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President Trump will no longer travel to Kansas or Iowa over the weekend to rally voters ahead of Election Day, instead opting for virtual campaign appearances. A White House official confirmed to The Hill Thursday the in-person Kansas event had been canceled, without providing more details about the decision. Later in the evening, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced the cancellation of another Trump campaign rally in Iowa. “President Trump will continue connecting directly with Americans nationwide through more than 20 telerallies before Election Day,” the White House official said in a statement. “These events give him the opportunity to...

The DOJ announced Thursday they have uncovered a MULTIMILLION DOLLAR Kenyan student loan fraud ring. The Kenyans were stealing American identities, using the names to apply for student loans, and then sending the money back to Kenya. They weren't here to assimilate. They were here to steal. Nick Sorter reports, "Numerous Kenyans have now been indicted by federal grand juries on multiple federal charges, including theft of government money and aggravated identity theft." Here is DOJ Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald speaking to reporters. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald: There's more than $750,000 in cryptocurrency tied to this scheme and...

Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts22 seconds.That is how long it took for a 23 year old staff sergeant from Alabama to save the lives of his entire B-29 crew on a mission to Japan in 1945.He had to carry a burning phosphorus bomb 25 feet through the aircraft.He held it against his body while it burned through to the bone.This is the story of Red Erwin...🧵1/5Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·Sep 26Replying to @UntoldWarFacts🧵 2/5Henry Eugene Erwin was born on May 8 1921 in Adamsville, Alabama. A small coal mining town outside Birmingham. His father was a coal miner who died when Henry was 10...

FeelGoodThoughts@feelgoodtale On April 6, 1967, 20-year-old Douglas Hegdahl, a farm kid from South Dakota, was knocked overboard from the USS Canberra in the South China Sea. By dawn, he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Unlike the captured pilots who arrived in Hanoi, Doug had little military training or intelligence experience. His captors saw a confused, inexperienced young sailor and assumed he was too simple to be dangerous. Doug made a decision that would change his life and the lives of hundreds of others: he let them believe it. He acted clumsy, confused, and almost comically incompetent. His...

After making a stop in Wichita earlier in October, President Donald Trump is now headed to Salina this Saturday. The location has changed, but the purpose has not. Trump will be back in the Sunflower State to campaign for Sen. Roger Marshall. Marshall's race to keep his Senate seat has rapidly gotten tighter, as Democrat Adam Hamilton has out-fundraised and rallied support for an upset. One week from election day, Marshall spent Tuesday morning in Mission Hills meeting with Kansas business leaders and Kevin Hassett, Director of the White House National Economic Council. The meeting was in his role as...

What began as an extraordinary opportunity to spend retirement exploring the world has turned into a financial and logistical nightmare. A residential cruise ship promising years of international travel has abruptly suspended operations, leaving more than 200 passengers, many of them Americans, searching for accommodations thousands of miles from home.

Charlie Kirk lit the torch - And Andrew Kolvet and Andrew Kolvet and the gang at Turning Point USA continue to carry that torch! On Wednesday, Andrew Kolvet joined Steve Bannon on The War Room. Andrew explained how Turning Point continues to knock on doors in several states including Arizona. Charlie knew what works and Turning Point knows what works! Andrew Kolvet broke the news on The War Room that numbers for Republicans are higher today than in 2022 at this time! That is incredible news! They are making the vote too big for Katie Hobbs and Democrats to rig!...

The Trump administration is proposing to dramatically scale back a Biden-era rule that aimed to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas industry at drilling sites nationwide. Methane is a major contributor to climate change and is estimated to be 80 times more planet-warming than carbon dioxide in a twenty-year time frame. In 2023, the Biden administration finalized rules that were meant to rein in methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. President Trump made the announcement while campaigning in Lubbock, Texas, Tuesday, saying his administration's revision, under the Clean Air Act, would save the industry billions in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Ilhan Omar reportedly held a lengthy phone call with former President Barack Obama on Tuesday, during which she inquired whether or not he still had the number for that birth certificate guy. According to a source familiar with the matter, Omar is on the market for a birth certificate guy to make all her problems go away, and was hopeful Obama could "help a girl out." ... continue reading at: https://babylonbee.com/news/ilhan-omar-calls-obama-to-see-if-he-still-has-the-number-for-that-birth-certificate-guy

US District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein, a Clinton appointee in the Southern District of New York, passed away at 92. Hellerstein was appointed to the bench in 1998. ""U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, a longtime federal judge in Manhattan who was overseeing the prosecution of deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, died Wednesday morning, according to a court spokesperon," Politico reported. Earlier this year, Maduro was indicted on four counts by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York. Read the indictment here. The grand jury indicted Maduro, his wife, Cilia Flores, and four others on four counts:...

Dolores Huerta, the far-left civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez and honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America has died. Huerta was 96 years old. Dolores Huerta came up with the farmworker chant, "Si, se puede!" "We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved mother, Dolores Huerta, has passed away today at the age of 96," a post from the Dolores Huerta Foundation read. "As you can imagine, this is an incredibly difficult time for us, and we ask for privacy as we grieve this incredible loss to our family," the statement...

A federal judge on Tuesday disqualified Trump appointee Bill Essayli as the First Assistant US Attorney in California. US District Judge John Seabright, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that Bill Essayli unlawfully overstayed his 120-day temporary appointment. Recall that Judge Seabright last October said that Bill Essayli had been in the role of an Acting US Attorney unlawfully and disqualified him. President Trump chose California Republican Assemblyman Bill Essayli to serve as the acting US attorney for the Central District of California in 2025. Bill Essayli is a staunch Trump supporter who has been aggressively investigating and prosecuting illegal...

President Donald Trump proposed making Venezuela a “prosperous 51st state” Tuesday while speaking to supporters in Texas. Trump said: "I want to thank Venezuela, where our relationship has become very, very good, a great one, and billions and billions of dollars are being invested now by the biggest oil companies, many of which come from Texas from all of the world. And jobs are happening in Venezuela that no one thought would have thought possible just one year ago, and we’re bringing out a lot of oil for ourselves. A lot. It will become a prosperous country and who knows,...

CDC Deputy Director Dr. Jennifer Shuford on Tuesday announced that she will be departing her role on November 12. President Trump in April announced new leadership for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In April, the President nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz as the new CDC Director, Sean Slovenski as the CDC Deputy Director and Dr. Jennifer Shuford as the CDC Deputy Director. Dr. Schwartz was confirmed by the Senate over the summer. The Hill reported: Dr. Jennifer Shuford, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) deputy director and chief medical officer, is leaving the agency after just...

A grand jury declined to indict January 6 star witness Cassidy Hutchinson, the Washington Post reported. Breaking news: A grand jury rejected the DOJ’s attempt to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to people familiar with the matter. https://t.co/kwOJ22r1gG — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 27, 2026 The Justice Department sought to indict January 6 ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson for lying to Congress. Earlier this year it was reported that the DOJ launched an investigation into Hutchinson. The DOJ’s...

A Florida court threw out the case against former Dominion employee Eric Coomer on Tuesday. Eric Coomer filed this defamation action on June 24, 2022, in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The case was transferred to a Florida Court in January 2024. From today's decision: Byrne and Coomer have each filed motions for summary judgment, and their papers cite both Colorado and Florida law. As it relates to Court’s determination of the cross-motions for summary judgment, the only relevant difference between the law of the two states is that under Colorado law, where the alleged...

FWIW, based on a few years worth of studying voter registration and other data---which led me to be dead on in 2024 six months out with "Trump 312 EVs with 1.5% of the pop vote) and in 2016, before the election, with "Trump will win with between 300 and 320 EVs" (final 304), and yes, I missed in 2018 on the House---here goes: *Rs hold the senate at 52. Possible ceiling of 54. Paxton, Collins, AK seat, OH all holds. I think Rodgers wins in MI, Whatley loses NC. My long-shots are Sununu with NH and Tafoya in MN. Either...

After preparing five victims of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre for burial, members of Pittsburgh’s New Community Chevra Kadisha stood in a circle and held hands. They had gathered like this before, taking a moment after their work to process what they had done. This time, they were caring for people murdered in their own community. Volunteers from outside Pittsburgh had come to help. David Zimmer, a longtime member, remembered one visitor bringing a custom from another chevra kadisha. “He passed around a piece of chocolate,” Zimmer recalled, “so that there should be something sweet.” Eight years later, NCCK...

President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to ban the term “artificial intelligence” after lashing out at The Wall Street Journal in a Truth Social post. Trump posted to his social media platform complaining that the the news organization had yet to adopt his preferred term, “super intelligence:” When will The Wall Street Journal start calling Artificial Intelligence (AI), a very bad and inaccurate name, SI (Super Intelligence), the name which virtually everyone else is using, or soon will be. In short order, we will be officially BANNING the term, “AI/Artificial Intelligence,” in all relevant documents, and everything else, due to its...