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In this morning’s Campaign Update, I detailed the Biden Campaign’s new “Hide the Geezer” strategy, a tactic in which they plan to minimize their impaired candidate’s exposure to the press and the public. Well, it ain’t working. The strategy, which was implemented over the weekend, went completely off the rails this morning at a Biden event at a Michigan auto factory. In the clip below, Quid Pro Joe can be seen cursing at and ridiculing Democrat voters and staffers, and haranguing them with abject falsehoods regarding the 2nd amendment and his history of [non] support for it. The clip contains...

PITTSBURGH — A Family Dollar store in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood says so many people are stealing from them, it may put them out of business. Neighbors said they rely on the store for their essentials, which is within walking distance of many homes and schools. The manager of the store said a regional team is looking into inventory and what could be done, if anything, to help the business stay afloat. A neighboring business said extra cameras and a policy of no backpacks and no more than two kids in the store at a time have helped cracked down on...

IS it normal for your mum to hit you with a belt? Is it normal to bleed?" These are just two of the heartbreaking questions Gabriel Fernandez asked his teacher in the months before he was beaten to death by his own mother and her partner. The eight-year-old boy was brutally tortured over eight months by Pearl Fernandez and her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre - but despite making several brave pleas for help, he was left to die in the evil pair's home. New Netflix series The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez has now shed light on the harrowing case, with the...

The Department of Justice announced today that the Western Union Remission Fund began its first distribution of approximately $153 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. government from the Western Union Company (Western Union) to over 109,000 victims located in the United States and abroad. These victims, many of whom were elderly victims of consumer fraud and abuse, will be recovering the full amount of their losses.“The $153 million distribution announced today brings some measure of justice for the elderly and other victims who were financially harmed by the fraudulent schemes in this case,” said Assistant Attorney General Brian...

In Mexico City, one protester was caught on video throwing a firebomb at a small group of men conducting a counter-protest against abortion, Yahoo News reports. At least 65 people were injured during the violence in Mexico City, including a female journalist who sustained second-degree burns, Reuters reports. Journalist Alejandro Bermudez shared a video of the firebomb incident on Twitter: Other parts of the country saw violent pro-abortion protests as well. The protests took place on International Women’s Day, which focuses on a variety of issues, but legalizing the killing of unborn babies in abortions was at the center of...

With the Capitol consumed by anxiety over the coronavirus, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) rose in a closed-door caucus meeting Tuesday and told his Democratic colleagues they should leave Washington and return home to their districts, where they would be safer. Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately quashed the idea, according to multiple sources in the room. “We are the captains of the ship. We are the last to leave,” she told her caucus, borrowing a line uttered moments earlier by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), a Navy veteran. The California Democrat and her leadership team have been feeling pressure from Nadler and...

The event destroyed a village found in the Abu Hureyra dig site in Syria... The impact is also believed to have contributed to the extinction of many large animals, including mammoths as well as North American horses and camels. Experts believe the explosion helped bring about the demise of the North American Clovis culture and usher in an episode of climatic cooling. The Abu Hureyra site is located on the edge of a vast region known as the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) strewnfield, which incorporates around 30 sites across Europe, the Americas and parts of the Middle East. The strewnfield...

Lefty billionaires expect us to lap up their every word. So now we have Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs, preaching to us about the badness of accumulated wealth. According to TheBlaze: "It's not right for individuals to accumulate a massive amount of wealth that's equivalent to millions and millions of other people combined," Jobs told the Times. "There's nothing fair about that. We saw that at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the Rockefellers and Carnegies and Mellons and Fords of the world. That kind of accumulation of wealth is dangerous for a society. It...

Bernie Sanders on Monday evening confronted head-on questions regarding Joe Biden’s fitness for the presidency — declining to directly attack his rival’s stamina, but suggesting that brief speeches last week by Biden on the campaign trail were insufficient to address the nation’s problems. The remarks from the Vermont senator targeting the former vice president came at a Fox News town hall for Sanders, where a participant charged that Biden’s answers “don't make sense” and asked Sanders whether it was “acceptable” for a White House hopeful to answer questions “like Joe Biden does.” Sanders said that when his campaign conducts events...

Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo died Sunday along with Capt. Moises A. Navas from Maryland, also 34, died in a joint Iraqi-U.S. helicopter assault on a suspected ISIS-occupied cave complex in the Makhmur Mountains of northern Iraq. They were assigned to the Second Marine Raider Battalion. The mission began with several dozen Iraqi counterterrorism forces, along with approximately a dozen special forces Marines, traveling by helicopter to the area where intelligence showed 15 to 20 ISIS fighters had hidden. As they got close to the target, they encountered stiff resistance from ISIS fighters largely equipped with small arms. The firefight...

"Notorious disagreements" with Puritan leader John Cotton over the Massachusetts General Court censoring his religious speech led Roger Williams to publish The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Conscience Sake and Mr. Cotton's Letter Lately Printed, Examined and Answered in 1644. In it, Roger Williams first mentioned his now famous phrase, "WALL OF SEPARATION": "Mr. Cotton ... hath not duly considered these following particulars. First, the faithful labors of many witnesses of Jesus Christ, existing in the world, abundantly proving, that the Church of the Jews under the Old Testament in the type and the Church of the Christians under the...

A round of layoffs has hit two Telemundo units – morning show “Un Nuevo Día” and Telemundo Deportes. According to sources, at least six people were cut from the morning show. Among them, a writer, an editor and producers, including L.A.-based Paco Haro, who coordinated live shots and produced for the show’s three west-coast reporters. The number of job losses in the sports division is less clear, but according to one source, they may be slightly larger than those experienced by “Un Nuevo Día.” A company spokesperson would not confirm the number of layoffs, but issued the following the statement...

Many Puerto Ricans fleeing to Florida arrived with the burden of trauma in the storm’s aftermath, their finances stretched to the max. They also felt sidelined by the Trump administration after the federal government’s insufficient response to Hurricane Maria. “He could have done more for Puerto Rico,” Rivera said in a video oral history. “He didn’t do anything because he didn’t want to.”

President Trump's reelection campaign is pressing Twitter to label a video posted by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as "manipulated," accusing the social media giant of favoring the former vice president over Trump as it applies new policies against deceptively edited videos. "It appears that many people employed by Big Tech corporations in Silicon Valley are assisting the Biden campaign by instituting a special ‘Biden protection rule’ that effectively censors and silences legitimate political speech Biden’s campaign and its supporters do not like," wrote Michael Glassner, the Trump campaign's chief operating officer, in a letter on Monday. "In order for...

Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden got into a heated exchange with a plant worker during a stop at a Detroit auto plant on Tuesday morning. Walking through the crowd of hardhat donning employees while shaking hands and smiling for photos, Biden stopped abruptly to have a brief but tense and unpleasant encounter with one worker who wanted to discuss guns. The man questioned why Biden wanted to take his Second Amendment rights away which caused him to become immediately enraged as he began to shove his finger in the auto plant worker's face.

Back in 1992, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton went on The Arsenio Hall Show to play the saxophone while wearing sunglasses. Nobody knows whatever happened to Clinton after that, but he really broke down the barriers for politicians who want to make fools of themselves on national TV. Since then we've had Obama slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon, Elizabeth Warren clinking beer bottles with Stephen Colbert, and any number of other cringeworthy late-night moments with politicians who want to fool the public into thinking they're relatable. And that's not even counting SNL, which over the years has had eight...

President Trump’s campaign has sent a letter to Twitter’s leadership after the platform labeled one of its videos as “manipulated media.” The letter: “Understandably, the Biden campaign has a strategic interest in intimidating social media companies into suppressing true and embarrassing video evidence of Joe Biden’s continued inability to communicate coherently — a sad truth that has been publicly noted by Democrats and media figures alike,” the letter reads, according to Fox News.

Former campaign workers for Michael R. Bloomberg’s presidential bid reacted angrily on Monday to news that they would not work through the November election, as expected. When the multibillionaire Michael R. Bloomberg hired an army of staff members for his presidential campaign, he lavished them with salaries that were nearly double what other candidates were paying. His campaign also promised something rivals could not match: job security through the general election, even if he dropped out of the race. But now, less than a week after Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, left the Democratic presidential race —...

Tri-State Cases Nearly Quadruple in Days More results from state-run testing for the novel coronavirus continue to come in, and as a result, the tri-state is seeing the number of confirmed cases increase exponentially with each passing day What to Know The number of novel coronavirus cases in the tri-state area more than tripled between between late Friday and Tuesday, from 49 cases to 186 New York was up to at least 173 cases statewide, 36 of them in the five boroughs, as of Tuesday afternoon; the lion's share of those cases are in Westchester County New Jersey had 11...

The Ivy League canceled its men's and women's basketball conference tournaments Tuesday because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus. The four-team tournaments were scheduled to be played Friday through Sunday at Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge. The Ivy League instead will award its automatic NCAA Tournament bids to the regular-season champions, the Princeton women and Yale men.