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Democratic strategist James Carville is arguing that former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama should play roles in selecting choices to replace President Biden as the party’s nominee if the incumbent ends his reelection bid. Carville said in an op-ed in The New York Times on Monday that he expects Biden will drop out of the 2024 race, saying it will only take time before the president will bow to pressure from Democrats and public and private polling. He also wrote that the sooner this happens, the better. But Carville said the Democratic Party should not choose to automatically nominate...

John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate running for the Pennsylvania Senate, has sent out a memo warning that the election-reporting process could be delayed by a while and to "buckle up" for a long week ahead. In his memo, Fetterman lashed out at many Republicans whom he claimed would try to delegitimize the results, including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, Doug Mastriano, and even his opponent Mehmet Oz. GOP nominee Doctor Mehmet Oz is currently polling neck and neck against Democrat Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman. On Sunday's episode of Meet the Press host Chuck Todd told his audience to expect...

MOUNT DOOM—Governor Gretchen Whitmer is refusing to throw the Ring of Power back into Mount Doom, despite the Michigan Supreme Court ordering her to return it into the fires whence it came. "Throw it into the fire! Destroy it!" shouted a judge sitting on the court, after leading Whitmer to the Cracks of Doom. "We can end this all right now!" "Nooo! Not my precious!" Whitmer screamed as the state Supreme Court handed down the order to destroy the Ring. "Nasty, nasty Constitution! We don't likes it! Nasty, fat Founding Fathers!" She turned and left.

PRAGUE — They say the Golem, a Jewish giant with glowing eyes and supernatural powers, is lurking once again in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue here. The Golem, according to Czech legend, was fashioned from clay and brought to life by a rabbi to protect Prague’s 16th-century ghetto from persecution, and is said to be called forth in times of crisis. True to form, he is once again experiencing a revival and, in this commercial age, has spawned a one-monster industry. There are Golem hotels; Golem door-making companies; Golem clay figurines (made in China); a recent musical starring a...

Where it's playing: The film will premiere at the American Film Renaissance’s Hollywood Film Festival on January 15, 2006 at 3PM. About the project: What the West Needs to Know Islam, violence, and the fate of the non-Muslim world. 95 mins Main Idea Virtually every major Western leader has over the past several years expressed the view that Islam is a peaceful religion and that those who commit violence in its name are fanatics who misinterpret its tenets. This claim, while widely circulated, rarely attracts serious public examination. Relying primarily on Islam’s own sources, this documentary demonstrates that Islam is...

Prague (dpa) - A Czech historian thinks he may have traced the roots of U.S. presidential contender John Kerry to the famous Rabbi Judah Loew, a mediaeval mystic and legendary creator of Golem, the so-called Jewish Frankenstein of Prague. Historian Jaroslav Bransky, writing in Thursday's edition of the Czech weekly news magazine Reflex, followed Kerry's paternal lineage back to the Loew family of Boskovice in what is now the Czech Republic region of Moravia. The magazine also published a photograph of Bransky standing outside a row of two-story houses where he believes Kerry's ancestors lived. ``There is no doubt that...