Trump appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast for nearly three hours: Here are the top moments

Former President Trump taped ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast for nearly three hours on Friday.  The podcast, recorded in Austin, Texas, afforded the Republican presidential nominee exposure to Rogan’s 14.5 million followers on Spotify and 17.6 million followers on YouTube. Rogan, the nation’s most-listened-to podcast host, is extremely influential with young male voters, who Trump […]

October Fests: A potpourri of late election-year ‘surprises’ shake up most races, history shows

The term ‘October surprise’ – denoting an unexpected plot twist late in an election cycle that typically throws a wrench in prognostications – first entered the U.S. lexicon in 1980. 1980s During that contest between Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, Reagan was cognizant that a sudden release of 52 hostages […]

GOP lawmakers, leaders react to Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Iran: ‘America stands with Israel’

Republican lawmakers and leaders voiced support for Israel after the Jewish nation launched a retaliatory strike against Iran after the Islamic Republic unleashed a barrage of missiles earlier this month. ‘America stands with Israel,’ former Vice President Mike Pence wrote in an X post. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., echoed Pence’s sentiment, saying Israel is ‘our […]

Chinese hackers attempted to breach Trump and Harris campaigns’ cellphone data

The U.S. government is investigating unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by Chinese hackers, targets of which include the Trump and Harris campaigns.  The campaigns have been informed of the potential breach of cellphones used by former President Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, and members of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, the New […]

US reinforces Central Command with fresh supply of F-16s in ‘ironclad’ commitment to defend Israel

American F-16 fighter jets have been deployed to the Middle East, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed on Friday, in a show of an ‘ironclad’ commitment to Israel as tensions mount with Iran.  CENTCOM did not detail how many F-16s had been sent to the ‘area of responsibility,’ but said they had been deployed from the 480th […]

‘The worst thing I’ve ever heard’: Holocaust survivor blasts Harris for comparing Trump to Hitler

The Trump campaign released an ad Friday featuring a Holocaust survivor criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris for comparing former President Trump to Adolf Hitler.  ‘I know more about Hitler than Kamala will ever know in a thousand lifetimes,’ 94-year-old Jerry Wartski, a survivor of Auschwitz, says in the roughly minute-and-a-half advertisement. ‘For her to accuse […]

Chinese hackers attempted to breach Trump, Vance cellphone data: report

The U.S. government is investigating unauthorized access to commercial telecommunications infrastructure by Chinese hackers, targets of which include the Trump campaign.   The campaign was informed this week of the potential breach of cellphones used by former President Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, the New York Times reported Friday, citing sources familiar with […]