Wednesday, September 25, 2024

September 25, 2024

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Trump briefed on 'real and specific' assassination threats from Iran . . . "President Trump was briefed earlier today by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States," Trump Campaign Communications Director Steven Cheung stated. "Intelligence officials have identified that these continued and coordinated attacks have heightened in the past few months, and law enforcement officials across all agencies are working to ensure President Trump is protected and the election is free from interference," Cheung continued. Just the News

Ryan Routh charged with attempted assassination of Trump as Judge Cannon assigned case

Secret Service failures before Trump rally shooting were 'preventable,' Senate panel finds . . . Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were "foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day," according to a bipartisan Senate investigation released Wednesday. The interim report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found multiple failures on almost every level ahead of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources. Associated Press

Politics

Harris pushed for illegal immigrant to practice law in California . . . VP Kamala Harris, while serving as California's attorney general, sided with an illegal immigrant's bid to acquire a license to practice law in a move that was opposed by the Obama administration. Harris, who is expected to visit the southern border this week, supported in a 2012 Supreme Court brief the desire for 35-year-old illegal immigrant Sergio Garcia to be granted a law degree by the State Bar of California, arguing that the government could not block him from doing so. Fox News

Apparently the irony of practicing law while also breaking it was missed here.

Google search favors Harris over Trump . . . Google has featured Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign website in a more desirable location on its search engine results than former President Trump's official site, according to a new study by conservative-leaning Media Research Center. "Google is trying to stack the deck in favor of Kamala Harris," Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell told Fox News Digital. "Google's search engine pushes left-wing media articles favoring Kamala Harris and slamming Donald Trump," he added. Fox News

Manchin not endorsing Harris after she calls for abortion filibuster carve-out: 'Shame on her' . . . Manchin, a centrist senator who has fought to maintain the filibuster, had indicated supporting Harris's bid for president after he left the Democratic Party earlier this year, but he said Tuesday that removing the filibuster would be a mistake. "I have been consistent on the importance of protecting the 60-vote threshold, which we call the filibuster, since I arrived at the United States Senate. This threshold stabilizes our democracy, promotes bipartisan cooperation, and protects our nation from partisan whiplash and dysfunction," Manchin said in a statement. Washington Examiner

Trump sets his sights on deep-blue New York . . . Former President Trump is homing in on deep-blue New York, a state seen as critical to determining who controls the House next year. Trump has made multiple campaigns stops to the Empire State, including a rally on Long Island last week that featured a vulnerable House GOP member up for reelection. Republicans doubt the former president will defeat Vice President Harris in New York, but they say his frequent appearances could juice enthusiasm among the base and help the party keep control of its razor-thin majority in the lower chamber. The Hill

Every minute he spends trying to win New York is a wasted minute. And there aren't a lot of minutes left.

Culture

Cornell grad student faces deportation for role in 'highly disruptive' anti-Israel protest . . . Momodou Taal, a graduate student from the U.K., said he faces deportation back to Britain over his participation in a rowdy anti-Israel protest last week that shut down a career fair attended by defense contractors, including Boeing and L3Harris. It was the second suspension for Mr. Taal, 30, described as a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled the university since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians, which prompted Israel to declare war. Washington Times

National Security

'There's IDs everywhere': How illegal immigrants erase their identities at the border . . . One of the things that most shocks visitors to smuggling routes along the U.S.-Mexico border is the proliferation of IDs. Passports, identity cards and other documents are strewed on the ground, cast aside by illegal immigrants who are erasing their old lives as they slip across the border to try to capitalize on more relaxed immigration policies to gain a foothold in the U.S. Washington Times

International

Israel intercepts missile headed for Tel Aviv . . . Israel said it intercepted the first missile Hezbollah had ever fired at the commercial capital of Tel Aviv, with the militant group saying it was targeting the command headquarters of Israel's Mossad spy agency. Alerts sent residents scrambling into shelters as the missile approached. Israel's military said air defenses intercepted the missile, which came as the fighting between the parties continued to escalate. Wall Street Journal

Money

Trump calls for 'New American Industrialism' . . . Trump called his economic policies "new American industrialism," where the focus will be on bringing offshored manufacturing jobs back to the United States. The 45th president said that, for years, other countries have stripped American jobs and wealth, but added he would "put America first." He said that under his leadership "American workers will no longer be worried about losing [their] jobs to foreign nations. Instead, foreign nations will be worried about losing their jobs to America." Daily Signal

Bosses are firing Gen Z workers in record time . . . Six in ten employers had already fired some college graduates they had recruited earlier in the year, a survey conducted by Intelligent.com found. One in seven employers said they also might not hire fresh college grads next year after finding a raft of problems with young workers. Business leaders listed concerns in areas such as communications skills and professionalism. They also said the workers of that age are often unmotivated and need to be constantly told what to do - rather than using their initiative - is another issue. Daily Mail

If you've ever had the pleasure of working with a Gen Z, you understand exactly why they are being fired.

You should also know

FCC moves to approve Soros' capture of 200+ radio stations with foreign cash . . . Leftist billionaire and Democratic mega-donor George Soros has been leaning on the Democrat-controlled Federal Communications Commission for months in hopes of fast-tracking his group's acquisition of over 200 radio stations in over 40 markets — including stations that run shows from Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Erick Erickson, Sean Hannity, and Dana Loesch. On Wednesday, the FCC reportedly adopted an order to approve the purchase, meaning that in a matter of days. The Blaze

Nothing to see here, move along . . .

Judge to OK auctions liquidating Alex Jones' Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families . . . Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ' Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said during a court hearing Tuesday that he will approve the auctions that start in November. Politico

California sues Exxon for promoting falsehood that recycling works . . . California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued ExxonMobil, claiming the oil and petrochemical giant had engaged "in a decades-long campaign of deception" about the effectiveness of recycling. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit seeks to hold the company responsible for the plastic pollution crisis. It argues that, since at least 1988, ExxonMobil has blanketed the state in marketing and advertising to convince people plastic is being recycled, making them more likely to buy it. Washington Post

Guilty Pleasures

Man on campaign to get drunk everywhere in Britain to protest pub tax . . . A man in the United Kingdom is on a mission to chug a pint of beer in each of the country's parliamentary constituencies to highlight issues with a tax on food and drinks in pubs. Jay Chan is a former staffer for a member of Parliament who is from Birmingham, England. Chan has so far made it to pubs in 16 different constituencies, he said – leaving 634 to go. Chan has already chugged pints in the constituencies in Birmingham and plans on making his way to "most of the West Midlands" in the near future. Fox News

A true man of principle.

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