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President Joe Biden on Saturday is hosting a wedding for his granddaughter at the White House, but the family plans to keep everything very private and secret. Biden’s granddaughter Naomi, the daughter of Hunter Biden and his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, is marrying her fiancé Peter Neal in a ceremony on the South Lawn, followed by a reception and a party in the evening.

WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Joe Biden has chosen Sen. Kamala Harris of California to join him on the Democratic ticket, fulfilling his pledge to select a female running mate and making Harris the first Black person ever tapped as the vice presidential nominee of a major party.

Soon, you can not only read your mail, you can smell it too, with the U.S. Postal Service launching its first scratch-and-sniff stamps on Wednesday. The stamps could take you back to your childhood, with favorite summertime treat smells including kiwi, watermelon, orange, strawberry and blueberry. The stamps will be including designs of popsicles or ice dream designs. The stamps will be released on Wednesday, June 20, with a special unveiling first at the Thinkery children’s museum in Austin, Texas. The dedication will occur at 6 p.m. and followers of the U.S. Postal Service’s Facebook page can view the ceremony...

GREAT FALLS, Mont.- The smell of a suspected natural gas leak in Great Falls, Mont., Wednesday was traced to discarded scratch-and-sniff cards, a gas company manager said. The numerous reports of the distinctive aroma of natural gas were acted upon by the city's Public Service Commission, the Great Falls Tribune reported. The cause, though, was boxes of scratch-and-sniff cards designed to educate customers what a gas leak smells like. The cards had been thrown out, then hauled away and compacted in garbage trucks, Nick Bohr, general manager of Energy West, said. There's no problem with contamination," Bohr said. "In a...

The stench of Washington permeates the West Coast. California’s most hotly contested House race, the contest between seven-term incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez and California Republican Assemblyman Van Tran, remains too close to call. The Orange County race made headlines last month when Congresswoman Sanchez claimed on Spanish-only Univision that “the Vietnamese (were) coming” for her seat. You can read my Pajamas Media article on the race as well as an interview with Van Tran here.Now something smells as bad as trash-truck juice on a Death Valley summer day in California’s 47th. In search of the olfactory offense, I point the...