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Liberal ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl told Clinton-ite and Democrat operative George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that the Democrat party does not look energized. The Democrats held a fundraiser in New Hampshire Saturday night and there were empty seats in the arena. This is the same arena in Manchester that President Trump packed to the brim with cheering supporters and many more in the overflow outside! The Democrat party is also fractured because of the infighting between Bernie Sanders supporters who can’t stand Pete Buttigieg. Biden has also been taking shots at Buttigieg and “Socialist” Bernie Sanders.

Migraine sufferers soon may have to seek relief elsewhere after GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced it temporarily halted the production of two popular Excedrin products. In a statement sent to Fox News, the company said it was not recalling either Excedrin Extra Strength Caplets and Geltabs or Excedrin Migraine Caplets and Geltabs, but that it had discovered “inconsistencies in how we transfer and weigh ingredients” in the products, and was temporarily suspending production and distribution. “Based on available data, GSK believes that the product does not pose a safety risk to consumers,” a GSK spokesperson said via email. “However, as a precautionary...

During his speech, Pitt also got political, calling out the Trump impeachment trial for blocking the testimony of former national security adviser John Bolton.

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Posting this as a VANITY but hoping some media folks here pick it up. Amazing: SBA @SBANYPD Mayor DeBlasio, the members of the NYPD are declaring war on you! We do not respect you, DO NOT visit us in hospitals. You sold the NYPD to the vile creatures, the 1% who hate cops but vote for you. NYPD cops have been assassinated because of you. This isn’t over, Game on!

Labour MP Ben Bradshaw today told the House of Commons that "serious questions" will be asked about the Church of England's established status if it stands by its position on opposite-sex civil partnerships. A statement by the College of Bishops last month said that sex was for married heterosexual couples only. "For Christians, marriage – that is the lifelong union between a man and a woman, contracted with the making of vows – remains the proper context for sexual activity," the document said, adding that "sexual relationships outside heterosexual marriage are regarded as falling short of God's purposes for human...

Four US Senators, including Ted Cruz, penned a letter on February 6 to Jack Dorsey asking him to ban Iranian leadership from using Twitter as part of the US sanctions against Iran. Republican senators led by Ted Cruz in a letter Thursday suggested Twitter may be violating U.S. sanctions by letting Iranian leaders maintain accounts, which they asked company CEO Jack Dorsey to ban. The big picture: Twitter has become a major political target for Cruz and other Republicans, who claim the company and other Silicon Valley giants are biased against conservatives and the Trump administration. "While the First Amendment...

The White House on Sunday unveiled a $4.8 trillion budget proposal that would slash spending dramatically on foreign aid and social safety nets, while including $2 billion for a southern border wall and substantially boosting funding to NASA, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Homeland Security.

I predict the 2020 Election, but instead of predicting exact states this time, I predict margins within demographics and let the system do the rest. 538 Swing-o-Matic: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/...

Washington D.C., Feb 6, 2020 / 05:00 pm (CNA).- A new International Religious Freedom Alliance with 27 member states was announced on Wednesday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo said that the alliance would include “like-minded partners who treasure, and fight for, international religious freedom for every human being.” According to the alliance’s official description, it “will advocate for freedom of religion or belief for all, which includes the right of individuals to hold any belief or none, to change religion or belief and to manifest religion or belief, either alone or in community with others, in worship, observance,...

Manifesto pushes 'diversity-friendly, gender-sensitive' ChurchVIENNA (ChurchMilitant.com) - Austrian Catholics issued a "charter of fundamental rights of the Church" on Feb. 2 in Vienna, seeking to fundamentally transform the concept of Catholicism inside and outside of Austria. The charter was drawn up by various individual clergy and laypeople, as well as groups such as We Are Church, a movement that advocates changing the teachings and the structures of authority of the Catholic Church, and Priests without Office, which advocates for female priests and the abolition of priestly celibacy. The principal point of the charter is "to raise up the talents of...

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She has also refused to say that New Hampshire’s primary on Tuesday is a must win, even though she’s a senator from neighboring Massachusetts. Still, at a rally at a high school in Lebanon, New Hampshire, on Sunday night, Warren referenced her then-upset win in 2012 over Republican incumbent Sen. Scott Brown.

China has stepped up economic support measures in recent weeks to prop up a domestic economy straining under the coronavirus outbreak. Most businesses and business activities have shut down since the Chinese New Year in late January. Some business activities will resume beginning Feb. 10 but the ongoing coronavirus outbreak is expected to have a debilitating impact on the world’s second-biggest economy in early 2020.

b1.culture.ruThe 15th-century Holy Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin is one of the most historic and famous churches of Russia. The scene of the coronation of Russian emperors last underwent complex restoration work in 1974-1976 for its 500th anniversary, and now it is undergoing another round of necessary work. And, as company president Nikolai Tokarev told reporters on Wednesday, the Russian oil company Transneft will allocate $5,639,400 (360 million rubles) to the cathedral’s restoration as part of its cooperation agreement with the Moscow Kremlin Museums, reports Interfax-Religion. “About $5.6 million—according to the circumstances, because some new issues are being uncovered,...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the Solar Orbiter spacecraft for NASA and the European Space Agency tonight. It will lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida during a 2-hour launch window that opens at 11:03 p.m. EST (0403 GMT on Feb. 10).

Collins was prominent during the House impeachment proceedings as an aggressive questioner on President Trump’s behalf. I didn’t find his questioning particularly cogent, but that’s just my opinion. He did his best, and gained good will from the president and the party for his efforts. But there are good reasons not to support Collins over Loeffler. For one thing, Collins’s record on immigration leaves plenty to be desired. He is part of a group of GOP Senators and congressman that has pleaded with DHS Secretary Chad Wolf to bring more foreign workers to the U.S. to compete against Americans for...

Hollywood’s Super Bowl for movie buffs is upon us. And you won’t want to miss the 2020 Oscars on Feb. 9, which will see the year’s hottest stars and most gifted creatives go head-to-head for a shot at entertainment’s most coveted gold trophy: an Academy Award. The live ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., will once again forgo a traditional host this year following last year’s controversy with comedian Kevin Hart, who ultimately stepped down. The honors will instead boast a slew of megastars lined up to announce, as well as a cannon of A-list musicians who will...

"President Trump doesn’t want Africans flooding into his country. But let’s be honest. Who really does? Certainly not any other world leader of this era. Trump just happens to be the one bold or uncaring enough to say the quiet part out loud. He’s the rare white politician sparing us the trouble of deciphering what he might think. And Nigerians love him for it."

In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Septuagesima, Latin for the “Seventieth” day before Easter. The number 70 is more symbolic than arithmetical...For example, Septuagesima is the 63rd day before Easter and, therefore, it in the 7th (septimus) decade or 10-day period before Easter The Sundays which follow are Sexagesima (“sixtieth”) and Quinquagesima (“fiftieth”) before Ash Wednesday brings in Lent, called in Latin Quadragesima, “Fortieth”. These ancient pre-Lenten Sundays prepare us for the discipline of Lent, which once was far stricter. Sometimes I talk about “situational awareness”. That involves more than just looking around right here and right...