This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Joe Biden, out of office as of next January 20 when a new president is inaugurated, then most probably will be a retiree.

He'll have government-paid protection, multiple government pensions, the millions of dollars he's made over the years, his primary home and a massive vacation home, a long list of other government perks, all to sustain his "senior" years.

Many American seniors aren't so privileged.

And many of those seniors have been staying in the workforce longer, or actually are giving up on their retirement and returning to the workforce, because of Biden's economic policies – Bidenomics.

That would be the agendas Biden has pursued that have given Americans inflation of more than 20% since he took office, that have priced food and fuel up by 20%, 30%, even 40% since Biden's reign in the Oval Office began.

A study from caring.com reveals the tragic situation facing America's seniors because of Biden's tenure:

"1 in 3 working seniors 'unretired,' returning to work after retirement."

"52% of unretired seniors cite inflation as a primary reason they had to return to work."

"Almost half of working seniors don't plan on retiring in the next 5 years."

"14% of retired seniors say they are likely to return to work."

"1 in 15 seniors fear they could become homeless."

The survey, with the help of Pollfish, took the opinions of 1,500 Americans ages 62-85.

It found that one-third of respondents now are working either part of the time or fulltime.

The report said, "Inflation is unpleasant for nearly all consumers, but it hits especially hard when you're on a fixed income. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in May 2024 that consumer price indices for shelter and food continued to rise. According to the Senior Citizens League, adults who retired in 2000 have lost 36% of their buying power to inflation. Put another way: Retirees need over $500 more a month to maintain the lifestyles and buying power they had when they first retired."

Faced with drastic lifestyle changes, including possibly selling their homes, the seniors instead have returned to work.

"Retirement plans for many seniors have been impacted by inflation — both due to a desired timeline for retirement and a less clear template for success with their investments amid inflation's impact. These problems only compound for seniors relying on fixed income," noted John Farrell, of Caring. "This has caused seniors to stay in the workforce longer, or come out of retirement to maintain their existing lifestyle or cover growing needs such as medical expenses."

Other reasons cited by working seniors included paying medical debt, other debt, not enough savings, to learn a new skill and even to battle boredom.

Many also reported cutting back on leisure activities (60%), food (47%), and travel (57%) to cope with inflation.

And those seniors back at work report cutting back on the same items, "primarily to maintain their current living situation."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Officials for President Donald Trump's 2024 election campaign are telling officials of the European Union to mind their own business and quit interfering in America's presidential vote this year.

The comments came after an EU operative issued what amounts to a threat to Elon Musk's X platform on which Trump was scheduled for an interview with Musk on Monday evening.

"The European Union should mind their own business instead of trying to meddle in the U.S. presidential election," Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung wrote on X. "Only in Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' America can an un-Democratic foreign organization feel emboldened enough to tell this country what to do.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Gov. Gavin Newsom for years has taken California more and more left, into territory that even Californians don't like as thousands of them are moving to other locations.

One of his biggest agenda points for his tenure in office has been to promote transgenderism.

He recently signed a law that would destroy any procedure or provision in school districts in the state to notify parents if their child demands to be called a name other than their own, or want to call themselves by incorrect pronouns.

But now there's pushback on his scheme. Liberty Justice Center has filed a lawsuit challenging his plan. It is asking the court to bar California from implementing Newsom's plan, AB 1955, because the legislation violates the First Amendment.

The case already is involving the Anderson Union High School District and the Orange County Board of Education and others.

The legislation reaches far into the rights of parents, the organization reported, and "prohibits California schools from enacting parental notification policies – that is, policies that require schools to inform parents if their children ask to be referred to by a name or pronouns that differ from their gender at birth or to access sex-segregated school programs or bathrooms for the opposite gender."

Not only would it destroy a number of existing parental notification policies but would require employees to keep secrets from parents about their own minor children.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Joe Biden is now confirming he was basically strong-armed out of the 2024 presidential race after his fellow Democrats expressed serious fears about their own political futures.

During an interview with Bob Costa on CBS "Sunday Morning," Biden explained:

"Polls we had showed that it was a neck and neck race, it would have been down to the wire. But what happened was, a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races.

"And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic, you'd be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say – why did – and I thought it'd be a real distraction."

"When I ran the first time I thought of myself as being a transition president. I can't even say how old I am. It's hard for me to get out of my mouth. And but things got moving so quickly, it didn't happen. And the combination was that I thought it was a critical issue for me still, it's not a joke, maintaining this democracy," Biden said.

Top Democrats including former President Barack Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer and others reportedly urged Biden privately to exit the White House race for weeks in the wake of his disastrous, dementia-exposing debate with Donald Trump.

On July 27, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh released a report indicating he had spoken with a senior White House official who told Hersh that Obama was "deeply involved" with the coup to remove Biden. Obama reportedly called Biden on July 20, following Biden's medical emergency, and threatened him with the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to oust the president, saying he had "Kamala's approval" to force him out.

Succumbing to the pressure, Biden announced last month that he'd withdraw from the White House hunt, and immediately endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to replace him.

Regarding the remainder of the 2024 campaign, Biden told CBS: "I talk to [Harris] frequently, and by the way, I've known her running mate is a great guy. As we say, if we grew up in the same neighborhood, we'd have been friends. He's my kind of guy. He's real, he's smart. I've known him for several decades. I think it's a hell of a team."

Biden said he plans to join Harris and Tim Walz on the campaign, pouring cold water on doubts about his health or stamina as a stumbling block.

"All I can say is, 'Watch.' That's all. Look, I had a really, really bad day in that debate because I was sick. But I have no serious problem," Biden added.

Meanwhile, Pelosi has revealed she has not spoken with Biden since he left the contest, and is containing too deny she told the president to depart the race.

"Now I was really asking for a better campaign. We did not have a campaign that was on the path to victory. Members knew that in their districts," Pelosi told reporters.

During a previous appearance on MSNBC, Pelosi was asked if sh would support Biden's bid for re-election.

"It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We are all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Brit Hume has admitted he's a conservative, once remarking, "No doubt about it. But I would ask people to look at the work."

That "work" he referenced includes a 23-year career with ABC News, where he worked on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week.

He was ABC News' chief White House correspondent for years. Then he was managing editor in Washington for the Fox News Channel, and anchored Special Report with Brit Hume.

His duties then took on the title of senior political analyst for Fox and for a time he anchored On the Record.

So conservative though he may believe himself to be, his work has spanned employers from conservative to liberal and many subjects over the years.

So many people still have regard his opinion.

And his opinion of Kamala Harris? "Giggling lightweight."

On social media this week, he said, "If VP Harris were a confident, competent candidate well-prepared to be president, she would be willing, even eager, to outline her plans and explain herself to inquiring journalists. But she is not. She appears afraid she'll remind people why so many came to regard her as a giggling lightweight."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

A key member of Congress says that Kamala Harris's three-year tenure as the nation's "border czar" for the Joe Biden administration will go down as "one of the most catastrophic failures in American history."

When she was assigned by Biden to work on the "root" causes of the influx of illegal aliens after he literally trashed a long list of border security measures implemented by President Donald Trump to open the border up, the invasion exploded.

The Washington Stand said Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., delivered the "most catastrophic" verdict during an episode of Washington Watch.

"President Joe Biden turned responsibility for stemming the unprecedented flow of illegal immigrants into the United States over to Harris in a public event in March 2021, yet Republicans say she did little to nothing to honor that charge," the report explained.

"Give us the homework. Show us your work. Show us what meetings you had, what research you did. What fact-finding missions did you engage in?" Burlison charged.

Harris and her advocates, as soon as she replaced Joe Biden on the Democrat ticket, tried to claim that she never was the border czar or held those responsibilities, defying the printed and video evidence of exactly that assignment.

Now the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has begun looking into her efforts to effectuate "the worst border crisis in American history."

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Elon Musk has posted on social media a simple statement regarding his opinion about Kamala Harris.

And the leftists are melting down.

His statement wasn't complicated: "Kamala is quite literally a communist. She wants not merely equal opportunity, but equal outcomes."

Musk then cites the social media page of a group called AsTheWorldBurnz, which has documented the Harris agenda.

It includes: abolishing ICE. decriminalizing illegal crossings, defunding the police, mandatory gun buybacks (confiscations), nationalizing energy, banning fracking, banning offshore drilling, and abolishing the filibuster.

Of course, in recent days as Harris tries to create an image as a legitimate presidential candidate, she's been reversing course on some of her long-held positions. But the Twitter posting included the receipts for Harris's extremism.

The posting list also cites Harris for her demands for an EV mandate, climate equity, banning gas stoves, bailing out criminals, and worse.

Her agenda, it explains, is a repackaged version of Karl Marx, who demanded, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," the mantra for communism.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Kamala Harris frantically has been changing the wildly liberal positions she's held for years to try to cast herself now as a legitimate candidate for president, nominated by the Democrat party.

She's flip-flopped over and over on guns, fracking, the border and more.

But she doubled down on her liberal ideologies and agendas with her choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice presidential candidate.

So explains Republican nominee President Donald Trump.

His campaign released a new characterization of Harris and Walz as soon as Harris made her announcement.

The ad explains, "Kamala Harris just doubled-down on her radical vision for America by tapping another left-wing extremist as her VP nominee.

"Tim Walz will be a rubber stamp for Kamala's dangerously liberal agenda, like allowing convicted felons to walk free, embracing anti-American Green New Deal policies, and giving up control of our southern border to criminal aliens and violent drug cartels.

"Kamala Harris and Tim Walz: they're failed, weak, and dangerously liberal."

In a separate campaign email, Trump said Walz would be "the worst VP in history, even worse than Dangerously Liberal and Crooked Kamala Harris – HE'S THAT BAD."

"He'll unleash HELL ON EARTH and open our borders to the worst criminals imaginable.

"He'll rubber stamp Kamala's GREEN NEW SCAM and light TRILLIONS of dollars on fire.

"But the real killer: he's already pulled in MILLIONS in dirty cash to buy the White House!"

Brian Hughes, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, explained, "By picking Tim Walz as her running mate, Kamala Harris not only bent the knee to the radical left, she doubled down on her dangerously liberal, weak, and failed agenda.

"Walz would be a rubberstamp for Kamala to wage war on American energy, continue aiding and abetting an invasion on our border, and embolden our adversaries as the world is brought to the brink of World War III. Americans will reject the Harris-Walz ticket and choose to make American Great Again by electing President Trump!"

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who also had sought the GOP nomination, said on social media, "Harris-Walz: most left-wing ticket in American history. Minnesota was ground zero for the BLM riots of 2020. Harris egged it on and Walz sat by and let Minneapolis burn."

In fact, Walz was running Minnesota's government when the horrifically violent and costly George Floyd riots erupted and burned entire city blocks in his state.

DeSantis continued, "In 2021, Minnesotans were roughly five times more likely to move to Florida than vice versa. They were fleeing a state that, under Gov. Tim Walz, turned its back on law and order, increased taxes, and imposed unscientific coronavirus restrictions, harming children and destroying businesses. Walz is an unbridled leftist, an Ilhan Omar-style Democrat that puts ideology above all else."

Social media even pointed out, immediately, that Walz's wife is a hard-left progressive, demanding that criminals be given "as many chances as [they] need" despite the fact that offends "law and order" Americans.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

A video of Kamala Harris trying to explain data storage in 'the cloud' is going viral, as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president suggests there's an actual cloud in the sky that holds the information.

In the video, Harris explains: "No longer are you necessarily keeping those private files in some file cabinet that's locked in the basement of the house," she said.

"It's on your laptop, and it's then – therefore – up here in this cloud that exists above us. Right?" she said, holding her hand up in the air and looking skyward.

"It's no longer in a physical place."

The 21-second clip, posted by comedian and filmmaker Eric Abbenante, has already received some 10 million views since it was published Saturday afternoon.

Filmmaker and conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza noted: "Kamala Harris explains cloud storage. If she doesn't make it to the White House, I'm sure MIT is ready to make her a full professor."

Other commenters stated:

"This isn't satire."

"All our data is up there in the cloud – and then when the sun shines through the cloud, our data becomes nice and yellow, like the sun, and like a yellow school bus."

A report at OfficeChai stated: "The U.S. vice president appeared to be laboring under the misapprehension – that's quite common among non-technical people – that cloud storage refers to literally storing data in the clouds.

"This is of course untrue – cloud storage refers to data that's stored in specialized data centers that are very much present on terra firma, not in the skies. And while Harris believes that cloud data is not stored in a physical place, the data is stored in massive data centers that are dotted across the world."

The report added Kamala "is not only the American vice president, but also the U.S. government's 'AI czar,' and is tasked with formulating regulations relating to Artificial Intelligence. And the fact that she believes that cloud storage appears to occur in the clouds 'above us' shows that no matter how developed the country, competency – and basic technical literacy – among politicians can be hard to find."

The explanation by Harris even caught the attention of the satire website The Babylon Bee, which posted a spoof news article, headlined: "Kamala Harris Spends Flight Looking For Cloud Where Her Data Is Stored."

The parody indicates:

As she traveled across the country on Air Force 2 this morning, Vice President Kamala Harris surveyed the clouds, wondering which one was storing all of her data.

"It's just so incredible they figured out how to store data in clouds. I wonder which one is mine?" said Harris, scanning the horizon. "Gosh, it could be any of them."

While in-flight, Harris reportedly tried saving data from her laptop onto the cloud to see if she could witness the data being launched into the sky. "Let's try again, let me just press 'save to cloud' here. Did you see anything?? Aw, shoot. I keep missing it!" sighed Harris. "Gee, I wonder how they tell the cloud to send the data back to my laptop? Science is amazing."

According to sources, the enchantment wore off suddenly as Harris became deeply concerned about what happened to her data on sunny days. "Where does it go? What if my cloud floats all the way to China?" asked Harris to bewildered aides. "That could be catastrophic. Call the Pentagon! Why has nothing been done to ensure my cloud stays secure? We must act quickly!"

Kamala Harris Spends Flight Looking For Cloud Where Her Data Is Stored https://t.co/XXvdVud7kg

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 4, 2024

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

The Supreme Court is being asked to "rein in" reckless police who are escalating ordinary encounters with citizens to the point they kill someone.

It is the Rutherford Institute that has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a pending case on the topic.

The institute explains, "For instance, an Illinois sheriff's deputy was charged with first-degree murder for shooting and killing Sonya Massey after she called 9-1-1 for help at her home. A year earlier in Ohio, a pregnant mother was killed by a police officer in a grocery-store parking lot.

"Some federal courts analyze such events under the 'moment-of-threat doctrine,' which has contributed to a climate in which police unnecessarily escalate situations over relatively minor crimes and then respond to the perceived danger with deadly force," the organization said.

In the case Barnes v. Felix, the institute is calling on the justices "to overturn the 'moment-of-threat doctrine,' warning that it encourages police to act recklessly with impunity."

That ideology, the briefing argues, actually is in violation of established Fourth Amendment precedents for determining what constitutes reasonable use of force.

"In an age when police are increasingly militarized, weaponized and protected by the courts, run-of-the mill encounters between police and citizens are now inherently dangerous for any individual unlucky enough to be in a situation where police are inclined to respond to unsubstantiated fears for their safety and perceived challenges to their 'authority' by drawing and using their weapons," said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.

He's also the author of "Battlefield America: The War on the American People."

"Unfortunately, this mindset that any challenge to police authority is a threat that needs to be 'neutralized' is a dangerous one that is part of a greater nationwide trend that sets law enforcement officers beyond the reach of the Fourth Amendment. Equally problematic is the trend in the courts that acquits officers involved in such shootings, letting them off with barely a slap to the wrists," he continued.

The current dispute developed this way, the institute reported:

In the afternoon of April 28, 2016, Harris County Texas Officer Roberto Felix initiated a traffic stop of Ashtian Barnes due to a report by the Toll Road Authority that the license plate number on his vehicle had outstanding toll violations. When asked for proof of insurance, Barnes explained that the car had been rented a week earlier by his girlfriend and the documentation might be in the trunk. The officer claimed he smelled marijuana and ordered Barnes to open the trunk. A few seconds after Barnes opened the trunk, the car's blinker toward the side of the Tollway to which Barnes pulled over turned off for about ten seconds. Once the same blinker turned back on, Felix shouted at Barnes not to move, stepped onto the door sill where the driver-side door was open, and shoved his gun into Barnes's head. At that point, the car started to move, and Felix fired two shots into the car, killing Barnes.

When Barnes's parents sued, contending that Barnes did not pose a threat justifying deadly force, especially because Felix jumped onto the vehicle, the trial court dismissed it.

The 5th Circuit Appeals court affirmed under that now-challenged "moment-of-threat" ideology.