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Hezbollah's fighting with Israel has harmed Lebanon, says Lebanese Christian leader Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has slammed Hezbollah over opening a front with Israel, saying the war has harmed Lebanon and not benefited Gaza in any way. 05/1/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
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After it emerged recently that Gov. Kristi Noem recounts a graphic, disturbing story in her forthcoming book about killing her puppy with a gun, the Republican from South Dakota defended the violence as a “tough decision” she had to make. The dog, she wrote, had attacked some chickens.
“I talk about it because what I’m tired of in this country is politicians who pretend to be something that they’re not,” Noem said on CBS’s Face the Nation today.
That tough talk aside, Noem apparently is not immune to such posing: It has now also emerged that she falsely claimed in her book to have met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press)
WILMINGTON, N. C. (AP) — This North Carolina voter is nervous.
Will Rikard, a 49-year-old father of two, was among several hundred Democrats who stood and cheered for Joe Biden as the first-term president delivered a fiery speech recently about the billions of dollars he has delivered to protect the state’s drinking water.
But afterward, the Wilmington resident acknowledged he is worried about Biden’s political standing in the looming rematch with former Republican President Donald Trump.
“There’s not enough energy,” Rikard said of Biden’s coalition.
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According to a whistleblower, Pentagon personnel were complicit in ensuring that the January 6 protests were out of control. This is court-martial stuff.