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There’s buzz swirling within the Biden camp that the president’s swift endorsement of Kamala Harris was his revenge on prominent party leaders — including Barack Obama — who pressured him to bow out of the race against his will, sources told The Post.

Republican allies of former President Trump expect him to draw heavily from the Senate GOP conference to fill his Cabinet if he is elected to a second term in November, with Sens. Bill Hagerty (Tenn.), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) in contention for top-level jobs.Republicans feel confident about Trump’s chances against Vice President Harris in November and are buzzing about who could lead the departments of Treasury, Defense, State and Education if Trump wins. GOP lawmakers expect Trump, if elected, to push big reforms to overhaul the federal bureaucracy, and they believe that senators are...

A number of House Republicans are privately bashing former President Trump’s selection of Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, warning that the pick will not help — and could hurt — the party’s chances of winning in November. The Republicans, speaking to The Hill on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic, raised concerns about Vance’s foreign policy positions, lack of experience and inability to expand the Republican coalition beyond Trump’s base. There are, to be sure, plenty of Vance supporters in the House GOP conference, particularly hard-line conservatives — including those in the House Freedom...

BREAKING - FBI statement on Trump assassination attempt: "What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle." https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1816941651006525696

The first F-16 fighter jets are set to arrive in Ukraine from Nato member states, after many months of preparation and pilot training. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said they are essential to help Ukrainians push back against Russia's aerial dominance and “unblock the skies”. Russian forces have been preparing for the Ukrainian F-16s too. They have targeted a number of Ukrainian military airfields and there are growing concerns that these long-awaited jets will be attacked and destroyed soon after they arrive. In July alone, at least three airfields have come under attack: Myrhorod and Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine...

Harris liked to brag about using “a huge stick” as a prosecutor in San Francisco, where she regularly threatened poor parents with jail time in her efforts to craft social policy — which wasn’t her job. It’s true that Harris threw a lot of people in jail to bolster her political fortunes. Some of them likely innocent. And judging from her disposition, she would throw a lot of more people into jail, if she could. When pro-life journalist David Daleiden published videos of Planned Parenthood executives nonchalantly discussing the selling of body parts, Harris had his home raided, seized evidence...

The armed forces staffer targeted in a daylight stabbing near a barracks in Kent is a lauded and long-serving colonel in the British Army. The soldier stabbed multiple times near Brompton Barracks in Gillingham has been named as Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton, in his 40s, who was reportedly in uniform when he was attacked on Tuesday. The longtime course manager at the Royal School of Military Engineering received up to 12 stab wounds during the shock incident. Lt Col Teeton joined the British Army in 2000, and was awarded a long service and good conduct medal after more than a...

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, said Thursday in her first interview that he was an absent father who was cruel to her as a child for being queer and feminine. Wilson, 20, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, responded to comments Musk made Monday about her and her transgender identity. On social media and in an interview posted online, Musk said she was “not a girl” and was figuratively “dead,” and he alleged that he had been “tricked” into authorizing trans-related medical treatment for her when she was 16. Wilson said that Musk hadn’t been...

Just The News GovTrack rated Kamala Harris 'most liberal' U.S. senator in 2019 but webpage has disappeared GovTrack, which tracks voting records of House and Senate lawmakers, removed a 2019 webpage that ranked then-Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as the “most liberal” U.S. senator in 2019 at some point between the evening of July 8 Eastern time and July 23 of this year. Social media users have posted that the page was still live on July 22 but GovTrack has not confirmed the exact date the page was removed. MIDDLE Just The News Mediaite Axios Accuses GOP of Fabricating Kamala Harris’s...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Five out of six defendants surrendered to authorities Thursday morning to face charges in an election fraud case linked to last year's New York City Council primary in Flushing, Queens. All six are being charged with absentee ballot fraud. They were all volunteers for the campaign of Yu-Ching James Pai, a candidate in the June 2023 Primary for City County District 20. "As alleged in this case, the defendants went to the Board of Elections and filed fraudulent absentee ballot applications on behalf of 23 voters they had never met," said said District Attorney Melinda...

Rumors of Trump suffering buyer's remorse after choosing Vance as his 2024 running mate have been rampant since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the likely Democratic presidential nominee. While Trump has publicly insisted that he is happy with Vance, saying the senator is "doing a fantastic job" and has been "very well received" by the public during a Fox News interview on Thursday, worries remain about whether the Ohio senator could be a liability for Republicans in November. Paul Begala, who served as White House adviser and chief strategist during...

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly is calling for more gun restrictions with a proposed bill that seeks to restrict semi-automatic weapons and gun modifications. The Gas-Operated Semi-Automatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act would establish a list of prohibited firearms and limit the capacity of detachable magazines to 10 rounds. It would also prohibit "ghost guns," which are bought in separate pieces online and then assembled at home.

Black Lives Matter Statement on Kamala Harris Securing Enough Delegates to Become Democratic Nominee July 23, 2024 Black Lives Matter calls on the DNC to host a virtual snap primary. Washington D.C. – Black Lives Matter demands that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) immediately host an informal, virtual snap primary across the country prior to the DNC convention in August. We call for the Rules Committee to create a process that allows for public participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party delegates. The current political landscape is unprecedented, with President Biden stepping aside in a manner...

In assessing her candidacy for president of the United States, it is instructive to consider the positions taken by Vice President Kamala Harris on several issues of interests to Catholics. She is a passionate defender of abortion rights. Indeed, there is no record of her opposing abortion at any time during gestation or for any reason whatsoever. She has also tried to force states that restrict abortions to obtain federal approval from the Department of Justice before implementing them. When Harris was California’s attorney general, she bludgeoned pro-life activist David Daleiden. He used undercover videos to expose how abortion operatives...

J. D. Vance voted for independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin in November 2016. He said this in 2021 in an interview with Time Magazine. McMullin was on the ballot in 2016 in Kentucky. In Ohio he was a declared write-in candidate and he was credited with 12,574 votes. It is not clear which state Vance lived in at the time. The mention of his 2016 vote is under “Vance’s Political Turn” in the first paragraph.

Pro-Palestinian protesters will make their presence known around the Capitol on Wednesday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, scheduled for 2 p.m. EDT. A group of Jewish protesters was arrested in the Cannon office building Tuesday afternoon, and thousands of demonstrators are expected to turn out for a rally on Wednesday, demanding the arrest of Netanyahu, who has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court. A number of Democrats have said they will boycott the speech, which comes at the invitation of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), as anger boils...

Convicted New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) says he plans to appeal his guilty verdict on 16 charges ranging from bribery and extortion to obstruction of justice “all the way” to the Supreme Court, if necessary. Menendez said in a letter dated July 23 to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, and the Senate confirmed, that he will resign from the Senate effective Aug. 20, but he’s not admitting any guilt. Instead, Menendez said he plans to appeal the verdict but cited concerns that he cannot fully preserve his legal rights if the Senate Ethics Committee conducts an adjudicatory review, which...

Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be closing in on the Democratic nomination after President Joe Biden after he dropped out of the 2024 race Sunday—triggering a rushed competition among the Democratic Party’s rising stars to become her running mate.Harris’ campaign has sent vetting materials to: Cooper (NC) He and Harris have stumped for Biden in his home state, which hasn’t picked a Democratic president since 2008 but is typically close, and he spoke to Harris over the phone Sunday, he told MSNBC on Monday.Shapiro (PA), who like Harris, previously served as his home state’s attorney general and fought lawsuits...

Tracking data from Flightradar24 cited by CNN showed the plane was just 150 feet above the ocean when it was about five miles out from Tampa International Airport. A Southwest representative confirmed the flight was then diverted to Fort Lauderdale and said the airline was "following its robust safety management system and is in contact with the Federal Aviation Administration to understand and address any irregularities." "Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees," they said in a statement to Business Insider. The cause of the incident has not been confirmed. The FAA told...

Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa cannot forget the dead body he saw just metres from the summit of Mount Lhotse in the Himalayas more than a decade ago. The Nepali was working as a guide for a German climber trying to scale the world’s fourth highest mountain in May 2012. The body blocking their path was thought to be Milan Sedlacek, a Czech mountaineer who’d perished just a few days earlier. Mr Sherpa was curious why the Czech climber had died so close to the top. One of the gloves on the frozen corpse was missing. “The bare hand might have slipped...