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As someone who covered storm water issues for years, I know it's impossible to prepare for the kind of storm we just saw. But it doesn't help that North Carolina's Republican legislators, who get strong support from developers, routinely cut corners on building standards that can mitigate the damage and make recovery easier.

Donald Trump loyalist and MAGA sweetheart, former Colorado county clerk, will have 9 long years in prison to think about all the crimes she committed in service of a man who will not waste one minute more thinking about her. Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk charged with numerous crimes related to her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election, was sentenced to incarceration on Thursday.

Amid Western sanctions that make large money transfers and bank payments difficult, Russia uses an old-fashioned method to help keep its economy afloat: Barter. Can a currency based on potatoes be far behind? Source: Moscow Times Companies from Russia and Pakistan have launched a barter trade mechanism, an agreement to this effect was signed on the sidelines of the first Pakistan-Russia trade and investment forum in Moscow on Tuesday, the TASS news agency reported on Tuesday. Russian company Astarta-Agrotrading will export chickpeas and lentils in exchange for tangerines and rice from Pakistani Meskay + Femtee Trading Company. Under the agreement, the Russian company will supply 20,000 tons of chickpeas, while the Pakistani company will supply 20,000 tons of rice, the agreement says. Under another contract, the Russian side will supply 15,000 tons of chickpeas and 10,000 tons of lentils in exchange for 15,000 tons of tangerines and 10,000 tons of potatoes. "Russia and Pakistan are experiencing certain difficulties in making mutual payments.

Donald J. Trump has promised many things that have yet to come to fruition and likely won't. Age became a talking point in reelecting President Joe Biden. Still, if elected, Donald would be the oldest President by the end of his term, and his mental decline has been displayed on numerous occasions—on Truth Social and whenever a microphone is in front of him. In late August, Trump said following a would-be assassin's attempt that he would "gladly" release his medical records.

Speaking in a rally in Michigan today, JD Vance told the rally-goers that even the Mar-A-Lago gardener gave input into who Trump selected to be the vice president candidate. Vance is trying to keep promoting his idiotic "we don't believe or listen to the experts" routine which makes his choice more ridiculous. VANCE: You know, it's funny when the president, the only conversation that he and I ever had about whether I might become his vice presidential nominee was the Saturday before the convention. If you remember, that was the Saturday where he was shot in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

They're from the government and they're here to help themselves.