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James O’Keefe claims that a Meta engineer admitted in a candid interview with an undercover journalist with O’Keefe Media Group that Facebook demotes anti-Kamala Harris posts.
Jeevan Gyawali, a senior software engineer with Meta, appeared to reveal in a hidden camera interview that accounts posting anti-Kamala Harris content could be shadowbanned while the posts get demoted. “Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn’t have a child,
An Oct. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a video of Republican former Vice President Mike Pence sitting on a stage and speaking.
“Vote for Kamala Harris as president of the United States or Tim Walz as her running mate," Pence says at the start of the clip. "Period. Paragraph." Both the post’s caption and on-screen text in the video characterize the statement as Pence's endorsement of the 2024 Democratic ticket.
A version of the claim shared to Threads received more than 2,000 likes in two days. Similar versions circulated widely on Facebook and were reposted thousands of additional times on X, formerly Twitter.
The US says it has carried out "precision strikes" against five weapons storage locations in areas of Yemen controlled by the Houthi movement.
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said B-2 Spirit stealth bombers were part of the operation that targeted hardened underground facilities housing missiles and other munitions that the Iran-backed group had used to attack civilian and military ships.
The strikes demonstrated the ability of the US to hit facilities that adversaries sought "to keep out of reach", he added.
Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said the strikes targeted six areas in and around the capital, Sanaa, and two near the northern city of Saada. It did not report any casualties.
Comedian Andrew Schulz and his "Flagrant" podcast co-hosts did a great interview of former President Donald Trump last week. People loved it because it showed Trump's humor and humanity as he spoke about his family, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and what he wants his legacy to be. The difference between his off-the-cuff speaking and ability to answer questions versus Kamala Harris is stark. He spoke with the "Flagrant" guys for an hour-and-a-half, longer than anticipated, but they were having so much fun, they just continued.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris posted a video to X of herself speaking last week to the mayor of St. Petersburg, Fla., as Hurricane Milton neared — but only after editing out describing herself as a “devout public servant” and expressing concern about the pace of federal aid.
The Democratic presidential nominee tweeted footage of her speaker phone call with Mayor Ken Welch — leaving 38 seconds of the two-minute call on the cutting room floor — as the storm approached the Gulf Coast.
A more complete version of the tape from Welch’s end of the line, obtained by The Post, reveals that the Harris team edited out the 59-year-old saying,
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar gives Israel a “great opportunity” to stop the Iranian-led “axis of evil” in the Middle East and to free the remaining hostages in Gaza.
Netanyahu delivered a video statement shortly after the Israel Defense Forces and several Israeli officials confirmed Sinwar’s death. The Hamas chief was one of three terrorists killed during a firefight with Israeli soldiers in the southern city of Rafah on Wednesday.
“Hamas will no longer rule Gaza,” Netanyahu promised in the four-minute video, as reported by the Times of Israel. “This is the beginning of the day after Hamas,
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a north Dallas doctor Thursday accusing her of providing harmful gender transition treatments to nearly two dozen minors in violation of Texas state law.
AG Paxton filed suit against Dr. May Chi Lau who he claims provided hormone replacement therapy to 21 minors between October 2023 and August for the purpose of transitioning genders. Dr. May Lau, M.D. serves as the Medical Director of the Adolescent and Young Adult clinic at Children’s Medical Center Dallas.
Texas state law that passed in September 2023 clearly prohibits “gender transition” medical interventions such as surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormones for minors.
During an interview with Fox News Wednesday night, her first ever on the network and one of the few since becoming the Democratic nominee for president, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed she took on the Guadalajara Cartel during her time as a prosecutor in California. (X Video) There's just one major problem.
By the time Harris became a prosecutor in the 1990s, the Guadalajara Cartel had already been disbanded. In the 1980s a criminal group rooted in the state of Sinaloa evolved into the first large-scale drug trafficking organization and became the precursor of most of Mexico’s current major criminal organizations.
Patty Morin, Whose Daughter Was Killed
by an Illegal Alien, Reacts to Harris'
Fox News Interview replies
by an Illegal Alien, Reacts to Harris'
Fox News Interview replies
On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris took part in her first formal sit-down interview with Fox News as she spoke to Bret Baier. Immigration came up as a topic, particularly in the context of Americans who were allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, Harris didn't answer as to if she owed the families an apology, and mostly kept pivoting back to criticizing former and potentially future President Donald Trump during the interview. Patty Morin, the mother of one of those victims, Rachel Morin, was asked to respond to that interview during her appearance on "Fox & Friends" on Thursday morning.
CNN anchor Boris Sanchez turned the tables on Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams after he criticized former President Trump for backing out of an interview. On Tuesday, Sams posted a tweet sharing a headline from The Daily Beast, "Trump Abruptly Cancels Another Mainstream TV Interview," with emoji eyes and wrote, "Trump pulls out of another mainstream media interview, just like he did with 60 Minutes... As he is facing scrutiny over his mental acuity." During an interview that same day, Sanchez referred to the post, holding the Harris campaign senior adviser's feet to the fire.
"I want to ask you about something you posted on social media
For those who lived through the '60s, it was a decade of tragedy and triumph.
The often deadly quest for civil rights for Black Americans was a battle well worth fighting.
The tragedy of Vietnam for those of us in uniform, (personally, I was on active-duty Navy and Marines from '65 to '75), tore a generation asunder [snip]
However, the one truly unifying pride all felt during that fractious decade was the world class and very public and dramatic American scientific and engineering quest to meet the great challenge of President Kennedy:
Olympic snowboarder on the run, accused
of running largest cocaine supplier to
Canada through SoCal replies
of running largest cocaine supplier to
Canada through SoCal replies
An Olympic snowboarder along with 15 others were charged for allegedly running a massive international drug trafficking operation to smuggle cocaine into Canada from Colombia through Mexico, using Los Angeles as their transportation hub, federal authorities announced Thursday.
Ryan Wedding, a Canadian citizen who competed for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, allegedly ran a criminal enterprise that smuggled 16 tons of cocaine to Canada every year, being the largest cocaine supplier to the country.
“Just from March to August of this year alone, we found they transported 1,800 kilograms of cocaine,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said. “On a yearly basis,
Almost 100,000 firepits are being frantically recalled in the wake of multiple federal lawsuits filed by burn victims.
The table-top appliances from Miami-based Colsen have already burned 19 people, the company conceded Wednesday - as it issued a historic recall for 89,500 indoor and outdoor items.
So far there have been 31 reports of flame jetting and fire escaping the combustible containers, resulting in the injuries that continue to mount. Seven models of Colsen-branded fire pits - varying in size from five to 18 inches - were named in the recall, after two incidents resulted in third-degree burns. The fleet of pits had amounted to the company's entire catalog.
Here's What Cardinal Dolan Has to Say
About Kamala Harris Skipping Out on Tonight's
Al Smith Dinner replies
About Kamala Harris Skipping Out on Tonight's
Al Smith Dinner replies
On Thursday night, former and potentially future President Donald Trump will be attending the Al Smith dinner in New York City, an event to benefit Catholic Charities. It's also supposed to symbolize unity and coming together together. Vice President Kamala Harris made the decision weeks ago to not attend, which came as a disappointment to Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the Archbishop of New York.In his podcast from Tuesday, Dolan confirmed that "this year will be unbalanced because sadly Kamala Harris isn't coming." Just as he did weeks ago when reacting to the vice president's snub, he continued to lament that her absence is "a shame, because
The RNC filed a lawsuit against the City of Detroit Department of Elections for deleting ballot drop box surveillance footage.
The lawsuit accuses Detroit elections officials of violating the Freedom of Information Act by deleting the footage more than two weeks after they requested it from the city.
“Deleting footage that is the subject of a pending FOIA request—submitted more than two weeks before the footage was deleted—is a clear violation of FOIA,” the RNC said, according to CBS News. “Detroit had a clear legal obligation to preserve and provide the footage, which they violated.”
You knew news organizations would be making calls to professional lip readers after Joe Biden and Barack Obama were caught having a frank discussion at the funeral for Ethel Kennedy this week. The late Mrs. Kennedy passed away on October 10 at 96. Her funeral was another event where politicians, friends, and family would gather, and like most scared Democrats, some discussed the 2024 race. With death organs blasting in the background, Obama and Biden seemed beyond dispirited about the Kamala Harris operation, with the former president bluntly saying that Biden’s gal simply isn’t strong enough to win this election (via NY Post):
WASHINGTON — President Biden griped to former President Barack Obama that “she” is “not as strong as me” — with Obama agreeing “that’s true” — in a stunning off-mic conversation deciphered for The Post by a professional lip reader.
The apparent candid assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris’ standing going into the Nov. 5 election occurred Wednesday afternoon as America’s two most recent Democratic presidents conversed at Ethel Kennedy’s memorial service in Washington.
“She’s not as strong as me,” said Biden, 81, according to the translation, which was produced by analyzing the on-video lip movements during the discussion.
For more than 100 years, the Wilmington and Carson oil refineries have pumped out millions of barrels of gasoline, filling the thirsty cars of Southern California’s freeway-driving motorists.
Now, in an abrupt move that reflects the tectonic shifts driven by climate change, the transition to electric vehicles and demands for cleaner air, Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that late next year it is closing the twin-refinery complex that produces about 8% of the state’s gasoline.
The Houston company, which has operated the refineries since its 2012 spin off from ConocoPhillips, said it will replace its output with sources “inside and outside its refining network” and with renewable
Mitch McConnell sobbed after Jan. 6 Capitol
riot, blasted ‘despicable human being’
Trump: book replies
riot, blasted ‘despicable human being’
Trump: book replies
The typically mild-mannered and tight-lipped Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell privately laced into former President Donald Trump and sobbed during the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol, an upcoming book claims.
McConnell (R-Ky.), 82, slammed Trump, 78, as “stupid,” “ill-tempered,” a “narcissist” and a “despicable human being” behind closed doors toward the end of his administration, according to a preview of the book “The Price of Power” from the Associated Press.
“It’s not just the Democrats who are counting the days” until Trump’s White House departure, McConnell told associates in confidence, per the AP.
“[Trump’s conduct] only underscores the good judgment of the American people.
In a desperate bid for votes that Kamala Harris should already have secured, the vice president is pandering to a surprising audience: Black men.
Less than three weeks before the election, Harris now claims that if she's elected president, she'll throw the nation's purse wide open for this select group. How kind, and not at all manipulative and indulgent. On Monday, Harris launched her "Opportunity Agenda for Black Men." The plan includes handing out 1 million "fully forgivable" loans of up to $20,000 for Black entrepreneurs and "others." The proposal also promises to protect cryptocurrency investments and to legalize recreational marijuana.
Harris' initiative is the epitome of identity politics.
With the exception of one cordial but somewhat challenging segment on 60 Minutes, Vice President Kamala Harris has spent her entire presidential candidacy going from one softball media appearance to another. That ended Wednesday night when she sat for an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier. Finally, Harris faced probing and persistent questions about her record as vice president and plans for the presidency. And in 27 minutes of back-and-forth, she had virtually no answers. She pushed back hard but, for all her words, had little to say. (I should note at the beginning that I am a Fox News contributor, and I appear on Baier’s program Special Report.)
Vice President Kamala Harris’s “plagiarism scandal” is far “more serious” than previously stated, New York Times‘s plagiarism consultant Jonathan Bailey admitted Thursday.
The Times admitted Monday that Harris plagiarized multiple passages in her 2009 book, Smart on Crime, but alleged, however, that it was “not serious.” Some of the lengthy messages lifted were from Wikipedia and the Associated Press. The Harris campaign claimed on Tuesday that she did not plagiarize multiple passages, contradicting Harris’s allies in the media, including the New York Times and the New Republic. Citing the review of “a full dossier with additional allegations, which led some to accuse the New York Times of withholding
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign on Thursday abruptly barred the press from her meeting with students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, as pro-Palestinian protesters marched on the campus amid the news that Hamas’ leader was killed by the Israeli military.
Ms. Harris was said to be working on a statement about the developments in the Middle East.
The Democratic nominee was scheduled to briefly take questions from the press ahead of what the campaign billed as a “meet and greet’ with the UWM students. However, reporters traveling with Ms. Harris in Wisconsin said that the talk with the press was canceled moments before it was scheduled to happen.
Gallup’s annual survey of civic and political trust, released this week, found that the media is currently America’s least-trusted institution.
Just 31% of those polled — a new historic low — have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the mass media, including just 27% of independent voters and 12% of Republicans.
Back in 2005, the overall trust number was 50%. A complete cratering.
In his many tangles with the mainstream media, JD Vance is showing them why this is.
Vance in recent weeks has repeatedly schooled anchors, hosts and reporters in basic facts about the economy, the law and other core topics,