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Scores of people were seen leaving Donald Trump's rally in Las Vegas early while the former president was still speaking on stage. A clip posted onto X, formerly Twitter, showed large numbers of Trump supporters exiting the area where Trump was speaking in Nevada on Sunday while the former president was delivering his remarks

Special Operation Forces Week in Tampa is the premier gathering event for all things related to Special Operations. On May 9, 2024, at the most recent event in Tampa, there was a session on “Operations in the Information Environment (OIE) Symposium”. This title is simply another name for Psychological Operations (PSYOP). Having been to the PSYOP Course at Ft. Bragg (now Ft. Liberty) in 1984, this panel caught my attention. The name, functional areas, doctrine and tactics have evolved a bit since PSYOP was first introduced in the 1950s to fight Soviet Communism that was on a post-World War II...

(NewsNation) — Bonnie and Bob Krall are a married couple who got through the COVID-19 pandemic with relative ease. Bonnie had a couple of mild cases, and Bob had a case that brought no symptoms. “We were both healthy as can be,” said Bonnie Krall. “We had just finished a giant trip to the Western United States, we came back, and bam, Bob was diagnosed.” Bob didn’t have COVID but instead two very rare forms of cancer. Then, Bonnie got similar news. “I had an 8 1/2 pound tumor in my abdomen,” she told NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” “I was...

The gatekeepers and women of the WNBA share an obvious, deeply rooted disdain for Caitlin Clark. See how they treat, speak of, and undermine her. Clark, a straight white woman, is the main protagonist in a league most proud of its elevation of black lesbians. However, it's not just Clark's identity that stirs animus from other players. It's also her lack of self-guilt. Let us explain: Women in the WNBA suffer from a variant of white derangement syndrome (WDS). How does WDS work? Former ESPN host Bomani Jones, who long fell chronically ill to the mind virus, explained last year....

In a video received by Independent Political Report earlier today, former Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root (who ran with 2008 presidential nominee former Congressman Bob Barr) claims credit for “masterminding the suicide of the LP” as a result of his role in arranging the speech by former President Trump to delegates attending the 2024 Libertarian presidential nominating convention... A partial transcript of his remarks follows; a link to the full video can be found below. ROOT: Trump did something historic last Saturday. It’s long forgotten; . . . He was willing to address a hostile audience, get boos,...

TV shows like Yellowstone and Longmire and stars like Beyonce have helped to make cowboy fashion popular again. That's good for Wyoming stores as tourists are spending big money on hats, art and all things western. Steam flies at a busy Kemo Sabe store in Jackson, where workers are putting the right shape on hats for waiting customers. (Renee Jean, Cowboy State Daily) JACKSON — Mary Sullivan of Colorado says she’s not normally one to “pull the trigger” on an ultra-expensive cowboy hat, but last weekend she was one of dozens of customers swarming the Western-chic Kemo Sabe hat shop....

The Abandon Biden Campaign announced last week that it will continue to oppose President Joe Biden into November. The campaign was influential in rallying support for the uncommitted option during the Democratic primary season. In a press release last Thursday, the campaign reiterated its commitment to oppose Biden in the general election, criticizing his support of Israeli actions in Gaza and condemning his policies as “diplomacy theater.” They specifically highlighted Biden’s failure to enforce meaningful “redlines,” which they argue enables ongoing violence. A full copy of the press release is available here. “We will not stand by,” the organization stated....

The “main player” in the Bronx drug mill that posed as a daycare center — and eventually led to a toddler’s death from fentanyl poisoning — has taken a plea deal that will likely put him behind bars for decades, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Felix Herrera Garcia was initially hit with a federal charge of conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death after four kids under the age of three were poisoned by the drugs he and his compatriots were dealing at Divino Niño Daycare in Kingsbridge. One of the kids — 1-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici — died last September...

Not only is this man a total embarrassment to the Nation, he is also a danger. Imagine him with the Nuclear Codes trying to figure out how to enter them into the 'Football' and the enemy missiles are just 15 minutes away............. 0:29 VIDEO AT LINK.......................

The Synodal Church is Shaping Up to be Protestantism in Union with a Bishop of Rome In his 1928 encyclical on religious unity, Mortalium Animos, Pope Pius XI wrote that Christian unity can only be achieved through the process of non-Catholics returning to the “one true Church”:“[T]he union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it. To the one true Church of Christ, we say, which is visible to all, and which is to remain,...

Harry Dent, the outspoken financial author and economist, isn’t reversing course from his bold “crash of a lifetime” declaration this past December. Speaking in an updated interview with Fox News Digital, Dent cautioned that the “everything” bubble still has not burst, and it may be a bigger crash than the Great Recession. “In 1925 to ‘29, it was a natural bubble. There was no stimulus behind that, artificial stimulus per se. So this is new. This has never happened,” Dent said Tuesday. “What do you do if you want to cure a hangover? You drink more. And that’s what they’ve...

Three high-profile primaries in U.S. House districts will be held tomorrow in South Carolina. In solidly Republican CD-3), seven candidates are vying to replace 7-term conservative Jeff Duncan, who is retiring rather than face a campaign that would feature nasty (and unproven) allegations from his vindictive soon-to-be ex-wife. In solidly Republican CD-4 Trump-supported incumbent William Timmons is facing conservative state legislator Adam Morgan, who is being boosted by outspoken conservative congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida. Timmons had no Democrat opposition in 2022 but he achieved only 52.7% in a four-way primary that year, and this one could be close too....

NATIONAL BLACK COW DAY National Black Cow Day on June 10 celebrates a delicious ice cream float beverage also known as a Root Beer Float. That's right, the beverage made with root beer and vanilla ice cream was also called a Black Cow. #BlackCowDay The Black Cow is originally made with vanilla ice cream but sometimes it's made with chocolate ice cream or even plain cola flavor. Join us as we learn a brief history about the Black Cow and hopefully enjoy a Black Cow in the process! Frank J. Wisner of Cripple Creek, Colorado, receives credit for inventing the...

The consolidation of the corporate media entities continues apace, with CNN set to feature Associated Press (AP) content on its website for the first time in nearly 15 years. CNN staffers fret that the move, pushed by the network’s CEO Mark Thompson, is a prelude to layoffs as the corporate news organization moves away from original reporting. The CNN-AP deal is the latest in a line of schemes to revive the network’s collapsing audience. In late May, it was revealed the network logged its lowest primetime ratings since 1991. According to Nielsen data, the network’s 8 PM to 11 PM...

A 77 percent majority of Americans say politicians use transgenderism to distract voters from important political fights. The poll did not say if Americans put more blame on Republican or Democratic politicians for the transgender distraction. But the poll included a second question about politicians’ greater focus on transgender claims: “Do you think this is a good thing for society, a bad thing for society, or neither a good nor bad thing for society?”

Taxpayers will pick up the majority of cost for Jill Biden's whirlwind flights between Wilmington, Delaware, and France so she could be at son Hunter's side during his federal gun trial although the Democratic Party will chip in some funds. The first lady racked up $345,400 in flight costs, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation estimated, as she boomeranged between the United States and France last week, traveling separately from husband Joe Biden so she could support her family at home while also representing the United States abroad. Her political party will repay the government for what it would cost for...

Explanation: Is the Lion Nebula the real ruler of the constellation Cepheus? This powerful feline appearing nebula is powered by two massive stars, each with a mass over 20 times greater than our Sun. Formed from shells of ionized gas that have expanded, the nebula's energetic matter not only glows, but is dense enough to contract gravitationally and form stars. The angular size of the Lion Nebula, officially named Sh2-132, is slightly greater than that of the full moon. The gaseous iconic region resides about 10,000 light years away in a constellation named after the King of Aethopia in Greek...

Wall Street executives have started flocking to former President Donald Trump after feeling the brunt of the Biden administration’s anti-business policies. Politico reported a host Wall Street executives, many whom have previously sworn off Trump, have started to embrace the former president’s reelection campaign. Hal Lambert, the founder of Point Bridge Capital and a GOP donor, said, “I don’t know that anyone really believed he was a threat to democracy.” Lambert had backed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) presidential campaign but not supports Trump. Lambert is not the only one. Hedge fund executive Nelson Peltz, hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, and Blackstone...

Navy Capt. Michel Brandt has been relieved of command of the USS Somerset, an amphibious transport dock ship, the service announced Friday. Brandt was fired “due to a lack of confidence in her ability to lead the crew” by Rear Adm. Christopher Stone, commander of the Expeditionary Strike Group 7, according to the Navy statement. She was relieved Thursday. A “lack of confidence” is often cited by the military when removing a commander. Brandt has commanded the ship since July 2023, according to the Navy. Capt. Tate Robinson was assigned to temporarily replace Brandt as commanding officer of the Somerset...

Smoking gun text messages show Hunter set up a meeting with a convicted drug dealer the night before he bought a .38 revolver. He purchased the Colt Cobra .38 Special revolver on October 12, 2018 by claiming on a federal form that he wasn’t abusing drugs – a lie for which he is now on trial in Delaware. The day before the gun purchase, Hunter texted violent, convicted drug dealer Eladio Otero Jr. to ‘meet me 7/11 at 3’, according to records from the First Son’s abandoned laptop.