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<div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=20fZZp_0uvumoi200" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=20fZZp_0uvumoi200" width="1200" height="630" ><p>It has been a tough summer of primaries for the progressive House members who call themselves "the Squad." Another is facing a challenge at the ballot box on Tuesday: Minnesota's Ilhan Omar. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion spoke with Omar's challenger, Don Samuels, and joins "America Decides" with more.</p><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate></div>

After millions in funding from pro-Israel donors helped bring about the defeat of two members of the “Squad,” the far-left contingent of Democrats, some activists said the third target was clear. “Yes, the removal of Ilhan Omar from Congress IS possible,” read a Wednesday social media post about...

Why pro-Israel groups aren’t going after Ilhan Omar, even after helping oust other Squad members

Fox News

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took aim at critics suggesting Gov. Tim Walz was too far left, reacting live Tuesday to VP Harris' decision to name Walz as her running mate.

Nancy Pelosi reacts to Kamala Harris choosing Tim Walz: 'To characterize him as Left is so unreal'

The Hill

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed Vice President Harris’s pick for vice president, calling the Harris-Walz ticket the “most liberal ticket in the history of American politics” and accusing the media of “not holding her accountable” due to her lack of interviews. “I was...

McCarthy questions Harris over Walz pick, lack of interviews

A progressive congresswoman mocked Donald Trump for “losing his memory” after he apparently confused her with another Muslim member of Congress during his visit to her home state on Saturday. Trump and his new running mate JD Vance held their first joint campaign rally of the 2024 season...

Ilhan Omar says Trump is ‘losing his memory’ after he confuses her with Rashida Tlaib

CNN’s Jason Carroll talks to multiple Minnesota voters who share their feelings about their governor and Kamala Harris’ running mate for the 2024 presidential election, Tim Walz.

Hear what some Minnesota voters think about Walz

CBS News

In a rare disclosure, the Pentagon announced it sent a nuclear-powered submarine to the Middle East as fears grow of a potential attack on Israel. CBS News homeland security reporter Nicole Sganga has the latest.

Why the U.S. announced it deployed submarine to Middle East

Monroe Township, NJ

An Ohio father read from the Bible, told his children he loved them, and called his own father – cryptically telling him that his eldest boy would be “the hardest one” – before he murdered his three young sons in a horror attack at the family home.

Ohio dad read from the Bible and told his three young sons they were the ‘best boys ever’. Then he killed them

Radio host Charlamagne tha God brushed off concerns that Democrats’ newfound momentum is just a “honeymoon phase” since they placed Vice President Harris at the top of the ticket, while noting the party needs to do more work ahead of November. “I think there’s less apathy, but,...

Charlamagne tha God says Harris surge is not just ‘honeymoon phase’

Former President Donald Trump is prepared to sue the U.S. Justice Department for $100 million over the Biden-Harris administration’s 2022 raid at Mar-a-Lago during the classified document case the department brought against Trump. According to Fox News, Trump’s lawyers are arguing that the federal government’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago...

Trump suing Biden-Harris admin. for $100 million

A pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote government radar site in the Canadian Arctic, the facility's operator said, marking at least the second fatal attack since last year.The attack took place Thursday at the outpost on Brevoort Island, in Canada's far northeastern Nunavut territory, said Nasittuq Corporation, the logistics company contracted to operate the site."An attack by two polar bears has resulted in the loss of one of our valued employees," the company said Friday. "Nasittuq employees responded to the scene and one of the animals was put down."The site is one of dozens...

Polar bears kill worker at remote radar site in Canadian Arctic

NewsNation

Leanne Depa, Brendan Depa's mother, is "devastated" over her son's five-year prison sentence for attacking a teacher's aide.

Mom of teen who beat teacher’s aide ‘devastated’ by sentence

Minnesota State Senator Julia Coleman (R) joined Brian to discuss the negative effect Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has had on the state and how that will expand to the rest of the country if he is in the White House. Coleman highlighted his handling of the George Floyd riots in 2020 in Minneapolis, his policy on illegal immigrants and his anti-Israel and pro-Abortion stance. “The way runs things is unacceptable and I’m fearful for America with him in the White House,” says Coleman, calling Walz a “border-line socialist” and that the Harris-Walz ticket “makes Obama look like a moderate.” When...

Minnesota Senator Julia Coleman: Tim Walz is a Border-Line Socialist

USA TODAY

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was just announced as Kamala Harris' vice presidential running mate, is a major fan of popstars Taylor Swift and Beyoncé.

Kamala Harris' vice president pick Tim Walz has a history of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé fandom

Trump campaign claims it was hacked in foreign attack; As Paris Olympic Games conclude, Team USA finishes with highest overall medal count.

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Herbie J Pilato

Hollywood child stardom has taken its toll on many actors through the decades. Lani O'Grady, for one, found fame in the 1970s on the TV family series, Eight is Enough. O'Grady followed in the footsteps of her brother, actor Don Grady, an original Mouseketeer and member of another popular TV family show: My Three Sons. Their mother, Mary B. Grady, was a talent agent who represented several child actors. But Lani, who would also eventually become an agent, died in 2001 just one week before what would have been her 47th birthday.

TV's 'Eight is Enough' Star Lani O'Grady Found Fame Early in Life but Died a Tragic Death

The Independent

 Donald Trump is leading the Republican party’s meltdown over Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick, dramatically claiming that Tim Walz will “unleash HELL ON EARTH.” Harris announced on Tuesday that she had chosen Walz – the man who coined the now-infamous “weird” moniker for their Republican rivals – to join her on the Democratic ticket to take on Trump and JD Vance in the November election.The announcement soon provoked an unhinged reaction from the former president whose campaign fired off a fundraising email warning that “Tim Walz would be the worst VP in history!”“He’ll unleash HELL ON EARTH and open...

‘He’ll unleash HELL ON EARTH’: Trump leads Republican meltdown as Tim Walz unveiled as Harris’ VP pick

WashingtonExaminer

Disgraced former Sen. Al Franken spent 2006 sexually accosting women and launching the political career of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democrats’ presumptive vice presidential nominee. The two appear to remain close to this day. Walz was a political newbie that year, challenging a Republican incumbent in a GOP-leaning district. Minneapolis’s Star Tribune carried this […]

Harris taps Al Franken intimate Tim Walz

Alabama State

Los Angeles County, CA

It's been 21 years since actress/singer Nell Carter, best known for the 1980s NBC sitcom, Gimme a Break!, died of natural causes at only 54. This is her story. Nell Carter was born September 13, 1948, in Birmingham, Alabama. After initially finding fame on and off-Broadway, and via a brief role in 1977 on the TV datime drama, Ryan's Hope, Carter took the lead in Ain't Misbehavin'!, a live stage revue of the works of composer Fats Waller.

The Brief Life & Tragic Death of Nell Carter ('Gimme A Break' & 'Ain't Misbehavin'): 21 Years Later

Iowa State

Perry, IA

Joe Swanson, a resident of Perry, Iowa, is no longer working in the town he loves and where his kids go to school. That's because the city's largest employer, a Tyson Foods pork plant, recently shut down.Swanson says when the company announced in March they were shuttering the plant, he couldn't risk unemployment because of his health issues. So when he found a new job with health benefits, he says he took it and left Tyson around six weeks before it officially closed on June 28."None of us picked this, and I just want everybody to be OK. Because I...

Tyson plant that employed 25% of Iowa town shutters

New York City, NY

A warmer climate means mosquito season is getting longer, prompting not only an increase in the pesky insects but also greater potential for them to spread diseases like West Nile virus. To help reduce the risk In New York City, expert "insect hunters" track the summer pests among the trees and marshes of parks that residents use to escape the summer heat.Vector ecologist Zurina Yusoff kills mosquito eggs with a bulky pellet sprayer strapped to her back, while co-worker Hamiltan Simean lays overnight traps for adult mosquitoes. The mosquitoes are then delivered to the public health lab for testing and are sorted by...

As mosquito season gets longer, how one city is working to prevent diseases

It has been a tough summer of primaries for the progressive House members who call themselves \"the Squad.\" Another is facing a challenge at the ballot box on Tuesday: Minnesota's Ilhan Omar. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion spoke with Omar's challenger, Don Samuels, and joins \"America Decides\" with more.

Rep. Ilhan Omar facing primary challenge Tuesday

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It has been a tough summer of primaries for the progressive House members who call themselves "the Squad." Another is facing a challenge at the ballot box on Tuesday: Minnesota's Ilhan Omar. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion spoke with Omar's challenger, Don Samuels, and joins "America Decides" with more.

Rep. Ilhan Omar facing primary challenge Tuesday

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