TV News LIES

Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola finished first in Alaska’s nonpartisan congressional primary on Tuesday with a wide lead over her Republican challengers, setting the stage for a contentious general election matchup that could determine the balance of power in the U.S. House next year.

Under Alaska’s primary system, all candidates appear on the same ballot regardless of their party affiliation and the four candidates with the most votes advance to the general election

Peltola garnered just over 50% of the vote, in preliminary results released early Wednesday morning. Republican candidates Nick Begich and Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom also advanced in the state’s ranked-choice primary, both receiving more than 20% support. Nine other candidates received less than 1% support and are vying for the fourth spot.

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Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters charged a line of police in an intense standoff with hundreds of officers on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters charged a line of police in an intense standoff with hundreds of officers outside the Israeli consulate Tuesday on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.

After the larger gathering began to disperse, splintering off into smaller groups, other interactions with police led to more than a dozen arrests. Officers called the demonstrations “an unlawful assembly.”

He may not be in office, but Donald Trump has been speaking with the powers that be about Israel’s war on Gaza—but it’s not in an effort to end the genocide.

Instead, Trump has allegedly been talking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avert a cease-fire deal, fearing that doing so could help Vice President Kamala Harris win in November, according to PBS.

“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” said PBS’s Judy Woodruff Monday night. “So, I don’t know where—who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, and that’s to work on that one.”

It wasn’t immediately clear if Woodruff was referring to a new report, or an Axios story last week that cited two U.S. sources as claiming that Trump and Netanyahu had spoken on the phone about cease-fire and Gaza hostage talks. Netanyahu’s office and Trump both separately denied the report.

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As the presidential election approaches, a recently designated neo-Nazi terrorist group is covertly seeding violent propaganda on to mainstream social media channels – exposing tens of thousands of unknowing followers to radicalizing messages – according to background research and a report provided to the Guardian by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).

One of those channels on Telegram purports to be associated with Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, with an administrator claiming in group chats discovered by ISD to have had direct contact with the longtime Trump ally who is well-known for playing footsie with extremists and admitting to fomenting revolution.

The UK government listed the Terrogram collective as an official terrorist entity in April. The move spiked public interest in the shadowy network of violent neo-Nazi propagandists on Telegram that preaches accelerationism, which demands followers hasten the collapse of society through acts of terrorism.

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Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through Chicago on Monday as the Democratic National Convention began. The crowd was significantly smaller than predicted, and remained largely peaceful.

Several people were arrested in the early evening after a few dozen protesters broke away from the march and pulled down sections of the first ring of security fencing surrounding the United Center, where President Joe Biden was scheduled to speak Monday night. Police later moved to clear a park near the convention site of protesters.

"Law enforcement personnel were immediately on-scene and contained the situation," convention organizers said in a statement. "At no point was the inner perimeter breached, and there was no threat to any protectees."

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