Former President Donald Trump has taken the lead over Vice President Kamala Harris across key battleground states in not just the betting markets, but also in the polls looking at the 2024 White House race.

Donations for an Arkansas man named Aaron Spencer, 36, poured in online this week, after Spencer was arrested for killing 67-year-old Michael Fosler, whom Spencer found with his missing 14-year-old daughter.

Industrial production declined 0.3 percent in September. Negative revisions lopped off another 0.5 percent. The Bloomberg consensus was a decline of 0.1 percent. Factoring in negative and positive revisions the decline was about 0.5 percent.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Today, over 100 members of Congress support a bill to fund Ozempic with Medicare at $1,500 a month. Most of these members have taken money from the manufacturer of that product, a European company called Novo Nordisk. As everyone knows, once a drug is approved for Medicare, it goes to Medicaid.

US Retail Sales Showcase Resilience of Economy’s Growth Engine A splendid title with very shiny words like “showcase” alongside another endless reminder that the economy is “resilient” with all the strength of a “growth engine.” You don’t get much more glowing than that. As we read the article, we learn that retail sales “strengthened” by more than expected. They beat economists rosiest expectations.

At one of Kamala's campaign stops, Clinton told a small crowd of supporters that the only way to keep America the corporation alive is to forge on with what many now refer to as the Great Replacement. "We've got the lowest birthrate we've had in well over a hundred years," Clinton said. "We're not at replacement level, which means we've gotta have somebody come here if we want to keep growing the economy – unless one of you is one of these artificial intelligence geniuses and you can figure out how we can all grow without work."

Germany: Despite inflation slightly easing in 2024, Germans remain deeply concerned about their financial future. According to DW, the rising costs of housing, migration, and daily essentials have led to continued fears, with many feeling that their paychecks don’t stretch as far as before. Even with companies offering inflation bonuses, people see their shopping carts growing emptier for the same amount of money.

Remix News reported on this finding, citing data from Huk-Coburg, Germany's largest auto insurance company. According to the firm's numbers, 34 percent of all EV owners switched back to an ICE vehicle when purchasing a new vehicle so far this year. This number was 28 percent last year, while it was 17.5 percent in 2022. Only 14.2 percent of EV owners shifted back to an ICE car in 2021, as per Huk-Coburg.

The victim's mother relayed to reporters:

 

He full-on attacks her, gets on top of her and pins her down, so she's not even able to defend herself in any way because he's bigger, he's heavier, he's like six feet tall. And then he begins biting her eye and, my daughter said, while he was chewing on her eye he was growling. He's grabbing handfuls of hair and smashing her head off the pavement. All the while the teachers, the principal is crouched down next to them.

Even worse, the mother said (and the video confirmed) that school staff, including the principal, stood by and did nothing.

When you're smashing somebody's head off pavement with that type of force, what is your intent? Your only intent is probably to kill that person. The whole time, she's just screaming for help, crying and screaming, ‘somebody help.' And nobody helped her. The principal sat there and screamed at them instead of helping.

Argentine scientists have identified 55 chemical elements, including 11 heavy metals and 11 lanthanides, in six major covid vaccine brands. These elements, not listed on package inserts, could have synergistic toxicity, exacerbating health risks beyond what regulators and manufacturers have disclosed or studied. The Argentine study found that 82% of vaccines tested contained undeclared arsenic, and all heavy metals detected are linked to toxic effects on human health. The researchers suggest that the findings are unlikely due to contamination and call for a broader analysis of a larger number of samples.

Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for her first formal appearance on the Fox News Network on Wednesday night, hoping to reach voters across the aisle weeks before Election Day.

The 30-minute interview with Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier often got combative, with the pair speaking over each other at times, as they tangled over topics from immigration to what Harris would do differently from President Joe Biden, to former president Donald Trump.

Here are five key moments from the interview.

On Wednesday, the Biden-Harris Administration announced yet another aid package for Ukraine, this time to the tune of approximately $425 million.

According to the Washington Examiner, the aid was announced following another call between Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The package includes air defense capabilities, air-to-ground munitions, and armored vehicles, among other supplies.

This amount is on top of the roughly $59 billion total that has been given to Ukraine by the United States since their war with Russia first began in February of 2022.

“President Zelensky updated President Biden on his plan to achieve victory over Russia, and the two leaders tasked their teams to engage in further consultations on next steps,” said the White House statement. “The leaders committed to intensify security assistance planning alongside international partners in order to ensure that Ukraine has the equipment it needs to prevail.”

We are now less than three weeks before Election Day, and the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris seems closer than ever. That’s why Trump needs every vote he can get if he wants to defeat Harris and the Democrat establishment that has been trying to take him down for years.

Knowing this, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) stepped up on Tuesday to release an epic new ad. It features audio clips from Republican leaders like Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik and NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson.

Indeed, it also features a clip from former President Trump himself. He opened the ad by sending a powerful message to voters that will have conservatives everywhere flocking to the voting booth.

“Republicans must win, and we must use every appropriate tool available to beat the Democrats,” Trump can be heard saying. “They are destroying our country.”

“I don’t care when you vote, but you’ve got to vote,” he adds.

A federal court is about to force the United States Postal Service (USPS) to fess up about who was behind those infamous nine trucks in Pennsylvania that transferred upwards of 1.5 million counterfeit ballots during the 2020 election, effectively throwing the state for Joe Biden.

Rasmussen Reports shared the following video update from Patrick Byrne who shared a quick walk-through of USPS corruption in the 2020 election, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case surrounding it, and the emergency injunction that was just filed this week against the USPS:

A dangerous Venezuelan gang has taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its reach in yet another America city, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Dubbed the 'epitome of evil', Tren de Aragua (TdA) is known to run drug smuggling, child prostitution and human trafficking rings in South America, with its members crossing over into the US in recent years amid a wave of Venezuelan migrants. 

The tattooed mobsters have since unleashed a wave of crime across the country from Miami and Texas to Denver and New York. 

The gang's activities in the American cities are back in the spotlight after ABC News’ Martha Raddatz claimed the instances of gang members' presence in apartments was limited to a 'handful' of complexes in Aurora, Colorado. 

Just last week a small army of police officers raided an apartment complex in San Antonio and arrested 19 individuals - including four gang members.

U.S. officials expressed concern on Tuesday about North Korean soldiers reportedly fighting for Russia in Ukraine but stopped short of confirming the reports are correct.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that North Korea is transferring soldiers to the Russian military.

The U.S. government has said that North Korea supplied ammunition and ballistic missiles to Russia but both countries have denied that happened.

"We are concerned by reports of DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] soldiers fighting on behalf of Russia, which if true would mark a significant increase in the DPRK-Russia defense relationship," said Lt. Col. Charlie Dietz, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense. "Such a move would also indicate a new level of desperation for Russia as it continues to suffer significant casualties on the battlefield in its brutal war against Ukraine."

On Sunday, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sent a letter to Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, demanding that Israel allow essential humanitarian aid into Gaza. The US has given Israel a 30-day deadline to comply with US law. If it fails to take action, the letter suggests, Israel could face punishment, including the potential stopping of US weapons transfers.

Whether this is a serious attempt by the US to get Israel to change course in Gaza remains to be seen. Over the past year, Israel has mostly ignored US recommendations, with Washington repeatedly opting not to take significant action in response.

Without the slightest hint of irony or shame, the state propagandists over at MSNBC are pearl-clutching about what Trump might do to his political opponents — including, can you imagine, prosecuting them on trumped-up charges?

Well, butter my biscuits and call me Sally!

Who has ever heard of such a thing?

Many Americans continue to find homeownership financially out of reach due to rising house prices and stagnant wages, among other contributing factors. But which U.S. cities are the least affordable?

One way to assess housing affordability is through the home price-to-income ratio, which measures the ratio of the median home price to the median household income.

This map, via Visual Capitalist's Kayla Zhu, shows the home price-to-income ratio of 54 large cities (population over one million) in the U.S. using data from Construction Coverage’s analysis of Zillow and U.S. Census Bureau data.

With Trump inching ever closer to unleashing the "most beautiful word in the dictionary" on America's trading partners - especially after tonight's disastrous Kamala Harris interview with Bret Baier - the European Union is bracing for the worst and according to Bloomberg, has already prepared a list of American goods it could target with tariffs if the former president wins the US election and follows through on his threat to hit the bloc with punitive trade measures.

Citing "people familiar with the bloc’s thinking", Bloomberg writes that new levies against US firms aren’t a base case for the EU and will only be used to retaliate against a move by the White House. In other words, a threat to Trump when, not if, he becomes president again. Which is a bold move for Brussels, let's see how it pays off for them when Trump and Europe, so desperate to export its goods anywhere now that China no longer wants much of what Europe has to sell and which exports far more to the US than it imports, launch a tit-for-tat trade war.

Earlier this week journalist Chris Rufo revealed that Kamala Harris plagiarized giant sections of her book on crime, after famed Austrian "plagiarism hunter" Dr. Stefan Weber found that "Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book."

In response, the New York Times bent over backwards (and forwards) to downplay their preferred candidate's cut-n-pastery - first casting it as 'conservative activist seizes on passages' from Harris' book, then totally lying about Rufo's reporting - which Rufo quickly debunked.

As part of their propaganda, the Times wheeled out plagiarism expert Jonathan Bailey, who said "his initial reaction to Mr. Rufo’s claims was that the errors were not serious, given the size of the document."

Except, the Times concealed the extent of the claims from Bailey - who writes in his Plagiarism Today blog: "At the time, I was unaware of a full dossier with additional allegations, which led some to accuse the New York Times of withholding that information from me. However, the article clearly stated that it was my “initial reaction” to those allegations, not a complete analysis.

In a harrowing interview, a long-time teacher in a predominately migrant school describes a “hellish” experience that involved “knife violence, bullying, and sexism.” Her testimony is laying bare the lie that diversity is always a strength, and her experience may help explain Germany’s plummeting PISA test scores and worsening educational outcomes.

Birgit Ebel has taught for 15 years at a “problem school,” where she says everyday life was an “absolute hell,” in her interview with Focus Magazine,

Ebel, who has since moved to a new school district, warns:

“The system is coming back to haunt us.”

Ebel does not beat around the bush and is not afraid to say that foreigners are the main cause of the chaos in the school she spent years in.

“At our comprehensive school, 80 to 90 percent of the students had a migrant background. Many come from predominantly Islamic countries such as Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya, Afghanistan or Pakistan, but also from Russia and North Africa.” Ebel says among these students are also refugees who fled war and harsh Islamic rule.

The wife of a Tory councillor gets 31 months for a tweet, yet a pro-Palestinian thug, who led a knife-wielding mob in an assault on a pub, gets 20 months. And from the same judge! Two Tier justice much?

“Of the many falsehoods, obfuscations, and pivots by Kamala last night, her claim that transgender surgeries at federal prisons started during the Trump administration if a full blown lie”