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A day after supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris broke the record for the largest Zoom meeting ever and raised more than $8 million for her presidential campaign, campaign organizers announced a new national organizing call to accomodate "tens of thousands" of people.A Zoom fundraising event Thursday dubbed "White Women: Answer the Call"...
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President Joe Biden reportedly plans to announce dramatic reforms of the Supreme Court on Monday, Politico reported Friday night.The move comes amid criticism of bias on the bench with justices like Thomas Clarence and Samuel Alito having received lavish trips and gifts from wealthy Republican donors. The plan also comes after calls from Justice...
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Fringe religious conservatives melted down Friday night over the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics, decrying the spectacle as "Satantic.”The phase "mocking god” trended on social media following the opening ceremonies, which included drag performers and a singing — beheaded — Marie Antoinette. "BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS” wrote...
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Former President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump raised eyebrows — alarm — when he told MAGA supporters on Friday evening they will only have to vote in the 2024 election — and won't have to do so again.After questioning why Catholic and Jewish people would vote Democrat, the president remarked Friday at his rally in West Palm...
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The campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris took a shot at Donald Trump's "strange” speech delivered Friday at Turning Point USA in Florida.In the speech, Trump invoked panic of Democratic persecution of Catholics, took a victory lap that he "officially defeated" President Joe Biden and stoked fears that he plans to end Democracy. He also earned...
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In a rare moment, Donald Trump received "boos” from a crowd of supporters at a Florida summit Friday for saying he supports abortion in cases of rape and incest. Reporting from the rally, CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes said that the conservative Turning Point USA's "very Trump friendly room" went cold on the Republican presidential nominee...
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Former President Donald Trump doubled down on a new attack on Vice President Kamala Harris during his address to Turning Point USA in Florida, including that she is anti-Jewish.But one particular thing he seemed to relish was mocking the pronunciation of her name."And by the way, there are numerous ways of saying her name, they were explaining to...
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New audio has surfaced ofJ.D. Vance accusing childless Democrats of trying to "brainwash children,” and MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace is having none of it.Vance "has spent the last few years saying some of the weirdest most offensive and off-putting things,” Wallace said during her Friday afternoon broadcast, including derogatory comments...
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Former President Donald Trump and his supporters were enraged about President Joe Biden exiting the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him, after a long and carefully crafted strategy built up over the last several months to attack Biden as infirm and incapable of executing the duties of office.But in their rush...
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While Hurricane Beryl crossed into Louisiana as a tropical storm, Republican Governor Jeff Landry was on vacation in Europe, according to a new report.Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based newspaper the Advocate reported Friday that Landry and his wife, Sharon were on a "weeklong jaunt" through Croatia, Greece and Italy when Beryl hit Louisiana, killing one...
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Former President Donald Trump took a victory lap that he "officially defeated" President Joe Biden, while at the same time whining that he now has to go up against Vice President Kamala Harris, at a Turning Point USA event in Florida on Friday evening.Biden exited the race amid pressure from his own party about his health and fitness amid his...
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Former President Donald Trump invoked panic of Democratic persecution of Catholics at his speech at a Turning Point USA event in Florida on Friday."Democrats are after the Catholics almost as much as they're after me," said Trump, while asking how many Catholics were in the crowd and registering some mild surprise at the number of attendees who...
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Ben Carson was raked through the coals on social media after he introduced Donald Trump by thanking the former president for saving him from "the verge of death” after he contracted COVID-19."I almost died. I was on the verge of death,” Carson said Friday while introducing Trump at a Florida summit. "The only thing that saved me was I was able...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump backtracking from a commitment to a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris shows he's less confident in his ability to stand up to the former prosecutor."In terms of the debate, I think he is finding himself a little less than sure footed as this race as changed and it seems as if he's buying time,”...
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Former President Donald Trump would be too much of a security risk to work in a large fraction of jobs and industries around the country, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Friday — and a number of former Justice Department officials made that clear in a new joint statement."The list of jobs not open to a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted,...
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A new report reveals what Vice President Kamala Harris is looking for in a running mate as she takes on the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.Harris told top advisers she's wants someone who can "balance the ticket” and is more of a "governing partner" than someone who can energize her campaign, Notus reported Friday evening, citing a person...
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Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock and a close ally of former President Donald Trump, has threatened that law enforcement could be killed if they don't stop the case against an elections clerk charged with breaching data equipment to help MAGA.According to The Washington Post, during a lengthy session on X Spaces, Byrne repeatedly claimed...
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I'm feeling a feeling unusual;It isn't my usual mope.It's a curious, happy-type feeling;The feeling I'm feeling is hope!It's because of events quite momentous.It's about whom we may now elect.There's a shift in our sense of the future.It must be the Kamala Effect.At the moment Joe passed the baton,She was ready to enter the race.In fact, she seems...
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Donald Trump cast himself in a poor light this week by backpedaling on his debate agreement, as experts said it made the "big, bad tribesman" look "weak.""ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, is not worthy of holding a Debate, of which I hope there will be many!” Trump posted on Truth Social, using a demeaning name for newsman George...
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Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney caught blowback on social media for invoking what many believe are racist tropes by describing the Democratic presidential nominee as a "DEI hire," in addition to being "uninformed and lazy" during a Fox News interview Friday.In an interview with host Larry Kudlow, Tenney, of New York, ridiculed Harris' "cackle” and...
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is making a "desperate" move with his recent comment that Vice President Kamala Harris can't get on the ballot in all 50 states, one election expert said. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday, election lawyer Marc Elias of Democracy Docket addressed Jake Tapper's CNN interview with Johnson on Monday, in which...
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Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Friday evening to proclaim that he "accepted" an "apology" from FBI Director Christopher Wray for saying it wasn't clear whether Trump was actually struck by a bullet during the failed assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally earlier this month."I assume that's the best...
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Anthony Albanese is working the phones with Labor's factional bosses to maintain his government's much-vaunted cohesion as the prime minister moves to refresh a ministry under pressure over immigration, housing and the cost of living.
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Among the many Democratic Party insiders who publicly or privately urged President Joe Biden to reconsider running for reelection, one played an outsized role: Nancy Pelosi.Pelosi is 84 years old — older than Biden — and no longer in House leadership.But her part in the pressure campaign that led to a change in the Democratic ticket shows: she...
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Legal analyst Lisa Rubin called out former President Donald Trump over his claim that a gag order in his New York hush money trial prevents him from attacking his Democratic rival. Trump is trying to get his guilty verdict thrown out — claiming he's immune from prosecution — in the hush money case, in which he was accused of paying off an adult...
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Fox News host Neil Cavuto wonders if Republicans are underestimating Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, whose prosecutorial finesse on the debate stage may pose a serious threat to Donald Trump."I'm wondering if Republicans – because they focus on things that seem silly to me, like the cackling and all of that – don't appreciate the...
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A body language expert who viewed Donald Trump's photo with Benjamin Netanyahu Friday broke out into song when he identified a hand gesture he'd never before seen the former president exhibit."When I think about you," Dr. Jack Brown sang, "I touch myself."Brown, a physician whose expertise has been featured on CNN and ABC News among others, spoke...
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Former President Donald Trump plans to hold a rally in the name of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter fatally shot during the assassination attempt against Trump at his Pennsylvania rally earlier this month."I WILL BE GOING BACK TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, FOR A BIG AND BEAUTIFUL RALLY, HONORING THE SOUL OF OUR BELOVED FIREFIGHTING HERO, COREY, AND...
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One of President Joe Biden's final campaign acts before dropping out in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris was to call for a package of Supreme Court reforms, including staggered 18-year term limits for justices and a binding code of ethics that would prohibit the lavish gift-giving and vacation travel handed to multiple justices as exposed in...
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Vice President Kamala Harris is refusing to pussyfoot around her views on Sen. J.D. Vance's cat lady comments. "Vance is a creep," her campaign said. "JD Vance is weird. Voters know it."Harris' campaign slapped back Friday as Donald Trump's running mate was hit by lurid social media claims involving a couch — which were debunked by the Associated...
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Another controversial video of Donald Trump's running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) airing his opinions on families was resurfaced Friday. The Democratic political action committee American Bridge shared an interview from 2021 in which Vance told far-right activist Charlie Kirk that America should "punish the things that we think are bad." He then...
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In the race to become the First Lady or First Gentleman in the White House, a political analyst panel thinks Vice President Kamala Harris' husband has the edge.On CNN Friday, the panel of commentators sang the praises of now-Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff for the couple's cuteness and general support of each other. "Well, this week, the olds may have...
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One of Donald Trump's former staffers thinks that he's being "triggered" by Vice President Kamala Harris as she launches her campaign for president. On Friday, the co-hosts of "The View" teased Trump for struggling with Harris' entry to the race. After showing a new campaign ad, Joy Behar said, "So, there's a shiny new candidate in town, and...
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Former Republican presidential campaign strategist Stuart Stevens had some key advice for Vice President Kamala Harris as she tries to drag down former President Donald Trump and map out her path to victory in the fall.Stevens, who ran the Mitt Romney presidential campaign in 2012, discussed the key issue that Harris needs to go after during a...
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The deluge of Donald Trump posts on his Truth Social account since President Joe Biden stepped aside and cleared the path for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the presumptive 2024 Democratic Party's presidential candidate is a sign the former president is in a panic, an analyst said Friday.The Washington Post's Dana Milbank suggested the...
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is picking a fight with actress and former "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston.Aniston spoke out against Vance, the new running mate for former President Donald Trump, earlier in the week over comments that surfaced from an interview he had with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in 2021 in which he complained that American...
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A Cullman man pleaded guilty on Friday to sending threatening messages to Arizona election workers in Maricopa County during the 2022 Arizona primary elections. Brian Jerry Ogstad, 60, admitted to sending multiple threatening messages over social media, including explicit threats of violence and execution against election workers. He faces a...
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Jade Harris feels like some of the "Obama magic” she saw as a child during the 2008 presidential election is happening again with Vice President Kamala Harris' transformation into the likely Democratic nominee for president this year.Virginia Democrats rapidly coalesce behind Harris after Biden steps aside
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J.D. Vance praised the so-called "QAnon Shaman" and questioned his prosecution in a newly resurfaced video.Donald Trump's running mate discussed Jacob Chansley, who pleaded guilty to obstructing Congress during the Jan. 6 insurrection, after seeing heavily edited video clips of the U.S. Capitol riot on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's...
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The late Sen. John McCain's widow and daughter are hoping Kamala Harris chooses Sen. Mark Kelly as her running mate.The Arizona Democrat won the seat that McCain vacated after his death in 2018, and Cindy and Meghan McCain believe he can help deliver the swing state to the Democrats if he's on the ticket against Donald Trump, reported the New York...
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Vice President Kamala Harris has backed Donald Trump into a political corner that he'll have to fight his way out of in a debate, the former president's onetime communications director said Friday. Erin Perrine urged her former boss to take on the likely Democratic presidential nominee as she took part in a CNN segment on his recent attempt to back...
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Donald Trump's controversial former physician tried to put to rest lingering questions about the injuries the former president suffered in an apparent assassination attempt.Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician, said last week that the bullet struck the tip of Trump's right ear, less than a quarter inch from his head, and opened a...
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A triggered Team Trump is appearing increasingly "shook" to critics who say their campaign is crumbling under the weight of its own hateful messaging. Former Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Bill Grueskin highlighted on X Thursday night the uptick in birther rhetoric Donald Trump used with little success to attack former President Barack...
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Fox News' Tomi Lahren, who has never been shy about lobbing vicious personal attacks against Democratic politicians, thinks that Republicans would be making a mistake to go after Vice President Kamala Harris on such grounds.While discussing Harris' ascent to the top of the Democratic ticket, Lahren said that all of the newfound hype surrounding her...
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Trump kissed Sara Netanyahu on both cheeks, then clasped hands with the long-serving prime minister before posing for a photo with the two while giving a thumbs up sign, a video clip posted on social media by the former president showed.Netanyahu posted a photo online showing him holding a hat that said "TOTAL VICTORY" -- which he has vowed to...
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Any hope that Donald Trump's campaign may have had that the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the projected Democratic party's presidential candidate may be off-putting to elderly white voters suffered a bit of blow on Friday during a CNN report.In a clip featuring elderly voters in the key state of Pennsylvania, CNN's John King found a...
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Former New York Democratic State Sen. David Carlucci on Friday slapped down claims made by former President Donald Trump and his allies that Vice President Kamala Harris is more left-wing than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is an avowed democratic socialist.While appearing on Fox News, Carlucci was asked by host Harris Faulkner to respond to...
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Former President Barack Obama is expected to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, who is beginning a four-day campaign swing across four states. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump's team indicated that a debate with Harris would take place, but it is still unclear when. Harris told reporters Thursday that she is "ready to debate Donald...
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President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris each met separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, one day after his address to Congress. Mr. Biden was expected to use his meeting to pressure Netanyahu to accept the latest cease-fire deal. Weijia Jiang has more.
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Reacting to reports that the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is pushing back at efforts by Donald Trump's lawyers to have the results of his 34-felony count hush money trial tossed on immunity grounds, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin claimed there's more at play than whether Judge Juan Merchan will agree.Appearing on Friday's...
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According to former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele, Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign's rapid response efforts and their "flexibility" is driving Donald Trump nuts, which is leading to a frenzy of late-night Truth Social "rage-tweeting."Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend" agreed with...
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) put out a new behind-the-scenes campaign video that is already drawing widespread ridicule. In the video, which was highlighted on X by the Republicans Against Trump account, the GOP's 2024 vice presidential nominee shows off all of the free snacks, which he describes as "a ton of crap," that are available backstage at...
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The New York Times is taking heavy mockery after inadvertently citing a nationally famous convicted fraudster as an everyday voter.The paper profiled some voters in their latest poll with Siena College released on Thursday, which shows former President Donald Trump's lead shrinking considerably and Vice President Kamala Harris locked in a...
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Donald Trump is losing his cool as rumors circulate he never got shot, onlookers say. Trump's recent Truth Social tantrum over Federal Bureau of Investigation head Christopher Wray's testimony — specifically that the source of his ear wound remains unknown — spurred much laughter on social media Friday."Oh boy," wrote Talking Points Memo...
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Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson on Friday suggested that former President Donald Trump is seething with jealousy now that Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing away media attention from him.During a discussion on MSNBC about President Joe Biden's decision this week to pass the baton to his vice president by dropping out of the 2024...
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Just a week ago, a cocky Trump campaign had been anticipating being able to walk over an 81-year-old President Joe Biden in this fall's elections.Now, however, the campaign is facing a new Democratic candidate in Vice President Kamala Harris who is not only younger than President Biden — but also younger than the GOP's own candidate.Trump allies...
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Former President Donald Trump's rants about preferring to die from electrocution to getting eaten by a shark have raised eyebrows among political observers, but Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker decided to do a deep-dive analysis to discern what, if anything, the former president is trying to convey.Parker begins by recapping Trump's entire...
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Not a single Black voter in a new poll expressed support for Donald Trump.A statewide survey of 600 Michigan voters conducted for WDIV/Detroit News between Monday and Wednesday found zero support for Trump among Black voters, while 82.1 percent of those voters backed Vice President Kamala Harris and 11.5 percent backed independent candidate Robert...
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Former President Donald Trump "reeks of fear” at the thought of taking on Vice President Kamala Harris in the fight for the White House, an ex-Clinton adviser told CNN Friday.And Paul Begala added that voters can smell it.Begala was reacting to Trump's announcement Thursday night that he's pulling out of a presidential debate that was scheduled...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied Friday that he planned to end his presidential campaign and throw his support behind Donald Trump.The independent candidate's modest poll numbers have collapsed since President Joe Biden ended his campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, and he reportedly had talks earlier this month about taking a possible...
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The Olympic flame cruised into Paris on Friday on a diesel-belching tug, the torch held aloft by its white-clad bearer, having earlier been carried by US rapper Snoop Dogg, as it passed under the peripherique motorway.The 68th stage of the relay since its arrival in Marseille on May 8 was entitled the "Epilogue".The torch had passed through Paris...
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A former official in Donald Trump's administration was laughingly dismissed on air Friday when he tried to defend his former boss' position in the upcoming presidential election. Matt Mowers, a political strategist who lost his own congressional primary race in 2022, proved unable to convince CNN political analyst Maria Cardona that Trump could...
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J.D. Vance has picked up another celebrity antagonist with his dismissive remarks about "childless cat ladies."Pop singer Kesha reproached the Republican vice presidential candidate for saying "miserable" childless women ran the U.S. to "make the rest of the country miserable, too," when a paparazzo stopped her Thursday at Los Angeles International...
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Ever since Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a major Republican donor — was selected to head the United States Postal Service (USPS) in 2020, he's been enacting massively unpopular policies criticized by postal workers and Democrats alike. Now, President Joe Biden may soon be able to replace him.On Thursday, Politico congressional correspondent...
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Reacting to an appearance by veteran Democratic strategist James Carville on MSNBC Thursday night in which he attempted to pour cold water on enthusiasm for Vice President Kamala Harris, the panel on "Morning Joe" hammered him for underestimating what is going on.With Carville giving a dark warning that Donald Trump and his allies are going to come...
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Brazil's Lencois Maranhenses National Park, famed for its white dunes that fill with blue and emerald lagoons in the rainy season, was on Friday declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.The vast park, named for the dunes' resemblance to a bedsheet spread across the landscape -- "lencois" means sheets in Portuguese -- is located in the northeastern...
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Researchers have been attaching tags to the foreheads of seals for the past two decades to collect data in remote and inaccessible regions. A researcher tags the seal during mating season, when the marine mammal comes to shore to rest, and the tag remains attached to the seal for a year. A researcher glues the tag to the seal's head – tagging...
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Vaccinations have provided significant protection for the public against infectious diseases. However, there was a modest decrease in support in 2023 nationwide for vaccine requirements for children to attend public schools.In addition, the presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading critic of childhood vaccination, has given him a...
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More evidence is being revealed that Donald Trump's new running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), was not the right choice in an ever-changing campaign landscape, according to a conservative commentator.The Bulwark found yet another piece of Vance's past that is returning to haunt him: His Blogger account. In the early 2000s, the online blogging site...
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