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The state has unearthed hundreds more people than previously known who were improperly registered to vote under Oregon’s motor voter law. The latest tally includes 302 people identified on Monday, according to an “after-action” report ordered by Gov. Tina Kotek. The latest numbers add to the 1,259 people who officials with the state’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Services office and Secretary of State had earlier revealed were registered in error. [snip] Griffin-Valade said she was confident the recently identified errors would not alter the election. Tobias Read, the Democrat who is running to be the next secretary of state, said...

Britons have suffered a slump in living standards, official data shows, as a surge in net migration wiped out any gains from economic growth. So-called real GDP per head shrank by 0.3pc between April and June compared with a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, suggesting living standards have slid backwards as the population grew. It comes after net migration hit a near-record 685,000 last year. Experts said the figures meant the population was growing faster than the economy, underlining the challenges facing Rachel Reeves ahead of her maiden Budget. Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital...

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban warned Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Vice President Kamala Harris’ capital gains tax plan would “kill the stock market.” Cuban said, “What I told them is if you tax unrealized gains, you’re going to kill the stock market, and it’s going to be the ultimate employment plan for private equity because companies are not going to go public because you can get whipsawed.” He added, “Based off the unrealized gains, I would have had to borrow money and I effectively would have been in hawk just to pay my tax bill instead of trying to...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the United States has too many federal laws.Host Shannon Bream said, “I think it will be eye opening to the American people, the idea that so pretty much of our conduct is over regulated and over criminalized many cases. Apparently you and are committing felonies every day without possibly even knowing it.”Gorsuch said, “I think that might be true. Some professors say there are now so many federal laws on the books that every American over the age of 18 commits one felony a...

The Biden administration has paused a controversial program that was flying hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the U.S. per year after massive fraud was discovered. Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed Friday that it temporarily halted the scheme that allows up to 30,000 nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) to enter the country each month. The sudden freeze of the contentious plan comes after an internal DHS report revealed rampant fraud among the sponsors paying for the migrants to come to the country, a source familiar with the report told Fox News.

Texas agriculture commissioner says ESG policies 'will have a devastating impact on US agriculture and world food security'Climate change policies and environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards will have an outsized negative impact on the U.S. agriculture industry, according to a new report shared with FOX Business. The report — published Wednesday by the free market think tank Buckeye Institute — is titled "Net-Zero Climate-Control Policies Will Fail the Farm" and outlines how farmers will see their operational costs rise by an estimated 34% as a result of net-zero ESG policies. While the report states its findings were "predictable and...

There is currently a war being waged against America that threatens the very liberty of our nation — and it’s one you might not expect. It's not the war on free speech or freedom of religion. It's the war on beef. Who better to discuss this war than American cattle rancher Shad Sullivan? Shad is the R-CALF USA Private Property Rights Committee chair. In this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," Shad and Glenn discuss the “war on beef” and why it matters to everyday Americans. Shad explains the issues with California’s Prop 2 and Prop 12 and how they...

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod warned that Democrat efforts to prevent former President Donald Trump from running in the 2024 presidential elections risks tearing the country apart. “I have very, very strong reservations about all of this,” Axelrod told CNN’s OutFront host Erin Burnett. “I do think it would rip the country apart if he were actually prevented from running because tens of millions of people want to vote for him.” “I think if you’re going to beat Donald Trump, you’re going to probably have to do it at the polls,” he continued. Axelrod, who served as Obama’s senior adviser...

More than 100 House Republicans warned on Wednesday that President Biden’s multi-trillion dollar social spending bill is only likely to exacerbate the nation’s supply chain shortages. Rep. Sam Graves, the top Republican on the House Transportation Committee, and more than 100 other GOP lawmakers wrote in an open letter to the White House that Mr. Biden’s emphasis on tax hikes, creating new entitlement programs and imposing stringent environmental regulations would cripple the ability of businesses to respond to the blockages plaguing both consumer and industrial goods trapped in the supply pipeline. “Multiple factors have contributed to the nation’s supply chain...

All was fine until a few days ago when Windows auto updated something and since the PC - a new Lenovo - will not auto sleep . I opted for premium support and my wife ( it's a made for Japan PC ) has called twice inc. today but the damn thing still won't auto sleep . Just wondering of anyone here has had the same problem and if there is a fix . I'm a PC dummy so bear with me my friends .

it turns out that while most hackers might not be able to get into Apple’s servers, a sixteen-year-old Australian with a passion for Apple managed to do it, stealing some 90GB of secure files and accessing customer accounts in the process. The best part is that he stored it all in a folder called “hacky hack hack.”