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VIDEOIs this the scenario that will play out at the 2024 State Of The Union speech? The more I think about it the more likely'it seems it will happen. And the shouting might not be coming just from the gallery. I wouldn't doubt if it comes from the chamber itself with various members of the Squad doing the shouting. If this scenario does play out then don't be surprised if the media somehow blames Trump for it.

(NEXSTAR) – As the clock ticks down toward a potential partial shutdown of the federal government this week, millions who rely on federal assistance for food could be left in the balance. If Congress fails to reach a deal to fund the government, a partial government shutdown would be triggered on March 1. That partial shutdown would impact several federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which manages SNAP and WIC food assistance. SNAP, which stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, used to be called the Food Stamp Program. The program helps low-income and no-income families buy groceries...

The US Army in Europe and Africa is spending its budget to train Ukrainian soldiers... In Stockholm, Sweden a gas smell incident at the headquarters of the Swedish Security Service... Russian authorities report a fire at metallurgical plant...may have been caused by a drone... ...balloon tracked over the Western United States... Two Mississippi National Guard members killed in a helicopter crash... A New York jury finding the National Rifle Association and its longtime CEO Wayne LaPierre liable for lavish spending... President Trump calling for 'immediate action" in Alabama to reverse...Supreme Court decision affirming the humanity... An investigator for President Donald...

“Be Evil” should be Google’s new motto these days. The anti-free speech Big Tech giant has continued its sordid habit of suppressing right-leaning media sources while inundating users with left-leaning content. A new analysis from media solutions company AllSides once again found that Google News is overwhelmingly elevating news media from “the left” while burying news media from “the right.” AllSides monitored Google News' homepage over a two-week period in 2023 and uncovered that a whopping 63 percent of 494 articles came from sources “on the left.” By contrast, only a negligible six percent came from sources “on the right.”...

<p>1) When in control of the Senate, demand the end of the filibuster; when not, don’t.</p><p>2) Call for the end of the Electoral College–but only if it appears to recently favor the candidate of the opposition.</p><p>3) In an election year, change any state balloting laws deemed unhelpful through administrative fiat or court order to favor your political candidate.</p>

Five years ago, 95-year-old Hilbert Margol offered a bit of optimism, having recently renewed his driver’s license. The examiner “renewed my license until 2026,” he told me, flashing a grin as we sat in the parlor of his Dunwoody home. “I hope he knows something.” Well, so far, so good. It’s 2024 and we again sat at the same table with the century mark arriving. He turns 100 on Thursday.

EAST BAY NEWS Neo-Nazi white supremacist delivers antisemitic diatribe at Walnut Creek City Council meeting sanfrancisco By / 8:34 AM PST / CBS San Francisco A man wearing a "white power" T-shirt and swastikas went on a hate-filled, antisemitic diatribe during a public comment period at a Walnut Creek City Council meeting Tuesday evening. The man, who identified himself as "Scottie," approached the podium holding up a cellphone and started his comments saying he was "filming this for legal reasons." He then proceeded to denounce the City Council members for shutting down online and phone-in public comments during public meetings,...

The fantastic fall of Fani Willis is one of the great comedies of recent American politics. It’s the flagrant corruption of Hunter Biden, mixed with the stupidity of Jussie Smollett, the courtroom farce of the George Zimmerman trial, and the sky-high political stakes of a U.S. presidential election. It’s the joyous, healthy humor of seeing a wicked, ridiculous person be exposed and get exactly what she deserves. Right now, it still isn’t certain whether Judge Scott McAfee will actually kick Fani Willis off her own case, but even if he doesn’t, the damage has substantially been done. The tenuous prosecution...

Barack Obama's daughter, Malia Ann, has received some negative reviews over a debut short film that she both wrote and directed. The 25-year-old showed her 18-minute film, The Heart, at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which tells the story of a grieving son tasked with an unusual request from his late mother, previously screened at film festivals in Telluride and Chicago, where it received recognition in the best live action short category. In a "Meet the Artist" video for Sundance, Malia Ann said that her project "is about lost objects and lonely people and forgiveness and regret." She added...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies and they are powered by supermassive black holes. The black hole in this record-breaking quasar is growing in mass by the equivalent of one Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole to date. The black holes powering quasars collect matter from their surroundings in a process so energetic that it emits vast amounts of light....

Decimals in a trigonometry table in Tabulae primi mobilis B by Bianchini, written in the 15th century. (Van Brummelen, Hist. Math., 2024) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In 1593, German mathematician Christopher Clavius made a small mark that would change mathematics forever. In a sine table in his treatise on the astrolabe, Astrolabium, he indicated the fractionation of a whole number by writing what has come to be regarded as the very first use of the decimal point. There is, however, just one problem. According to new painstaking research by historian Glen Van Brummelen of Trinity Western University, this wasn't, in fact, its first...

DOLTON, Ill. — Illinois Attorney General has ordered a politician’s charity to stop soliciting money because it has failed to report how it spends funds and who has benefited. WGN Investigates previously reported on questionable spending by Dolton mayor Tiffany Henyard, who also serves as Thornton Township supervisor. Thousands of tax dollars have been funneled to the Tiffany Henyard Cares Foundation. Township and Dolton workers and vehicles have been used for the charity’s events. The foundation claims to help cancer patients; but hasn’t filed any of the required financial disclosures with the state of Illinois. The attorney general sent a...

A vocal critic of embattled mayor Tiffany Henyard believes her home was sprayed with bullets at the behest of the official during a bitter feud between them last summer. Two cars belonging to tenants of former Village of Dolton Trustee Valeria Stubbs, a retired member of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, were riddled with at least nine shots last July. The raid, she believes, stemmed from her public attacks on Henyard, who has been accused of plundering the debt-ridden Illinois town’s coffers to pay for lavish travel, dinners and personal indulgences. Asked if she believes Henyard, 40, was behind the...

A 28-year-old man In China has won a lottery jackpot worth 680 million yuan, or around US$96 million. This is the biggest jackpot ever recorded in the country. The lucky winner is from Guizhou province in southwest China, according to the official website of the China Welfare Game, which organized the game. He bought 133 lottery tickets, each for two yuan (approximately 28 US cents). Surprisingly, he selected the identical set of seven numbers for each ticket. As a result, every single one of his tickets won, and he received a prize of 5.16 million yuan (about US$725,000) for each...

Tyla-Simone Crayton of Shark Tank fame, who started her Sienna Sauce at just 15 years old, recently suffered a setback when Target informed her that this spring its stores will no longer carry the condiment. The young entrepreneur and restaurant owner from Houston has been in the business for over five years, and she is now asking for help from the public. In a post shared on social media, Simone and her mother, Monique thanked supporters of the brand and urged them to empty Target’s inventory before the stores pull the product out of the shelves. Monique said that it...

The latest on the Baby Cyrus Anderson case and the pursuit of Ammon Bundy by Idaho medical conglomerate St. Luke's Hospital... The Pentagon now confirming the shoot down of a US Air Force drone by the Houthi forces in Yemen... The US Department of Justice selling the notion... In an interview with Blaze TV Tucker Carlson saying he was being pursued by the US National Security Agency... For the first time in days two attacks on a US base in Syria... US politics today Nikki Haley insisting... two polls in the state where Nikki Haley was Governor show President Donald...

Summer 2024 can't come soon enough.It’s not an exaggeration to say that humanity had to endure one of the darkest days in modern history in the summer of 2022 when the ice cream overlords at Klondike announced that they would be discontinuing the iconic Choco Taco. “Over the past two years, we have experienced an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio and have had to make very tough decisions to ensure availability of our full portfolio nationwide,” a Klondike representative told Food & Wine at the time, adding that discontinuing “a beloved item” was a “necessary but unfortunate part”...

VIDEOEverything was going Vladimir Putin's way with Ukraine on the military ropes so suddenly Alexei Navalny died in prison at a time that could only help the West. So why would Putin have him killed? Either Navalny died at an unlucky time for Putin or Putin is beyond stupid (which he isn't) by having him murdered. And if Navalny was murdered who really was behind it? No Jeffrey Epsteins were harmed during the making of this video report.

Thousands of patriots assembled at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo center on Friday the 9th of February, 2024. There was static in the air and the energy was beyond high. People started lining up as early as 1 p.m. in order to be able to hear President Donald J. Trump speak at 6 p.m. that evening. The NRA Presidential Forum marked the eighth time Trump has addressed National Rifle Association members and there are plans for the NRA to host him again at the upcoming NRA annual meeting in Dallas. Before Trump took to the stage and lectern...

The sale of a 39-year-old Los Gatos bakery sent one devoted customer into a frenzyLast week, out of complete desperation, Mike Metz of Los Angeles hopped a flight to the Bay Area for a slice of his favorite maple pound cake. And his wife’s must-have s’mores bar. Last week, out of complete desperation, Mike Metz of Los Angeles hopped a flight to the Bay Area for a slice of his favorite maple pound cake. And his wife’s must-have s’mores bar. Without so much as a second thought, the TV writer and father of two booked a hotel, flew into San...