Bookies and analysts suspected that Vice President Kamala Harris might name Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate. He could help her garner favor in a critical swing state and also help reassure moderate voters that a future Harris administration wouldn't pander to the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party. Harris has instead opted for a more radical pick in a state where she is already poised to win. Four sources close to the selection process told CNN that Harris has decided to go with Tim Walz — the 60-year-old Minnesota governor and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association who recently claimed that "one person's socialism is another person's neighborliness." Walz, a former geography teacher who spent time in the Army National Guard, served in the House of Representatives from 2007 until 2019 and was the ranking member of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. He assumed office as governor of Minnesota in 2019, just in time to take a relatively relaxed approach to the deadly BLM riots that would ultimately ravage his state, waiting days to call in the National Guard — by which time a Minneapolis police station had been torched and half a billion dollars in damage had been inflicted. 'The Harris-Walz California dream is every American's nightmare.' Walz, who deemed President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) "weird dudes," has gone to great lengths to secure favor with fellow hard-core leftists, particularly in LGBT activist circles. Earlier this year, he issued a decree indicating that his state is a "refuge" for those who seek and provide confusion-affirming genital mutilations and irreversible hormone therapies to children and adults alike. Harris' running mate also favors flouting federal immigration law and further transforming his state into a haven for illegal aliens. In Walz, Harris also has found a fellow advocate of limitless abortion. Last year, he signed a bill codifying the right of women to have their unborn children killed at any stage, including in the third trimester. While denying the unborn the right to life, Walz has fought to expand rights for ex-cons. In 2023, he ratified legislation ensuring over 55,000 former prisoners could cast votes, claiming doing so was part of a move to "keep our elections safe, free, and fair for all." Walz, who has also signed anti-gun legislation, will join Harris tonight for her rally in Philadelphia. Karoline Leavitt, the national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a statement, "It's no surprise that San Francisco Liberal Kamala Harris wants West Coast wannabe Tim Walz as her running-mate – Walz has spent his governorship trying to reshape Minnesota in the image of the Golden State." "While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is 'mostly cows and rocks'. From proposing his own carbon-free agenda, to suggesting stricter emission standards for gas-powered cars, and embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote, Walz is obsessed with spreading California’s dangerously liberal agenda far and wide," continued Leavitt. Leavitt added, "If Walz won’t tell voters the truth, we will: just like Kamala Harris, Tim Walz is a dangerously liberal extremist, and the Harris-Walz California dream is every American's nightmare." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Harrison Butker, Kansas City Chiefs player and noted promoter of traditional values, has signed a contract extension that makes him the highest-paid kicker in NFL history.A four-year, $25.6 million extension puts Butker at a salary of $6.4 million through the 2028 season, the most any kicker in the NFL has ever made. Butker slightly passes the salaries of fellow kickers Justin Tucker of the Baltimore Ravens and Jake Elliott from the Philadelphia Eagles, who both average $6 million per year.Butker's previous contract was nothing to sneeze at, which paid him an average of $4.055 million per year, according to Spotrac.'The better you are at the job the more a team is willing to put up.'ESPN reported that the kicker even represented himself and negotiated the deal, too."There's no place I'd rather be than with the Chiefs, excited to finalize a 4 year extension. To the Heights!" Butker excitedly wrote on his X page.Besides being one of the most reliable kickers in the NFL, Butker made headlines for a May 2024 speech at a Catholic university that promoted Catholicism and traditional values, while disavowing woke culture.The kicker became a target for leftist activists who called him anti-woman and antigay.Of course, there were a few detractors after Butker inked his new deal, including former ESPN host Trey Wingo, who said the kicker's contract proved an old adage that teams will put up with troublesome players if they are good enough on the field."The Harrison Butker extension ... making him the highest paid kicker ... underscores the inherent truth of the NFL: the better you are at the job the more a team is willing to put up with pure and simple." — (@) Radio host EJ Stewart said that the Kansas City Chiefs were "dignifying weirdos" when they resigned Butker. He added that resigning the player was "unbecoming of a championship head coach" like the Chiefs' Andy Reid.However, Butker's numbers do not lie.Butker has the second highest field-goal percentage of all time at 89.1%, second only to Tucker at 90.2%. He is also coming off a season in which he went six for six from beyond 50 yards, finishing 2023 with a 94.3% field-goal percentage.As well, the Georgia-born player has multiple clutch playoff field goals to go with his three Super Bowl rings.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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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday quickly chided Vice President Kamala Harris' reported choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate, claiming Walz "would be the worst VP In history."

The newly named seventh archbishop of Boston, Bishop Richard Henning of Providence, told reporters on Monday that he is "grateful to the Holy Father for his confidence" in naming him leader of the fourth largest Catholic archdiocese in the United States. On Monday, Pope Francis...