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.

DNA is a powerful thing. While most children have some resemblance to at least one of their parents, Reese Witherspoon’s daughter has an uncanny resemblance to her. Ava Whitherspoon looks like Reese Witherspoon’s clone. Fans are going crazy over the likeness between the two. Reese Witherspoon’s Daughter Is Her Clone Resse Witherspoon decided to give her daughter, Ava Witherspoon, a shout-out for her birthday on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Reese Witherspoon (@reesewitherspoon) Her caption read: “Happy Birthday to my amazing daughter @avaphillippe who happens to be one of the most genuinely kind-hearted and wise people I know. I love you with all [my] heart Keep shining your beautiful light my sweet girl! ” As Reese celebrated Ava Witherspoon’s 25th birthday, the fans took to the comments to share their shock at the uncanny resemblance. One user wrote, “Who is who???” Another added, “Y’all are twins .” A third thought to put the resemblance to good use when they commented, “This is begging for a movie where she could play your younger self. The likeness is extraordinary. Both beautiful.” Many more comments rolled in about Reese and her daughter’s insane similarities. Comments like: “Someone hit copy paste, lol,” and “Are they twins? Or are they twins?,” and ” If they ever do a sequel to Legally Blonde they should definitely hire your daughter to do it. Y’all are twinning ” flooded the actress’s comment section. Ava Witherspoon Is Thriving Although Ava Witherspoon looks just like her mother, she is carving her own path. PEOPLE shared that she graduated from UC Berkeley and is “pursuing a career in modeling.” She had landed campaigns with brands like “Pat McGrath, Beyonce’s Ivy Park, and her mother’s line, Draper James.” We cannot wait to see what the future holds for Reese Witherspoon’s incredible daughter. The featured image source can be found here. The post Reese Witherspoon’s Daughter Ava Is Her Clone In 25th Birthday Post appeared first on InspireMore.

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White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby wrote Wednesday that there is “no use responding” to a “handful of vets” involved in the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle. Fox News obtained an email sent with that message by Kirby on the anniversary of 9/11 as a “reply all” likely meant for his staffers. “Clearly, I didn’t realize you were on the chain,” Kirby said about his initial email, Fox reported. The high-profile spokesman sent the email about not responding to some military veterans to address questions from Fox News about Kirby’s providing cover for the Biden-Harris administration on its hurried departure from Afghanistan in August 2021.  That departure, which descended into chaos as U.S. troops left the country, left 13 Americans dead while the Taliban took over Afghanistan and gained more control than the militant Islamist movement had before the 9/11 attacks that originated there. Kirby took heat from many who called his attitude “callous,” among other things. “Horrifying. Callous. Disgraceful,” wrote Republican National Committee communications manager Steve Guest. Horrifying. Callous. Disgraceful. Kirby: 'No use in responding' to a 'handful of vets' on Biden's botched Afghan withdrawal https://t.co/Uhu2muXJ5v— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) September 11, 2024 Fox News contributor and media critic Joe Concha wrote that the media should call on Kirby to “resign in shame.” The media should be calling on John Kirby to resign in shame. They won't because there's an election to be won.The story is being ignored. You know why. pic.twitter.com/fV2SOFG5CI— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) September 12, 2024 “Kirby is a bad guy and is also just plain bad at his job,” investigative journalist Jerry Dunleavy wrote. John Kirby is a bad guy and is also just plain bad at his job.https://t.co/sTeVfhwBxI pic.twitter.com/POjY9xotdG— Jerry Dunleavy IV ?? (@JerryDunleavy) September 11, 2024 “This is the attitude taken by a White House that utterly botched our withdrawal from a key geostrategic hotspot,” the New York Post’s editorial board wrote. “By a cadre of political careerists who let Afghanistan fall to a bloodthirsty terrorist enemy and saw 13 service members killed in a terrorist attack on Kabul airport.” The Post also wrote that Kirby and the Biden-Harris administration might be rattled by a recent congressional report. The House Foreign Affairs Committee, which has investigated the Biden-Harris administration’s Afghanistan exit, released a report last week detailing how the administration didn’t have a solid plan to leave despite clear warnings that the situation could get out of hand. “Our investigation reveals the Biden-Harris administration had the information and opportunity to take necessary steps to plan for the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government, so we could safely evacuate U.S. personnel, American citizens, green card holders, and our brave Afghan allies,” Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said in a public statement. The report by McCaul’s committee highlighted ample warning signs before a deadly terrorist attack took place at the airport’s Abbey Gate that killed 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghan civilians. “The Biden-Harris administration misled and, in some instances, directly lied to the American people at every stage of the withdrawal, from before the go-to-zero order until today,” the committee report says. The post ‘No Use Responding’ to Vets About Afghanistan Withdrawal Debacle, Biden-Harris National Security Spokesman Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Georgia judge tossed two counts against former President Donald Trump on Thursday in the case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Although Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court declined to throw out the whole indictment under the Constitution’s supremacy clause, he found that some charges did “lie beyond this state’s jurisdiction,” including the two counts against Trump and another against his co-defendants. Willis indicted former President Donald Trump and 18 others in August 2023, alleging that they interfered in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. “President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again,” Steve Sadow, lead counsel for Trump in the Fulton County case, said in a formal statement. “The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 in the indictment must be quashed/dismissed.” McAfee tossed counts 14, 15, and 27 of Willis’ indictment, which contained allegations related to filing false documents in federal court. As a whole, McAfee found the indictment is “within the scope of state authority under the appointment powers granted in Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution and the police powers reserved by the states in the 10th Amendment.” “Nor is the subject of the indictment so inseparably connected to the functioning of the national government that it is barred entirely by the supremacy clause,” McAfee wrote. “However, because counts 14, 15, and 27 lie beyond this state’s jurisdiction and must be quashed, the defendants’ motions to dismiss the indictment under the supremacy clause are granted in part.” McAfee tossed six other counts in March, including three against Trump. In June, the case against Trump was put on hold while the Georgia Court of Appeals weighed defendants’ bid to disqualify Willis. McAfee had allowed Willis to remain on the case in March, although he found “a significant appearance of impropriety” in her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she hired. The defendants alleged that the district attorney financially benefited from appointing Wade. Willis awarded Wade a contract that paid $250 an hour. At the same time, Georgia’s top racketeering expert was making $200 an hour. Willis claimed she paid all three special prosecutors on the Trump case the same rate, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Judge Tosses 2 Counts Against Trump in Fani Willis’ Indictment appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Wednesday, White House National Security Council communications adviser John Kirby inadvertently included Fox News Digital in a dismissive email ripping four military veterans on the 23rd anniversary of 9/11 as unworthy of responding to for their criticism of the Biden-Harris withdrawal from Afghanistan, adding they were merely a “‘handful’ of vets...and all of one stripe”. In the e-mail, he wrote back to White House officials this in regards to Fox’s request for comment on what was said by Congressman Cory Mills (R-FL) and three others: “Obviously no use in responding. A ‘handful’ of vets indeed and all of one stripe.” Kirby, whom many (including this page) have said is closer to being on the straight and narrow with doses of honesty than others in the regime, showed his partisan freak flag with this message and his subsequent lack of an apology. Instead, he merely wrote in a separate message to Fox News Digital upon realizing the error: “Clearly, I didn’t realize you were on the chain.” Whether it was out of a fear for losing him as a guest or source or simply not thinking it’s a serious news story, Kirby’s smear was not mentioned by ABC, CBS, or NBC during their Thursday flagship morning news shows. Outside of that, the only mentions have come on multiple Fox Business and Fox News Channel programs as well as Newsmax. And Kirby was nowhere to be seen during Thursday afternoon’s White House press briefing. “[T]op White House advisor John Kirby catching some flak for dismissing the concerns of veterans on the anniversary of 9/11,” teased Fox News Channel co-host Dana Perino on Thursday morning’s America’s Newsroom. With the chyron “Critics Blast Kirby for Dismissing Vets’ Concerns”, co-host Bill Hemmer said Kirby was “facing heat today for dismissing veterans’ concerns about the Afghan withdrawal”.     After reading the e-mails, he brought in Mills by offering this about Kirby: “I think Kirby’s a straight shooter. I think he’s good guy. He joins us often here on this program, but that’s — that’s one he would like to take back, I’m sure.” Mills was ready to fire back, noting he probably “would like to take” that email “back just like when he said the Afghan withdrawal wasn’t really that chaotic and that it was the greatest, most successful airlift operation, though he didn’t want to talk about the 60 or 70 percent of those airlifted who had no biometric, who had with no Visa status and being brought into the United States and not to mention...the 13 Gold Star families who don’t feel like it is a great success.” “[W]hile I respect his service to our — our military, he has become a mouthpiece for the Biden-Harris administration and he is continuing to dispel all the truths while covering up all the lies. And so, I just — you know — I think it is time for, as veterans, to call him out on these things,” he added, noting he and others will continue to challenge him.

A judge narrowed the number of charges against former President Donald Trump on Thursday related to allegations of election interference in Georgia. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee dismissed two counts against Trump and another against his allies on the basis that state prosecutors did not have the authority to file the charges. 'Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again.' Steven Sadow, Trump's lead attorney in the Georgia case, released a brief statement on social media. "President Trump and his legal team in Georgia have prevailed once again. The trial court has decided that counts 15 and 27 in the indictment must be quashed/dismissed," he wrote. The dismissed charges alleged that false documents had been filed in federal court. However, Trump will still face eight other charges related to the alleged scheme to overturn the official results of the 2020 election in Georgia. He and 14 co-defendants have pleaded not guilty to the allegations. Trump's attorneys had previously filed a motion for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to be removed from the case for fomenting "racial animus and prejudice against the defendants." The court agreed to hear arguments for her removal in December. Willis has been accused of lying about details related to an improper relationship she had with Nathan Wade, who was removed as the special prosecutor in the election interference case. In March, the same judge dismissed six other counts against Trump and co-defendants in the case, saying that the allegations were too vague. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!