USA TODAY is the latest newspaper publication to announce it will not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. The newspaper, one of the largest publications in the United States, joins the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post in not endorsing a candidate. “While USA TODAY will not endorse for president, local editors at publications across the USA TODAY Network have the discretion to endorse at a state or local level,” USA Today spokesperson Lark-Marie Antón told Fox News Digital. “Why are we doing this? Because we believe America’s future is decided locally – one race at a time. And with more than 200 publications across the nation, our public service is to provide readers with the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions,” the spokesperson added, according to Fox News. USA Today has joined The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times in not endorsing a presidential candidate this election.https://t.co/oryparIu81 — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 28, 2024 Per Fox News: Notably, USA Today previously offered its first-ever endorsement to President Biden in the 2020 presidential election and sided with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016, although stopping short of making an official endorsement in opposition to former President Trump. This comes just days after both The LA Times and The Washington Post announced it would refrain from offering an endorsement ahead of Election Day. LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong told his paper that it would not endorse any candidate in the presidential race, citing divisive times. Days later, Washington Post CEO and publisher Will Lewis made his own announcement, saying the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” paper wouldn’t endorse either and would return to its “roots” while striving to remain independent. Both papers sparked widespread condemnation from their liberal readers and have even led to resignations of top editors over the decisions. According to Daily Beast, USA TODAY is the nation’s fourth largest newspaper. Holy smokes, it’s an epidemic. First it was the Teamsters, then the Firefighters union. Then the LA Times, Washington Post, and now USA Today. ALL NOT ENDORSING KAMALA HARRIS. https://t.co/TZlfQO9wRG — Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) October 28, 2024 Daily Beast reports: A spokesperson for the paper told the Daily Beast on Monday that it will instead focus on providing “readers with the facts that matter and the trusted information they need to make informed decisions.” That’s a stark difference from four years ago when USA Today broke with decades-old tradition to endorse Joe Biden for president. That endorsement claimed Donald Trump wasn’t a capable leader and that the U.S. was “dangerously off course.” USA Today’s editorial board wrote that it decided to endorse back then—for the first time since 1982—because the 2020 election was was an “extraordinary moment” in history that required an “extraordinary response” from the paper.

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According to a House Judiciary report provided exclusively to the Daily Caller, the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) weaponized the agency against Elon Musk’s Twitter, now called X. Biden’s Chair Resuscitated a Consent Decree According to the report, Biden-appointed FTC Chair Lina Khan introduced a consent decree against the platform due to Musk’s […] The post Biden’s FTC Was Weaponized Against Elon Musk appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was released from federal prison in Connecticut on Tuesday morning after four months behind bars for his conviction on contempt of Congress charges. Bannon, 70, was imprisoned on July 1 after he was convicted for not complying with a subpoena from the Democrat-run January 6 Committee in 2022. The committee had instructed Bannon to testify and produce certain documents, which he declined to do, citing executive privilege. After an attempt to stay the sentence pending appeal and denial to review the case by the Supreme Court, Bannon reported to federal prison. “If you’re not prepared to go to prison to fight for your country,” Bannon told the New York Times on Tuesday. “You’re not prepared to fight for your country.” The former Trump aide is expected to speak at a news conference in Manhattan later on Tuesday. Before he went into the prison, Bannon said that the Justice Department was targeting him for his political views.  “I am proud to go to prison,” he said. “If this is what it takes to stand up to tyranny; if this is what it takes to stand up to the [Attorney General Merrick] Garland corrupt criminal DOJ; if this is what it takes to stand up to Nancy Pelosi; if this is what it takes to stand up to Joe Biden — I’m proud to do it.” Former President Donald Trump decried the prosecution at the time, posting on Truth Social that Bannon’s imprisonment was a “Total and Complete American Tragedy.”  “The unAmerican Weaponization of our Law Enforcement has reached levels of Illegality never thought possible before,” he posted on Truth Social.  MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Bannon is not the only former Trump ally who has spent time behind bars. Peter Navarro, the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy under Trump, served four months in prison earlier this year after being convicted on contempt of Congress charges.  Navarro, 75, was convicted and sentenced after he did not show up for a deposition with the January 6 Committee and did not provide it with certain documents, also citing the doctrine of executive privilege. “I’m afraid for this country because this, what they’re doing, should have a chilling effect on every American regardless of their party,” Navarro said before turning himself in to federal authorities in March. “They come for me, they can come for you.” Navarro completed his sentence on July 17. Just hours after his release, Navarro traveled to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to speak.  “The J6 committee demanded that I betray Donald John Trump to save my own skin,” Navarro said during his convention speech. “I refused.”

An Israeli network widely viewed as politically to the Left polled Israelis as to whether they favored former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris for the U.S. presidency. The results weren’t close. Trump received a whopping 66% of the vote, Harris a paltry 17%. ???? New Poll by Channel 12: 66% of Israelis favor Trump to win17% favor Harris. The majority of Israelis support Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/LRRU48K0Z6 — Vivid.?? (@VividProwess) October 28, 2024   Israelis are highly aware of and grateful for the friendship Trump has shown to the Jewish state; Trump’s unmatched support for Israel has been well-documented. In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and called for Jerusalem to remain an undivided city. It called for setting aside funds to relocate the American Embassy to Jerusalem by 1999. The law allowed the president to invoke a six-month waiver of the application of the law and reissue the waiver every six months on “national security” grounds. The waiver was repeatedly renewed by Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ But Trump made the move happen in 2018. On February 23, 2018, Trump announced that the US Embassy in Israel would reopen in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. In addition, Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, an area that was vital to Israel’s national security interests, as its enemies would fire down at Israelis in every previous war.  “We’re gathered tonight to talk about the sacred bond between the United States and Israel, and it’s a bond that’s in serious trouble,” Trump said in September. “In less than three weeks, we will mark the one-year anniversary of the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. On October 7, Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than 1,200 Israelis, including men, women, children, and even little, beautiful babies. They tortured, wounded, kidnapped, and horribly maimed thousands more. Unthinkable.” “This evening, we repeat the vow that we have kept in our hearts since the terrible day in October: Never again,” he declared. “This should never have ever happened. … Weak leadership in the United States allowed this to happen, and it should never have happened.” “If we continue down our current path, with four more years of Kamala, Israel will be faced not just with an attack, but with total annihilation,” he asserted. “You don’t have a protector. You have a big protector in me; you don’t have a protector on the other side. And I’ve said long and loud, anybody, and especially over the last few years, anybody who’s Jewish and loves being Jewish and loves Israel is a fool if they vote for a Democrat.” Israel will face “unceasing, bloody war to obliterate the Jewish state and drive Jews out of the Holy Land. That’s what they want to do. They want to drive Jews out of the Holy Land,” he said. RELATED: ‘You Will Have The Most Anti-Israel President By Far’: Trump Warns Of Israel’s Peril If Kamala Wins

Iran has executed a German-Iranian citizen whose daughter savaged the Biden-Harris administration and the German government for not doing enough to save him. Jamshid (Jimmy) Sharmahd, 69, was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 and held by the despotic Iranian regime. “In January 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council reported that Mr. Sharmahd was one of several ‘foreign and dual nationals who remain imprisoned under inhumane conditions, including limitations on contact with their families,’” the Global Liberty Alliance noted. The Iranian regime accused Sharmahd of organizing an attack on a mosque in 2008 that killed 14 people and also claimed he had disclosed “classified information” on the missile sites of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the execution, writing on X: “The execution of Jamshid Sharmahd by the Iranian regime is a scandal that I condemn in the strongest possible terms. Jamshid Sharmahd was not even given the opportunity to defend himself against the charges against him during the trial.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ But in early September, Skarmahd’s daughter, Gazelle, spoke out on X, saying, “Everybody is a freaking expert on how to get hostages out and everybody this week is pointing fingers at Israel, saying, ‘You haven’t done enough. This is not how it’s being done. Let me tell you how it’s being done,’ including two of our world leaders, Germany and the U.S.” “So let’s look at what they’re saying and what they have done to get their hostages out,” she stated. “Our world leader, our President Biden, was chilling at the beach this week while his VP was using the hostage family, the American hostage family, for her campaign trail on the DNC. And after Hamas executed him [Hersh Goldberg-Polin], she made a phone call and was very sorry about that. But let’s look back at how the Biden-Harris administration has handled other American hostages; one, specifically: my dad, Jimmy Sharmahd, is an American and a German, and he’s been kidnapped, taken to Iran, held hostage there for four years, the entire time of this administration, and they haven’t done anything to bring him home.” “Neither President Biden nor his VP Harris have even talked to us or even mentioned my dad’s name, [let] alone done something for him,” she noted. “And last year, around this time, in September, me and my brother were in a sit-in strike with other hostage families in front of the state Department, asking, ‘What is being done to bring our family, our parents, back home?’” “Well, this is what happened,” she recalled. “While we were sweating in the heat, they, Biden and Harris, made a deal with the Islamic regime in Iran. Yeah, the same Islamic regime that is funding Hamas and is responsible for the terror attack plus is responsible for the 240 hostages that were taken to Gaza. And what did they do? They transferred $6 billion to a bank in Qatar, the same Qatar that is housing the terrorist that is protecting their money. So the terrorists got $6 billion, and what did we get? A spit in the face.” “My dad together with other Americans were left behind to die. My dad has an execution sentence. He can be executed, just like Hersh. And you left him behind?” she charged. “So bravo. Fantastic track record. If you know better how to get Americans out of the hands of terrorists, and not executed, tell us your plan. Tell us how it’s done. And then tell us why you failed to do that for your own American hostages in Iran.” “Yesterday, our Foreign Minister from Germany came out and told Israel, ‘You should negotiate. You should make a deal with Hamas because it’s worth the life of hostages,’” she pointed out. “So what are you exactly telling us here? Because Israel should negotiate for their hostages because their life is worth something? What about the life of your citizens? If it’s worth negotiating for hostages, can you explain to us why for four years you haven’t negotiated to save the life of my dad, of the other German hostages in Iran, of the other German hostages in Cuba, and other places of the world? Are we not worth anything? Is that what you’re telling us? Your citizen’s life is worth nothing?” “So again, our question is what have you done to save your citizens from terrorists that want to execute them,” she continued. “What have you done? Financial pressure? Economic pressure? Have you threatened to break off trade relations? Have you closed your embassy in Iran? Have you kicked them out of the embassy in Germany? What exactly have you done to get your citizens back safe home? If you have a plan, let us know why you haven’t done it in four years for your own citizens.” “So before pointing fingers left and right and telling Israel what to do, demonstrate to us how you have saved your hostages from the hands of terrorists that want to execute them,” she said bluntly. “And if you did that, explain to me why you haven’t done it for my dad. Why is my Dad this Sunday 1,500 days and nights alone in a torture chamber, in a tunnel? We don’t know even where he is in Iran. And you haven’t even tried to get him back out.” “I haven’t seen anybody who has tried more than Israel has tried now,” she declared, then, turning to the Biden-Harris administration and the German government, concluded, “I would love to see what they have to say about my dad, if they even dare to mention my dad’s name. he exists, and so do we. And we will not be silenced.” EVERYONE is suddenly an expert on how to get #hostages out of the hands of terrorist. The US and Germany have abandoned their hostage #JimmySharmahd for 4 years in the hands of the Terrorists in Iran. This Sunday marks the 1,500s day that my dad is spending under torture and… pic.twitter.com/eXze55ikeQ — Gazelle غزاله شارمهد (@GazelleSharmahd) September 8, 2024