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ABC News’ moderators for Tuesday night’s debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, failed to ask a single question about China, one of the most important challenges facing the United States, both economically and militarily.

Vice President Harris repeated a familiar hoax from President Joe Biden, but the ABC News moderators said nothing.

Trump referred to a “bloodbath” in the car industry, not another kind, but ABC News — voluble in correcting Trump — did not correct Kamala.

ABC’s moderators did not intervene when Kamala Harris falsely claimed that Trump had discriminated against black families and called for the “execution” of the Central Park Five.

Vice President Kamala Harris pulled out the old “very fine people” hoax — not for the first time. She has used it on the campaign trail, and even used it during the vice presidential debate in 2020, when Mike Pence corrected her onstage.

Kamala Harris has never provided the basis for this claim, which is calculated to scare voters, but is simply untrue.

Many Democrat-run states allow abortion up to birth, which can include allowing a baby to die after birth is induced for medical reasons.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a video Tuesday that showed the interior of the tunnel in Gaza underneath which Hamas murdered six hostages in cold blood last month, including American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin.

Israel revealed a new offer Tuesday in the elusive search for a hostage deal: it will allow Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to leave Gaza safely if he agrees to release all of the remaining Israeli hostages.

Palestinian civilians are beginning to stand up to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, refusing to be “human shields” for the terror organization — a sign that the group may be losing its sway over the population as the war nears the year mark.

Gaza authorities controlled by the Hamas terror organization, and the Al Jazeera news website controlled by Qatar, miraculously lowered the reported death count from an Israeli airstrike from 40 to 19 in new reports on Tuesday.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a video message on Tuesday urging supporters to vote for former President Donald Trump in every state — regardless of whether it is “blue,” “red,” or a battleground state.

Self-described “progressives” appear to be tiring of Kamala Harris’s effort to downplay her left-wing policies, and are reminding her that they do not want to be taken for granted as she tries to portray herself as a “moderate” candidate.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed Tuesday that a Turkish American pro-Palestinian activist who died Friday in the West Bank was “killed at the hands of the IDF,” despite an Israeli report that her death was inadvertent.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign plagiarized policies from President Joe Biden’s campaign website, copying and pasting onto its “issues” page Sunday — seven weeks after Harris entered the presidential campaign.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday that it rejected claims by Hamas that an attack Monday on a terrorist command center hidden inside a humanitarian area in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza had killed scores of civilians.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters in a press briefing Monday that “Hamas is the main obstacle” to a hostage deal that would lead to a ceasefire — despite the administration’s pressure on Israel.

California residents are once again struggling to keep the lights on after as many as 50,000 people lost electricity in a heat wave this past weekend that caused the famed Hollywood Bowl to cancel a concert due to the power outage.

A poll released Monday by the Jewish Democratic Council of America claims that Vice President Kamala Harris will win over two-thirds of the Jewish vote, while former President Donald Trump will only win one in four Jewish votes, suggesting Democrats have not lost Jewish support.

A trustee of Brown University, in the Ivy League, has resigned over the board’s decision to hold a vote on divesting from Israel, which was part of a deal made with pro-Palestinian students who had disrupted campus in the spring.

Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez has figured out who’s to blame for California’s problems: Republicans.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a lifelong, die-hard Democrat, said on Sunday that the Republican Party had become “the party of the common man,” while Democrats had become the party of elites.

Boxing reporter and pro-Israel activist Emily Austin told the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, last week that Jews had a duty to speak out, and to elect Donald Trump in November.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large floating accumulation of debris in the Pacific Ocean, can be cleaned up within 10 years at a cost of $7.5 billion — or within five years with a more aggressive strategy costing $4 billion.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the “great majority of Israel’s citizens” are not falling for the psychological warfare tactics of Hamas, which aim at dividing the country, and were revealed in the past week.

California public schools are set to begin a mandatory curriculum about climate change, reportedly designed to indoctrinate children in the state, as a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, AB 285, takes effect.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the country’s oldest pro-Israel group, has written to Temple University to demand tough action against pro-Palestinian protesters who targeted the Hillel, the local Jewish student center.

A U.S. citizen who was part of an anti-Israel organization was shot and killed during clashes between Israeli soldiers and violent Palestinian protesters near Nablus on Friday in Samaria (the Northern West Bank).

Massive protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the news of the murder of six hostages by Hamas faded by the end of the week in Israel — though weekly protests will continue on a smaller scale.

Not even a Biden-like collapse will sway most Democratic voters. They will not see it — and if they see it, they will ignore it.

A conservative super PAC called Frontiers for Freedom Action launched an ad campaign Friday aimed at Hispanic voters in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico highlighting Democrats’ anti-Catholic bigotry. All three southwestern states feature key Senate races in 2024.

The family of murdered American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin has released a Hamas propaganda video filmed by the terrorists before they executed the 23-year-old last week in cold blood as Israeli soldiers approached.

Harvard University ranks last in the nation among colleges and universities for free speech — for the second year in a row.

Former President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Thursday that they must convince other Jews to vote Republicans to save Israel, and America.

The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on Wednesday alleging that two Russian nationals funded right wing influencers.

Israel launched a massive polio vaccination drive this week to inoculate Palestinian children in Gaza against the deadly and crippling disease, which was detected in water supplies in the territory earlier this year, during the war.