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Vice President Kamala Harris made a get-out-the-vote pitch on the final episode of the ninth season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” set to air on Friday night. Harris emerged as the Democrat’s presumptive nominee earlier this week when Biden ended his bid for re-election and endorsed her. Biden had faced weeks of backlash and pressure to drop out of the race following the first presidential debate in which he appeared feeble and, at times, incomprehensible. “Hi, everyone. It’s Kamala Harris. Each day we are seeing our rights and freedoms under attack, including the right of everyone to be who they are, love who they love, openly and with pride,” Harris says during her appearance on RuPaul. “So, as we fight back against these attacks, let’s all remember — no one is alone. We are all in this together. And your vote is your power.” Kamala Harris makes an appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race making her the first sitting VP to do so. pic.twitter.com/o6yWppWZeW — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 25, 2024 The RuPaul clip was teased on Thursday and featured Harris flanked by show judges Michelle Visage and Jamal Sims, singer Lance Bass, actress Leslie Jones, and actor Cheyenne Jackson. The clip ends with Jones exclaiming, “You better vote!” Harris is the latest in a string of Democrats to visit the set of RuPaul. Other prominent Democratic politicians who appeared on the drag show television series are Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California. Harris is the first sitting vice president or presidential candidate to appear on the show, according to the New York Post. Biden announced via social media on Sunday that he was ending his bid for re-election just weeks away from the Democratic National Convention, releasing the delegates pledged to vote for him at the convention. Biden endorsed Harris to become the Democratic candidate for president, though Biden’s delegates are under no obligation to honor his endorsement. However, Harris appears to have secured enough delegates to ensure her ascension to the nomination. According to her campaign, she also raised more than $100 million within 36 hours of Biden dropping out of the race.

Former President Donald Trump slammed FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday after Wray suggested during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that it wasn’t clear whether Trump was hit in the ear by a bullet during an assassination attempt. Wray told the Committee that it was not clear what hit Trump, that there was “some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.” “FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!), but he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively ‘uneventful’ – Wrong!” Trump posted on social media. “That’s why he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our Country at record levels. His only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, Raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in D.C. burning American flags and spray painting over our great National Monuments – with zero retribution.” Trump continued, “No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel. The hospital called it a ‘bullet wound to the ear,’ and that is what it was. No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!” Conspiracy theorists online have claimed that Trump was hit by a piece of glass and not a bullet. An incredible image captured by New York Times photographer Doug Mills appeared to show the exact moment that the bullet struck Trump’s ear during the shooting at his campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The photo appears to show the bullet flying past Trump’s head, followed by Trump immediately reaching up and grabbing his ear and then pulling his hand away and discovering that it was covered in blood. A remarkable photo captured by my former White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills. Zoom in right above President Trump’s shoulder and you’ll see a bullet flying in the air to the right of President Trump’s head following an attempted assassination. pic.twitter.com/FqmLBCytoW — Haraz N. Ghanbari (@HarazGhanbari) July 14, 2024 A remarkable series of photos taken by @dougmillsnyt and posted on NYT, where you can see a bullet fly past Trump's head, Trump touching his right ear, and then removing his hand with blood on it: https://t.co/BlVYoEASHN pic.twitter.com/MyptVvjHaX — Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) July 14, 2024 Trump called on Wray to resign on Wednesday after he claimed that he had not noticed any cognitive decline in President Joe Biden. “I watched the Congressional Hearing today as Christopher Wray was asked the question whether or not he noticed any Cognitive Degeneration in his many conversations with Crooked Joe Biden and, despite the fact that Special Counsel Robert Hur said, effectively, that Joe Biden is INCOMPETENT, with LITTLE MEMORY, etc., Wray said that ‘it is not something I observed during my interactions with him, which were uneventful and unremarkable,’ essentially stating that he found nothing wrong, mentally or physically, with ‘Joe,'” Trump posted on social media. “If that is the case, Director Wray should resign immediately from the FBI, and stop ‘sweet talking’ Congress every time he goes up, which he loves to do, because anybody can see that Joe Biden is cognitively and physically challenged, and if you can’t see that, you sure as hell can’t be running the FBI – Unless, that is, you want to illegally lead the Raid on Mar-a-Lago,” he continued. “Wray has to resign, and NOW, for LYING TO CONGRESS!”

Travel in France was disrupted hours before the Paris Games opening ceremony on Friday when arsonists set fire to three high-speed rail lines. Numerous trains were canceled on Friday morning, and the railway company S.N.C.F. urged travelers to delay their plans, The New York Times reported. The fires started in towns nearly 100 miles outside of Paris and were set in pipes that hold cables used for signaling, according to S.N.C.F. Chief Executive Jean-Pierre Farandou. No one has claimed responsibility. “The investigation is starting, I call on everyone to be cautious,” said French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. “What we know, what we see, is that this operation was prepared, coordinated, that nerve centers were targeted, which shows a certain knowledge of the network to know where to strike.” The arson attacks happened as French authorities have been ramping up security around Paris in anticipation of the Olympic Games, with around 55,000 police and soldiers monitoring the capital city, Reuters reported. Authorities expect to see more than 300,000 spectators gather near the River Seine for the opening ceremony. Along with thousands of spectators having to change their plans, some Olympic athletes were also caught up in the commuting nightmare following the arson attacks. Two German athletes were forced to turn back after the rail line closures, and will likely miss the opening ceremony, according to the Associated Press, which cited a German news agency. Police have also taken proactive security measures before the Games, targeting 155 people deemed potential threats and essentially placing them under house arrest, according to the Times. French authorities arrested a man in May for allegedly planning on carrying out an attack outside of an Olympic soccer match in the southern town of Saint-Étienne. A Russian man was also arrested on suspicion of attempting to “destabilize the Olympic Games.” French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said that 5,000 people who had applied to work numerous different jobs during the competitions, such as security and stadium workers, were rejected when criminal records flagged them for “radicalization.” France has also requested the help of U.S. security. Officers from New York and Los Angeles, along with bomb-sniffing dogs, will be joining the security forces at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris, The Wall Street Journal reported. Bruno Le Ray, a retired general who is in charge of Olympics security, said, “The security measures and the resources deployed for the Games’ opening ceremony are unprecedented.”

France’s high-speed train system was targeted in a series of attacks Friday, wreaking havoc on the opening day of the 2024 Olympic Games. A series of “coordinated acts of malice” in France led to the cancellation and diversion of a large number of trains, while all travelers were asked to postpone their journeys and not […]

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