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Vice President Kamala Harris championed her and President Joe Biden’s mass resettlement of Afghans across the United States that, as federal prosecutors reveal, imported an Afghan national accused of plotting an Islamic State (ISIS) attack on American citizens on Election Day. “I have worked almost my entire career on a number of issues but with a particular emphasis on the protection of women and children and there’s no question that any of us who are paying attention are concerned about that issue in Afghanistan,” Harris said in late August of 2021. During that same press conference, Harris vowed that the…
Lawmakers from both parties are vowing to fight back if former President Donald Trump makes good on his pledge to put a Confederate general’s name back on an Army base if he’s reelected.Trump’s Friday endorsement of changing the name of the Army’s Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg — undoing the work of a congressional renaming commission — and the bipartisan backlash signal a fresh culture-war fight between him and Congress if he’s victorious in November.“I think I just learned the secret to winning absolutely and by massive margins. I’m going to promise to you … that we’re going to…
The combined net worth of Russia’s wealthiest people has jumped by $31 billion since the start of the year, despite unprecedented sanctions pressure, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.A total of 25 Russian billionaires are listed in the ranking of the world’s 500 richest people as of September 30.Vladimir Potanin, the owner of mining giant Norilsk Nickel, remained Russia’s richest person on the list, occupying 56th spot globally. The nickel magnate is estimated to have increased his wealth by $1.57 billion in the first three quarters of the year, to $32.6 billion. Second place is held by Vladimir Lisin, the…
The Republican is supposed to be anti-war and anti-interventionist, but keeps making a glaring exception for Israel When Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky recently stood next to Trump in search of support against Russia, looking like a kid being chewed out by the school principal, Trump reminded him that “it takes two to tango.” But, when it comes to Israel, Trump only sees a soloist, minding its own business and inexplicably eliciting the wrath of its neighbors. And Trump just can’t seem to shut up about it.That isn’t what his base signed up for.On the anniversary of the events of October…
IndyCar Team Owner Bobby Rahal at Indianapolis 500 Qualifying on May 18, 2024 at the Indianapolis … [+] Motor Speedway. (Photo by Jeffrey Brown/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It didn’t take long for 2024 INDY iShares India 50 ETF NXT iShares Exponential Technologies ETF Champion Louis Foster to reach his goal of an IndyCar Series ride for 2025. On Thursday, October 9, the 21-year-old driver from Odiham, England was announced as the newest driver at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. He signed a multi-year contract with the team owned by 1986 Indianapolis 500 winning driver and three-time…
Kamala Harris’s airplane was reportedly spotted by the Trump campaign at LaGuardia International Airport in Queens.Credit: Steven Cheung X Account) Kamala Harris’s campaign song may be Beyoncé’s “Freedom,” but Del Shannon’s “Runaway” is a more apt choice considering how she is operating her campaign. As TGP readers know, Trump is scheduled to hold a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, today at 3 ET as polls show the race to be a dead heat in the Keystone State. His speech will reportedly be focused on inflation and the rising cost of living. But a funny thing allegedly happened just before Trump…
US stocks gained in which both the S&P 500 and Dow notched fresh record closes with outperformance in the latter and the small-cap Russell 2000 lagged but still finished in the green, while sectors were predominantly firmer with Healthcare, Technology and Industrials leading the advances and Financials also saw decent gains ahead of the start of earnings season. Nonetheless, macro catalysts were light as the latest Fed rhetoric and FOMC Minutes did little to spur a reaction with the latest CPI data on the horizon.USD resumed its recent rally which saw the DXY climb to just shy of the 103.00…
By Tyler Durden Hurricane Milton has explosively intensified into a Category 3 storm (now Cat 5 – Ed.) and continues churning in the western Gulf of Mexico on Monday morning with crosshairs on Florida’s Gulf Coast. On Sunday, the Florida Division of Emergency Management announced the largest evacuation since 2017. This new tropical threat comes eleven days after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region. Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration’s FEMA has faced mounting criticism for mishandling the initial relief response in North Carolina. The latest advisory note from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) shows Milton has maximum sustained…
By Masha Borak Two Harvard students made headlines after converting Meta’s smart glasses into a device that automatically captures people’s faces with facial recognition and runs them through face search engines. One of the companies providing the face search function, PimEyes, is not too happy about it. AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio released a video of themselves using the smart glasses to identify people on the street and look up their personal information through services such as PimEyes. The students used the integrated camera on Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses to capture live video through Instagram and ran it through their software…
Friendly waitress serving couple at a restaurant taking orders and looking very happygetty Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are promoting a troubling idea: Hyper-targeting tax subsidies to narrowly favored activities or occupations. While Trump and Harris are increasingly using this tool, Trump has been far more aggressive. The tension between using the tax code to raise revenue versus rewarding specific activities or benefitting specially defined groups is hardly new. But this year’s collection of proposed credits and deductions would be more tailored than a bespoke suit. And they’d make the tax code less fair and less efficient. Both Trump…