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It’s a difficult time to be George Santos. The perception that the suburban New York Republican is crumbling under the strain of serious legal problems has grown following a profanity-laced screaming match between himself and a liberal Jewish man. The Daily Caller explains: Santos was in the Longworth House Office Building when he had the exchange over Israel, according to NBC News reporter Sahil Kapur. The man was taken into custody by Capitol Police, Semafor political reporter Kadia Goba posted on X, formerly Twitter. “Officers, officers, this is the gentleman who was accosting me when I had a two-month-old baby in my hands,” Santos…

A leading Hamas figure, Ali Qadi, who commanded the Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,300 civilians in Israel, has been eliminated. The Israel Defense Forces promised his death is only the beginning, as thousands of Palestinian civilians flee the Gaza Strip amid ongoing airstrikes and the threat of an imminent, large-scale ground operation. https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1713129176104923383 Per The Washington Times: Last weekend’s Hamas attack was the single bloodiest day for Israel in decades. At least 27 Americans were also killed in the assault, while about 150 people are believed to be held hostage by Hamas militants, including some U.S. citizens. Israel…

Ex-Fox News personality Juan Williams is raising eyebrows yet again. In an op-ed for The Hill, the liberal commentator referred to President Biden as “our third Black president.” The unprecedented claim sparked backlash online. The United States has had only one African-American president, though Toni Morrison famously called Bill Clinton “the first Black president.” Williams noted that “by Morrison’s standard, President Joe Biden is our nation’s third Black president” before explaining what he had done to earn that title. The New York Post’s Ariel Zilber explains: He cited Biden’s naming Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate, the appointment…

The National Center for Police Defense (NCPD) is a non-profit organization that provides legal and financial assistance to law enforcement officers facing criminal charges or civil lawsuits due to their on-duty actions. The NCPD also emotionally supports law enforcement officers and their families dealing with traumatic or life-changing events. The NCPD was founded in 2016 by a group of concerned citizens who wanted to create a safety net for police officers and their families. The organization has since helped hundreds of officers across the country, providing them with legal and financial assistance and emotional support. The NCPD’s work is vital…

Authorities in Florida recently arrested a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted individuals involved in the January 6 riot. The former prosecutor stands accused of stabbing a man during a road rage incident. Despite the egregious nature of the alleged assault, Patrick Scruggs posted $65,000 bail on the same day as his arrest in Tampa. As Newsweek reports: He is accused of breaking the window of a vehicle that hit his sedan on Interstate 275 on Tuesday morning and stabbing the driver, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Scruggs also allegedly attempted to stab a couple who stopped to help the victim and then…

Longtime Democratic politician and activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dropped out of the Democratic Party presidential primaries to run as an independent. Speaking to supporters, Kennedy announced he had decided to run as an independent after failing to garner sufficient support from his own party. https://twitter.com/GeneralMCNews/status/1711424141448917278 The Hill has more on how Kennedy’s third-party run might shake up next year’s general election: “I don’t think anyone’s comfortable with having the question of a third-party candidate and who it helps and who it hurts,” said Sawyer Hackett, a Democratic strategist and senior adviser to former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. “You…

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani sued President Biden for defamation on Wednesday over his comments calling the former New York mayor a “Russian pawn” during a 2020 presidential debate. The 16-page lawsuit, filed in New Hampshire state court, names Biden, his campaign, and several fundraising committees as defendants, citing two statements Biden made during the final presidential debate against former President Trump on Oct. 22, 2020. In the first statement, Biden was answering a question about combating foreign election interference when, after some hesitation, he mentioned Giuliani. “Well I won’t get — I shouldn’t — well, I will,” Biden…

In a historic move, over 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees walked off the job on Wednesday in what their union representatives say is the largest strike of healthcare workers in U.S. history. The strike will impact hundreds of hospitals across multiple states, with picket lines in California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. “Kaiser executives are refusing to listen to us and are bargaining in bad faith over the solutions we need to end the Kaiser short-staffing crisis,” said Jessica Cruz, a licensed vocational nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, in a prepared statement. “I see my patients’ frustrations when I…

Pack your bags, Nancy… Hours after becoming acting Speaker, Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) ordered Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to vacate her Capitol hideaway office so he could take it over. McHenry’s office requested that Pelosi vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday because it was being re-allocated “for speaker office use,” the message, first reported by Politico, reads. A small number of senior Representatives have “hideaway offices” inside the Capitol Building. Pelosi denounced the demand in a statement late Tuesday. “With all of the important decisions that the new Republican Leadership must address, which we are all eagerly awaiting, one of the…

Authorities have identified the individuals killed in a Utah plane crash over the weekend. On Tuesday a state official confirmed that North Dakota state senator Doug Larsen (R), his wife and their two young children were killed in the Sunday evening plane crash. The Grand County Sheriff’s Department said the single-engine Piper plane carrying state Senator Doug Larsen, 47, and his family crashed Sunday evening about 15 miles north of the town of Moab, shortly after it refueled at the Canyonlands Airfield. The sheriff’s office said the senator was the pilot and all four people on board the plane were killed. “Senator…