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Hillary Clinton will be a guest on the Tonight Show this evening, and she’s teasing her appearance this way: You'll have to watch @FallonTonight to find out what's in the bag.

This is sheer conjecture on my part, but I’m betting that some evenings Ariane de Vogue dresses up as Ruth Bader-Ginsburg and cross-examines her cats. What else can a CNN Supreme Court Reporter and RGB fangirl do until somebody starts a lefty political version of Comi Con? (Insert your own Bernie Sanders rally joke here.) Well, she can write worshipful accounts of her Earth Mother-Law Giver swatting away the pathetic assertions of inferior beings, like March 5’s “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dominates in abortion case.” Here’s de Vogue’s lede: If there is any question whether 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...

Andrew Yang's still got his eye on the White House ... because he'd be stoked to be Joe Biden's vice president. The former presidential hopeful joined us on "TMZ Live" Thursday and we asked if he'd say yes to an offer to be Biden's running mate if Joe's the nominee. Andrew tells us he'd jump at the chance, and thinks he could bring a lot to the table. The way Andrew sees it, he could help Biden in some areas where he could be lacking ... namely, appealing to younger voters. Andrew says the Yang Gang makes him feel young,...

The typically outspoken hosts of The View couldn’t bring themselves to condemn Democrat minority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, after he publicly threatened two Supreme Court justices during a pro-abortion rally, Wednesday. In fact, the only real opinion that was shared was defending Schumer’s shocking words. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg set the dismissive tone from the start, claiming the backlash to Schumer’s words was a “distraction”: “So, is this all a distraction from the fact that a major abortion rights case is being heard right now?” she asked. Former 2020 Democrat candidate Andrew Yang was a guest co-host and the first to...

Longtime CNN analyst Roland Martin, a fervent supporter of the Obamas, showed up on MSNBC on Saturday morning touting a sweater he found in Ghana and trashing all white conservative evangelical Trump backers as "Christian frauds." MSNBC host Ali Velshi brought Roland on to discuss the South Carolina primary. “You are a man of faith,” Velshi touted, “and one of the issues in the last several years has been Donald Trump has been viewed as an object of suspicion by some people of faith… How do Democrats who are trying to court particularly the black religious vote deal with this?”...

Everyone knows that Sen. Charles Schumer went off the rails by threatening two sitting Supreme Court Justices because he believes they will vote against an upcoming abortion-rights case. But little attention has been given to the hysterical reaction of two members of “The Squad”: Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Pressley said that “reproductive justice is racial justice.” This is the kind of statement we would expect from the Klan. We would not expect this from a black woman. Blacks, who are 13% of the population, account for 36% of all abortions. Pressley needs to explain why this is...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s recent call for Chief Justice John Roberts to publicly rebuke President Trump for supposedly interfering with the judiciary backfired when Roberts condemned Schumer this week for threatening two of Roberts’ fellow justices.

Kimberly Gardner made history in 2016, roaring to an election victory as St. Louis city’s first African-American chief prosecutor on a campaign funded heavily by the liberal mega-donor George Soros. Four years later, she finds herself under investigation and her chief investigator already indicted for a prosecution gone bad, one that forced Missouri’s Republican governor to resign in what some now believe may have been a political attack. Gardner, a Democrat and the city’s circuit attorney, was forced in 2018 to withdraw her indictment accusing Gov. Eric Greitens of felony invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a picture of his...

The creation of a chimeric SARS-like virus has scientists discussing the risks of gain-of-function research. Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine.The results demonstrate the ability...

Despite a hefty prison sentence, accused kidnapper Phillip DeWoody was eligible for parole under a 1990 change to state law that adjusted parole eligibility for older offenders facing long prison sentences. The Opelousas man is accused in the disappearance and death of Ville Platte resident Joyce Thomas, a deaf and mute 72-year-old woman whose body was found on a property along Interstate 49 between Sunset and Opelousas on Monday morning.

Turkey says it is deploying 1,000 police officers to its land border with Greece to halt the pushback of migrants into Turkey. Thousands of migrants and refugees, desperate to get into the EU, remain in the border zone. Greek guards have fired tear gas to stop them entering. The extra Turkish police are going to the Meric river (called Evros in Greek) on the border, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. The EU has condemned Turkey's policy. The Greek government says that since early Saturday its forces have prevented the illegal entry of 34,778 people and arrested 244. Syrians, Afghans, Pakistanis...

Mutumba claimed he hadn't been intimate with his 'wife' since the wedding two weeks before because Tumushabe said 'she' was menstruating. . . . But Tumushabe was rumbled when he was arrested or theft of a television set and clothes from his next door neighbours in January. A female police officer carried out a body search on the suspect, thinking Tumushabe was a woman, and found out he was actually a man. Mutumba is said to be 'too devastated' to talk about the incident and needs counselling.

John Charles Hinderaker, of Arizona, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona. Mark C. Scarsi, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California. Stanley Blumenfeld, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California.Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California. Grace Karaffa Obermann, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years.

We are diligently managing this situation and will be holding a press conference to update Coloradans with the latest at 4:45. You can watch it live on my Facebook page.

Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound origins and fundamental inaccuracy, even dishonesty, of the claim that 97% of scientists, or "the world's scientists", or something agree that climate change is man-made, urgent and dangerous. LINK DR. JOHN ROBSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR John Robson holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Texas at Austin and has worked as a historian, policy analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker for three decades. He has been examining the climate change issue for many years, including both the science and the policy debates.

Profit seeking companies have cured cancer, reversed heart disease, and caused every other advance you can name for the past 100 years of medicine. A tiny fraction of innovation comes out of the NIH or non-profit society grants – and those ideas that are generated would invariably sit on the shelf without the work and investment of profit-seeking venture capitalists and companies guiding the idea through clinical trials, regulatory hurdles, and production. The majority of the profits that provide the incentive for innovators worldwide come from the US, and other healthcare systems piggyback (and rip off) our system to take...

Solemn ceremonies and a protest marked the 250th anniversary Thursday of the massacre in Boston that helped spark the Revolutionary War. A wreath was laid at the grave of the five victims of the fateful conflict, and colonial re-enactors fired their muskets in salute during a morning tribute organized by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The event is the first of a number expected to take place across the country in the coming years to mark the anniversary of the war for independence. In the afternoon, black and Native American activists staged a “death procession” from the massacre site...

Tito's Vodka is warning customers that it can't be used in homemade hand sanitizer formulas because it isn't strong enough. The US is facing a Purell hand sanitizer shortage as demand for the disinfectant soared 1,400 percent amid the coronavirus outbreak. The shortage has led people to make their own homemade versions consisting of vodka, aloe gel and essential oils to keep the fast-spreading virus at bay. However, Tito's Vodka says its brand is not strong enough to be effective in killing germs.

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[Catholic Caucus]Mexican Bishops Ban Communion on the Tongue, Citing Coronavirus Fears Faithful Catholics warn order designed to eradicate reverential practice NOGALES, Mexico (ChurchMilitant.com) - For decades, Mexico has been considered one of the most Catholic countries in the world — a nation where, after the government banned the Holy Mass and receiving Communion on the tongue in the 1920s, believers responded by taking up arms and waging a bloody, years-long civil war against regime forces, during which many faithful were tortured or executed for their beliefs. But now, the Conference of the Mexican Episcopate (CEM), the ruling body of bishops, has banned reception of...