‘Cooked’ Biden Confuses Israeli Air Strikes w/ Looming Labor Union Strike

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‘Cooked’ Biden Confuses Israeli Air Strikes w/ Looming Labor Union Strike

(Headline USA) In his latest gaffe, President Joe Biden appeared to confuse Israel’s air strike on terrorist cells in Yemen with a looming labor union strike at U.S. ports.

The 81-year-old began to answer questions on Monday about Israel’s latest military strikes targeting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, including whether he would support sending more U.S. troops to the Middle East and whether Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu had “gone too far.”

When asked for his comment “on the strikes in Yemen,” Biden replied, “I’ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I’m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they’ll settle the strike.”

It’s not clear whether Biden just misheard the question, but his answer appeared to be a reference to a looming strike by dockworkers along the East and Gulf coasts.

Tens of thousands of dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association are set to walk off the job and begin striking on Tuesday unless the union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance can reach a contract agreement.

Conservative commentator Stephen Miller argued Biden’s confusion over the two issues was just the latest sign of his cognitive decline.

“Back in June, you were called a conspiracy theorist and a cheap fake artist for pointing things like this out,” he added.

Republicans have blasted Biden for being physically and mentally absent as several U.S. states struggle in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. As the storm left thousands of Americans homeless, Biden remained at his beach house in Delaware over the weekend.

When asked why he wasn’t in the White House to lead the federal government’s response to the storm’s damage, Biden claimed he was recovering from a cold and that he was “leading” the response from Delaware.

“I was commanding it,” Biden said on Monday. “I was on the phone for at least two hours yesterday and the day before as well. I command it. It’s called a telephone.”

REPORT: Tim Walz Lied About How Many Times He Went to China

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REPORT: Tim Walz Lied About How Many Times He Went to China

(Headline USA) Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is now claiming he lied about how many times he has visited China over the course of his career, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

Walz’s connections to—and apparent appreciation for—the Chinese Communist Party have raised concerns in recent months as the 2024 election heats up.

In what appears to be an effort to distance himself from these concerns, Walz is now insisting he misrepresented his ties to China and that he was not as involved in the communist nation as he once claimed.

In a 2016 interview, for example, Walz claimed to have traveled to China “about 30 times” as both a teacher and politician. However, Walz now claims he only visited the country 15 times, MPR reported.

“[We] asked the campaign for documentation on the additional trips, and after weeks of searching, a spokesman finally acknowledged that Walz had traveled from the United States to China ‘closer to 15 times,'” the news outlet reported on Monday.

MPR went on to explain that Walz “sometimes exaggerated his already substantial experience in China.”

One of the trips to China that Walz took doubled as his honeymoon. Walz even reportedly planned his wedding around the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.

House Republicans have been investigating Walz’s ties to China, specifically to determine whether he was the target of a foreign-influence operation.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., issued a subpoena this week to the Department of Homeland Security asking for intelligence records related to Walz and his communications with Chinese officials.

“The information required of DHS by the Committee’s subpoena will inform the Committee’s understanding of how successful the CCP has been in waging political warfare in and against the United States, how effectively federal agencies are addressing the communist regime’s campaign, and what reforms are necessary to counter this threat,” Comer said in the subpoena.

Dem. Senate Candidate Admits Kamala Is ‘Underwater’ in Michigan

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Dem. Senate Candidate Admits Kamala Is ‘Underwater’ in Michigan

(Headline USA) Rep. Elissa Slotkin, the Democratic senatorial candidate in Michigan, warned her donors last week that Vice President Kamala Harris was on track to lose the critical swing state to former President Donald Trump in November.

“I’m not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan,” Slotkin said Wednesday during a virtual campaign event with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., according to Axios. “We have her underwater in our polling.”

Slotkin’s concerns echoed those raised by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last month about polls showing Harris ahead in Michigan by significant margins.

“It makes me nervous to see any poll that says there’s a five-point lead for Kamala Harris in Michigan right now,” she said. “It’s just not true. It’s going to be a very close race.”

Slotkin is locked in a tight race of her own against Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., who is leading her by five points according to the latest poll by AtlasIntel. 

The pollster, which was off by just 0.4% in Michigan in 2020, also found Trump up in Michigan with 50.6% of the vote, compared to Harris’s 47.2%.

Both Trump and Harris have focused heavily on winning Michigan, but Harris’s numbers continue to drop in the state, particularly among working-class men. She is leading Trump among union households by just nine points, according to CNN. In 2020, President Joe Biden won union households by 19 points, and in 2016 Hillary Clinton won them by 12 points. 

According to the network, Trump’s support among this demographic is the highest any GOP candidate has received in a generation. 

Even the Teamsters—who had endorsed Democrats in every election since the 1996 election following then-President Bill Clinton’s controversial NAFTA agreement—declined to endorse Harris this year.

Sensing the opportunity, a major Republican group announced this week that it would be pouring tens of millions of dollars into Michigan’s Senate race to boost Rogers, who has been significantly outraised by Slotkin.

“We’re able to expand the Senate map because we have quality candidates who are keeping their races competitive. Keep it up!” said Steven Law, president and CEO of the Senate Leadership Fund, in a statement.

DC Movie Superhero Endorses Trump, Acknowledges Potential ‘Career Suicide’

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DC Movie Superhero Endorses Trump, Acknowledges Potential ‘Career Suicide’

(Chris Cella Jr., Headline USA) Zachary Levi, star of the Shazam! films, formally endorsed Donald Trump at a weekend rally in Michigan, emphasizing the need for unity across political lines, Breitbart reported.

“We’re here for unity. We’re here to make sure that we value every single person,” Levi told the audience. “… Whether you’re a Democrat … Republican … Libertarian … independent, every one of us is a child of God.”

He acknowledged that his endorsement could be “career suicide” in far-left Hollywood.

Levi introduced a panel featuring former Democrats Tulsi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy Jr., maintaining a consistent message of love and respect for all Americans regardless of ideology. His endorsement stems from Kennedy’s support for Trump.

Levi shared that his parents were Kennedy Democrats who later became Reagan Republicans, instilling in him a healthy skepticism of government. “We live in a country that’s been hijacked by many who want to take it off the cliff,” he said.

During the panel discussion, Levi voiced concerns about the Deep State and the influence of large corporations like BlackRock on U.S. politics. He pointed out that, under Trump, there were no new foreign wars, contrasting that with the current administration’s involvement in multiple conflicts.

Despite the potential risks of his endorsement, Levi reported receiving mostly positive feedback from his followers.

“When I said I was endorsing President Trump through my endorsements of Tulsi [Gabbard] and Bobby [Kennedy], 90% of my social media followers have been supportive, and I’ve really appreciated that,” he said.

Best known for his roles in the DC Comics-inspired Shazam! and its sequel, *Shazam! Fury of the Gods*, as well as the TV series Chuck (2007-2012), Levi joins a roster of celebrities, including Kid Rock and former wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan who have also endorsed Trump.

Foreign Nationals Arrested for Heartlessly Looting Hurricane Helene’s Victims

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Foreign Nationals Arrested for Heartlessly Looting Hurricane Helene’s Victims

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A group of eight foreign nationals was arrested by police after allegedly looting an area in Tennessee that had been devastated by the severe flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. 

The men stand accused of looting one of the county’s flood zones in Washington County on Saturday, Headline USA can confirm. 

Five of the men were charged with aggravated burglary, according to a statement made by a county jail official on Monday evening. 

These individuals are Albin Nahun Vega-Rapalo, 24; David Bairon Rapalo-Rapalo, 37; Kevin Noe Martinez-Lopez, 25; Marvin Hernandez-Martinez, 43; and Dayln Gabriel Guillen Guillen, 37. 

Three others—Jesus Leodan Garcia-Peneda, 51; Josue Berardo Ortis-Valdez, 30; and Ersy Leonel Ortis-Valdez, 33—were arrested for alleged burglary. 

The New York Post and WJHL Channel 11 were the first to report the arrests, with the men initially identified as potential illegal aliens. The Post later verified that the individuals are migrant workers currently in the U.S. with work visas. 

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to Headline USA’s phone calls on Monday evening. 

A county jail official told Headline USA in a phone interview that the men are being held on a $20,000 bond and were not able to see a judge on Monday because the courthouse had closed.

The county jail official could not specify whether the alleged looting took place in a residential or commercial area. 

Podcast host Calen Archer released video footage that he believed showed some of the men being arrested by Washington County deputy sheriffs. In the video, shared on X, two officers are seen holding two unidentified individuals with their hands cuffed. 

Conservative online personality Collin Rugg shared Archer’s video, referring to the men as ‘illegal aliens’ and citing reporting by NewsNation border correspondent Ali Bradley. 

In a follow-up post, Bradley clarified that she had mistakenly reported the individuals’ immigration status. 

Leaders Rally to Support Hurricane Victims, Despite Lackluster White House Response

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Leaders Rally to Support Hurricane Victims, Despite Lackluster White House Response

(Victoria Cook, Headline USA) States such as Florida and California were banding together to help impoverished counties in the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

Meanwhile, President Joe Biden was “closely monitoring [the situation] and receiv[ing] regular updates” from the comfort of his Delaware vacation home, according to a White House release touting his lackluster efforts and those of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Hurricane Helene made landfall late last week, leaving flooded cities, bashed power lines and stranded civilians in its wake. Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama had reported 116 deaths as of Monday, with damage concentrated on the border between Tennessee and North Carolina. 

Six-hundred people remained missing, and ongoing outages left 1.8 million people without power. 

Former President Donald Trump on Monday visited Valdosta, Ga., one of the impacted communities, pledging efforts to set up Starlink for immediate use.

Though his state was the first to be hit by Hurricane Helene, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he was mobilizing the Florida National Guard to send air support to North Carolina and Tennessee, while still focused on restoring power outages at home.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul also sent support teams to help those affected by the hurricane.

Other states have notably offered aid, sending rescue teams, helicopters and ambulances to the rescue.

Yet, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency has deployed some support for the states, the Biden–Harris administration has limited its response, prioritizing other things instead.

Biden authorized FEMA to assist heavily-hit states but wrote that he would not visit the afflicted states until later in the week because it would be disruptive to cleanup and recovery efforts.

 

Harris made her first public statement on Sunday via X, saying she just received a briefing on the situation.

An accompanyting photograph showed her isolated in an airplane, presumably on a call—although her headphones appeared disconnected from her phone.

Prior to her statement, Harris was in multiple meetings with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, affirming U.S. support in the Russo–Ukrainian war while taking a petty stab at former President Donald Trump, according to CNN.

The Biden–Harris administration has pledged an estimated $52 billion to Ukraine.

Currently, no financial amount or relief bill has been mentioned or passed for U.S. citizens still experiencing the effects of Hurricane Helene.

Democrats recently refused to pass a Republican-backed stopgap funding bill that would have added an additional $10 billion for FEMA’s emergency response operations, The Hill reported.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has become notorious for his nonresponses to crisis involving the nation’s infrastructure had no plan to visit damaged areas where roads and bridges had been washed away by flooding. Instead, Buttigied was helping Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz prepare for his vice-presidential debate on Tuesday, ABC News reported.

Biden and Harris also have garnered reputations for their absenteeism in time of crisis. Biden was slammed for his decision to lounge on the beach without offering so much as an official response immediately following a deadly 2023 wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii.

Harris famously laughed at the very idea of becoming the administation’s “border czar” when tasked with the responsibility by Biden—although, in fairness, the role itself may have been a political trap given the adminitration’s aggressive open-border policy.

All three officials refused to respond, initially, to a toxic spill in Palestine, Ohio, that resulted from a train derailment. Buttigieg eventually visited after being shamed into doing so by Trump. Biden did not make the trip until a year afterward and was poorly received by the remaining townfolk.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Trump Accuses Dems of Election Interference for Limiting Secret Service Protection at Rallies

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Trump Accuses Dems of Election Interference for Limiting Secret Service Protection at Rallies

(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump blasted Democrats this week for interfering with his 2024 campaign by failing to provide sufficient Secret Service protection for him, The Hill reported.

Citing the two failed assassination attempts against him and a reported campaign by Iran to harm him, Trump said he’s had to scale down his campaign events due to concerns that his Secret Service detail would be spread too thin. He went on to blame the Biden administration for not allocating more federal protection to his team.

“The Democrats are interfering with my Campaign by not giving us the proper number of people within Secret Service that are necessary for Security,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.

“We need more Secret Service, and we need them NOW,” he added. “It is ELECTION INTERFERENCE that we have to turn away thousands of people from arenas and venues because it is not being provided to us.”

Trump’s comments came just a few days after he was reportedly forced to move the venue for his Saturday campaign rally in Wisconsin.

According to two sources familiar with the matter, Trump was supposed to hold his campaign event outdoors at an airport, but he was forced to move it to a smaller venue at the last minute due to a shortage of Secret Service staff.

“The agency was never configured to provide such an elevated level of protection for an increasing number of protectees,” a senior official claimed, according to The Hill. “Our personnel and equipment are being pushed to their limits to sustain the current operational tempo.”

Secret Service’s resources were also diminished over the weekend because of the United Nations general assembly in New York City. The U.S. is required to provide protection to world leaders as the host of the UN’s general assembly, according to the UN’s charter.

Trump blasted this policy, arguing the Biden administration is spending vital resources to protect “people like the President of Iran, who is doing everything possible to kill me.”

In a follow-up post, Trump said he hoped all the rallygoers who were denied entry to his Wisconsin rally as a result of the venue change “will blame the Creeps from the Harris-Biden Administration, namely, the Opposing Party, that did this to them.”

Walsh’s ‘Am I Racist’ Outgrosses Coppola’s Anti-Trump Vanity Project, Cost 40X Less

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Walsh’s ‘Am I Racist’ Outgrosses Coppola’s Anti-Trump Vanity Project, Cost 40X Less

(Victoria Cook, Headline USA) Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh released his bitingly comedic documentary, Am I Racist?, in early September to great acclaim, vexxing film critics and industry insiders who see themselves as the exclusive gatekeepers of the silver screen.

The movie’s surprise success—even while facing vicious left-wing attacks—stood in stark contrast with the failure of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, a sci-fi political drama with an anti-Trump political subtext that opened over the weekend with neither critical nor audience acclaim—despite its bloated budget, all-star cast and abundance of Hollywood hype.

This pattern may signal a shifting trend in consumer sensibilities. Prior conservative-friendly films, such as Angel Studios’s Sound of Freedom, have exceeded box office expectations, while movies and television series deemed exceedingly “woke” have continued to fizzle.

That includes Disney’s most recent addition to the Star Wars canon, The Acolyte, which drew backlash from loyal fans for its preoccupation with feminist and LGBT virtue-signaling.

By aggressively alienating conservative viewers, leftist Hollywood studios “are leaving plenty of money on the table, and we’re happy to come in and take some of it, because, at a minimum, you are explicitly refusing to serve 50% of the audience,” Walsh said, according to Variety. 

Am I Racist?, an irreverent look at how “diversity, equity and inclusion” proponents fail to grasp their own hypocrisy, raked in $4.5 million on opening and has a 97% audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Walsh, who incurred leftist notoriety with his previous documentary, What Is a Woman?, goes undercover in the film as a progressive interviewer, meeting with prominent DEI speakers like White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo.

The movie, which cost $3 million to make (the expenses paid to so-called DEI experts are a running joke throughout the film) had grossed more than $11 million as of Sept. 30, according to Box Office Mojo.

Meanwhile, Megalopolis made $4 million at the box office in its opening weekend and has a 34% audience approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film—a $120 million passion-project decades in the making for the Godfather director—is a cautionary tale about a fragile republic, susceptible to greed, corruption and fascism, with a plot that loosely transposes the fall of the Roman empire into a modern setting.

Unfortunately for Coppola, his film failed to impress most critics, who thought the message was obfuscated by too many ideas.

While the movie tried to be nominally inclusive by casting Trump-supporting Oscar-winner Jon Voight, Coppola wasn’t shy about connecting it explicitly to the current U.S. political landscape, insinuating that democracy hung in the balance with the upcoming Nov. 5 election.

“Men like Donald Trump are not at the moment in charge, but there is a trend happening in the world, there is a trend toward the more neo-right, even fascist division, which is frightening,” Coppola said, according to Deadline.

Ryan Routh Pleads Not Guilty to Attempting to Assassinate Trump

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Ryan Routh Pleads Not Guilty to Attempting to Assassinate Trump

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A man who authorities say staked out Donald Trump for 12 hours on his golf course in Florida and wrote of his desire to kill him pleaded not guilty to a slate of charges on Tuesday.

Ryan Wesley Routh had been initially charged with two federal firearms offenses. Last Tuesday, the Justice Department announced a five-count indictment in which Routh is also charged with attempted assassination.

According to the court docket, Routh only spent about three minutes in court on Tuesday.

“ARRAIGNMENT as to Ryan Wesley Routh (1) Count 1,2,3,4,5 held on 9/30/2024. Defendant was present with counsel. Defendant was advised of the charges and possible maximum penalties,” the latest entry on the docket states as of the publication of this article.

“Defendant waived formal reading of the Indictment, entered a plea of not guilty, demanded a trial by jury and requested the Court issue the Standing Discovery Order. Total time in court: 3 minutes.”

Court records show the case has been assigned to Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge who in July dismissed a criminal case charging Trump with illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

The initial charges Routh faced in a criminal complaint accused him of illegally possessing his gun in spite of multiple felony convictions and with possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. It is common for prosecutors to bring preliminary and easily provable charges upon an arrest and then add more serious offenses later as the investigation develops.

The FBI had said at the outset that it was investigating the episode as an apparent assassination attempt, but the absence of an immediate charge to that effect opened the door for Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to announce his own state-level investigation that he said could produce more serious charges.

The Justice Department also said last Monday that authorities who searched Routh’s car found six cellphones, including one that showed a Google search of how to travel from Palm Beach County to Mexico.

A notebook found in his car was filled with criticism of the Russian and Chinese governments and notes about how to join the war on behalf of Ukraine.

In addition, prosecutors have cited a book authored by Routh last year in which he lambasted Trump’s approach to foreign policy, including in Ukraine. In the book, he wrote that Iran was “free to assassinate Trump” for having left the nuclear deal.

Meanwhile, Routh’s son, Oran Routh, was arrested last week on child pornography charges. The FBI raided Routh’s home in connection to his father’s alleged assassination plot, purportedly finding child pornography on the son’s devices in the process.

A detention hearing for Oran is set for Tuesday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

FBI to Pay $22M to Settle Sexual Discrimination Lawsuit

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FBI to Pay $22M to Settle Sexual Discrimination Lawsuit

(Headline USA) The FBI agreed Monday to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors with sexually charged comments about their breast size, false allegations of infidelity and the need to take contraception “to control their moods.”

The payout to 34 women dismissed from the FBI’s training academy in Quantico, Virginia—still subject to approval by a federal judge—would rank among the biggest lawsuit settlements in the history of the bureau.

“These problems are pervasive within the FBI and the attitudes that created them were learned at the academy,” said David J. Shaffer, the lawyer for the women. “This case will make important major changes in these attitudes.”

Filed in 2019, the lawsuit contends that female recruits had been subjected to a hostile working environment in which they were judged more harshly than their male peers and “excessively targeted for correction and dismissal in tactical situations for perceived lack of judgment” and subjective “suitability” criteria.

One of the women said she was admonished to “smile more” and subjected to repeated sexual advances. Another said that an instructor leered at her and stared at her chest, “sometimes while licking his lips.”

“Through passive tolerance,” the lawsuit said, “the FBI has intentionally allowed the Good Old Boy Network to flourish unrestrained at the FBI Academy.”

The FBI said in a statement Monday that the bureau has “taken significant steps over the past five years to further ensure gender equity in the training and development of all our trainees.”

Many of the allegations in the lawsuit were confirmed in a 2022 internal watchdog report. Men still make up some three-quarters of the bureau’s special agents despite efforts to diversify in recent years.

Among the provisions of the settlement was that the FBI would offer the plaintiffs a chance to continue training toward becoming agents and “guaranteed placement,” for those who pass, in one of their top three preferred field offices. The bureau also has agreed to a review by outside experts who will work to ensure that female recruits face a fair evaluation process.

Some of the women have moved on to other careers, Shaffer said, adding “the FBI has deprived itself of some genuinely exceptional talent.”

Paula Bird, a lead plaintiff in the case who is now a lawyer, said that while the experience has been “disillusioning,” she was “pleased that this settlement will bring a measure of justice to the women who were unfairly dismissed.”

The lawsuit came amid a flurry of sexual misconduct claims within the bureau that included several against senior FBI officials identified in an Associated Press investigation who quietly left the bureau with full benefits even after allegations against them were substantiated. Those claims ranged from unwanted touching and advances to coercion. In one case, an FBI assistant director retired after the inspector general’s office concluded he harassed a female subordinate and sought an improper relationship with her.

In response to AP’s reporting, the FBI announced a series of reforms, including a 24/7 tip line, intended to take a tougher stand against agents found to have committed misconduct and help accusers.

The latest settlement comes less than six months after the Justice Department announced a $138.7 million settlement with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of grossly mishandling allegations of sexual assault against the sports doctor Larry Nassar.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

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