Former President Trump campaigned in Wisconsin on Wednesday in a garbage truck following Joe Biden's remarks about his predecessor's supporters. ... Read full Story
Former President Trump took to the cab of a garbage truck in Wisconsin late Wednesday as he sought to keep the focus on President Biden’s misstep the previous day. Biden appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage” during a video call with Voto Latino on Tuesday. The remark outraged conservatives, even as the White House disputed the... ... Read full Story
The White House claims President Biden would never speak badly about Trump supporters, but his history of bashing MAGA Republicans tells another story. ... Read full Story
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. gave his backing to former President Trump on Wednesday, while bodybuilder and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. ... Read full Story
Veterans 4 America First Institute's Darin Selnick responded to a recent Pew Research poll showing former President Trump garnering a majority of veteran support nationwide. ... Read full Story
Fox News Digital reached out to six Democratic U.S. Senate candidates in key swing states for comment on President Biden's recent remarks calling Trump supporters "garbage." ... Read full Story
Nearly a dozen former "Apprentice" contestants have issued a public letter backing Donald Trump for president in response to a letter from fellow alumni supporting Kamala Harris. ... Read full Story
The Biden administration announced $2.4 billion in funding for new rail projects Tuesday. Officials are hoping the investment will spur new job opportunities for Americans as they undertake 122 rail improvement projects in 41 states and the District of Columbia, according to a release. “Each project advances a future where our supply chains are stronger, passenger rail... ... Read full Story
EXCLUSIVE: Republicans accuse the White House of releasing a false transcript of President Biden’s remarks in which he referred to supporters of former President Trump as “garbage." ... Read full Story
The White House on Wednesday sought to contain the damage from President Biden’s comments a day earlier suggesting former President Trump's supporters were garbage, remarks the president’s team continued to argue were being misinterpreted. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was hit with several questions at the top of her briefing about whether Biden had made a... ... Read full Story
A Pennsylvania court issued an injunction extending mail-in ballot applications in Bucks County by one day following a Trump campaign lawsuit. ... Read full Story
Fifteen attorneys general called on congressional leaders to support a national ban on price gouging in a letter sent Wednesday. The letter — addressed to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) — expressed concern about the lack of... ... Read full Story
The suspect in the shooting of a Jewish man on his way to a Chicago synagogue is a Mauritanian illegal immigrant who was released into the U.S. last year ... Read full Story
Former President Trump said the Biden-Harris administration has treated the American people "like garbage" during a rally Wednesday afternoon in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. ... Read full Story
Republicans in Senate races, like Dave McCormick, are highlighting President Biden trashing Trump supporters as "garbage" in the final days of the election cycle. ... Read full Story
Donald Trump during a rally Wednesday hit back over remarks made by President Biden in which he appeared to disparage the former president's supporters, telling the crowd, "They've treated you like garbage." “This week, Kamala has been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history, and now speaking on a call... ... Read full Story
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Wednesday an allegation about former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “reported collection of a whale skull” was “unfounded.” In an emailed statement to The Hill, NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) said that in late August, “NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement received a... ... Read full Story
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has provided more than $190 million in aid to North Carolina, as the battleground state continues to recover from devastation left by Hurricane Helene. FEMA has handed out more than $194 million to individuals and households in the Tar Heel State as of Wednesday, according to data released by... ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 30, 2024 is:
syncretism \SING-kruh-tiz-um\ noun
Syncretism refers to the combining of different forms of belief or practice.
// As a scholar of religion, Laila is especially interested in the syncretism of Manichaeism, which was influenced by Christianity, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism.
"Explore the archaeological wonders of Chavín de Huantar, where history comes alive. This village, steeped in cultural richness, provides a journey into Peru's ancient past. 'The village of Chavín de Huántar is an example of how tourism can foster syncretism between religious traditions and ancestral cultural elements, generating experiences with a positive impact for the population and improving the quality of life of its residents,' said the UNWTO [United Nations World Tourism Organization]." — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2023
Did you know?
The ancient Greeks used the term synkrētismos to refer to Cretan cities allied in opposition to a common enemy. In the early 17th century, English speakers adopted the term in the anglicized form syncretism to refer to the union of different religious beliefs. Three centuries later, lexicographers of the 1909 edition of Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language added a new definition of syncretism ("the union or fusion into one or two or more originally different inflectional forms, as of two cases"), but this specialized sense is rarely encountered outside of the field of linguistics. Some related terms that you are more likely to encounter are syncretize ("to attempt to unite and harmonize"), syncretist ("one who advocates syncretism"), and syncretic and syncretistic ("characterized or brought about by syncretism").