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Axios There are now two election-related betting contests legally trading on events-based marketplace Kalshi, following an opinion by a federal judge in favor of the company. Why it matters: Hundreds of millions of dollars has already been wagered on this year’s U.S. election, but all of those bets were made in a legal…
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The Federalist Taking a page out of her boss’s playbook, Vice President Kamala Harris told major whoppers during her Tuesday night debate against Donald Trump. With help from left-wing activists masquerading as debate moderators, Harris whitewashed her extreme record, lied about Trump’s policy positions, and more. Here are some of…
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Daily Caller Republican South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson was hospitalized after collapsing Tuesday night at an event in Washington, D.C, his office announced. The 77-year-old congressman, who has represented South Carolina’s 2nd District since 2001, was at a Ukrainian Independence Day celebration when he fell ill, according to Politico. He received immediate…
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Washington Examiner Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard, dubbed “America’s worst mayor,” spent $85,000 on a party for the suburban Chicago village while she faces an investigation for taxpayer-funded expenditures. Henyard spent $50,000 in taxpayers’ money on one hour of entertainment from two musical artists and then over $35,000 on other costs such as…
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The Hill SpaceX launched four private citizens into orbit early Tuesday morning for an ambitious flight that aims to venture farther into space than most astronauts have flown before — aside from the 24 Apollo astronauts who have been to the moon. The daring flight, called Polaris Dawn, also seeks to include…
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Politico The European Union’s top court backed a €2.4 billion (about $2.6B) EU antitrust fine for Google, a welcome boost for regulators battling Big Tech. The Court of Justice said Google’s practice of favoring its own shopping search results over rival services “was discriminatory.” The ruling can’t be appealed. Judges…
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NBC News The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Monday to remove former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from state ballots ahead of the general election. The 4-3 ruling upholds an appeals court ruling Friday that said Kennedy’s name should be taken off the ballot. A lower court had previously denied Kennedy’s…
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The Daily Caller Conservative radio host Mark Levin announced on Monday that he suffered a major injury and will likely require surgery. Levin said he fell over the weekend and tore his quadricep, a group of muscles at the front of the thighs, and his right knee. The injury will likely…
Read MorePolitico Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has had her second run-in with police in just a week, this time during a pro-Palestinian protest in Stockholm on Monday afternoon. Thunberg was part of a group of demonstrators that set up tents inside Stockholm University’s library, demanding that the university end its…
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CBS News Design features allegedly make Snapchat a favored platform of sexual criminals targeting kids, according to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico Thursday against Snap, the company that operates the popular social media app. An undercover investigation by the state found Snapchat has crafted “an environment where predators can easily target…
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Fox News A federal judge last week ruled in favor of a whistleblower advocacy group that sued the Justice Department to unseal documents related to its secretly obtaining communications about congressional staffers who were investigating the DOJ. Empower Oversight Whistleblowers & Research won a partial victory in a lawsuit it filed in…
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Washington Examiner There are so many races in Maricopa County, Arizona, this year that general election ballots will be printed on not one but two pages. One precinct in Phoenix will have 87 contests, which is the highest number of contests out of all the local ballots. It’s the first time since the 2006 midterm election that…
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Axios Montana Republican Tim Sheehy leads Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) in one of the most critical races of the 2024 election, according to new AARP polling. Whichever party wins Montana is likely to control the Senate in 2025, as most signs suggest at this point. With West Virginia all but certain to flip…
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Breitbart Germany’s AfD has has acquired a list of the forenames of all 2023 gang rape suspects in one federal state, claiming it shows the vast majority are of migrant heritage. “A clear trend is evident” in the forenames of those named as suspects in gang rapes in the western…
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CBS News The Biden administration is debating changes that would make it harder to lift the sweeping asylum restrictions it enacted in June, drafting plans to alter the criteria that would be used to deactivate the strict border measure, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News. The proposed changes concern…
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The Associated Press The White House is signaling an openness to blocking the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel, as a government review of the proposed takeover by the Japanese company is on the cusp of ending. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that President Joe Biden plans to stop the…
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Breitbart In a significant victory for Elon Musk’s social media platform X, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has partially blocked a California law that mandates social media companies to disclose their policies for addressing disinformation, harassment, hate speech, and extremism. Reuters reports that…
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Catholic News Agency The historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, was ravaged by arson on the night of Sept. 2. The suspect, a multi-recidivist who has attempted to set fire to numerous places of worship in the past, was apprehended a…
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Breitbart The latest development between the Biden/Harris administration and the government of Mexico on the immigration front will see migrants provided bussing from two southern Mexico cities to the United States border. The plan will provide the migrants headed to the United States with meals and security during travel from…
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Axios A former deputy chief of staff in the New York governor’s office was arrested on Tuesday and charged with acting as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party. The FBI and Department of Justice have been warning for years about covert Chinese efforts to influence American politics. These charges are a particularly stark…
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CBS News The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request from Oklahoma officials seeking to restore federal family planning grant funding to the state’s health department after it refused to offer patients a hotline phone number that would provide counseling on pregnancy options, including abortion. The justices turned down the bid for…
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Washington Examiner Former President Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he plans to vote for Florida‘s abortion referendum this fall, which would reverse his home state’s six-week abortion ban that went into effect following the Supreme Court’s 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade. Though Trump has taken credit for installing the Supreme Court justices who struck…
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The National Desk College athletes are being offered cash through Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) deals in exchange for endorsing Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., according to emails obtained by The National Desk (TND) Thursday. The senator is up for reelection in a tight race against GOP candidate and former Navy…
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Axios Google is rolling out new protections for its generative AI products as election season heats up. Google on Friday said it would extend the policies it announced for its search and YouTube products last December to more of its AI products, including Search AI Overviews, YouTube AI-generated summaries for Live Chat, Gems, and image generation in…
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Fox News The Mexican border state of Chihuahua is on alert for members of a violent Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua, or TdA, after receiving reports that members of the gang were moving through the state to cross into the U.S. near El Paso, Texas. Chihuahua Secretary of Public Safety Gilberto…
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CBS News Attorneys for the man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 say the pressure to convict is so severe that some Latah County residents are predicting lynch mobs or riots if he is acquitted. Bryan Kohberger’s defense lawyer Elisa Massoth made that argument in a…
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Breitbart An illegal alien is accused of killing 48-year-old Mark Deane of Gretna, Louisiana, a longtime local journalist and producer, in a crash on the Crescent City Connection bridge on August 23. Jorge Alberto Martinez-Sanchez, a 29-year-old illegal alien who was previously denied a visa to enter the United States, has…
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Axios OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had a year ago. ChatGPT remains the leader among generative AI chatbots, but it’s an intensely competitive space with the other big names in tech offering frequent updates in hopes of grabbing share.…
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Sky News Pavel Durov, the chief executive of Telegram, has been charged with allegedly allowing criminal activity on the messaging app. French judges have barred Mr Durov from leaving France pending further investigation, but he has avoided jail with a 5m euro bail. The billionaire founder of the encrypted messaging…
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CBS News Nancy Pelosi referred to former President Donald Trump as a “domestic enemy” in a newly released video of the former speaker of the House the day after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The footage was turned over to Congress by HBO and obtained by CBS News. The…
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Axios Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was released from police custody Wednesday but is due in court ahead of a possible indictment, multiple outlets reported. Durov’s arrest in connection to illicit activity on the messaging app sparked an outcry among anti-censorship advocates. It also raised questions about how other other social media companies and executives could…
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The National Desk The Vermont Department of Health on Wednesday asked the public to avoid referring to children as “son” or “daughter” and instead use gender-neutral language. The suggestion is included in a social media post about “inclusive language for families.” That post also encouraged use of the term “family members” rather…
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Axios Former President Trump is bringing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard onto his presidential transition team, a Trump campaign senior adviser confirmed to Axios. Gabbard and Kennedy, both onetime Democratic presidential candidates, will have an official role in helping prepare for a possible second Trump administration. They both endorsed the former president within…
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CBS News More than 200 Republicans who worked for former President George H.W. Bush, former President George W. Bush, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Mitt Romney endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, saying democracy would be “irreparably jeopardized” by another Trump administration. “We have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice…
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Breitbart “Race and gender” are key criteria in Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of a media personality to host her first sit down interview since joining the presidential race, a report Monday in Politico Playbook revealed. The criteria spotlights the close-mindedness of Harris’s world view, as she attempts to rally…
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Daily Mail UK The parents of Trump shooter Thomas Crooks have hired a team of powerhouse attorneys as the FBI continues to investigate just how much they knew ahead of their son’s assassination attempt on the former president, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. The development comes as one family member shared with DailyMail.com…
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FOX News Presidential candidate Cornel West must appear on voting ballots in Michigan, a state judge ruled on Saturday. Judge James Robert Redford issued the ruling days after West and his running mate, activist Melina Abdullah, were kicked off the ballot earlier this month due to technical issues. The Michigan Bureau of…
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NASA.gov NASA will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the agency announced Saturday. The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue gathering testing data on Starliner during its upcoming flight home, while also not accepting more risk than necessary for its crew. Wilmore and…
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Catholic News Agency On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Violence Based on Religion or Belief (Aug.22), a European watchdog warned of serious anti-Christian violence in Europe and called on governments to protect converts from Islam in particular. The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and…
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Washington Examiner The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state’s rejection of petition signatures for an abortion-rights ballot initiative on Thursday, blocking the proposal from heading to the polls on Election Day in November. The ruling affirms the decision from Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston to reject the ballot measure because the group spearheading the effort failed…
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CBS News Baby foods, from snack pouches to jarred purees found in grocery stores across the United States, may be less healthy than you think, according to new research. In the study, published in the journal Nutrients Wednesday, researchers at The George Institute for Global Health analyzed 651 commercially produced infant and…
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Breitbart The recently-installed Labour Party government in the UK is facing accusations of plotting to betray Brexit by reportedly considering a reinstitution of the open borders “free movement of people” with the European Union for those under the age of 30. A report from paper of record The Times of London has claimed that Prime…
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Axios New survey data shows an elevated share of workers are looking for jobs alongside rising expectations of unemployment in the months ahead. Economic data suggests the job market is softening. Consumers’ expectations about the health of the labor market are following suit. The share of workers who looked for a job in…
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Fox News President Biden in March reportedly approved in secret a change to the highly classified U.S. nuclear posture in the wake of growing aggression from nations like Russia and China, but the White House on Tuesday said this step was just business as usual. In response to a report by the…
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NBC Montana Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen on Tuesday certified that Constitutional Initiative 128, the proposal to create a specific protection for abortion rights in the Montana Constitution, has received the required number of signatures and can appear on the November ballot. The announcement, two days before an Aug. 22…
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Breitbart Pro-Palestinian protests will take place nearly every day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) next week, while demonstrators will descend on the city for other causes as well. As the Democratic Party remains deeply fractured due to the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, Pro-Palestinian protests are set…
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Washington Examiner The Biden administration is aiming to see Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire deal by the end of next week after negotiators made significant progress this week in Doha, Qatar. U.S., Egyptian, and Qatari leaders met in Doha on Thursday and Friday and discussed the latest proposal with the Israeli and Hamas sides.…
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Axios Two of former President Trump’s major donors, Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick, will be co-chairs of his transition team for his potential return to the White House, his campaign announced Friday. Trump also selected his two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, to serve as honorary chairs of his transition team. They’re expected…
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Breitbart Former President Donald Trump is dominating Vice President Kamala Harris among white working class voters, as they find themselves neck and neck in the presidential race, according to a national Pew Research/SSRS poll. The poll, conducted August 5-11 with a massive sample size of more than 7,500 registered voters, finds that…
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