'...Former President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits. A few weeks after promising to eliminate taxes on tips, former President Donald Trump has unveiled a second proposal for targeted tax relief. The beneficiaries this time would be senior citizens, an influential voting bloc. ...'
'...The Palestinian militant group Hamas operates an extensive network of supporters in the U.S. linked to the international Muslim Brotherhood jihadist group, according to a report by a former federal counterterrorism expert."...'
'As tensions escalate between Israel and Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon issued a video Monday urging Americans to leave the country before a crisis begins. ..."We recommend U.S. citizens develop a crisis plan of action and leave before a crisis begins," Rena Bitter, U.S. assistant secretary of state for the bureau of consular affairs, said in a video posted on social media. "Should commercial air not be available, individuals already in Lebanon should be prepared to shelter in place for long periods of time."...'
'...Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team appeared on Monday to lower expectations of her chances to defeat former President Donald Trump in November after a week of glowing coverage after President Biden chose last week to end his reelection bid ...'
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'...The Relative Strength Index (RSI) suggested that Bitcoin was in a bullish trend at press time. An RSI value of around 60 indicated that the market was neither overbought nor oversold, supporting a stable continuation of the current uptrend. ...'
'advocating for the release of 1-year-old Kfir Bibas, the Israeli boy who has spent the bulk of his life in Hamas captivity. Bibas was kidnapped along with his brother Ariel, 4, and their parents, Shiri and Yarden Bibas, by the terror group during the Oct. 7 attack. ...Back when I was in New York, I lost a child to gun violence. Ever since then … it just reshaped my world. To actually go through a loss like that … to know that there’s hostages and that there’s children involved, that just hit me in a certain place,” Curry told The Post. ...'
'...Netflix is facing calls for a boycott after co-founder and Democrat mega-donor Reed Hastings donated $7 million to a super political action committee (PAC) supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.
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'...The bad news for Kamala Harris is that she's a cringe factory and radical leftist who has said many things on camera that are far out of step with the mainstream American electorate. The good news for Kamala Harris is that her supporters, including media outlets, are frantically re-writing history and quite literally deleting the internet in order to mitigate and disappear those vulnerabilities. They're going to have a lot more scrubbing to do. For example, this is quite an inconvenient clip for her, in light of one of the newly-emerging byproducts of her abject failures as Border Czar (and yes, that's what she is)...'
'...Harris is not yet officially the nominee, and there may be disarray from fellow Democrats who are looking for someone else to replace President Joe Biden after he dropped out of the race on Sunday. The Trump campaign thus won't be committing to debates at this time. ...'
'...On Wednesday, Politico Playbook highlighted just a few of Harris’s most radical agenda items, including her support for the Green New Deal, a ban on fracking, restoration of felon voting rights, and elimination of private health insurance.
Not to mention that she co-sponsored legislation that aimed to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. ...Harris also was a significant advocate for defunding the police ... '
'A group of state election officials is urging the nation’s cybersecurity agency to revise a draft rule that would require election offices to disclose suspected cyberattacks to the federal government ...Election offices fall under the requirement because their systems are considered critical infrastructure, along with the nation’s banks, nuclear power plants and dams. ...'
'...As we reported, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington this week to give an address before the U.S. Senate. Now you would think that either Joe Biden or his second, Kamala Harris -- the person who wants the Democratic nomination for president without a single primary vote -- would be there to greet him. Biden allegedly had COVID, so that's an excuse. But where was Kamala? Missing in action. ...'
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'...That wouldn't be so easy.
Democratic Party rules make it almost impossible to replace nominees without their consent, let alone smoothly substitute in someone else.
She might be politically favored, but party rules give the vice president no major mechanical benefit over other candidates.
Biden’s delegates wouldn’t automatically transfer to Harris, and the convention holds separate votes on nominees for president and vice president. So she would still need to win a majority of delegates at the convention.
If the top of the ticket were vacated after the convention, she would still need to win a majority of votes at the special meeting of the DNC. ...'
'...FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP: What they do is misinformation and disinformation, and they keep saying he's a threat to democracy. I'm saying, what the hell did I do for democracy? Last week, I took a bullet for democracy. What did I do against democracy? Crazy. ...'
'...Huge hospital group is forced to cancel surgeries as thousands of flights are grounded and New York Subway control room loses track of its own trains...The issue was caused by an update to Crowdstrike's 'Falcon Sensor' software which crashed, crippling Microsoft computers.'
'...When pressed on whether the shooting was a "failure" of the agency, Mayorkas confirmed that it was. "When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure...'
'...Trump’s campaign has also accepted cryptocurrency payments, a first for a major US political party, raising hopes of a departure from the US regulatory crackdown on the industry seen in recent years. ...'
'...In the aftermath of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, foreign countries are coming out against the Biden Administration for provoking the attack.
Russia accused the Biden White House of inciting violence by creating an “atmosphere” of opportunity for such an attack. ...'
'...Even Trump’s children immediately responded to the near-murder of their father with a sense of triumph rather than shock. “He’ll never stop fighting to Save America,” Donald Trump Jr. posted online, with a picture of his father, fist raised, face bloodied and surrounded by Secret Service, an American flag in the backdrop. ...'
'...The biggest danger facing the American economy for years has been inflation. Now, another problem is emerging as a credible threat on the horizon: Unemployment. ...'
'...Over the past year, the IRS has significantly increased penalties on underpayment of both estimated tax payments and federal income withholding from salary and retirement income. Individuals who are required to make quarterly estimated payments (due dates each year are April 15, June 15, September 15 and the following January 15) include those individuals with large amounts of investment income such as interest, dividends and capital gains that is not subject to federal income tax withholding. Also included among individuals who should consider making estimated tax payments are retirees who have no or little federal income tax withholding from their pension income. There are federal employees with sizeable amounts amount of investment income who are paying too little or no federal estimated tax payments. There are also federal retirees who have too little federal income tax withheld from their CSRS or FERS annuities and /or Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) withdrawals...'
'...Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its jobs report for June 2024. The report showed 206,000 new jobs were created in June, 12,000 less than were created in May. The unemployment rate rose to 4.1 percent, the highest level since ...'
'...the stench surrounding all things Biden. Donald Trump might not be a choirboy or a moral leader, but he ain't got nothin' on the apparent corruption that runs deep to the core of the Biden administration. Comer pointed to an increasing number of Americans questioning Biden’s "ability to lead the country," saying his committee has been investigating circumstances surrounding O’Connor’s February assessment of the president in which O'Connor wrote Biden "is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency." ...'
'Joe Biden just stuck up his middle finger and told Americans everywhere: Screw you. ...In a taped interview that lasted only 22 minutes, the President insisted his dire poll numbers weren't real — 'fake news', if you will — that the Democratic party has no concerns about his fitness to lead, and that the only way he would exit the race is 'if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me'. ...Make no mistake: Joe Biden, for all his hackneyed talk about 'battling for the soul of America', cares not one whit for that. He cares about staying in power. Full stop. ...'
'...Reading the comments, Americans are not fooled by this extreme left sham to pretend mentally compromised president is not a danger to democracy and the defense of America. Most realize the interview is a heavily edited, glossy false impression of the real Joe we saw at the Trump/Biden Debate that clearly identified he is unable to protect and run America. A vote for Joe is a vote to finalize the Democrat destruction of this once great country. Are you that naive to fall for this? The Democrats and the Democrat controlled media are counting on it. ...'
'...It’s clear the best news reporters in Washington have failed in the first duty of journalism: to hold power accountable. It is our duty to poke through White House smoke screens and find out the truth. The Biden White House clearly succeeded in a massive cover-up of the degree of the President’s feebleness and his serious physical decline, which may be simply the result of old age. Shame on the White House press corps for not to have pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding the President. ...'
'X owner Elon Musk ripped Vice President Kamala Harris for "lying" on Monday about former President Trump’s position on a national abortion ban. Harris declared in a post on Musk's site that "Donald Trump would ban abortion nationwide."...users posted information from CNN, BBC, The Associated Press, The New York Times, and Trump’s own Truth Social account that went against Harris’ claim. ...TRUMP VOWS HE 'WILL NOT BLOCK' ABORTION PILLS OR MEDICATION IF ELECTED, SAYS HE BELIEVES IN 'EXCEPTIONS'' ..."They’re all making their own decisions right now and right now the states control it," Trump said. "That’s the vote of the people."
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Source: www.supremecourt.gov'...Cory Alvarez, who had been held without bail since his March arrest, was freed on a measly $500 bail on Tuesday after the Plymouth County Superior Court ignored a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to keep the suspect in custody...'
'President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended and redesignated a temporary amnesty program to more than 300,000 Haitian nationals...ensuring they are not eligible for deportation and can hold American jobs. Late last week, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for about 309,000 Haitian nationals living in the U.S. who would otherwise be eligible for deportation....'
'...Sure, there’s talk about how to replace Biden, but that ship sailed months ago. Democrats are now stuck with an impossible situation because not even that little rally in North Carolina the following day, where Biden was livelier, can repair the damage that’s been done. In the aftermath, the Biden White House is leaking like a sieve, with aides chirping that the president is only functional during a six-hour window (via Axios): ...'
'Within 10 minutes of the CNN-hosted event’s start, some of even Biden’s most loyal supporters found themselves asking if the nomination was, in fact, settled. ...His campaign team tried to mask the disaster but there was no denying things did not go as planned. ... At times seeming to seize up and at others appearing confused, Biden rambled his way through a 90-minute session against former President Donald Trump. ...“He gets paid by China. He’s a Manchurian candidate,” Trump said.'
'...If the debate was the president’s best chance to turn around a tight race with Trump, which has him in deep peril of losing reelection, it was a failure. Biden ended the night with the Democratic Party in crisis with serious conversations taking place behind the scenes among senior figures over whether his candidacy is now sustainable, two months before the Democratic National Convention. ...'
'...The index, covering all nine census divisions, reported a 6.3% annual gain for April...'
'Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index declining to 100.4 from 101.3 (revised from 102.00) in May. ...while the Expectations Index fell to 73.0 from 74.9. ...material weaknesses in the labor market appear, Confidence could weaken as the year progresses."'
'..."We have to get him out or this country is not going to survive," said Trump. "According to the much better National Crime Victimization Survey, there has actually been a 43% increase in violent crime since I left office, including a 58% increase in rapes and 89% increase in aggravated assaults, and a 56% increase in robberies." Trump promised that the minute he takes office...'
'The debt outlook never gets better. The annual deficit is likely to hit $1.9 trillion for 2024, according to the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. That’s up from an estimate of $1.5 trillion just four months ago. ...The real outlook is worse than the CBO numbers suggest. ...'
