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Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed in a new interview that when his son Hunter was a board member of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while he was in office, no one informed him that it could pose a problem.

December 11 2019 Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent Reading 1 Is 40:25-31 To whom can you liken me as an equal?says the Holy One.Lift up your eyes on highand see who has created these things:He leads out their army and numbers them,calling them all by name.By his great might and the strength of his powernot one of them is missing!Why, O Jacob, do you say,and declare, O Israel,"My way is hidden from the LORD,and my right is disregarded by my God"? Do you not knowor have you not heard?The LORD is the eternal God,creator of the ends...

The Epoch Times sponsored a forum to discuss the current state of U.S.–China relations including Dr. Dana Cheng, a founder of the newspaper, and Salem Radio Network talk show host 'Sebastian Gorka', a former adviser to President Donald Trump....The narrative on the China threat may now be back in the hands of the US. Several panelists described China seeking to become the world hegemon, displacing the US. The result would give the world a far more authoritarian model of governance, with the other nations of the world becoming dependent on China. Gorka said Trump has been ahead of the time...

A crowd gives a standing ovation after members of the Chesapeake City Council voted to designate Chesapeake as a "Second Amendment constitutional city" on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (Kaitlin McKeown/Virginia Media) A line of around 1,200 people led from the steps of Chesapeake’s city hall, past the building and into a nearby parking lot. Bright orange “Guns SAVE Lives” stickers adorned the shirts of nearly every person standing in the line and three men stood in front of the building holding Gadsden flags printed with “Don’t Tread on Me.” Their efforts were rewarded when Chesapeake City Council members unanimously...

December 9, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – LifeSite has been locked out of Twitter for “violating” its “rules” after tweeting an article about Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv, a transgender activist who recently complained that gynecologists wouldn’t see him as a patient. Yaniv is famous for taking 15 beauticians to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal over their refusal to wax his genitals, a battle he ultimately lost. Twitter gave LifeSiteNews the option to delete the tweet and reactivate our account immediately. But instead we have launched an appeal of the decision. Twitter claimed that the tweet violated its rules, but didn’t specify which...

Michael Bloomberg said the current Democratic candidates don’t stand a chance against President Donald Trump.....Despite House Democrats’ impeachment inquiries against the president, “I think Trump is getting stronger and I think he would just eat alive the candidates,” .... He didn’t include himself. Those candidates “don’t have plans that I think are practical, that can be implemented. They don’t have management experience and the president’s job is a management job,” Bloomberg remarked. “This is not a job where you take training wheels, this is the future of the world—the free world,” he added. “And you need people with experience.”

Philip McKeon, best known for playing Tommy Hyatt on "Alice," has died. He was 55. The actor died in Texas on Tuesday after a long battle with illness, McKeon's spokesman Jeff Ballard told People magazine. “We are all beyond heartbroken and devastated over Phil’s passing,” said Ballard in a statement to the outlet. “His wonderful sense of humor, kindness and loyalty will be remembered by all who crossed his path in life.” McKeon starred in "Alice" from 1976 to 1985 alongside Linda Lavin. The show won eight Golden Globes, and was based on Martin Scorsese's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."...

NEW YORK, December 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A proposed law in the state of New York will make it compulsory for all public universities to provide abortion pills to students at the taxpayers’ expense. State assemblyman Harvey Epstein of the East Side of Manhattan introduced the bill to the New York State Assembly on November 25. The bill states: "Each public college student health center shall make available to all students abortion by medication techniques onsite. This service shall be provided by medical professionals on staff at such student health centers or by a third party who has contracted with...

A Virginia sheriff has vowed to deputize residents in his county if the new Democratic-led legislature enacts gun control measures. Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins made the vow during a Board of Supervisors meeting last week in which the panel unanimously agreed to declare the county a Second Amendment Constitutional County. “Every Sheriff and Commonwealth Attorney in Virginia will see the consequences if our General Assembly passes further unnecessary gun restrictions,” Jenkins wrote on Facebook before the meeting. “I plan to properly screen and deputize thousands of our law-abiding citizens to protect their constitutional right to own firearms,” he added....

Downtown San Diego — Jane Elliott is used to speaking her mind. At 85, the fiery anti-racism activist doesn’t wait for an introduction before stealing the microphone at a packed San Diego event Saturday. “Can I say something yet?” she asks the event’s organizer, the Rev. Shane Harris, who’s been delivering announcements and awards at the podium for the past half hour. The People’s Alliance for Justice is holding a reception to honor Women’s History Month, shining a spotlight on five women who are leading social justice in San Diego. But Elliott is the headliner.

his weekend, police officers in Philadelphia hosted a gun turn-in event at two locations in the City of Brotherly love. Citizens were invited to come and turn in any firearms they had, no questions asked and without danger of facing prosecution. Despite setting up shop at multiple locations and publicizing the event on the radio, television and social media, the total number of weapons surrendered was… six. But the event’s organizers still said they were “pleased” with the results.

A White House petition to “impeach Nancy Pelosi for crimes of treason” has collected an amazing 285,000 signatures after going viral. The “We the People” petition presented on the official White House site, was begun by Georgia citizen Marjorie Taylor Greene not long ago this year. PETITION AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE! Taylor blames the Democratic House speaker for committing treason and requires for her impeachment. The petition has kept on developing and arrived at 285k signatures on Tuesday – that day Pelosi and her House Democrats formally presented two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.

This video begins with an important warning not to watch or subscribe to the YouTube channels that are using Amir's image, name, and video messages. They did not even ask for permission, could possibly monetize the videos, and worst of all could very easily distort the instruction or even add their own erroneous words to it. The heart of this video is the excellent roundup of growing belligerence in the Middle East, now peripherally involving Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece and the rest of Europe, as well as Israel, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Libya, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia. And not least of...

Gun violence continues to be a growing problem in Philadelphia and more and more young people are being impacted. So far this year, 110 children have been injured or killed as a result of gun violence. On Tuesday night, community members gathered at a town hall meeting aimed at fighting gun violence that’s striking the city’s youth. It’s become a tipping point for many young people throughout Philadelphia. So now a few dozen young people are gathering in hopes of curbing the violence plaguing those under 18. “We have to wake them up and get them in the rooms to...

Some polls in recent weeks have provided an encouraging picture for President Donald Trump of strengthening support among black voters. I like these kinds of reports. But I wonder how much of reality they are really capturing. The Wall Street Journal, for instance, reports on new polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation showing outsize support from blacks for "Medicare for All." According to this report, 74% percent of blacks compared with 69% of Hispanics and 44% of whites support a single-payer health care plan. Even when told that there would be a high likelihood that such a plan would mean...

Texas News Studio, is reporting a possible NK launch preparation underway.

A man from Deerfield Beach, Florida, faces a potential of five years in prison after being convicted for defying the state’s “red flag” law, which allows authorities to confiscate weapons from those deemed to be at high risk of committing a crime. The case is the first conviction under the state’s relatively new gun law, which was passed in part as a response to the horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Since the red flag law went into effect in March 2018, Florida has seized guns from over 2,000 residents of the state. But...

The 270,000 square foot installation was built in the mid-1980s for Vickers Shipbuilding. Shortly after opening in 1986, it garnered the nickname "Maggie's Farm" as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a staunch supporter of making the upgrade from the Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) system to the Trident SLBM system and building the submarines that were required to accommodate it. 10 weeks of patrol the 100 strong crew of an Astute-class submarine eats 18,000 sausages and 4,200 Weetabix.

ROME - In a new interview, Syrian President Bashar al Assad responded publicly to a letter he received from Pope Francis over the summer voicing concern about civilian casualties in the country’s ongoing civil war. Speaking to Italian journalist Monica Maggioni of the RAI 24 news site, Assad said that when he read the pope’s letter, “I had the impression that maybe the picture in the Vatican is not complete.” “That’s to be expected, since the mainstream narrative in the West is about this ‘bad government’ killing the ‘good people,’” he said, adding that most media depicts the Syrian Army...

Hungary’s prime minister believes that the Christians, who are being protected from persecution today, may rise and save Europe tomorrow. Hungarian PM Victor Orbán gave a powerful speech in Budapest during the Second International Conference on Christian Persecution. Orbán declared: ‘I’m convinced that in order to save Europe, those who could provide us with the biggest help are those whom we’re helping right now. We’re sowing a seed, giving the persecuted what they need and getting back from them the Christian faith, love, and persistence.’ Orbán argues that his country’s Christian identity gives Hungary an obligation to help other Christian...