"Israelis awoke to a country safer and more secure today, a year after Jews around the world watched in horror as Hamas murdered, raped, pillaged, and kidnapped their kin.

"The events of Oct. 7 -- and everything we have witnessed in their aftermath -- were a grim reminder that the world is set against the Jewish people, as it always has been. The short-lived support offered by the Biden administration, the immediate calls for a ceasefire, and the near-instantaneous pivot to accusations of genocide and other war crimes the moment Jews undertook their own defense, not to mention the conflagration of American university campuses as students declared their solidarity with the terrorists beset on the elimination of the Jewish state -- all were a reminder that the world's oldest hatred remains as powerful today as it ever was."

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"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated over $1 billion for a migrant assistance program over the past two fiscal years, but now it is running out of cash for disaster relief as Hurricane Helene rages on and more storms loom.

"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Wednesday that FEMA does not have enough funds to make it through hurricane season, The Associated Press reported. Though resources are running short for Americans displaced by Helene, the agency spent big on a program providing 'humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants' after their release from Department of Homeland Security custody."

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"Vice President Kamala Harris is struggling to maintain support among the key voting blocs of the Democratic coalition as polling data suggests that former President Donald Trump's efforts to win over minority voters are succeeding to some degree.

"Throughout his political career, Trump has made concerted attempts to flip Hispanic and black voters, traditionally Democratic constituencies, though his 2020 results with those groups only slightly improved upon his 2016 tallies. Now, polling data suggests that he may be poised to gain significant ground in the November contest with both groups, as well as the traditionally Democratic Jewish voters.

"While Trump's pitch with the latter group has emphasized the Biden administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict and the abundance of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, his economic pitches appear to be resonating with other minority groups, just in time for election season."

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"Gov. Tim Walz (D., Minn.) made several dubious claims during the vice presidential debate against Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) on Tuesday, but insisting he 'enjoyed' the evening was easily the most far-fetched.

"Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris picked Walz as her running mate in August, journalists and other Harris supporters have fawned over his 'folksy' charm and 'cuddly' demeanor. Some questioned why the Harris campaign has been so reluctant to make 'someone billed as Mr. Likable' available for interviews with national outlets. Walz's bumbling performance on Tuesday answered that question once and for all.

"Walz appeared nervous throughout and spoke too fast, tripping over his words. His facial expressions conveyed a mixture of confusion and sheer terror, especially when asked to explain why he repeatedly lied -- as recently as 2019 -- about being in China during the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989 when he was actually home in Nebraska until August of that year. Walz proceeded to give one of the most baffling answers ever recorded in the history of American politics."

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"Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad alleged that Mossad had extensively infiltrated the Iranian intelligence services in a Monday interview with CNN in Turkey.

According to the former president of the Islamic Republic, Iran's intelligence services established a particular unit designed to combat the activities of the Israeli Mossad in the country. Nevertheless, he claimed, Israeli agents infiltrated the unit itself.

Ahmadinejad said that the head of the secret unit was a Mossad agent, and another 20 Israeli agents worked alongside him."

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"If conservatives want to win elections, they don't need to rile up the base, they need to convince independents to say in public what they believe in private -- that they agree with conservatives on most issues and that Democrats are the wildly out-of-touch extremists.

"That, at least, is one way to read a fascinating new survey from Populace, a non-partisan think tank in Massachusetts, which figured out a way to discern what 20,000 Americans think privately and compare that to what they are willing to say publicly.

"It turns out that there are often wide gaps between the two, which Populace calls the 'Social Pressure Index.' People tend to avoid stating their views if they think they're in the minority.

"But here's the really interesting finding: On a host of bellwether issues, independents are, in private, far more conservative than they will admit to pollsters."

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"Political campaigns are symbolic ventures, designed to drive attention to certain issues and to marshal facts, language, and emotion to deliver a material advantage. From Cicero's campaign for the consulship to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's campaigns for the presidency, it has always been thus.

"This is a useful lens through which to view the current immigration debate. For several weeks, two migrant-related stories have dominated national attention: Venezuelan gang members apparently seizing apartments in Aurora, Colorado, and tensions resulting from large-scale Haitian migration in Springfield, Ohio. Beneath the surface of their rhetorical heat, the controversies point to three key questions of immigration policy: who, how, and how much."

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"In 1980, the Boston Globe put a place-holding headline on an editorial about a speech by President Jimmy Carter.

"'Mush from the wimp,' the headline read -- and and it appeared in more than 150,000 copies of the paper before editors caught their error and removed it.

"I thought about that headline as I watched Joe Biden's UN speech Tuesday.

"The similarities go far beyond another mushy speech from another wimpy president.

"Biden now rivals Carter as the worst American president of the modern era -- and maybe of all time."

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"Then-President Donald Trump gave clear instructions to Pentagon brass days before the Jan. 6 riots to 'do whatever it takes' to keep the U.S. Capitol safe, including deploying National Guard or active-duty troops, but top officials did not comply because of political concerns, according to transcripts of bombshell interviews conducted by the Defense Department's chief watchdog that shine new light on government disfunction ahead of the historic tragedy.

"Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff, confirmed to the Pentagon inspector general three years ago that during a Jan. 3, 2021, Oval Office meeting Trump pre-approved the use of National Guard or active duty troops to keep peace in the nation's capital on the day Congress was to certify the results of the 2020 election.

"Milley's interviews were among several key to transcripts obtained by House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., and shared with Just the News."

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"Every honest commentator, and even some dishonest ones, acknowledges the supreme oddity of Kamala Harris's presidential campaign.

"As has been oft remarked, the oddity begins with the campaign's origin. Exactly how is it that Kamala Harris even became the candidate? By what process was Joe Biden, the undisputed winner of the Democratic primary, ousted, eliminated and defenestrated from contention? The rumors and stories are plentiful, but the actual facts -- to say nothing of the dramatis personae behind the facts -- remain obscure.

"But somehow, exactly two months ago, Joe Biden raised his sleepy head in Rehoboth Beach and announced his departure from the campaign but not, pointedly, from the presidency. (Will that happen before January 20, 2025? I wonder.)

"No sooner had the public begun to get its head around that surprise than they were hit with an even bigger one: Biden's replacement would be Vice President Kamala Harris. How did that happen? Who voted for her? Shhh! Some questions are mood breakers, and it was clear from the get-go that the Harris campaign was going to have to depend heavily, some experts say nearly exclusively, on mood."

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