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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has come a long way since 2018. When she first arrived on the political scene by beating out not just an incumbent, but a member of her party’s leadership in a Democratic primary contest, she was a rebel — an avatar of insurgent impulses within her coalition. And, among Republicans, something of a joke. Now, she’s the Democratic Party’s most popular elected official. A Yale University poll released this week found that among Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez boasts the single highest net favorability rating of all the party’s many potential 2028 presidential candidates — a sky-high 62%. In addition, 41%...

Oleksii tells me: "I feel safe here because we are on our land and even the ground will bring me help." That's despite the nearby sound of small-arms fire, exploding artillery shells landing within sight and the roar of Russian jets overhead. The ground he and the small team of Ukrainian troops now occupy is on the border of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The same ground that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently declared as being Russian forever. Over the past week the men of Ukraine's D1 National Guard Unit have advanced more than 20km (12 miles) east from the...

BERLIN (AP) — Officials in Germany are investigating why a huge wind turbine collapsed just hours before it was due to be officially inaugurated. The turbine, whose rotor blades reach a height of 239 meters (784 feet), toppled over late Wednesday in a forest near the western town of Haltern. German news agency dpa reported Thursday that police were not currently suspecting sabotage.

Rapper Mac Miller has reportedly died, according to multiple outlets. He was 26. According to the Los Angeles Times, citing sources, Miller, whose real name was Malcolm James McCormick, was found dead inside his Studio City, Calif. home of an apparent overdose. Per TMZ, authorities were alerted after a male individual placed a 911 call from Miller's home.

The ubiquitous and web-savvy supporters of Ron Paul now have one less forum in which to vent their rage. The influential conservative blog Redstate.com placed a ban last night on all Paul commentary from readers who are recent arrivals to the blog. Paul's followers are angry that the Libertarian congressman can’t seem to get traction in national polls as he bids for the Republican presidential nomination. Paul — a representative from Texas who ran for president in 1988 on the Libertarian Party ticket — remains mired in the low single digits. The post on Redstate, “Attention, Ron Paul Supporters (Life...

Divisive and Politicized Accounts of September 11th Attacks and National Security Issues Endanger Nation Washington, DC - Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY-28), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, today called for ABC to make clear to viewers that its upcoming television mini-series The Path to 9/11 is not a documentary account of the events and political decisions that preceded the terrorist attacks of that day. "ABC has a responsibility to make clear that this film is not a documentary, and does not represent an official account of the facts surrounding the September 11th attacks," Rep. Slaughter said. "Disclaimers noting...

When did the Democratic nightmare take hold? Why does it keep dragging on? Who or what caused it? Not that any of this really matters, but masochism must be served: Was it the idiot design of the butterfly ballot? Was it philandering Bill, who handed W the only legitimate issue he had ("restore dignity to the White House," what a bitter laugh that brings now)? Was it Nader, who will forever deny, except in his heart, that he siphoned off more than enough votes to make the difference? Was it the professorial sigh of Al The Stiff, compared to whom...

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system. Instead, a window opened on the screen and strange commands ran as if the machine was under the control of someone -- or something -- else. Daines was the victim of a computer virus.

Three Novell OpenSUSE community web site were defaced on Sunday by politically motivated hackers. Defacement archive Zone-H reports that a group called IHS Iran Hackers Sabotage broke into OpenSUSE.org, wiki.novell.com and forge.novell.com to post a message stating that it was Iran's right to develop nuclear power. All three sites were defaced in the same way.

President Mohammad Khatami said on Tuesday that Islam advocates freedom, progress and development. In a meeting with chancellors of universities and heads of centers of science and technology, President Khatami said that Islam advocated by late Imam Khomeini calls for recognizing national interests and international criteria and "saving ourselves from the crisis created by others." "It is not right to welcome crisis with wrong behavior. We are expected to secure our national interests by avoiding crisis," President Khatami said. "In the past eight years, we have worked hard to say that Islam is not against freedom, progress and development." "What...

Per Fox News: The Supreme Court has ruled Medical Marijuana as illegal.

April 20, 2005 Islamist 'mob' threatens Galloway with gallows By Philippe Naughton, Times Online George Galloway A mob of young Islamist extremists allegedly threatened to hang anti-war campaigner George Galloway last night as as the country's most bitter election battle spilled into violence on the streets of the East End. The Respect candidate, who is fighting Labour’s Oona King for the Bethnal Green and Bow seat in East London, was meeting locals in a tenant association’s room last night with his daughter, Lucy, when a 40-strong group of militants burst in, his spokesman said today. Locking the door behind them,...

What's become of Teresa Heinz Kerry? Preceding its Women Who Make a Difference Awards Dinner on March 1, the National Council for Research on Women is featuring "a conversation with Teresa Heinz," chairwoman of Heinz Family Philanthropies and, up until Election Day, the highly visible better half of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. "Teresa Heinz will speak to her commitment to women's economic security, including Social Security and retirement," writes the council, not bothering to mention her married name in several references. "I just checked, and she no longer uses her [entire] last name; only during the [presidential] campaign did she...

I'm listening to Mike Savage, and earlier on his show he jolted me out of my daydreaming with the statement that he is seriously considering running in '08. heh. I missed whatever he said caused him to go back on his promise that he'd never run for any political office... anyone else listening tonight who can shed some light on this for me? BTW, I am a big fan of his, but I know this is just so much hot air from Mike ;)

LOGAN, Ohio  — Election officials watched Monday as a technician repeated a repair he had made to a vote tallying computer, then announced they had found no evidence of any sort of tampering, despite a congressman's request for an FBI (search) probe.

In this television frame grab provided by NBC, Democratic strategist James Carville cracks an egg on his forehead to demonstrate he's got egg on his face after his projection of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election was wrong on NBC's 'Meet the Press' during a taping at the NBC studios November 14, 2004 in Washington, DC. Carville projected 52 percent of vote for U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), 47 percent for President George W. Bush and 1 percent for Ralph Nader