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#10 Social Security Crisis: Beneficiaries Face 21% Benefit Cut Without Reforms, Says CFRB - Eric Revell for Fox Business, Kite and Key Media, and Florida Hustla on X
A new report finds that Social Security recipients face a 21% cut when a crucial trust fund that's on pace to be depleted in 2033 runs dry and that neither of the leading contenders in this year's presidential election has articulated a plan to stabilize the program. The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) noted in its report that Social Security is currently paying more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, which is depleting the reserves in the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Trust Fund that allows the program to pay out full benefits to retirees...#9 Landlord Forced to Sell Colorado Apartment Complex After It Was Taken Over by Venezuelan Migrant Gang Tren de Aragua - Jared Downing for The New York Post, Clown World, and Forward Thinker on X
A Colorado landlord has agreed to sell a troubled apartment complex that was taken over by the violent Venezuelan migrant gang Tren de Aragua. Landlord Zev Baumgarten has been fighting with the Denver suburb of Aurora over the Aspen Grove after the city accused him of allowed it to become a trash-ridden, gang-infested hellhole, according to records obtained by the Denver Gazette. Baumgarten is also the owner of another apartment complex where a viral video showed a crew of gun-toting thugs breaking into a unit, according to the Gazette. Baumgarten’s company has now agreed to sell, lease, or find some “similar disposition” for the complex — which was shuttered in August, displacing some 300 residents, the Gazette reported...
#8 After Interstate Shootings Wound 5, Searchers Comb Kentucky Hill Country for Suspect - Bruce Schreiner and Leah Willingham for AP, Tns Independent, Upuknews, and Linda K Baird on X
Authorities searched a rugged, hilly area of southeastern Kentucky on Sunday for a man suspected of shooting 12 vehicles and wounding five people on a busy interstate. Joseph A. Couch, 32, was named a suspect in Saturday’s shootings on Interstate 75 after authorities said they recovered his SUV on a service road near the crime scene. They later found a semi-automatic weapon nearby that they believe was used in the shooting, said Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, a spokesperson for the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office. The search was focused on a remote area north of London, a community of about 8,000 people some 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of Lexington. Where is he?
#7 GOP Releases Critical Report of Biden Withdrawal From Afghanistan - Rebecca Beitsch for The Hill, Fox News, Red State, and Karli Bonne on X
A long-awaited GOP report analyzing the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan paints a picture of a President Biden determined to leave the country but fumbling preparations that set the stage for a chaotic and deadly exit from America’s longest war. The report from Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released in the shadow of the three-year anniversary of the U.S. exit, criticizes the president for a rushed effort undertaken regardless of counsel from allies and advisers that led to unnecessary deaths...
#6 Illegal Alien Arrested for Voting In U.S. Elections - Sarah Arnold for Townhall, Bob in SoCal on X
The Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested an illegal immigrant from Guatemala for impersonating Americans and voting in federal elections. 42-year-old Angelica Maria Francisco was taken into custody after it was revealed she had been illegally voting in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. She was charged with “false claims of citizenship in connection with voting, false statements in application for a United States passport, use of a United States passport obtained by false statements, and aggravated identity theft.”
#5 Here’s How One Biden-Appointed Judge’s Ruling Could Bring Drilling In Gulf Of Mexico To A Halt - Nick Pope for The Daily Caller, Energy Brief, Steve Milloy, and Freedom Piper
A single ruling from a judge appointed by President Joe Biden may end up halting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in December. Judge Deborah Boardman, the Biden-appointed district judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, sided with suing environmentalists in August to vacate a key National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) environmental review — known as a biological opinion — underlying offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Unless the federal government manages to revise the biological opinion by Dec. 20, and barring intervention from a higher court or the Congress, the ruling could force offshore oil and gas drilling to grind to a halt as developers decide whether to proceed at their own risk or shut down their operations until a new review is issued, according to multiple energy sector experts and stakeholders...
#4 House Republicans Unveil Bill to Avoid Shutdown - AP News, Alaska News Source, Global Justice News English on X
House Republicans unveiled on Friday their legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month and fund the government into late March, when a new president and Congress would make the final decision on agency spending and priorities for fiscal year 2025. Republicans are also adding a hot-button immigration issue to the measure by requiring states to obtain proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, when someone registers to vote. Inclusion of the citizenship requirement is a nonstarter in the Senate, complicating prospects for the spending bill’s passage...
#3 Volvo Kills Plans for All-Electric Lineup by 2030 Amid Industry Shift - Paul Sacca for Blaze Media, CBC Watcher on X
Volvo has declared that it has abandoned plans to sell only electric cars by the end of the decade. The Swedish auto manufacturer is the latest carmaker to walk back ambitious electric vehicle plans. Volvo was one of the first automakers to promise an electric-only lineup. However, Volvo has scrapped its plan to sell only electric vehicles – just three years after it pledged it would "become a fully electric car company by 2030." Volvo said the company needed to "adjust its electrification ambitions due to changing market conditions and customer demands."
#2 Montana County Declares Wrong Winner After Failing To Compare Total Voters To Ballots - Brianna Lyman for the Federalist and on X
Montana County declared the wrong winner in a race after overcounting votes. During a post-canvassing audit of the Butte-Silver Bow County primary that was held in June, election officials suspected an overcount of more than 1,000 ballots, prompting a judge to order a recount. The recount discovered that 1,131 more votes were counted than voters who voted. Data shows a very similar number of votes in each precinct was overcounted. Election officials are not entirely sure what happened, though Butte-Silver Bow County Clerk and Recorder Linda Sajor-Joyce told leaders she believes the extra ballots were from sample data that had not been cleared from the software by Election Day, according to KTVH. In total, Sajor-Joyce could not explain 11 of the overcounted votes, according to NBC Montana...
#1 “Can’t Take It Anymore”: Residents of Springfield Ohio Beg for Help After 20,000 Haitians Overwhelm City, Eat Local Wildlife - Tyler Durden Zero Hedge, Conservative News Feed, Ohio Made, The Adam Theory, Johnny Midnight, End Wokeness, and Mic-Ha-El on X
The city of Springfield, Ohio - population 60,000, has been overwhelmed by roughly 20,000 Haitian illegal migrants, who flocked to the city - exacerbating a 'significant housing crisis' according to city officials, and eating pets and wildlife according to locals. Another local resident posted to a Facebook group that their neighbor had a cat go missing - only to see it "hanging from a branch, like you'd do a deer for butchering, & they [the Haitians] were carving it up to eat." While the cat claim has been refuted as racist fear-mongering, others have provided receipts showing that cats are indeed part of Haitian cuisine. Another local told the city that she "can't take it anymore," as Haitian migrants are littering on her yard and harassing she and her husband.And Now for Something Special 
This Bizarre Town With Thin, Wavy Farms Looks Like Wonderland, Has One Road for 6,000 Villagers - Michael Wing for Bright, Doug Graham and Historic Vids on X
It might seem something of a Wonderland when viewed from above—the village’s green- and gold-striped landscape weaves a tapestry that stretches toward the horizon, as far as the eye can see. A long, lonely thread of street prods through the village of Sułoszowa, 28 miles northwest of Krakow, Poland. That connects its nearly 6,000 inhabitants and their strangely slim plots of land. All along the way, houses with brightly colored roofs hug the road as it buckles along its 6-mile traipse through town.
