The driver of the vehicle, John Benfield, 69, of Newland, N.C., has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide by recklessness and five counts of aggravated assault by vehicle by recklessness.

Noncitizens voting was identified as a major concern by 85% of Republicans but only 12% of Democrats.

According to prosecutors, two minutes before Comey posted the photo prosecutors claim was a threat against Trump, Comey's wife texted him a screenshot of a definition of "86" that said it meant "to get rid of or refuse service."

Officials visited the three finalist cities, along with Atlanta and Chicago, which hosted the 2024 convention, to consider logistics, fundraising capacity and other factors.

Cohen was fiercely loyal to Trump for a decade and once claimed he'd "take a bullet" for him. But he later became a vocal critic and a key witness in the hush money trial that led to Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts.

Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda was granted a two-day weekend pass and expected to return to the North Virginia Mental Health Institute, where he was committed. Instead, he fled the country to Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

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Another Day ... Another Meme.

Something to ponder over your morning coffee.

A look back at what happened on this day.

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By Luis Gonzalez

The revolution is always funny until someone gets the keys.

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Perchance AI

By Paul O’Brien

The Democratic Socialists of America are bolder in their nihilism than their forebears, but any political Darwinist would have predicted this evolutionary stage. 

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By Eileen F. Toplansky

Are temple members being mesmerized by radical left-wing ideology without realizing the ulterior motives behind it? 

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By Milli Sands

For followers of both Islam and communism, national patriotism will always be subordinate to their ideologies’ demands.

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By Joseph Ford Cotto

Health insurance remains too expensive, but real change is at hand, and no matter how disappointed some might be with the speed of progress, that is light-years from any reason to hand America over to the Democrats who would destroy her.  

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By Lars Møller

Veritas corrupted: the politicization of scholarship at Harvard College.

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By Kim Ezra Shienbaum

Organized Radical Islam has learned that it is not necessary to mount a frontal assault on our buildings or hijack our planes.