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uestions have been raised as to whether Gavin Newsom should replace President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic nominee, but polls suggest the California governor would still lose to Donald Trump. Fears over Biden's reelection hopes increased following the president's performance during the CNN debate on Thursday. During the debate, Biden, who has faced concerns about his age as he seeks a second term, gave a number of incoherent and confusing responses to questions while also trailing off and not completing his sentences. Biden's voice also appeared hoarse, which his campaign team said was due to a cold. The performance...

Muhammad Musri, president of American Islam and Chairman of the Board of the Islamic Society of Central Florida discussed in his June 21, 2024 Friday sermon plans to buy up abandoned churches and turn them into mosques. He said that Muslims are turning churches into mosques in order to serve the same community, because one day they will become Muslims. Musri said that 100 years ago Christians invaded Islamic countries and built missionary schools destroying mosques and Islamic schools. He added that now the Muslims are "returning the favor" by converting churches into mosques and turning the local schools into...

GOD'S PERFECTION In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school career, while others can be main-streamed into conventional schools. At a Chush fund-raising dinner, the father of a Chush child delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he cried out, "Where is the perfection in my son Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But my child cannot understand things as other children do. My child cannot remember facts and...

First lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband has joined the chorus of people slamming her for apparently encouraging President Biden to stay in the election after his disastrous debate performance. “The Dr. Jill Biden who I’ve seen on TV in the last five years is not the same person I married or that I recognize in any way,” Bill Stevenson, who was married to Jill from 1970 to 1975, told The Post Saturday. “She’s matriculated into a completely different woman.” Stevenson, 75, of Delaware, is a proud Trump supporter who has been vocal over the years about his bitterness with what he...

Editor's note: NASA announced on Friday that Starliner's troubleshooting has been extended for a third time, meaning that the astronauts will stay aboard the International Space Station indefinitely until some time in July. Two NASA astronauts who rode to orbit on Boeing's Starliner are stranded in space aboard the ISS after engineers discovered numerous issues with the Boeing spacecraft. Teams on the ground are now racing to assess Starliner's status. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled to return to Earth on June 13 after a week on the ISS, but their stay has been extended for a...

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The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in a special column following the recent Presidential debate that it had been painful to watch. "Joe Biden is a good man and a good President. He must bow out of the race," Friedman wrote in the headline of his column. He recounted: "I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon hotel room, and it made me weep. I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime — precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no...

President Biden is still committed to the second debate against Donald Trump despite his abysmal showing on Thursday night. Biden, 81, will return to the debate stage in September, CNN Senior White House Correspondent Kayla Tausche reported Friday morning, citing an advisor. Biden is also not considering dropping out of the race – despite concerns from members of his own party. The octogenarian repeatedly froze and misspoke during the Thursday debate, which left doubts in the minds of even the most hopeful viewers about his mental and physical fitness. “This was a disaster for Biden. Many Democrats are looking for...

Former first lady Michelle Obama is reluctant to publicly campaign for President Biden’s re-election because, in part, of how the family treated Kathleen Buhle, her close friend, in the wake of her divorce from Hunter Biden, a new report claims. The wife of former President Barack Obama has largely steered clear of the 2024 campaign trail after expressing frustration in private over Buhle’s apparent exile from the Biden family years earlier, Axios reported, citing two sources familiar with the relationship. Michelle’s disdain for partisan politics is also partly to blame for her absence so far this election cycle, the sources...

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A mom has claimed she was booted off a United Airlines flight with her distressed 16-month-old son over using the wrong pronoun for a flight attendant. Jenna Longoria was expecting to fly to Austin from San Francisco on Wednesday with her mom and son when United stopped them from traveling. She alleges she was denied boarding after an 'accidental' mix-up when addressing a United staff member, who she says refused to accept her apology. The frantic mom also alleged the flight had taken off with her luggage containing her and her mom's medication still on board, leaving at risk of...

MATTESON, Ill. (WLS) -- A train derailed Thursday morning in far south suburban Matteson, a spokesman for the village said. Chopper 7 was over the scene about 11:30 a.m., and multiple cars were derailed in the area of 21740 Main St. The spokesman said the train involved is from the Canadian National Railway Company. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but officials were looking at a leaking train car. It was not immediately clear what was leaking from the train car. The village spokesman said a white powdery substance seen leaking from one car was tested by CN, who...

Moscow must find other ways to pay for exports or its sanctions-hit economy faces "ruination" one of President Vladimir Putin's top bankers has said, following moves by Chinese lenders to suspend transactions with Russian banks. ICBC, China CITIC Bank and most other Chinese banks have made similar moves, worried about falling foul of Western sanctions, which have been stepped up to choke off the funding for Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Earlier this month, the U.S. and other countries unveiled a new wave of sanctions that targeted Russian financial institutions and entities and individuals who do business with them. "If...

A migrant from Turkey was arrested in Albany last week for raping a 15-year-old girl he forced into the backseat of his car after threatening to beat her with a metal pole, authorities said. Sakir Akkan, 21, is accused of attacking the teen on Arch Street in the state capital in the early hours of May 14, court records obtained by The Post show. Akkan allegedly told the girl, who was in the passenger seat of his Toyota Prius, that he’d pummel her if she didn’t get into the back, according to the filing. Once she was inside his car,...

Google is up to its regular election tricks, according to the Media Research Center. An MRC investigation found that when searching for a candidates name with “presidential race 2024,” Joe Biden’s campaign website is the top result, while Donald Trump’s campaign website doesn’t appear on the first page. The MRC reports that as the 2024 presidential race heats up, concerns are growing about the role of technology giants in shaping public opinion and access to information. A recent investigation MRC has uncovered what they claim to be evidence of bias in Google’s search results, potentially impacting the visibility of presidential...

The superintendent of a school district in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas recently agreed within minutes to a conservative group’s demands to remove 676 books, including some seminal texts about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Now, weeks later, Carol Perez has been removed from the district she led, just as the Republican governor of Texas appeared to endorse the book removals on social media. Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Marines Save The World & Eat Food! U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Caden Lloyd, left, the food service officer for MCAS Iwakuni, and a Florida native, left, and Sgt. Maj. Jody Armentrout, right, the sergeant major of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, and a Texas native, pose for a group photo during the Food Pantry cooking competition held by Matthew C. Perry High School at MCAS Iwakuni Japan, April 18, 2024.The students of M.C. Perry High School were tasked with creating unique dishes with non-perishable items such as spam,...

For the first time in 30 years, Argentina experienced a zero-percent increase in the inflation rates of food and drinks during the third week of June, President Javier Milei confirmed on Monday morning. A study published on Sunday by Econométrica, a private Argentine consulting firm, first reported the no-inflation week. In its study, Econométrica analyzed 8,000 prices in local online supermarkets and found no change when compared to the preceding week — something that has not happened in Argentina in three decades. In addition to the lack of variation in prices in one week, the study found that the prices...

It’s a little early for an October surprise… but just on time to prop Joe up in ANOTHER debate with his Republican rival. The last time around, Blinken (who was part of Joe’s campaign team) called in a favor from 51 people from the Intelligence Community to write a letter discrediting the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell as ‘Russian disinformation’. They had no first-hand information about that laptop or its contents. The DNI director, Ratcliffe, specifically repudiated claims that it was Russian disinformation in mid-October 2020. That didn’t stop Biden from lying in the debate while social media was pressured...

The 2024 election is Donald Trump's to lose. Right now, he is running even with Joe Biden in all the national polls. He's running ahead in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada; he's running even in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; he's closing within striking distance in Minnesota and New Hampshire. The map has radically expanded for him. Meanwhile, Biden's approval ratings are stagnant: he's stuck at below 40%. Americans' view of the economy remains dim, as does their view of Biden's foreign policy. What's more, Americans' perceptions of the two candidates are unlikely to change dramatically before the election. Biden has been...