New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) announced on Thursday she has basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer.

45th President Donald Trump has announced that there will be no third presidential debate.

Former top Clinton advisor and veteran Democrat pollster Mark Penn is urging ABC News to investigate claims that Kamala Harris’s team allegedly received advance notice of debate questions. Posts have also surfaced that an alleged ABC whistleblower may soon release an affidavit alleging the Harris campaign was given sample questions and that moderators were instructed […] The post ABC News Might Have Given Debate Questions to Harris’s Team appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes explained why he won’t be endorsing any presidential candidate this year, and said it is his place to remind people to do “their own research” when it comes to voting. During a Chiefs press conference on Wednesday, Mahomes was asked by reporters about former President Donald Trump’s comments earlier in the day in which Trump praised Mahomes’ wife Brittany after she liked his post outlining the 2024 Make America Great Again platform and then hit back at those who didn’t like what she’d done. “I’ve always said, I don’t want my place or my platform to be used to endorse a candidate … either way,” Mahomes said. “I think my place is to inform people to get registered to vote, to inform people to do their own research, and then make their best decision for them and their family.” And Patrick explained that the ability to do so is “what makes America so great.” “Dating back, if you’ve seen my history, I’ve grown up with people from every aspect of life, and every background,” Mahomes said. “I think the best thing about a football locker room, and kind of how I’ve grown up in baseball locker rooms, is that people come together and achieve a common goal.” “And we talked about it a while back, but I think if we can do that as a nation, I think we can get the best out of each other. … Whenever I’m hanging out with whoever, I’m not thinking about their political views,” he added. “I’m thinking about the people and how they treat other people.” He was then pressed by another reporter if it affected him “one way or another” after Trump brought up Brittany’s name, praising her for allegedly being a big “Trump fan.” Am I Racist? ONLY In Theaters Tomorrow—Get Your Tickets Now! “No, I think at the end of the day, it’s about me and my family and how we treat other people,” Patrick explained. “And I think you see Brittany does a lot in the community. I do a lot in the community to help bring people up and give other people opportunities to use their voice.” The comments came after his teammate Travis Kelce’s pop star girlfriend Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris over Trump following the ABC News Presidential Debate. Swift called the VP a “steady-handed, gifted leader” and said she was voting for the Democratic nominee because she was “impressed” by Harris’ “selection of running mate [Minnesota Gov.] @timwalz” for what she labeled his “support for “LGBTQ+ rights” and abortion.  Last year, leftist Walz signed an executive order protecting life-altering gender procedures on minors in his state, as The Daily Wire previously reported. Under Walz’s order, people seeking gender procedures for themselves or their children will not face prosecution, according to the Minnesota Reformer. Related: Taylor Swift Friend Brittany Mahomes Likes Trump Post, Goes On Defense Against ‘Haters’

A group of Israelis are restoring one of Judaism’s holy sites, the tombs of King David’s ancestors. Yishai Fleischer, the international spokesperson for the Jewish community of Hebron, said the restoration of the tombs of Jesse and Ruth “is fulfilling biblical prophecy.” Fleischer is referring to the Old Testament verse Isaiah 11:10, which states Jesse’s “resting place will be glorious.” “The nations of the world will come to the root of Jesse [and] King David,” Fleischer said. There is a group of Israelis restoring the traditional tomb of King David’s ancestors, Jesse and Ruth, in Hebron — the largest city in the West Bank.@KassyAkiva went to go see it: pic.twitter.com/vFjpneK66l — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 12, 2024 Jesse and Ruth were King David’s father and great-grandmother, respectively. Restored buildings at the tomb include a synagogue, a small learning and dining space, a room for a scribe to write the Book of Ruth, a garden, bathrooms, and more. According to Fleisher, when renovations began a few years ago, the buildings were decrepit and lacked running water and electricity. “We kind of built them back up, restored them so that they don’t collapse,” he said. “I think that God held them up until we came in and fixed it and made it so they would stand.” “It was all filled with dirt and dead animals and who knows what else,” he added. “We brought electricity, we fixed those ceilings and we fixed the building so it doesn’t fall down anymore.” The traditional grave markers for Ruth and Jesse, King David’s great-grandmother and father, respectively. Builders on the site have crafted stone walls, laid tile flooring, and painted railings to enhance both functionality and appearance. To make the location more attractive to tourists and for group gatherings, they have also installed benches, running water, electricity, air conditioning, and movie screens. Located on a hilltop in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, the Tomb of Ruth is under Israeli control in the city of Hebron, in Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank). Hebron is also the home to the Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs. According to the Bible, Abraham purchased a burial cave at the site, which became the traditional burial place for Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rachel, Jacob, and Leah. A large structure built over the burial caves in the first century BCE was later turned into a church by Crusaders, a mosque by the Turks, and is now divided into two areas for Jewish and Muslim worshipers. According to the Bible, Hebron is the place King David was crowned and ruled for the first seven years of his reign before moving to Jerusalem. The welcome area at the Tomb of Ruth and Jesse. One of the earliest documented mentions of the site as Jesse’s tomb comes from a student of the prolific Torah scholar Nachmanides around 1290. The earliest mention of the site as Ruth’s tomb is in the 1835 Love of Jerusalem by Haim Horowitz. “Even if it’s not the tomb of Ruth it’s the place where we commemorate and celebrate Ruth,” Fleisher said. The site has visitors year-round, with many Jewish and non-Jewish pilgrims visiting during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (Pentecost), when the Book of Ruth is traditionally read. The Book of Ruth tells the story of a Moabite woman who married into a Jewish family living in Moab. After her husband and father-in-law died, she accompanied her destitute mother-in-law back to Israel, declaring that the Jewish people were her people as well. In Bethlehem, Ruth remarried a wealthy landowner and gave birth to Obed, the father of Jesse and grandfather of King David. The site only displays tomb markers for Ruth and Jesse, while the burial caves are traditionally underground and are not known to have been disturbed in modern times. Professor Benzion Tavger was the driving force behind reopening the site in the mid-1970s. In 1999, artifacts as old as 4,000 years were unearthed at the site by archaeologists, including several seals with the ancient Hebrew inscription “To the King, Hebron,” according to the Hebron Fund. In 2016, furniture and electricity were first added to the synagogue. The restored synagogue at the traditional site of the Tomb of Ruth and Jesse “We made a little spot that was holy, we made it feel holy, made it look holy, and that’s what the rebirth of the Jewish people in the land of Israel does,” Fleisher said. “It takes an ancient place that was 2,000 years ago important, and has been forgotten, and it’s resurrected.” The site is located next to an Israel Defense Forces base that helps ensure the security of the small Jewish community surrounded by the large Palestinian city of Hebron.  Fleisher is part of a group of Israelis working to strengthen the Jewish community in Hebron, which has maintained a nearly-continuous presence in the area for over three millennia. This presence was interrupted most recently in the 1929 Massacre when local Arabs killed about 67 Jews and the British in charge expelled the survivors. The community returned after the 1967 Six-Day War and currently stands at about 1,000 Jews. “It’s our land in Hebron, we are a very ancient people here,” Fleisher said. “We’ve been living in this town for over 3,500 years and we have proof from the First Temple period, that’s 3,000 years ago and the Second Temple period 2,000 years ago.” “Now the tomb of Ruth and Yishai is being beautified, and is being restored to its proper glory,” he added.