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David Plouffe, who managed President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and advised Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial “Zuckerbucks” effort in 2020, is now advising Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked an appeals court in Georgia to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the prosecution of Trump and 18 co-defendants over what they called “racial animus.”

Israel announced Tuesday that it had rescued a Bedouin Israeli Arab Muslim hostage, Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, from a Hamas tunnel in Gaza in a special operation by Israel’s Shayetet 13, the Israeli equivalent of the U.S. Navy SEALs.

A new Morning Consult poll suggests that Vice President Kamala Harris did not receive a “bump” from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, last week, though she still has a lead of four points nationally in the survey.

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Q. Brown met with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi on Monday, a day after Israel’s preemptive strike on Lebanon.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday that 90% of the Hezbollah rockets that were intercepted Sunday were fired from civilian areas in southern Lebanon, a further violation of international law by the Iran-backed terror group.

California Democrats are proposing to give $150,000 in home loans to first-time home buyers who are illegal aliens.

Vice President Kamala Harris still has no policies on her website, five weeks after joining the presidential race and a week after the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, as the presidential race heads into the final weeks.

Hezbollah is being widely mocked after claiming on Sunday that it was attacking military targets in Israel, but hitting a chicken coop and little else.

Kennedy on MAGA: “It was a nation of broad prosperity, the world’s most vibrant middle class, and a idealistic belief (though not consistently applied) in freedom, justice, and democracy”

The “Russia collusion” conspiracy theory is back, this time in the form of a memoir by former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, who complains: “I cannot understand Putin’s hold on Trump.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that it had hit “thousands” of Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon in a pre-dawn preemptive strike to thwart an attack on Tel Aviv. Lebanon reported one dead in the attack.

The New York Times reported Saturday evening that Hezbollah had planned to hit Tel Aviv with missiles at 5:00 a.m. Sunday morning Israel time, which is why the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a pre-dawn preemptive strike.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced early Sunday morning local time that it had launched a preemptive strike on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon to thwart a major imminent attack by the Iran-backed terror group.

If Trump talks about policy, if he projects an inspiring vision, and if he rallies his supporters to believe that he can win despite all the Democrats’ institutional advantages, he will succeed.

Democrat-turned-Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed President Donald Trump for president on Friday, ripping his former party for the undemocratic way in which it made Kamala Harris its nominee.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated he is suspending his campaign but not ending it, urging residents of blue states to vote for him but throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump in battleground states.

Vice President Kamala Harris warned the Democratic National Convention in her acceptance speech on Thursday in Chicago, Illinois, that former President Donald Trump would “jail journalists” — after she did that in California.

A driver cursed at pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to obstruct his vehicle on Thursday night outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Kamala Harris told the DNC that Trump wants to appoint an “anti-abortion coordinator.” Trump has never said anything of the sort.

Vice President Kamala Harris told the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday night that she would back Israel’s right to defend itself, but would also support Palestinians’ right to “self-determination.”

Donald Trump denounced crime in general and called for the reinstatement of the death penalty, but never specifically called for the execution of the Central Park Five.

Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the most notorious antisemites in contemporary American politics, used the Charlottesville “fine people hoax” at the final event of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday night.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff promised a gathering of Jewish Democrats on Thursday that “I’m gonna continue to talk about the brisket,” reiterating his commitment to fighting antisemitism from the White House.

Roughly a dozen delegates from the pro-Palestinian “Uncommitted” movement staged a sit-in outside the Democratic National Convention, demanding a speaking slot — but would not speak to Breitbart News.

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein said Thursday that Democrats “ABSOLUTELY cheat and change the rules to maintain their grip on power.”

The “Uncommitted” movement is staging a sit-in outside the United Center, where the Democratic National Convention is being held, demanding that a Palestinian speaker be added to the schedule.

Tim Walz repeated a lie told by California’s Gavin Newsom. Curating age-appropriate material for children is not the same as “banning” books.

Under Walz, thieves stole $250 million from a program that claimed to be feeding children — the largest fraud in the country during COVID.

After three nights of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, there has not been a single discussion of policy — except for abortion, which was highlighted on the third night with several speeches devoted to the topic.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz bashed rival Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) for attending Yale — after Walz followed a long list of Yale- and Ivy-League-educated speakers at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday.

Judy Woodruff of PBS Newshour retracted claim she made about Trump telling Netanyahu not to make a hostage deal. She also apologized.

The “Uncommitted” movement, which has threatened to withhold votes from Vice President Kamala Harris unless she promises to end U.S. support for Israel, is furious at Democrats for allowing Israeli speakers but not Palestinians.

Democrats rose to their feet to honor the parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. But the convention downplayed his Israeli identity.

Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to pressure the Israeli government to yield to Hamas’s demands for a hostage deal.

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a website describing Vice President Kamala Harris’s policies — since her own presidential campaign has yet to include any on her own campaign site.