to avoid by defeating Donald Trump, would plunge the nation into a hellish wasteland of less crime, cheaper gas, and lower real estate prices. "An unspeakable, horrifying hellscape," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a sobering statement to the media. "A darkened world once thought to be unimaginable, where everyone can find a job, food...

It’s unclear whether the attack on Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture is related to protests by anti-abortion groups, which previously denounced it as “satanic.” Shahzia Sikander's sculpture "Witness" after vandalism on the University of Houston campus (© Shahzia Sikander, photo by Abdurrahman Danquah) ==================================================================== Artist Shahzia Sikander’s monumental sculpture “Witness” (2023) was beheaded in the early hours of Monday morning, July 8, on the grounds of the University of Houston campus. The 18-foot-tall sculpture depicting a female figure in a hoop skirt and jabot with braided hair shaped into ram horns and vine-like appendages was installed for a temporary exhibition at the...

People today are much cleverer than they were in previous generations. A study of 72 countries found that average IQs rose by 2.2 points a decade between 1948 and 2020. This stunning change is known as the “Flynn effect” after James Flynn, the scientist who first noticed it. Flynn was initially baffled by his discovery. It took millions of years for the brain to evolve. How could it improve so rapidly over just a few decades? The answer is largely that people were becoming better nourished and mentally stimulated. Just as muscles need food and exercise to grow strong, so...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the House Judiciary Committee meeting in which Ben Shapiro lawfully acquired full ownership of Democrat representative Eric Swalwell by means of facts and logic, the conservative co-founder of the Daily Wire has graciously agreed to share joint ownership of his new liberal with the Chinese, who claim that they owned Swalwell first. Sources say that Shapiro was just finishing mopping the floor of the Capitol with Swalwell's opprobrious physiognomy when Fang-Fang, the female Chinese operative with whom Swalwell was illicitly involved, contacted Shapiro to tell him to "back off, since the Chinese Communist Party has first...

CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews – who was accused of sidelining white journalists and blocking an acclaimed correspondent’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop – is stepping down at the network, the company said Wednesday. The controversial news boss, who was named president just last August, is exiting after she made headlines in February over the firing of Catherine Herridge, a respected senior investigative reporter who had been doggedly covering the Hunter Biden laptop story for the network. At the time, media insiders speculated that Herridge’s exit was linked to her reporting that President Biden may have kept evidence that...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A former Tipton County teacher could go to trial more than 20 times for sex crimes involving children. On Tuesday, a judge set a trial date for Alissa McCommon, but that could be the first of many. McCommon is facing 23 charges including rape of a child, five counts of aggravated statutory rape and two counts of statutory rape by an authority figure. The judge on Monday set McCommon's first trial for January 7, but in August that judge will decide if that trial will encompass all of McCommon's charges or if the former teacher will come...

Park, 29, was once celebrated in the mainstream press... Outlets like The New York Times and The Daily Beast ran breathless articles, and Park quickly became a fixture in elite, mostly liberal circles. She attended the Met Gala. She opened for Hillary Clinton at the Women of the World conference. Marie Claire profiled her. Penguin gave her a $1.1 million book deal. She was admitted to Columbia University. For four years, Park quietly pursued a degree in human rights studies, attending the university’s campus, a shaded neoclassical oasis in uptown Manhattan. But after graduating in 2020, she returned to the...

Gen Xers are edging closer to retirement age and realizing that their 401(K) won't go the distance, an alarming report shows. A survey reveals that 55-year-old Americans have typically saved less than $50,000 for their pension — far below the $446,565 that's recommended at this stage. Nearly a quarter of them expect to be cash-strapped and plan to turn to their children for support. More than a fifth said they'd likely need to move in to their kids' spare room or basement as a 'silver squatter.' Prudential, a finance group, surveyed the oldest members of Generation X, or people born...