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KC CHiefs kicker Harrison Butker campaigns with Senator Josh Hawley in Missouri – via Ingraham Angle Kansas City Chief’s kicker Harrison Butker campaigned with Senator Josh Hawley this week in Missouri as the popular senator runs for reelection in the Show Me State. Butker, the highest paid kicker in the NFL, made headlines following a recent commencement speech earlier this year. The NFL star’s crime? Daring to uphold and express the very Catholic teachings that should resonate through the halls of the institution the nuns helped establish. At the Benedictine College 2024 commencement ceremony, Butker delivered a powerful message on…

Topline Months after the dust on the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud finally settled, J. Cole surprised by dropping a new song early Thursday with lyrics that address his decision to disavow a diss track he had dropped in April as part of the highly dramatic beef earlier this year. J. Cole backed down from the Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud in April. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty … [+] Images)Getty Images Key Facts In his new song “Port Antonio,” J. Cole addressed dropping out of the feud in its earliest days, rapping he “pulled the plug because I’ve seen where that was…

Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com, ASI Alliance founder Ben Goertzel says the alpha version of OpenCog Hyperon — the artificial general intelligence system he’s been developing for more than two decades — is already “self-aware” to a certain extent. Goertzel also tells Magazine he believes OpenAI likely shied away from making its “very impressive” new o1 model an autonomous agent for fear that it would be seen as “risky and dangerous” and provoke a crackdown from regulators. The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance was formed in March this year, bringing together Goertzel’s SingularityNET project, Ocean Protocol and DeepMind veteran Humayun Sheikh’s FetchAI.…

Two soldiers in the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) were reportedly wounded Thursday by fire from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops, as the Israeli soldiers were firing at Hezbollah terrorists near a UN base. UNIFIL is supposed to keep Hezbollah out of the area, and remove all unauthorized weapons from the area, under several United Nations Security Council resolutions, including 1701 (2006). It has failed in its mission for decades. On UNIFIL’s watch, Hezbollah turned southern Lebanon into a military zone and used it to attack Jewish and Arab civilian communities in northern Israel, as well as to prepare…

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits jumped significantly last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, as claims surged by 33,000 to 258,000 in the week ending October 5. This marks the highest level of new claims since early August, signaling potential softening in the labor market. Claims were likely boosted by the effects of hurricane Helene. Economists had anticipated a more modest increase of 5,000, with new claims expected to reach just 230,000. The four-week moving average, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, rose by 6,750 to 231,000. Meanwhile, the number of Americans continuing to collect jobless benefits for…

Former President Donald Trump is ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in all seven swing states, according to an internal poll from his campaign. The poll, conducted by Tony Fabrizio and John McLaughlin, finds Trump with leads ranging from one to five percentage points in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, according to a memo: Arizona: Trump: 49 percent (+3) Harris: 46 percent Undecided: 5 percent Georgia: Trump: 50 percent (+5) Harris: 45 percent Undecided: 5 percent Michigan: Trump: 49 percent (+1) Harris: 48 percent Undecided: 3 percent Nevada: Trump: 50 percent (+3) Harris: 47 percent Undecided:…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former President Barack Obama gave a blistering critique of his White House successor Donald Trump and urged Black men to show up for Kamala Harris as he campaigned in Pittsburgh on Thursday at the start of a swing-state tour for the Democratic ticket.At a campaign field office to thank volunteers, Obama said he wanted to “speak some truths” after hearing reports on the ground that there was lower enthusiasm for Harris than there was for his own candidacy and that some Black men were thinking of sitting out the election.“Part of it makes me think — and…

The two nations are preventing the UN Security Council from stopping “the vicious cycle of violence,” a Russian envoy has said The uncompromising stance being taken by Israel and the US is making it impossible to end the conflict in Gaza, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN has said.Vassily Nebenzia made the comments during a UN Security Council session dedicated to the year-old Gaza crisis in the Middle East on Tuesday.The attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7 last year, in which some 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 taken hostage, was “a tragedy” but it is being…

Authored by Jingduan Yang, M.D. via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Fasting helps with weight loss and activates the body’s autophagy, allowing deep-seated cell repair and improving cell health. As a result, fasting has been found to help prevent various diseases, slow aging, and effectively treat some illnesses.Research has found that fasting and calorie restriction can stimulate autophagy in diabetic mice, thereby improving vascular health. Julia Mikhaylova/ShutterstockWhat Is Autophagy?Autophagy is an important function that every cell possesses. As the name suggests, it means self-engulfing and is an essential cellular self-cleaning process.Each cell contains multiple parts that keep it functioning continuously. Over…

Kamala Harris Univision town hall Kamala Harris got caught using a teleprompter during Thursday night’s Univision town hall in Las Vegas. Harris pandered to Latina voters by participating in a town hall hosted by Univision. The internal polls for Harris must be horrific. Of course, Kamala Harris had to use a teleprompter because she has no clue what she’s talking about. Univision panicked after they realized they showed Kamala Harris’s teleprompter live on air. As soon as the camera panned behind Kamala Harris, the teleprompter went black. But it was too late. WATCH: BREAKING: Univision accidentally broadcast proof that Kamala…