Arabic readers are lambasting socialist Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York for publishing a flyer meant to court the Muslim vote with obvious errors. Ocasio-Cortez posted an image of the flyer to her X account, but she was immediately assailed for incompetently putting out the image without enough proofreading. 'This is offensive and a stupid own goal at a time when you truly can’t afford it.' "I can read Arabic so this is giving me severe psychic damage but I like to think that people who can't can at least see how wrong this looks? Like it is very very obviously not how Arabic looks even if you don't understand the language," read one response. Blaze News confirmed the error with a fluent Arabic speaker who said the mistake appeared to be on the part of the graphic designer who placed the text on the image without maintaining the proper direction of the letters. Ocasio-Cortez deleted the tweet after the ridicule, which was extensive and detailed. "Incredible. @AOC's team clearly didn't even bother to consult an Arabic speaker for their flyer targeting Arab Americans. All the letters are disjointed and the words are reversed," replied Tamara Nassar, an associate editor at Intifada magazine. "Today AOC presented illegible fliers with backwards Arabic script. The gibberish being a clear indication that neither Arabs nor Iranians work in her campaign," said comedian Chelsea Hart."No f***ing way," responded an account identifying as pro-Palestinian. "She is trying to grift Arab vote but clearly doesn't have a single Arab on her staff. Or even Central/South Asian cuz even they couldve pointed out the glaringly obvious error here.""I BEG you to have someone who knows Arabic produce or at least review your outreach materials," replied Egyptian-American Amir Beshay. "This is offensive and a stupid own goal at a time when you truly can’t afford it.""It is breathtaking how deeply unserious and racist @AOC is towards the Arab community," read another tweet. Ocasio-Cortez and others on the left have been targeted by the pro-Palestinian fringe of the Democratic Party over their lack of extreme opposition to Israel. The politician's own party, the Democratic Socialists of America, are considering to censure her for daring to sign onto congressional bills that acknowledge Israel's right to exist. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Armin Mizani, the mayor of Keller, Texas, explained on X why the joke made by roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe about Puerto Rico's trash problems will not sway him and many other Latinos from voting for former President Donald Trump.Hinchcliffe's joke at the Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday resulted in intense backlash for him and Trump."As one of the few Mayors in this country who is actually Puerto Rican (born and raised), lets get real for a moment and let me offer an explanation as to why [Trump] and [Vance] are surging in the polls amongst Latinos and why they’ll continue to do so through election day," said Mizani, who lived on the island until he was 9 years old.Harris' support among Latinos in Nevada and Arizona is small when compared to President Joe Biden's support."For Latinos, faith, family, and economic opportunity motivates us - not some bad joke by a comedian. America has had a first hand account of the two choices before us," Mizani explained. "Under the Biden and Harris administration, Americans have seen record inflation, an open southern border, increased crime, the weakening of the family structure, and the taking away of God from our daily lives."Under Trump, Mizani continued, "Americans saw secured borders, economic prosperity, a respect for people of faith, and a respect for American values. This is why I, along with millions of Latinos, will help re-elect President Trump back into the White House."Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) likewise said a joke by an insult comic may not appeal to everyone, but the real issue is what has happened under the Biden-Harris administration."What isn’t a joke is how Kamala Harris destroyed our economy and allowed dangerous criminals to illegally enter our country and terrorize, rape and murder Americans," Rubio said. "And what isn’t a joke and truly outrageous is how 'journalists' are helping Kamala [Harris] with her dangerous campaign of hate by calling Trump the new Hitler and how MSNBC used old footage of Nazi rallies TO SMEAR TRUMP SUPPORTERS AS NAZIS!"CNN reported Harris' support among Latinos in Nevada and Arizona is small when compared to President Joe Biden's support from that voting bloc in 2020. Harris is up 18 points with Latinos in Arizona, down from Biden's 24 points, and she is up only one point in Nevada, down from Biden's 26 points four years ago. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On Monday, a battleground state's supreme court ruling delivered a crushing blow to election integrity.The Nevada Supreme Court concurred with a lower court's ruling that mail-in ballots that arrive up to three days after Election Day on November 5 "must be counted," even if a postmark "cannot be determined."The ruling was a significant setback for the Republican National Committee, which argued that ballots without a legible postmark should not be counted after Election Day.The court's decision upheld an August ruling by District Court Judge James Russell. Russell claimed that the ballots should be accepted to ensure that all eligible votes are counted.The court filing read, "If a voter properly and timely casts their vote by mailing their ballot before or on the day of the election, and through a post office omission the ballot is not postmarked, it would go against public policy to discount that properly cast vote.""Indeed, there is no principled distinction between mail ballots where the postmark is 'illegible' or 'smudged' and those with no postmark — in each instance, the date the mail ballot was received by the post office cannot be determined," it added.The Nevada Supreme Court determined that the RNC lacked standing, claiming it failed to provide sufficient evidence that counting ballots without a postmark would be vulnerable to voter fraud or that current security measures were insufficient to address the concerns. "The RNC asserts that it currently expends significant resources on election monitoring, but it would need to expend additional resources to specifically monitor mail ballots received without postmarks," the court filing read. "But the RNC already monitors elections. Accordingly, any additional resources it would expend would merely constitute 'continuing ongoing activities' or 'business as usual.'"The justices also rejected the RNC's argument that mail ballots favor Democrats. Five of the seven justices agreed with the high court's majority ruling. The two other justices concurred with the result but provided different rationales. RNC spokesperson Claire Zunk told The Hill, "Requiring ballots to be postmarked on or before Election Day is a critical election integrity safeguard that ensures ballots mailed after election day are not counted.""It is also a requirement of Nevada law. By allowing Nevada officials to ignore the law's postmark requirement, the state's highest court has undermined the integrity of Nevada's elections," Zunk added.Elon Musk responded to the court's decision, writing on X, "This is messed up."Musk urged Nevada voters to cast their ballots for Republican candidates. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a New York City hotel room in 2005, according to a new lawsuit.The California boy allegedly was interested in becoming an actor and/or rapper, according to Variety.The boy later woke up in tears with his pants undone and pain in his anus and buttocks, CNN reported.The lawsuit says the boy's parents hired a music industry consultant who recommended that the family travel from Los Angeles, where they lived, to New York to meet with music industry figures. The consultant allegedly arranged for the boy to have an "audition" with Combs, who reportedly requested to meet with the child alone before meeting his family.The consultant brought the boy to Combs’ hotel room and left him alone with him, according to the lawsuit. The boy reportedly performed a few rap songs for Combs, who allegedly told the 10-year-old he could “make him a star” and asked him how badly he wanted it. According to the lawsuit, the “plaintiff responded, as might any 10-year-old child, that he would ‘do anything.'”While in the hotel room, someone presented the boy with a soda. Shortly after drinking the soda, the alleged victim said he reportedly began to feel “a little funny.” The plaintiff’s attorney claimed the drink was spiked with drugs “including but not limited to GHB and/or ecstasy.” Combs allegedly instructed the child to move closer to him and pushed him down, then told him something to the effect of “you have to do some stuff you don’t want to do sometimes.” The complaint alleged that Combs exposed his penis and told the boy to “kiss it.” According to the complaint, the boy refused Diddy's sexual advances, but Combs forced the minor to perform oral sex on him. Soon after, the 10-year-old reportedly lost consciousness. The boy later woke up in tears with his pants undone and pain in his anus and buttocks, CNN reported.The 10-year-old allegedly told Diddy that he wanted to see his parents, and the Bad Boy Records founder reportedly threatened to hurt the child's parents if he said anything to anyone.Once the consultant returned, she allegedly noticed the boy was “badly shaken.” The child's parents said their son appeared “lethargic and acting differently" after the "audition." The lawsuit noted that since the purported sexual assault, the alleged victim suffered from “severe depression and anxiety, which leaves him hopeless and fatigued.”Second lawsuit involves 17-year-old alleged victimA second new lawsuit accused Combs of sexually assaulting an aspiring 17-year-old male music performer during a 2008 audition for Combs' "Making the Band" TV show, in which Combs determines the fate of entertainment hopefuls.During the first interview with the alleged victim — which was one-on-one with Combs — the lawsuit states that "Combs asked plaintiff hypothetical questions about handling situations involving sexual pressure.”“As Combs described these scenarios, he began to sexually assault plaintiff by touching plaintiff both over and under his clothing, including groping and fondling his penis and instructing plaintiff to undress,” the lawsuit alleges.The alleged victim claimed Combs threatened that he had the ability to “make or break” his career.At the second audition, the hip-hop producer reportedly told the teen to undress in order “to demonstrate the ability to embody a ‘sex idol’ persona.” “This encounter eventually escalated into Combs forcing the plaintiff to perform oral sex on him, and Combs sodomizing the plaintiff,” the lawsuit claims. At the third and final audition, Combs and his bodyguard reportedly sexually assaulted the teenager. According to the suit, the contestant was eliminated from the reality TV competition “as Combs claimed that plaintiff was untrustworthy due to his reservations about performing oral sex on his bodyguard.” The new lawsuits against Combs were filed in the Supreme Court of the state of New York on Monday. They are the latest lawsuits against Combs from attorney Tony Buzbee, who said he's representing more than 120 individuals in civil lawsuits accusing the music mogul of sex crimes over the course of more than two decades. Buzbee said the youngest victim was only 9 years old when Combs allegedly sexually assaulted him.Combs' attorneys did not address the specific allegations in the two new lawsuits but told CNN their client never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone.“As we’ve said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to every new publicity stunt, even in response to claims that are facially ridiculous or demonstrably false,” Combs’ attorneys said in a statement. “Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone — man or woman, adult or minor.”As Blaze News reported earlier this month, a lawsuit accused Combs and another male celebrity of raping a 13-year-old girl as a female star watched the alleged sex crime.In September, Combs was arrested and hit with charges, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and interstate transportation for prostitution.Federal prosecutors outlined sex acts known as “freak offs” during which Combs allegedly organized the transportation of sex workers across state lines and internationally — and often recorded them.U.S. Attorney Damian Williams previously said, "The freak offs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple commercial sex workers, and often involved a variety of narcotics — such as ketamine, ecstasy, and GHB [gamma hydroxybutyrate] — which Combs distributed to the victims to keep them obedient and compliant.”Combs pleaded not guilty to the charges.Combs, 54, is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. He is facing at least 27 civil cases, and his criminal trial is scheduled to begin in May 2025.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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For many decades, it has been thought that the Samnites, an ancient Italic people known for their conflicts with the Romans, constructed fortified forts on hills throughout Italy as a precursor to building large, occupied settlements. This activity took place in the mid-first millennium BC and has been seen as a key development on the path to urbanization throughout prehistoric Italy as a whole. But the results of a recent archaeological study of this activity call this assumption into question. In a paper just published in the journal Antiquity, archaeologists Giacomo Fontana from Texas Tech University and Wieke de Neef from the University of Bamberg in Germany argue that little evidence exists to prove this theory is true. They claim that the ancient Samnite hillforts were more likely related to agricultural activity, and did not represent the beginning of the construction of Italian proto-cities as has been so often assumed. Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient PlacesEuropeRead Later 

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