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Duo who climbed to top of Empire State
Building are stars of Netflix doc 'Skywalkers:
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Building are stars of Netflix doc 'Skywalkers:
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Two people climbed to the very top of the Empire State Building in New York City on Wednesday. The individuals were later taken into custody and charges are pending.
The couple later revealed themselves as Russian free climbers Ivan Beerkus and Angela Nikolau, who were featured in the 2024 Netflix documentary "Skywalkers: A love story." (snip) After police responded, the pair appeared to take the banner down and climb down from the antenna to a lower platform. Then, one of them appeared to remove an engagement ring from a backpack, get down on one knee, and propose, according to Fox News.
The United States advanced Wednesday night to the World Cup round of 16 with a 2-0 shutout of Bosnia and Herzegovina, overcoming a red card penalty that will keep one of its stars out of the next game.
The win was just the second-ever in the World Cup knockout round for the U.S men's team.
Folarin Balogun scored a goal before halftime that gave the U.S. a 1-0 lead. But he got ejected with a second half red card.
Malik Tillman then scored on a free kick to give the undermanned America team a lead that would hold.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, appears to have taken the lead in the Maine Senate contest against Democratic candidate Graham Platner, a recent survey has shown.
The incumbent Collins took 50% support among registered voters in the latest Fox News survey. Platner trailed with 47%. The three-point margin of error means the race is still a statistical tie.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he plans to help build a third political party, claiming the country’s leaders have stopped focusing on the needs of ordinary Americans.
Speaking with the Columbia Journalism Review, Carlson said he believes there should be a “good-faith effort” to create a political movement centered on improving life for Americans rather than fighting over foreign conflicts.
“I’m going to help build a third party. There should be a good-faith effort to figure out what benefits the country,” Carlson said. “I mean, if you make $60,000 a year, you’re degraded. Your life expectancy has gone down, and the promise of your children’s lives is
Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb, the Democrat nominee for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District, denounced the Declaration of Independence, capitalism, billionaires, and what he called “American exceptionalism.”
Rabb made the remarks during the “America at 250 — Trump Fascism, Historical Erasure, and the Battle Over Truth” panel, held June 26 at People’s Plaza on Independence Mall in Philadelphia. Rabb is running unopposed in Pennsylvania’s heavily Democrat 3rd Congressional District and is widely expected to win election to Congress in November.
During the discussion, Rabb argued that the Declaration of Independence did not deliver freedom to everyone and instead helped preserve the power of a privileged class.
A year-long wiretap investigation into a series of overdose deaths in Volusia County led to 50 arrest warrants for individuals involved in violent crimes and drug dealing, the sheriff's office said. A multi-agency task force executed "Operation Holy Rollers" early Tuesday morning, targeting members of a violent local gang known as the "Cut Throat Murderers." Law enforcement arrived at a church in Holly Hill on June 30 after several deaths were linked to drugs coming out of that property, officials said.
A California college professor who admitted to killing an elderly demonstrator with a megaphone will spend about a year in county jail, far less than the prison term prosecutors sought.
A judge sentenced Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, 53, to one year in Ventura County Jail plus two years of felony probation, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office (VCDAO) announced June 30. (snip) Kessler stood with the pro-Israel group while Alnaji was with the pro-Palestinian protesters.
A Wisconsin transgender activist has released a run of videos telling people to “kill your local Republican” and vowing a “trans jihad” against MAGA.
Conservative commentator Dustin Grage posted the footage to X on July 1. In one clip, Teha Delaruelle speaks against a background displaying the words “Kill Your Local Republican,” then points to the message. “We’re going to make this the moderate position for the state of Wisconsin,” Delaruelle says, giving followers a one-month window to act.
Well, it looks as if Kamala Harris is indeed planning to run for president in 2028, and that she is counting on the Democrat Party’s rapidly growing Marxist wing to propel her into the White House. Yes, it could mean the end of the United States as a free nation, particularly given the Biden regime’s taste for authoritarianism (hounding the social media giants to silence COVID dissidents, trying to establish a Disinformation Governance Board, treating pro-lifers as if they were terrorists, etc.). About that, Harris has never shown any concern, and now she seems more focused on the pursuit of raw power
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) told the parents of children murdered by illegal immigrants that Congress has other things to do.
“Unfortunately, this hearing is the fourth time in this committee that we’ve had a hearing on sanctuary cities, the fourth time … There’s many other things that we could be doing other than this,” Jayapal said during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity and Security hearing on Tuesday. During the hearing, Jessica Gorman, mother of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University student who was fatally shot by an illegal immigrant, criticized Democratic members of Congress, saying, “I don’t understand why it’s only the Republican side that cares about our American
Amy Coney Barrett was supposed to be the payoff for conservatives. She was our gal, right? The “ghost” of Justice Scalia, haunting the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court as a brilliant originalist, a serious Catholic jurist, a mother of seven, and a Trump appointee who’d help lock down a 6-3 conservative Court and finally stop the left from using judges as a weapon.
That was the sales pitch.But that’s not what happened. Now, years later, a whole slew of America First voters are wondering what the hell happened.
What exactly did we get with ABC, besides a “yes woman” for Justice John Roberts?
The psycho governor of Minnesota has called for more Somali pirates in Minnesota; 100,000 Somalis have settled in Minnesota over the past few years alone. Now, he is calling for all transgender (transvestites) people to go to Minnesota to play in women’s sports. This is his response to today’s Supreme Court decision which supports state bans on biological men playing in women’s sports.
Minnesota is for Somalis and transgenders. That’s perfectly normal. He doesn’t care at all about girls and women who can’t compete against biological men. Walz only cares about biological men who think they are females or pretend they are females.
Everything Is Political
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Western Europe has been sweltering under a heat wave, and quite a few people have died as a result. The heat wave is unusual, but the phenomenon isn’t: every year, lots of Europeans die from extremes of heat and cold, far more than in the United States. And European climate deaths vastly exceed deaths in the U.S. from gun homicides, which many Europeans like to decry.
A sane response to death and discomfort due to heat would be to promote air conditioning. But that isn’t what is happening in the U.K., where air conditioning is often illegal, or in France, where calls for more air conditioning are being resisted
Socialist candidate Melat Kiros won her primary in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, defeating incumbent Democratic Representative Diana DeGette, who has held the seat for nearly three decades.Kiros, a virulently anti-Israel political newcomer who was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, is the latest far-left progressive challenger to oust an establishment incumbent in a Democratic House primary in recent weeks.The 29-year-old Ph.D student and barista
We reported on some of the bilge that Jill Biden had been trying to serve us up in her book, "View From the East Wing."
If the purpose of the book was to salvage her reputation, I don't think it did that since it raised even more questions about how she dealt with Joe's cognitive issues. (X) Not only did it make her look worse — if that's possible — she also upset Democrats that she's bringing this all up again just as they approach a tough midterm. She even ticked off some former Biden aides, and there was some ugly back and forth. Probably not a good idea
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, perhaps best described as "seven lying serpents in a skinsuit," just told a lie so big that even my jaded self had to sit back, take a sip of coffee, and admire the handiwork of whoever steam-cleaned the soul out of his body.
According to a video statement posted Tuesday to X, California under Newsom's management "grew from three trillion dollars to four and a quarter trillion dollars. That's a roughly 40 percent growth."
In just seven years? Impressive, if true.
Meanwhile, poor Florida's economy grew just 31.2% in that time, and those lazy laggards in Texas eked out even less growth than that, at 30%.
Mitch McConnell was found ‘unconscious’
in DC home last month, may have suffered
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in DC home last month, may have suffered
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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was found “unconscious” and may have suffered a heart attack at his DC residence before being rushed to a local hospital last month, according to a District Fire and EMS dispatch call made public Wednesday.
The June 14 call referenced medical personnel in an ALS, or Advanced Life Support, ambulance being sent to the home shortly before 9 a.m. and mentioned there was “CPR in progress” for a “cardiac arrest.” Punchbowl News first reported on the EMS radio traffic.
Reps for the former Senate GOP leader did not comment on the communications.
We've written extensively about the growing panic among establishment Democrats about the wave of recent wins from "Democratic" Socialists of America (DSA) party candidates in states like New York, where two Mamdani-backed candidates won their House primaries last Tuesday, with one defeating an incumbent.
And as we also reported, another DSA member, Bernie Sanders-endorsed Melat Kiros, won her primary race in Colorado's 1st Congressional District (CD1) Tuesday night, beating 30-year incumbent Diana DeGette in a district drawn for Democrat victories, and that hasn't had Republican representation since 1973.
But there was another Colorado congressional Democrat primary that flew under the radar a bit nationally,
In 1948, 11 minutes after Israel declared itself an independent state, the United States recognized it when Democratic President Harry Truman issued an executive order to grant de facto U.S. recognition to Israel. From that time forward, Democrats were the strongest supporters of Israel in Congress.
Until now. The recent victories of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in New York and Colorado have called into question the party's commitment to supporting the existence of the Jewish state.
The 2024 Democratic Party platform stated that party leaders “believe a strong, secure, and democratic Israel is vital to the interests of the United States” and that the party’s “commitment to Israel’s security
The United States has chosen not to renew its trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, senior administration officials confirmed on July 1.
“In accordance with the Agreement, the United States, Mexico, and Canada met virtually today to discuss the operation of the USMCA,” U.S. Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement, referring to the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement.
“The United States did not agree to renew the USMCA in its current form. As a result, the USMCA is not renewed.”
After victimizing his party’s political enemies for more than two years, far-left Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is asking a Dane County trial court for a protective order to lock away discovery documents from public scrutiny.
(snip)The “matter” is Kaul’s weaponized witch hunt against Jim Troupis and Kenneth Chesebro, the lawyers who represented Trump’s Wisconsin campaign in legal challenges following the rigged 2020 presidential election. Each faces multiple felony forgery charges for advising and carrying out a legal strategy that used alternate electors to protect Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes for Trump should he prevail in his lawsuits.
A 31-year-old Florida woman died after an alligator bit off one of her arms and mauled the other at a state park near Orlando, authorities and a 911 call revealed Monday. The victim had been hiking with her boyfriend and her best friend Sunday in Little Big Eco State Forest when they waded into the Econlockhatchee River to cool off, said Grant Eller, a lieutenant with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
They were kneeling in 3-foot-deep water when the alligator suddenly attacked around 1:30 p.m. and bit her arms, Eller said.
The victim was later identified as Orlando resident Brittany Clark, wildlife officials said.
During the attack,
What is proposed below is regulatory, lawful and entirely intended to create hardships and burdens. Thus, a new era in State Department visa requirements respond to newly established guidelines by the Supreme Court.
As a pragmatic and patriotic American I respectfully suggest and recommend the U.S. State Department immediately institute the “Roberts Requirement” following similar visa entry protocols previously used for COVID-19 tests prior to U.S. admittance.
The Roberts Requirement: Each female visa applicant must present a valid negative pregnancy test taken no longer than 10 days prior to travel to the United States.
The certified document, negative pregnancy test, together with all related visa approvals must be presented to
The U.S. Treasury said on Tuesday it had imposed sanctions on two Mexican nationals and nine entities tied to a cartel-linked smuggling scheme that moves fuel from the United States into Mexico without paying a hefty tax on the imports.
In a statement, the Treasury said the scheme is linked to Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and part of an illegal enterprise generating hundreds of millions of dollars annually for the cartel. Smuggled fuel and stolen crude oil have become the second-largest revenue source for Mexican cartels after drugs, according to the U.S. government.