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An air raid on Beirut left at least 22 people dead and dozens of others wounded after Israeli airstrikes pummeled neighborhoods in Lebanon, according to the Associated Press.The latest attack, the deadliest one in over a year of war between the embattled countries, further escalated the conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants.Lebanon’s health ministry told the AP that the air strikes targeted two residential buildings in separate neighborhoods at the same time, demolishing the eight-story building and taking out the lower floors of the other.The Israeli military told the AP it was investigating the reported strikes. Israeli airstrikes have become more prevalent in Beirut’s tightly packed southern suburbs, where Hezbollah bases a large portion of its operations.ISRAEL HIT WITH MULTIPLE TERRORIST ATTACKS AS HEZBOLLAH ROCKET KILLS 2 ISRAELIS WHILE WALKING DOGSThe attack came the same day as Israeli forces fired on United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon and wounded two of them, the AP reported. Hezbollah has expanded its rocket fire to more populated areas deeper inside Israel, causing few casualties but interrupting daily life for people in the country. 1 YEAR AFTER HEZBOLLAH STRIKES, ISRAEL REINFORCES TROOPS AND QUESTIONS MOUNT OVER ‘LIMITED’ OPERATIONThe attacks across Israel come as the Jewish nation finds itself embroiled in multiple conflicts with Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Biden spoke on Wednesday to discuss Israel’s anticipated retaliatory attack against Iran following its massive missile strike on Israel last week, reported Israeli news outlets. NETANYAHU CONFIRMS NASRALLAH’S REPLACEMENT DEAD: ‘THOUSANDS OF TERRORISTS’ KILLEDThe Biden administration has grown increasingly frustrated with Israel over its withholding of security details and had previously urged it not to launch an incursion into Lebanon against Hezbollah over concerns it could prompt a broader regional war. The White House has urged Israel not to hit Iranian nuclear or oil facilities and to keep its retaliation “proportionate,” though the administration has not specified what this type of attack would look like. Roughly 1.2 million people have been displaced in Lebanon since the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel escalated last month. More than 400,000 people have fled Lebanon into Syria, and roughly 1,400 people have been killed based on numbers provided by the Lebanese Health Ministry and the number of combatants believed to have been killed by Israel. Some 70,000 Israelis have been forced out of the country’s northern communities since the start of the conflict. Fox News Digital’s Caitlin McFall and The Associated Press contributed to this report. 



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So, The New York Times now claims that even this new so-called “positive masculinity” of progressive men sucks, too. The article’s written by a feminist named Ruth Whippman. Perfect name, if you ask me. I guess Sarah Ballcrusher was taken. So we can forget toxic masculinity. Now, even positive masculinity is the problem. “After the cartoon supervillainy of Donald Trump and the smarmy misogyny of J.D. Vance, the positive masculinity of Walz and his ilk is a joyful relief. But for the next generation of boys, we might do better to ditch the masculinity rhetoric altogether.” I know. She adds, “the idea that boys must use masculinity as a constant reference point for their own value is harmful to them and others.” Whatever, lady. But look, what do you expect from the mindset that thinks women can sport a 5:00 shadow but then mock women who want to be good wives and mothers? They can no longer define a woman, so what the hell do they know about men? KAMALA HARRIS’ HUSBAND DOUG EMHOFF ‘RESHAPED THE PERCEPTION OF MASCULINITY’: MSNBC HOSTSadly, the left’s only real masculinity these days is coming from their admirals. But look, having a liberal feminist write about masculinity is like having a vegan review The Outback Steakhouse. She’ll make everyone in the place miserable and you can’t trust her with a knife. But it is funny, after 300,000 years of functional biology featuring both male and female organisms in just the last few decades, we have thoughtful experts deciding that all of that is wrong. What an about-face. It’s not unlike Howard Stern.I mean, talk about a transition. On Tuesday, he conducted an interview with Kamala Harris that was so simpering and feminine that I got my period while listening to it. You should hear what keeps him up at night.HOWARD STERN: This is what keeps me up at night. I don’t understand how my fellow Americans. I don’t even understand how this election is close. And yes, I’m voting for you, but I would also vote for that wall over there.Well, he’s half right. We do need a wall, you know, to keep out gang members, fentanyl dealers, human traffickers and Ana Navarro. What’s funny, though, is that Stern actually thought that was a compliment. Stern has become such a wussified sycophant he doesn’t realize that telling Kamala that he’d vote for a wall is telling her that he knows she’s as dumb as one. I mean, not to mention Trump is the wall candidate, not Cackles McKneepads. Stern got even more pathetic, wondering how she doesn’t nap.HOWARD STERN: When you say you don’t nap, I get it. Because, like, what you’ve taken on is extraordinarily difficult. And I mean, do you feel the pressure of the moment in the sense that, like when I met you out in the hall, I said, I’m really nervous because I want this to go well for you. I want it to go well for the country.HOWARD STERN SAYS HE ‘HATES’ ANYONE THAT VOTES FOR TRUMP: ‘THEY ARE STUPID, I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THEM’Hold on. I need a minute.All right, we’re back. Now, remember, Stern used to throw baloney slices at strippers’ butts. With accuracy, I might add. Now, he’s worried the possible leader of the free world can’t handle his verbal foot rub. I wonder if he used to get this nervous for the strippers before he’d spank them on their bare a**es with a dead fish. Here’s Stern on anyone daring to poke a little fun at Kamala.HOWARD STERN: Even when I watched them on Saturday Night Live with the… Where they have Maya Rudolph playing you. I hate it. I don’t want you being made fun of. I…there’s too much at stake. I believe the entire future of this country right now– I mean, as America, land of the free, home of the brave, I think it’s literally on the line.So, a guy who’s supposed to be funny for a living now claims her candidacy is too important to joke about. This is a guy who once joked right after the Columbine massacre that the killers should have raped the students before killing them. Not that I like that, Stern, but this pendulum swing from saying the most tasteless thing in the universe to putting your balls in a tic tac container, you’ve got to wonder what’s going on here. It’s striking that the king of the most misogynistic humor ever now turns into a breathless **** over a progressive, hopelessly shallow candidate. But maybe that’s the explanation. This is Stern’s self-imposed penance for subjugating women to demoralizing stunts, capitalizing on desperate females, thirsting for attention, even if it’s from an oily paddle striking their bare a**es. True, much of Stern’s transformation is based mainly on a delusional hatred for Trump but it’s also coming from a bottomless hatred for himself and his past. And he’s projected his loathing onto Trump, which gains him accolades from his Hamptons neighbors and his new pal Jimmy Kimmel, who’s also doing penance for his sins of the past. But is Howard simply redefining masculinity? And why is it always the male lefties who are so desperate to get rid of masculinity entirely? It’s guilt and self-preservation. Because scrape beneath the surface of any liberal male and what do you find? A creep. Terrified of his priggish past. Piggish past. I mean, not priggish. What is priggish? And that fear turns them into obedient mouthpieces for a completely unqualified candidate. They desperately forfeit logic and reason. And with that, all traces of masculinity. And so, Howard, you’ve been in therapy for, what, 50 years? And I just diagnosed your problem in one monologue. No worries. The first visit is free.



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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker endorsed Josh Hawley in his senatorial re-election bid, praising the former Missouri attorney general for being a “family” and “godly” man. Butker and Hawley made a joint appearance Thursday on “The Ingraham Angle,” and the NFL star said since he had a bye week, he wanted to hit the campaign trail. “We decided to stay in Kansas City, and I thought, who else would I want to hit the campaign trail with than Sen. Josh Hawley, who we’ve spent the last several years together forming this relationship, and he’s a family man, he’s a godly man, and there’s no other person I’d want to support to be the first candidate that I’m endorsing,” Butker said.Hawley, who’s running against Democratic candidate Lucas Kunce, said it’s an “honor” to have Butker’s endorsement and to have the Chiefs kicker out on the campaign trail with him. “This is a guy who’s not afraid to speak the truth, who’s not afraid to say that we have got to stand on the principles that this country was founded on. And when the left came after him in such a crazy, nutty way this last spring, he didn’t give an inch. And we need more of that in the United States of America,” Hawley told “The Ingraham Angle.”Butker came under fire earlier this year over remarks he made about women and their careers during a commencement address at Benedictine College. He praised the female graduates for their accomplishments, but said they’ve been told “diabolical lies” and should embrace becoming a “homemaker.” HARRISON BUTKER’S FAITH-DRIVEN COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT BENEDICTINE COLLEGE: READ THE SPEECH HERE”Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,” Butker said at the time. He told Fox News host Laura Ingraham he’s “saddened” some people took his words in a “poor manner.” “I was trying to speak life for so many women that have dedicated their life to being the homemaker, being the one that raises the children, and it’s a beautiful role, but it’s not a role that should be diminished,” he explained. “There’s nothing shameful if you are a woman and you want to spend time with your family and raise your children, so it’s not putting down anyone who maybe wants to go get a great education and have a career, but it’s more talking about how beautiful it is for women to maybe just step aside and prioritize their family and spend time with their children and raise their family. And that’s what I was just trying to speak love about.”RILEY GAINES STARS IN HAWLEY CAMPAIGN AD HITTING MISSOURI DEM’S SUPPORT FOR ‘RADICAL TRANS AGENDA’Ingraham switched gears, asking the Chiefs kicker if he’s supporting former President Trump in November, but Butker said he’s only supporting the presidential candidate who is “going to be the most pro-life.” “Is there any equivocation about supporting Trump?” Ingraham pressed.”I think you have to vote for whoever is going to be the most pro-life,” Butker responded. “And we have to be prayerful men that put God first, and I think that’s what’s going to be best for our country.” 



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PITTSBURGH, PA – On the campaign trail for the first time for Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Barack Obama repeatedly took aim at former President Trump on Thursday at a large rally in arguably the most important battleground state in the 2024 election.Pointing to the margin-of-error race between Harris and Trump with less than four weeks to go until Election Day and early voting already underway across much of the country, Obama acknowledged that “this election’s going to be tight, because there are a lot of Americans who are still struggling out there.””What I cannot understand is how anyone would think that Donald Trump will shake things up in a way that’s good for you Pennsylvania,” the former president emphasized, to cheers from the crowd.Obama, referring to polls that indicate many Americans think the economy was better during Trump’s four years in the White House than under the current administration, claimed that “the reason some people think” times were better was “because it was my economy. We had 75 straight months of job growth that I handed over to him. It wasn’t something that he did.”TRUMP AND BIDEN TRADE FIRE AS POLITICAL STORM OVER HURRICANE RAGES “Just in case everybody has a hazy memory… he didn’t do nothing except those big tax cuts,” which Obama argued only benefited wealthy Americans and big businesses.Obama, who remains extremely popular with Democrats eight years after leaving the White House, argued that “there is absolutely no evidence that this man thinks about anybody but himself.”And he reiterated that “Donald Trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.”CHECK OUT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLING IN THE 2024 ELECTION Obama jabbed at Trump for his constant attempts to “sell you stuff. Who does that? Selling you gold sneakers and a $100,000 watch and most recently a Trump bible…. you could not make this stuff up. If you saw it on Saturday Night Live, you’d say ‘well that’s going too far.’ Well, he’s doing that. It’s crazy.”And Obama stressed that “we don’t need a president who will make problems worse to just to make his own political circumstances better. We need a president who actually cares about solving problems and making your life better and that’s what Kamala Harris will do.”During the rally, Obama also discussed manhood and had a message for male voters who may be attracted to Trump’s perceived strength. “Real strength is about helping people who need it, and standing up for those who can’t always stand up for themselves. That is what we should want for our daughters and sons.”And he emphasized that “is what I want to see in a President of the United States of America.”Asked for a response, Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News “If anyone cared about what Obama says, Hillary Clinton would’ve been president.”CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS POWER RANKINGS The choice of Pittsburgh as Obama’s first stop was no surprise. It’s the largest city and Democratic stronghold in Pennsylvania, which is the biggest prize of the seven key battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 White House victory over Trump and will likely determine if Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election.Obama isn’t the only former Democratic president to hit the campaign trail on behalf of the vice president.The Harris campaign announced that former President Bill Clinton, a longtime Arkansas governor who later won election and re-election to the White House, will stop Sunday and Monday in parts of Georgia before heading on to North Carolina later in the week for a bus tour. It’s part of Clinton’s efforts to court rural voters in the two crucial southeastern battleground states.Obama and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, officially endorsed Harris for president in July, five days after President Biden ended his 2024 re-election in a blockbuster announcement. The former president made the case for Harris during a headlining address at the Democratic National Convention in August in his hometown of Chicago, saying she “is ready for the job.”Harris and Obama’s friendship goes back 20 years to when they met on the campaign trail while he was running for Senate in Illinois. And Harris was an early supporter of his 2008 presidential campaign and even knocked doors for him in Iowa ahead of the caucus, the Harris campaign noted.While Thursday’s rally was Obama’s first appearance on behalf on the presidential campaign trail, he’s helped raise $80 million for the Democratic nominee, including headlining a top-dollar fundraising last month in Los Angeles, according to Harris aides.Obama aides and the Harris campaign say the Pittsburg rally is the first of numerous coordinated “get out the vote” stops by the former president across the country in the closing stretch of the 2024 White House campaign.They add that Obama will also sign additional fundraising emails, record candidate-specific ads and robocalls for down-ballot races.Hours before Obama arrived in Pennsylvania, Sen. Bob Casey became the latest Democrat in a key Senate race that could determine whether the party holds on to its razor-thin majority in the chamber to release a new ad featuring the former president.Casey introduced the former president at the rally, and the former president repeatedly praised the senator.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks and former Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan faced off in a debate on Thursday night ahead of the Senate election in Maryland. In a particularly notable response, Alsobrooks aligned with some of the more progressive lawmakers in the Democrat Party, telling the moderator that she would support packing the Supreme Court. “I agree with either increasing the number of justices or term limits, yes,” she said. ‘OUT OF MONEY’: WHISTLEBLOWERS ALLEGE LACK OF SECRET SERVICE FUNDS, DELAYED PAYMENTS, TOP SENATOR REVEALSHogan ridiculed this in his answer, criticizing both parties for “trying to change the rules so they can pack the court.””What I did was find the most qualified judges, regardless of what party they were,” he said. Striking a tone similar to that of outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., Hogan added, “if you can’t find one person to cross over and vote for a Democratic judge or a Republican judge, I’m not going to support them.”Manchin had developed a reputation for bucking his party during his time as a Democrat. FOR WISCONSIN DEMS, A 2024 WIN IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATE IS YEARS IN THE MAKINGDemocrats are favored to win the Maryland Senate seat, but with Hogan’s popularity in the state and his distancing from GOP party leaders, the margins appear too close for comfort. Alsobrooks also backed scrapping the legislative filibuster to accomplish Democrat priorities such as mandating abortion access or loosening voting requirements. The county executive took several opportunities on Thursday to suggest Hogan’s election would give Republicans the Senate majority, regardless of whether he personally disagrees with them or would vote differently. However, top political handicappers favor Republicans to take the Senate majority, with expected wins in West Virginia and Montana, regardless of what happens in the Maryland race. She further questioned why Hogan would run as a Republican and not as an independent if he disagreed on so many key issues. SEE IT: WISCONSIN DAIRY FARMER SAYS ‘NO QUESTION’ TRUMP ADMIN WAS ‘MUCH BETTER’ THAN BIDEN-HARRISBut Hogan pushed back, explaining that he thinks Washington, D.C., needs lawmakers who will challenge their own party. “I’ve stood up to my party. I’ll stand up to either party,” he said. “I think we need mavericks in Washington that aren’t going to just do exactly what the party bosses tell them to do.””I’m not a MAGA, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell person,” Hogan stressed. While the former governor emphasized that he would support the right to abortion and policies like the negotiated border bill that Republicans opposed, Alsobrooks claimed that such bills likely wouldn’t get votes in a Republican-controlled Senate. WISCONSIN SENATE RACE SHIFTS TO ‘TOSS UP’ BY HANDICAPPER AS TAMMY BALDWIN FIGHTS FOR RE-ELECTIONThe majority leader of the Senate notably controls the agenda in the upper chamber.In a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll late last month, Alsobrooks led Hogan 51% to 40% in the traditionally deep blue state. The survey was conducted between Sept. 19 and Sept. 23 and had a sample size of 1,012 registered voters. The margin of error is +/-3.5 percentage points.The Fox News Power Rankings rated the Maryland Senate race “Leans Democrat” during the same time period. Top political handicapper the Cook Political Report considers Maryland’s open seat to be “Likely Democrat.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.



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