North Carolina’s election board has decided to give counties affected by Hurricane Helene more voting flexibility. 

Certain Spirit Halloween store locations will be running longer this year across the U.S. 

The View Harpies interviewed Kamala Harris today. They discussed how Donald Trump is somehow responsible for the administration’s failures in Hurricane Helene and the upcoming hurricane which didn’t even happen yet. Harris agreed that Donald Trump lied about what he did for hurricane victims and claimed he withheld aid from them. He did the opposite! […] The post Kamala Harris Blames Donald Trump for Hurricane Failures appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A judge in Delaware denied Deadspin’s attempt to get a defamation suit against it tossed out after the sports blog published an article that falsely accused a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan of wearing blackface at a game last year. On Monday, Superior Court Judge Sean Lugg shot down Deadspin’s motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Raul Armenta Jr. and his wife Shannon on behalf of their son, Holden, the Associated Press reported. The young Chiefs fan attended a game in Las Vegas last November, wearing an American Indian headdress and painting his face half red and half black for his favorite team’s colors. In an article written by Carron Phillips and published by Deadspin, Holden is accused of wearing blackface and finding “a way to hate black people and the Native American at the same time.” The main photo for the article only showed the side of Holden’s face that was painted black, and Phillips claimed that Holden was taught “hatred” by his parents. “Deadspin published an image of a child displaying his passionate fandom as a backdrop for its critique of the NFL’s diversity efforts and, in its description of the child, crossed the fine line protecting its speech from defamation claims,” Judge Lugg wrote. “Having reviewed the complaint, the court concludes that Deadspin’s statements accusing H.A. of wearing black face and Native headdress ‘to hate black people and the Native American at the same time,’ and that he was taught this hatred by his parents, are provable false assertions of fact and are therefore actionable.” Why is @Deadspin @carronJphillips trying to ruin this little kid’s life? They’re accusing him of blackface but conveniently left out his full face which was painted for the game https://t.co/kFfgAL4aDH pic.twitter.com/750u5sfETE — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 28, 2023 According to the Armentas lawsuit, Holden is proud of his family’s Chumash-Indian heritage and wore the headdress along with the face paint to support the Chiefs. Phillips was blasted in the lawsuit as “someone who makes his livelihood through vicious race-baiting.” After backlash to Phillips falsely writing that Holden was wearing blackface and calling him and his parents “racist,” the writer doubled down, writing on X, “For the idiots in my mentions who are treating this as some harmless act because the other side of his face was painted red, I could make the argument that it makes it even worse. Y’all are the ones who hate Mexicans but wear sombreros on Cinco.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! The lawsuit also points out other articles and public statements from Phillips that focus on race and criticize the U.S. as racist. “Accusing people of engaging in racist acts has long been Phillips’ modus operandi; his career is based on it,” the lawsuit states. “His recent articles include: ‘Ryan Tannehill’s ‘support’ for young Titans quarterbacks depends on if they’re white’; ‘We know why Simone Biles doesn’t get the same attention as Taylor Swift at NFL games’ (because she is Black), and ‘The Chicago Bears haven’t won a playoff game since Lovie Smith. Their next head coach should be Black.'” One month after the defamation suit was filed against Deadspin, the company was sold and its entire staff was laid off.

Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan slammed the softball interviews the Vice President has been taking because he said she’s running to run a country, not be “Momala.” During the Sirius XM “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast on Monday, the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” spoke to Kelly about Harris going on the sex podcast “Call Her Daddy” and “The Howard Stern Show” instead of places where she might have to face hard questions while wanting to be President of the United States. “Don’t you think that people are looking at this and see that this is a dodge, that they are being mistreated,” Klavan said. “They the voter is being disrespected here. I mean it’s not Kamala Harris is being disrespected, it’s not Donald Trump … it’s the people who have a right to know what this woman is going to do at 3:00 in the morning when we find out that Iran has launched a missile, not just at Israel, but at us.” “You know that’s the job she’s running for,” he added. “She’s not running for ‘Momala’ … She’s running to run a country that has been driven into a serious state of disrepair and crisis on the watch of her administration.” “She’s not running for ‘Momala’ … she’s running to run a country that has been driven into a serious state of disrepair and crisis on the watch of her administration.” @andrewklavan joins @megynkelly to slam the Kamala x Call Her Daddy interview. pic.twitter.com/8bmAYQrnTF — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 8, 2024 “It’s no good saying, ‘Well, she was just the vice president. The president himself has said she was in on everything,’” Klavan continued.  “She, as far as he was concerned, she was just as qualified as he is … but I think that you know I just I just have to wonder and I think if we have a country in which people can watch what you just showed and watch the kind of conversation that Kamala Harris is opening herself to and say, ‘Yes, you know that, by golly, that’s the lady I want in the White House,’ then maybe you know unfortunately we get what they deserve.” The DW host said he has to believe there comes a time when Americans will say they are done and not “voting for these people” after he said they have been lied to by the major news media over and over again on “major issues” over the last “four years, five years, eight years on several issues of tremendous importance.” “Even the people who hate [former President] Donald Trump. I can understand why people don’t like Donald Trump. I can’t understand why they would vote for Kamala Harris,” Klavan said. “What has she said? What has she done? What has she accomplished that they support?” At one point, Klavan and Kelly talked about Trump’s return to Butler, PA, on Saturday following the first attempted assassination attempt on the president’s life there. Klavan talked about the inspirational message Trump sent returning to the scene of the shooting and said, “He [Trump] has proven he is who he says he is. And at this point, you can dislike him, but you can’t disrespect him.” Related: Andrew Klavan Rips ‘Humiliating’ Media Covering Of Kamala, Cowering Away From JD Vance: ’Backing Up As If He Were Assaulting Them’ 

Country star Luke Combs announced he and other stars are coming together for a benefit concert in Charlotte to help those in the southeastern states affected by Hurricane Helene. In a post on Monday, the 34-year-old country singer wrote that he “had something big planned for Carolina. One of the ways we’re helping is a benefit concert at Bank of America Stadium on Oct. 26th!” “This concert took so much planning, work, and coordination from so many people,” he added. “I’m so thankful to everyone who helped make this a possibility on such short notice. Tickets will go on sale this Thursday and 100% of all proceeds will be going directly to those who need it most.” Combs named Eric Church, James Taylor, and Billy Strings as joining him for the concert with all proceeds from the show to be split 50/50 between Combs and Church’s Chief Cares Foundation to help those in the Carolinas affected, WCNC noted. I told y’all I had something big planned for Carolina. One of the ways we’re helping is a benefit concert at Bank of America Stadium on Oct. 26th! This concert took so much planning, work, and coordination from so many people. I’m so thankful to everyone who helped make this a… pic.twitter.com/b6bHwcGfZq — Luke Combs ? (@lukecombs) October 7, 2024 Church and Combs also spoke to Billboard about the conversation the two singers had after the hurricane that led to the concert. Combs — who went to Appalachian State University — said the morning after the hurricane hit both of them “were just inundated with calls and texts and pictures and images from the areas.” “I called Eric and was like, ‘Hey, let’s figure out how to do a show. I don’t know when, I don’t know where. We’ll worry about that later, but let’s just pool our resources,'” Combs said. “Let’s do what we do best and help in the way that is best suited to my abilities and Eric’s abilities’ and I think we’re doing that.” “It was disbelief,” Church said. “These are areas that I knew and then I saw the photos and I didn’t recognize these areas. My family spends half the year in Banner Elk.” “That’s as much home as Nashville is,” he added. “It was just this shock of I know what I’m supposed to be looking at, but that doesn’t look anything like what it looked like a week ago. I don’t think I’ve come to grips with it yet.” The concert follows massive donations from country superstars like Dolly Parton, Jason Aldean, and Morgan Wallen to aid with hurricane relief efforts. The heavy metal rock band Metallica also announced they were contributing $100,000 to help those in the area. “Over the past week, Hurricane Helene has left a 500-mile path of destruction throughout Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee in its wake,” the band wrote on X. “It is an unmitigated tragedy, with over 215 lives lost and hundreds of people still unaccounted for. Historic water levels and widespread flooding across the Appalachians have left hundreds of roads inaccessible, hindering rescue efforts.” The death toll was up to at least 232 as of Monday across Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia in the wake of the hurricane. For information about the “Concert for Carolina,” visit their website for tickets, updates, details, and more. Related: Jason Aldean Makes Huge Donation To Help Hurricane Victims

Republicans in Pennsylvania and North Carolina registered nearly twice as many voters as Democrats in September, according to new data reported by Michael Pruser of Decision Desk HQ. In Pennsylvania, on the back of registration efforts from conservative activist Scott Presler, Republicans registered nearly 61,000 new voters compared to Democrats gaining nearly 36,000 voters. Presler has recently been leading an effort to register Amish voters in Pennsylvania, a group of 87,000 people in the Keystone State, many of whom have never voted. North Carolina, another vital battleground state, saw over 19,000 Republicans register to vote in September, nearly double the Democrats’ numbers in the state, according to the data. All party voter registration changes – Month of September 2024 pic.twitter.com/vI5y0NLDpa — Michael Pruser (@MichaelPruser) October 8, 2024 “WAIT! Are you telling us that Pennsylvania added more Republican voters in the last month than any other state?” Presler wrote on X. “My heart is singing a tune so loudly, I think the sun, moon, & stars can hear it!” Pennsylvania is considered by many to be the key to victory for both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump won the state on his way to the White House in 2016 and then lost the state to President Joe Biden in 2020. A poll conducted by Cygnal and shared exclusively with The Daily Wire on Monday showed Trump holding a slim lead over Harris in Pennsylvania’s all-important swing counties of Erie and Northhampton. “In a reversal from 2020, Pennsylvania’s ‘Bellwether Counties’ have narrowly swung back to Donald Trump,” the pollster wrote. “As Democrats have a 4-point party registration advantage in these counties, this is further evidence of these ancestral Democrats increasingly leaving the party of their forefathers.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Trump is currently polling ahead of Harris by less than 1 point in both Pennsylvania and North Carolina, according to the RealClearPolitics average. Republicans also saw big wins in September voter registration in other states, including Nevada, where 9,071 people registered as Republicans compared to 8,801 people registering as Democrats. In Florida, 60,436 people registered as Republicans while 36,116 people registered as Democrats. Republicans also beat Democrats in September voter registrations in the deep blue states of California, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Rhode Island.