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Here's the transcript (provided by ChatGPT): Announcer: It's time to play Guess the Question. [Cheering and applause] Greg: Welcome to Guess the Question. We will present three word salads from Kamala Harris at the event that held Oprah, and you can guess what the question was asked of her. Here is the first one. Kamala Harris: We love our country. I love our country. I know we all do. That's why everybody is here right now—we love our country. We take pride in the privilege of being American. We believe in what is possible. We believe in what can be....

In the pre-dawn hours on Tuesday, a large flock of Ukrainian drones winged north from Ukraine all the way to Toropets, a town in western Russian that hosts the 107th Arsenal, a sprawling ammunition dump feeding the Russian force fighting in Ukraine, 300 miles to the south. The arsenal exploded with enough force to register as a small earthquake, draw the attention of NASA fire-spotting satellites and compel local authorities to order an evacuation of nearby residents. A lot of Russian munitions went up in flames. (snip) That so many of Russia’s best munitions were reportedly concentrated in a single...

The U.S. military is steadily boosting its presence near Alaska, deploying a destroyer and an Army unit armed with a long-range missile system as tensions rise due to stepped-up Russian and Chinese military activities near the Alaskan coast. Over the past month, the destroyer USS Sterett has been dispatched to the Alaskan coast in response to the Russian navy ships operating in the area, Army troops have landed on a remote Alaskan island, and fighter squadrons and other aircraft based in Alaska have been placed on heightened alert. The actions follow a series of Russian air operations that skirted Alaskan...

Philip Mehrtens is seen in video from Indonesian media. Photo: ScreenshotNew Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has reportedly been freed from more than 1 1/2 years in captivity in West Papua, Indonesia.The Indonesian police announced it in a statement on Saturday, Reuters reported."We are prioritising approach through religious leaders, church leaders, traditional leaders and Egianus Kogoya's close family to minimise casualties and maintain the safety of the pilot," the chief of Cartenz 2024 Peace Operations, Brigadier General Faizal Ramadhani said in a statement released to media.Mehrtens was freed and picked up by a joint team in Nduga Regency and is undergoing...

By now, it is pretty widely known that government agencies are still withholding thousands of “protected” files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As of 2023, 4,684 assassination records are still “fully or partially” withheld from the public.All remaining JFK assassination records were supposed to be released in full by 2017. That is the law created by Congress in the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (JFK Act).What happened instead?President Trump ordered a delay of more than 3 years. Biden took over the task of declassifying the JFK records and actually made things worse.Biden placed discretion back...

US Vice-President Kamala Harris has spoken of her willingness to use her gun if an intruder entered her home. "If somebody breaks into my house, they're getting shot," she said in a jokey exchange during a livestreamed event in Michigan with host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday. After a laugh, the Democratic presidential nominee continued: "I probably shouldn't have said that, but my staff will deal with that later." Harris, who highlighted during the recent presidential debate that she was a gun-owner, went on to reiterate that she supported a ban on assault weapons. A firearm of that type was "literally...

Time and time again, Democrats have lied about abortion. As a result, women and babies have tragically died.Vice President Kamala Harris will use her short appearance in Atlanta Friday afternoon to falsely blame Georgia’s lifesaving pro-life law for the deaths of at least two women. The untimely passings of Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, and their babies, however, had nothing to do with the Peach State’s protections and everything to do with Democrats and corporate media’s dangerous abortion rhetoric.ProPublica, an outlet known for doing Democrats’ dirty work, resurfaced Thurman’s and Miller’s 2022 passings this week in an attempt to vilify pro-life...

One of the most striking things about following this campaign is the fact that election projections are all over the place. I was chatting with a political science professor friend of mine, and he was projecting a 1980 Reagan-style victory for Trump--an assessment I tend to agree with--while the online analysts are showing a dead heat with a slight advantage to Kamala Harris. While Nate Silver has been more Trump-bullish, even his latest projection shows a very slight advantage for Harris. The answer, of course, comes down to the polls and what you take away from them. Most of the...

A disgraced CIA officer who drugged and sexually abused “numerous women in multiple countries” over 14 years and was found with over 500 disturbing images and videos of his victims was sentenced to three decades behind bars. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, was slapped with a 30-year sentence on Wednesday after pleading guilty in November 2023 to four of 25 counts, including sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact, coercion and enticement, and transportation of obscene material, according to the Department of Justice. He also admitted to “drugging and then creating obscene material depicting 28 women without their knowledge or permission and drugging...

Amazon has become the latest major company to order staff to return to the office five days a week, effectively ending working from home at the $1.99 trillion tech giant. Just like JPMorgan, Boots, and Goldman Sachs’ bosses, Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy cited strengthening company culture as one of the main reasons behind raising its in-office requirements from three days to full-time. However, a new report from PwC suggests that the move to full-time in-office work could have a different effect than the one intended. The Big Four accounting firm conducted 13 months of research and surveyed over 20,000 business...

Legislation that Kamala championed during her years in the Senate reveals bills designed to negatively impact the ability of DHS to enforce our nation’s immigration laws. While the legislation was not enacted into law, should it reflect what her immigration policies would be like as president, her administration would out-extreme even that of President Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden’s impeached secretary of Homeland Security.During the 115th and 116th Congresses, Harris introduced or co-sponsored legislation designed to:Effectively erase the border by halting or impeding border wall construction and curtailing border enforcement; Disable immigration detention by cutting detention beds; ending most mandatory...

Collusion between Big Tech and Western governments is a growing threat. It’s the First Amendment for a reason: free speech is a fundamental prerequisite for liberal democracy. But The Guardian, with logic that Stalin would have appreciated, insists the concern over free speech has been “concocted” by the Right. This is one example of many that shows the assault on free speech today primarily comes from the very people—the legacy media, academia, and progressives—who once championed unencumbered dialogue. Given the increasing likelihood of a Kamala Harris presidency, the outlook for free speech could turn even more dismal. As California’s attorney...

While America has long prepared for threats from adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran, experts argue that the most significant national security risks aren't just external. The country now faces a growing crisis from within, with cultural erosion and cognitive warfare undermining the very essence of what it means to be American. These issues, combined with foreign disinformation campaigns, have created a perfect storm of internal division, weakening the country’s ability to respond effectively to foreign challenges.China's approach to cognitive warfare has been particularly effective. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made significant investments in tools like TikTok and Temu,...

A former Border Patrol sector chief told lawmakers that he was blocked from informing the public about migrants who may be potential terror threats, as he says the Biden administration wanted to downplay the threat. "In San Diego, we had an exponential increase in Significant Interest Aliens [SIAs]. These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism," former San Diego Sector Chief Patrol official Aaron Heitke told lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee. "Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10-15 SIAs per year. Once word was out that the border was far easier to cross, San Diego...

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Democrats are reportedly afraid that the Teamster Union’s recent refusal to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president may be a warning sign of a victory for former President Donald Trump, according to several pro-Harris union officials and Democrat strategists and allies. In the aftermath of the Teamster’s Union, which represents over one million union workers, announcing that it would not be endorsing any candidate, despite polling showing that a large portion of its union members support Trump, Democrats are reportedly taking it as a warning sign, according to Politico.

Republicans are scrambling to mitigate the fallout from North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s latest scandal, fearful it could cost them more than just the governor’s mansion as the state becomes a critical battleground in the presidential race. CNN’s bombshell report Thursday that Robinson made many inflammatory comments concerning race, gender and sexual preferences has left Republicans seeking distance from him. Democrats, meanwhile, have sought to underscore Robinson’s ties to other candidates, including former President Trump, who has heaped praise on the North Carolina lieutenant governor in the past. While questions remain as to the effect Robinson could have on...

Travis King, the US soldier who fled from South to North Korea last year before being returned home, has been sentenced to one year of confinement and is dishonourably discharged from the military. He faced charges including desertion and assault of a non-commissioned officer. But with time already served and credit for good behaviour, the 24-year-old Army private walked free, his legal team told the BBC. At Friday's hearing at Fort Bliss, Texas, he pleaded guilty to five of the original 14 military charges that had been filed against him. The other charges were dismissed. He was questioned by a...

Fox News’s Gutfeld! set a new record after it drew an audience of nearly five million viewers during its interview with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The outlet announced in a press release on Thursday that it had an average of 4.9 million viewers, marking “its highest-rated telecast in program history.” In the press release, Fox also revealed that the program had been seen by 744,000 viewers in the “25-54” demographic. The show is also reported as attracting “more Independents and Democrats than” its competition, according to the Nielsen MRI Fusion. “The program featured former President Donald Trump’s first...

Tisa Wenger, a professor of American religious history at Yale Divinity School, had her students prompt ChatGPT to write a sermon in the language of Joranna Lee, a 19th-century preacher in the AME Church, then critique the output. Wenger found the exercise was good for teaching the limitations of ChatGPT more than its benefits, and for testing the students’ knowledge of the material for all the details ChatGPT did not include or got wrong. “Students really loved that exercise, and they really did a great job of unpacking them. In fact, we felt like their resulting papers were more creative,”...