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* President Donald Trump’s economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Tuesday that the deadly Chinese coronavirus outbreak will dent a surge in exports that is expected to flow from the first “phase” of the U.S.-China trade deal signed last month. * “It is true the trade deal, the phase one trade deal, the export boom from that trade deal will take longer because of the Chinese virus. That is true,” Kudlow said in a Fox Business Network interview. * But Kudlow noted that the Trump administration, which imposed travel restrictions and quarantines in response to the coronavirus last week, still projects...

Everybody knows it, yet many people in the liberal media are not calling it out for what it is. For example, they call ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter protest groups. Really? These groups are more gang-like than anything else. The media provides them cover by calling their looting and throwing rocks and bottles while holding signs that say kill the police a demonstration, as if it’s akin to students on a college campus protesting increases in tuition fees for heaven’s sake. The liberal media also calls hiding your identity by wearing a mask and engaging in takeovers of public buildings,...

The U.S. Navy admiral responsible for the service's special operations forces will step down from his position, the Intercept first reported Monday evening.

If Steve Bannon is correct, Michael Bloomberg has no intention of occupying the Oval Office. Bloomberg is investing his fortune in a "leveraged buyout" of the party, installing himself as the oligarch who calls the shots, including the selection of the candidate to win the presidency. With the addled and corrupt Biden faltering, Bloomberg is fighting a holding action to prevent Bernie Sanders from capturing the nomination.

[Catholic Caucus] Crookston Priest Still at Treatment Center Over Vague Allegations Facility named in PA grand jury report CROOKSTON, Minn. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Minnesota priest placed on administrative leave for vague reasons — by a bishop under multiple investigations for clerical sex abuse cover-up — spent his 22nd day on Tuesday at a facility sometimes weaponized against priests. Fr. Bryan Kujawa Dated Jan. 10, the official statement of the Crookston diocese cites "non-criminal, non-sexual boundary violations" as its reasons for placing Fr. Bryan Kujawa on administrative leave.  Fr. Kujawa wrote a letter to his parishioners at St. Philip's Church in Bemidji, Minnesota, saying...

After Monday night's caucus difficulties left Democrats in Iowa and around the country confused and frustrated, candidate Pete Buttigieg expressed confidence that he was "victorious." He and several other 2020 Democrats left Iowa for New Hampshire overnight to begin campaigning for next week's primary after several of them also expressed optimism in their own results. Buttigieg's confident claim gave rise to the Twitter hashtag #MayorCheat after he gave a victory speech despite the chaos over the final results. When asked if he perhaps made the call prematurely, Buttigieg shrugged off criticism. "Looking at what happened last night, looking at all...

A teenager has sparked a national debate about blasphemy in France after an Instagram post calling Islam a "religion of hate". Mila, 16, posted her comments online after receiving homophobic abuse from a Muslim commenter. She received death threats and has not attended school since. But Mila has refused to back down, saying in her first television interview that she "wanted to blaspheme".

Nikki van den Heever, a caucus precinct captain for former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, tried to talk down an Iowa woman who was incensed to find out — in real-time during a caucus after she’d signed a card supporting him — that the candidate is openly gay. “Are you saying that he has the same-sex partner? Pete?” the woman says in the clip, which was posted to both Twitter and Reddit early Tuesday morning. “Yes,” van den Heever responds. “Are you kidding?” the woman says, and upon being told Mayor Pete is married, says “Then I don’t want anybody...

Burisma Holdings’ Money Laundering Corruption Was Made Possible When Russian Annexation of Ukraine Was Prevented. This was Accomplished by Toppling the Ukrainian Government and Re-Assigning the Ukrainian Presidency to a Highly Corrupt Ukrainian Oligarch This was Made Possible by an Obama US Administration COUP Carried Out by US Asst Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Uktaine Geoffrey Pyatt The COUP was Cemented by the Glue Provided by Obama-Designated Point-Man-to-Ukraine and US Vice President Joe Biden. The Glue Which Cemented the COUP Consisted of 77 Plus Deaths and 1,100 Injuries of Ukrainian Citizens That Primarily Occurred in Maiden...

VIDEO The results are finally in from the Iowa caucus and the only clear winner is... President Donald Trump! All the rest of losers in the wake of the Democrat Iowa caucus disaster. The good news is that the Iowa caucus disaster has produced quite a bit of comedy gold, some of which is presented in this video.

The Chinese government has implemented strict measures in the prevention and control of the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), escalating it to the highest priority with an intent to protect public health and minimize further spreading of the virus. In accordance with government guidelines and to protect the health and safety of exhibitors and guests, SEMI announced Tuesday the postponement of SEMICON/FPD China 2020 and related events originally scheduled for March 18-20, 2020. SEMI China is actively working on a contingency plan for rescheduling of the event and will keep you informed as soon as a confirmed plan is...

JeJuan McArthur McCalston (Source: Union County Sheriff's Office) By WBTV Web Staff | February 4, 2020 at 11:59 AM EST - Updated February 4 at 11:59 AM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A man who broke down tried to steal a patrol car after a deputy stopped to help him, according to a report from the Union County Sheriff’s Office. The incident began as an off-duty Union County Sheriff’s deputy was returning home in a marked patrol car on on the outer belt of I-485 between Providence Road and Lawyers Road. When the deputy spotted a disabled vehicle in the...

Iowa party officials are holding a call with the campaigns. Troy Price tells them he'll put out about *50%* of results at 4 p.m. today. There are objections. He won't say when the rest are coming.

Archaeologists have uncovered a 350-year-old massacre in Alaska that occurred during a war that may have started over a dart game. The discovery reveals the gruesome ways the people in a town were executed and confirms part of a legend that has been passed down over the centuries by the Yup'ik people. A recent excavation in the town of Agaligmiut (which today is often called Nunalleq) has uncovered the remains of 28 people who died during the massacre and 60,000 well-preserved artifacts... Some of the 28 people found "had been tied up with grass rope and executed," said Knecht, adding...

"Regardless of the intent of the display, its impact cannot be ignored — people were hurt and offended," Emily Guerrant, a university spokeswoman, said. Michigan State University has apologized for a campus gift shop display that depicted prominent black figures hanging from a tree. Krystal Davis-Dunn, a student at the university, uploaded photos to Facebook last week of doll-like figures hanging on tree-shaped displays at a gift shop in the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, saying the imagery evoked lynchings. Among the figures in the display hanging by twine from the tree were former President Barack Obama and his wife,...

Guest Piece by Karen Kataline IF ONLY HEÂ’D STOP TRYING TO DRAIN THE SWAMP AND PLAY BALL, THEYÂ’D MAGICALLY FIND HIM LESS REPREHENSIBLE. ItÂ’ll be one heck of a week with the Iowa Caucuses on Monday, Donald TrumpÂ’s State of the Union Speech on Tuesday, and his expected acquittal from DemocratsÂ’ Impeachment charges on Wednesday. By Thursday, we could see them roll out their newest Articles of Impeachment which have probably been in the works since Robert Mueller showed that he has the same great memory and lucidity as Joe Biden. In failed expedition number two (LetÂ’s count the two-year...

Charred fragments found in 170,000-year-old ashes in a cave in southern Africa are the earliest roasted root vegetables yet found. The finding suggest the real "paleo diet" included lots of roasted vegetables rich in carbohydrates, similar to modern potatoes. "I think people were eating a very balanced diet, a combination of carbohydrates and proteins," says team leader Lyn Wadley of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. In 2016, her team found dozens of bits of charcoal in an ash layer in the Border cave in South Africa. This ash layer is what is left from the fires of...

Rand Paul lays out the conspiracy in his senate speech. Re-asks his question about two people on the National Security Sean Misko and Eric CIAramella

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the Iowa secretary of state misleading Americans and state residents about the accuracy of Iowa’s registration rolls: It is shameful that the secretary state of Iowa would mislead Iowans and Americans about the accuracy of the state’s registration rolls. Judicial Watch’s analysis of Iowa’s state registration rolls is based on official voter registration data provided by Iowa to the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) for publication in 2019. Data concerning such registrations must be reported to the EAC by law under federal regulation 11 C.F.R. §...

[Catholic Caucus] Pro-Homosexual Retreats Coming to Diocese of San Diego The dissonance is met by silence and acceptance SAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - A pro-homosexual retreat led by a dissonant group is scheduled for two parishes in the diocese of San Diego. The diocese is once again in the news for allowing its churches to be used to convey a message contradictory to the spirit of Christian anthropology and essential Church doctrine on sexuality. The event, called "Nothing Can Separate Us From the Love of God," is being billed as "a Catholic LGBTQ+ retreat and a Day of Ministry Discernment & Visioning." It will...