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Iran is behind an ongoing series of hack attacks and online disinformation campaigns meant to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election and boost Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The Islamic Republic is betting on Biden's campaign, according to regional experts and U.S. officials tracking the country's efforts to sway the presidential contest. Tehran has engaged in cyber espionage operations targeting President Donald Trump's campaign since late 2019, cyber experts say. It also has joined adversarial regimes such as Russia and China in waging online disinformation campaigns on social media as part of a larger effort to polarize voters and sow discord...

Friday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson slammed Democrats for their claims that the wildfires ravaging the West were a product of anthropogenic climate change, and by extension, President Donald Trump for not being more proactive about climate change. Carlson said such statements were a part of an argument for citizens to change their lifestyles and turn over more power to the government. Transcript as follows: CARLSON: Massive wildfires, unprecedented in their scope continue to sweep across huge portions of the West tonight.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) claims citizens with “automatic rifles” showed up on her lawn when President Donald Trump focused on her refusal to reopen her state after the coronavirus shutdown. Whitmer appeared on the No Lie with Bryan Tyler Cohen podcast, during which he suggested the outworking of Trump’s focus on her extended shutdown “increased the number of death threats, it increased the number of people showing up on [her] front lawn with automatic rifles.” She then contended that the focus on her was a political move, “designed to tear us apart for the benefit of a re-election and...

Video of Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden from a virtual appearance on the Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS from April 21 this year shows a split screen monitor in Biden’s basement studio that contains what appears to be a Teleprompter in one quarter of the four screen monitor. While Biden was holding up to the camera a large framed photograph of himself with his two sons, Hunter and Beau, when they were in college, a reflection of the monitor could be seen. In the upper left as seen in the reflection is the feed from Biden, lower...

Large crowds of young revelers have again gathered in Manhattan's Washington Square Park to party, after Governor Andrew Cuomo slammed nearby New York University for failing to crack down on the gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. Photos and video obtained by DailyMail.com show throngs of hundreds dancing, singing and twerking in the lower Manhattan park on Friday night, with few wearing masks or observing social distancing. It follows crowded festivities in the park over Labor Day weekend, which drew condemnation from Cuomo, who said: 'Frankly, NYU security didn’t do anything about it. The local police didn’t do anything about it.'

Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore launched a profane, fallacy-filled rant on September 11th, calling President Trump a “mass killer” and likening him to Osama Bin Laden. Moore insisted that “no American other than Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his General Robert E. Lee has killed more Americans than Donald J. Trump.” “My friends. This is murder. In the extreme. No American other than Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his General Robert E. Lee has killed more Americans than Donald J. Trump,” Moore said in an “Emergency Podcast Episode” of RUMBLE, referring to the U.S. death toll of the Chinese coronavirus....

This week the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle announced its eighth arrest related to events during this summer’s protests against racism and police brutality. Defense attorneys say the Justice Department is going out of its way to try to discredit the protests. But U.S. Attorney Brian Moran said his Seattle office is focused on cases like arson or firearms violations that he says are hurting the protest message.

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Less than two months ahead of the presidential election – with concerns of foreign interference again at the forefront – a conservative political group is raising "serious concerns" about millions of donations reported by a major Democratic fundraising platform. A preliminary computer analysis by the Take Back Action Fund, obtained exclusively by Fox News, has found that nearly half of all 2019 donations to ActBlue were made by people claiming to be unemployed. Action Fund President John Pudner questioned the veracity of those donations and called it a loophole that must be closed for the sake of election integrity. "After...

This puppet show is pretty funny. The news media is clobbered at the beginning and then he turns to the candidates. Trump is a standard parody. Biden, on the other hand is mercilessly skewered. Biden's answers could be a Trump commercial.

An Alabama neighborhood showed its appreciation for the local police department with a blue light tribute. In a tweet, Huntsville Police shared their thanks for the Thursday display, which included “an entire neighborhood” shining blue lights from homes. Residents called police to alert them to the tribute, which the officers also shared through photos. “West Precinct 3rd Shift Officers received an unusual call last night,” the tweet said. “It wasn’t a call of distress. It’s wasn’t a call of a citizen in need. But it was a call that was definitely unexpected.” “An entire neighborhood showing their support for law...

Ukraine continues its own investigation into the case of the "Derkach tapes," Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said. "Now the investigation on the 'Derkach tapes' continues. And again, examinations: are the tapes edited, is it possible to identify the voices, all this is happening. The investigation continues, we are trying not to lose investigative opportunities. We are waiting for the results of the research," Venediktova said in interview with Savik Shuster, released on the YouTube channel. She said that Ukrainian investigators will "come to their own conclusions," not focusing on the results of the investigation, released in the United States. Answering...

The nineteenth named storm of the busy 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season developed off the southern Florida peninsula. The storm track forecast carries Sally across the southern FL peninsula into the Gulf of Mexico. Mash the graphics below to enlarge. All links and images are self-updating. NHC Public Advisories NHC Forecast Discussions NWS Local StatementsKey West Radar LoopMobile AL Radar LoopNew Orleans Radar Loop Buoy Obs Near Storm Track

Left-wing pop star and actress Cher declared President Donald Trump a “mass murderer” and floated death as a punishment in a now-deleted tweet. Cher stated that it is “CALLED MURDER IF YOU MURDER MORE THAN ONE PERSON,” which is apparently a reference to President Trump’s handling of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, the Moonstruck star has made that same connection in the past. While Cher deleted the tweet, she continued her rant in another thread, asking, “why did Trump lie” and admitting that she sometimes goes “too far.” She then provided a screenshot of articles on the Treasury Department reportedly...

The U.S. Marshals Service recently launched a nationwide effort to recover missing and exploited children. Three major operations rescued over 100 children, many of them from sex traffickers. But a disturbing trend discovered during the operation should launch a nationwide investigation into the American child welfare system. PJ Media reached out to USMS for details on the rescued children and was told that the majority of them came from foster care. This information was ignored in the initial media reports on the operation. Dave Oney, press contact at the USMS, responded via email to questions about the rescued children.

The QAnon movement is spreading around the world, turning an outlandish conspiracy theory revolving around President Trump into one of the nation’s most dangerous exports. Flags and banners brandishing one of the conspiracy’s mottos — “WWG1WGA,” an acronym for “where we go one, we go all” — dotted the crowd at a rally against lockdowns in Germany last month. And when Trump visited Japan in 2019, he was greeted by cardboard cutouts of the letter Q. These aren’t just isolated instances either. Researchers have found large QAnon communities in more than 70 countries. The original conspiracy theory was tightly focused...

However commendable Biden’s decision was to disavow an antisemite like Linda Sarsour, the Democratic Party nominee should clean up his own house first. On August 18, the Joe Biden campaign distanced itself from New York Democratic National Convention delegate Linda Sarsour after she gave a speech to a delegation of Muslim Democrats. A spokesman for Biden condemned Sarsour’s history of antisemitism and her support for the extremist boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at Israel. “She has no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever,” said Andrew Bates, director of rapid response for the campaign.However commendable Biden’s decision was to...

Gov. Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio, has stepped in it again. Dr. Amy Acton resigned as director of the Ohio Health Department in June and then again in August as the governor's health adviser. DeWine subsequently nominated Dr. Joan Duwve to head the state's health department. In nominating Duwve, who most recently served as director of public health in South Carolina, DeWine is quoted as saying: "Dr. Duwve shares my passion for and commitment to children's issues and many other pressing public health issues[.] " This turned into another embarrassment for the governor. Going back to Acton, during her tenure...

Large crowds of people rallied in Auckland on Saturday against the government’s social distancing restrictions imposed on the country’s largest city after an outbreak of the novel coronavirus last month. Local television footage showed tightly packed crowds, with many people not wearing masks, with estimates of the attendance varying in reports between a thousand and a few thousand people. “We are all here today because we believe we need to stand up for our rights,” the public Television New Zealand cited Jami-Lee Ross, the leader of the Advance New Zealand party, one of the organizers of the protest, as saying....

Yesterday an individual was doxed because of his alleged activities involved with the QAnon movement. The QAnon Movement started in the middle of 2017 and attracted a huge following. Some of the information shared within the loosely connected organization was authentic and of high quality. Because of its success and popularity, outside influences from Russia and others inserted themselves into the movement and leftists attempted to identify who its leaders were...