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The vice presidential debate hosted this week by CBS News and broadcast nationally on TV is the first and only scheduled of its kind between Democratic pick Tim Walz and Republican select JD Vance.

Following a heated debate between presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump last month, Statista's Anna Fleck notes that this round went remarkably smoothly, with the two nominees focusing largely on policy rather than personal attacks of one another.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange this week traveled to Strasbourg, France for his first ever public remarks since gaining his freedom in June, after his many years-long ordeal in the Ecuadorian Embassy and then Belmarsh Prison in London. His speech was given Tuesday before the legal affairs and human rights committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The assembly subsequently issued a formal resolution recognizing Assange as a 'political prisoner' and (more…)

Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices.

One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges across the country, carrying about 167 million vehicles each day, are in disrepair.

It is estimated that 300 million people could face power outages  (more…)