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A crowd gathers outside of the Farm Show building in Harrisburg, Pa., ahead of a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, July 31, 2024.
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By Christen Smith 

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared in Pennsylvania for the first time since an attempted assassination in Butler on July 13.

He took the stage in a packed auditorium in Harrisburg, where he chided Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, for shifting her public image and relying on celebrities to draw crowds to her rallies.

“We didn’t need a star,” he said. “We didn’t need some entertainer to fill it up.”

Trump’s comments come 10 days after Harris ascended to the top of the ticket vacated by President Joe Biden via a statement shared on social media.

Since then, delegates across the nation and top Pennsylvania Democrats – including Gov. Josh Shapiro – have thrown support behind the vice president.

The governor himself is on a short list to join Harris as a running mate, along with Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.

One of the nation’s top election forecasters, Nate Silver, said Wednesday – 97 days from Election Day – that Harris’ chances of winning the November election have risen to 43%, “close enough that you could almost get away with calling the race a toss-up, something the Biden-Trump matchup never was.”

A poll conducted from July 20 through July 23 shows Trump holds a 2-percentage point lead over Harris. The vice president, however, is significantly more popular than Biden in the state.

Trump said Wednesday her “personality makeover” shouldn’t distract from her progressive stances on natural gas drilling, immigration, criminal justice and gender politics.

“Don’t forget four weeks ago she was like considered the worst,” he said. “Not smart, terrible, the worst vice president we’ve had in history … and all of sudden she’s the new Margaret Thatcher.

“You’re going to learn. Little things like ‘defund the police,’ that doesn’t work does it? Everything about Kamala Harris rollout, it’s phony and fake,” he added.

During a campaign rally in Montgomery County on Monday, Shapiro and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer attacked Trump as “dangerous” and “destructive.”

Shapiro also tied the Republican nominee to Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda developed by The Heritage Foundation.

Trump has said his platform doesn’t include Project 2025. Democrats, however, argue that the plan centers on him – whether he wants it to or not – and promotes far-right policies on abortion, public education and illegal border crossings.

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What is likely to be the reason behind the “trial,” privacy campaigners are warning, is the eventual permanent deployment of this type of biometric surveillance throughout the country.
South Wales Police said that Cardiff will be covered by a network of CCTV cameras with facial recognition tech embedded in them, while the excuse is providing security during the international Six Nations rugby event. But the police also characterized the move as “semi-permanent.”
This appears to be a distinction between what the police in the UK have used thus far to carry out surveillance based on live facial recognition: vans with one camera.
The decision to move to position a host of cameras in the central zone of Cardiff makes this a significant expansion of the technique.
And while the police are reassuring citizens that expanding live facial recognition “really enhances” law enforcement’s ability to do their job –  the Big Brother Watch privacy group slammed the move as a “shocking” development and the creation of an “Orwellian biometric surveillance zone.”
And while capturing everyone’s biometric data, and in that way, according to Big Brother Watch’s Senior Advocacy Officer Madeleine Stone, turning Brits into “walking barcodes” and “a nation of suspects” – in terms of solving crime, this is proving to be a waste of public money.
“This network of facial recognition cameras will make it impossible for Cardiff residents and visitors to opt out of a biometric police identity check,” Stone underlined.
And yet, over the three years that live facial recognition has been in use at sporting venues (only) – the use of the technology has not led to any arrests.
“No other democracy in the world spies on its population with live facial recognition in this cavalier and chilling way,” Stone warned, adding, “South Wales Police must immediately stop this dystopian trial.”
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Hamas, Palestinians paraded dead babies coffins through streets before handover to Israel

Published on February 22, 2025

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Hamas paraded the caskets of Israeli hostages, including what they claimed were the bodies of a mother and two young children, through the streets of Gaza before handing them over to the Red Cross. Videos show crowds cheering as armed terrorists carried the coffins as part of a prisoner exchange with Israel.

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  • Videos from Khan Younis, Gaza, show Hamas and other terrorists parading four caskets, including those of two young children, before handing them to the Red Cross.
  • Crowds cheered as the terrorists, armed and unmasked, carried the coffins, with celebratory music playing in the background.
  • The deceased were identified as members of the Bibas family, including the youngest hostages from the October 7 attack.

 

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During a ceremony in Khan Younis, Gaza, Hamas paraded the caskets of Israeli hostages through the streets, including what they claimed were the bodies of a mother and her two small children. The display occurred before the remains were handed over to the Red Cross as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with Israel. Crowds of Gazans were seen cheering and celebrating as the coffins were carried by armed terrorists.

Videos from the event show masked militants loading a casket into a Red Cross aid truck, while another militant, adorned with symbols of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, filmed the procession. Another video shows adults and children waving and celebrating as Hamas fighters, armed and in trucks, paraded through the streets. Reuters footage also captured members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) helping carry a casket, highlighting the involvement of multiple terrorist factions in the display.

Hamas presented the bodies as those of the Bibas family, who were captured during the October 7 attack. The children, aged four years and less than one year, were among the youngest hostages taken during the brutal assault that triggered the ongoing 15-month conflict. The fourth body was identified as 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz, according to Jewish News Syndicate. Hamas has repeatedly blamed the deaths on Israeli airstrikes, though no evidence was provided to support the claim.

Israel and Hamas are currently observing a temporary ceasefire agreement, facilitating the exchange of civilian hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Despite the ceasefire, Hamas has continued to celebrate the October 7 attacks, which resulted in the largest mass killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust. During the ceremony, a stage displayed a poster depicting Israel as a “Nazi Army,” underscoring Hamas’s longstanding agenda of hostility towards the Jewish state.

The shocking parade of caskets, accompanied by celebratory music and cheering crowds, has drawn international condemnation and further underscored the brutal nature of Hamas’s actions. As the exchange process continues, the emotional toll on the families of the victims remains immeasurable.

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