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Joe Biden is running against Donald Trump’s character and supposed corruption, so a Senate report documenting the Biden family’s ethical swampiness certainly counts as news. Senate committee Chairmen Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley on Wednesday released the findings of their year-long investigation into the problems that the business dealings of Hunter Biden, Joe’s son, presented to the Obama-Biden administration. The report makes clear Hunter was profiting off his father’s position—in Ukraine, and notably in China. Foreigners knew they were buying influence by association. The Ukrainian gas company Burisma hired Hunter to “consult” on corporate governance in May 2014, only weeks...

It was 1952, and Alan Turing was about to reshape humanity's understanding of biology. Fairy circles in Namibia. (pum_eva/Getty Images) ============================================================================== In a landmark paper, the English mathematician introduced what became known as the Turing pattern – the notion that the dynamics of certain uniform systems could give rise to stable patterns when disturbed. Such 'order from disturbance' has become the theoretical basis for all sorts of strange, repeated motifs seen in the natural world. It was a good theory. So good, in fact, that decades later, scientists are still discovering stunning examples of it in unusual and exotic places:...

<p>The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, in a massive fuckup, mistakenly sent out an email to an unknown number of people who'd signed up to be poll workers on Nov. 3, saying that their services were not required.</p> <p>"If you are receiving this email," the message read, "it’s because we have received your application but do not currently have a poll worker position available for you in the election. This may change at any time, however. Workers who are currently planning to work the election may choose not to, at which point we will turn to our new applicants. Over the next two weeks, we will be looking to fill spots that become available with new applicants, such as yourself."</p>

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd said on Thursday’s broadcast of “MTP Daily” that President Donald Trump was “gaslighting the country” with his many assertions that assertions that mail-in voting is fraught with fraud. Todd said, “With just 40 days until the election, the president of the United States is openly signaling he could take drastic action to attempt to hold on to power. With Biden maintaining his durable lead in the polls, the president ramped up his attacks on the integrity of the election. Now he’s publicly stating that he will not commit to a peaceful transfer of power.”

The Riot Party Comes for the Court If they can’t have their way, they want to burn it down. We now have a Supreme Court vacancy, and President Trump and Senate Republicans are moving to fill it before the 117th Congress begins.According to the White House, we’ll learn the nominee’s name Saturday. But whomever is chosen, we know they will apply the law and interpret the Constitution as written.The Left is apoplectic, threatening all forms of retaliation. They’ve launched a second campaign to impeach the president, another campaign to pack the Court, and still a third campaign to get rid...

An investigation of internal bank records by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has provided a detailed look at the illicit methods employed by Ukrainian oligarchs who, during the course of a massive alleged money laundering scheme from 2006-2016, became the owners of the most commercial real estate in Cleveland. Published yesterday, the ICIJ piece not only exposes the impropriety of Deutsche Bank's American arm as it funneled hundreds of millions of laundered dollars from shell companies to U.S. properties; it also charts the devastation in heartland communities where Igor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov purchased real estate. The hallmarks of...

A Mexican national suspected of a drunken driving incident that killed three members of a family in Sutter County in May 2019 was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in a separate firearms case in Sacramento, but his legal woes are only beginning.

An independent, nationwide analysis of voter rolls in 42 states has identified thousands of probable deceased and duplicate registrants, as well as cases of individuals credited for voting more than once. “The.. analysis presented ... makes it abundantly clear that states across America, including many that will determine control of the White House and Congress, are unprepared to accommodate a surge in mail-in voting this fall,” PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said. “After standardizing registration lists in 42 states, Public Interest Legal Foundation’s SAVE Database uncovered voter rolls saturated with alarming errors. SAVE revealed 349,773 apparently deceased...

Michael R. Caputo, the East Aurora political consultant at the center of controversy over the Trump administration's Covid-19 messaging, has been diagnosed with cancer. Assemblyman David J. DiPietro, R-East Aurora, acting as Caputo's spokesman, said Thursday that the Health and Human Services spokesman on leave from his assistant secretary post has "squamous cell carcinoma, a metastatic head and neck cancer which originated in his throat."

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Barrett Wilson @BarrettWilson6 White House @PressSec Kayleigh McEnany BLASTS CNN’s Brianna Keilar for advocating for mob justice. Video: https://mobile.twitter.com/BarrettWilson6/status/1309196492104765443

Some huge, some small. Some zip, some crawl. The cosmos is full of objects that defy expectations.... The biggest: UY Scuti Just like in the DC Universe, sometimes the clearest way for astronomers to express something is truly extraordinary is to add the prefix super. It’s the case with Superman, as well as with supergiant stars — a fitting category for the largest known star in the universe, UY Scuti. One day, the Sun will become a red giant. But if it had started its life with a dozen or so times its current mass, it could have eventually evolved...

A very surprising twist in the discussion of the Breonna Taylor case on today's Morning Joe. It started in predictable fashion. "Civil rights lawyer" Maya Wiley said: "The problem that we have here is that the system is working the way it’s designed to work. Which puts black people, which puts Latinos, which puts Native Americans at very high risk of being killed." So the system is "designed" to endanger minority lives? A reprehensible accusation on Wiley's part. But then things took that surprising turn. Citing a lengthy New York Times investigative article, and speaking in his own right, Joe...

LEE COUNTY, Ala. (WRBL) – A Smiths Station mother, accused of locking her children in cages, is back in jail after a Lee County Judge revokes her bail for violating conditions of her release. 30-year-old Kylla Michelle Mann of Smith Station was arrested back in January and charged with two counts of Aggravated Child abuse of a child less than six years of age and two counts of Reckless Endangerment. Mann’s grandparents were also arrested in the case. Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes tells News 3 Mann is back in custody at the Lee County Detention Facility. Hughes says...

Sherry @SherryLynneK Aug 7, 2020 Replying to @death_nwo @Ricardochampio and 7 others I also read, Fauci has connections with Gilead..not sure if truth or lies.. StandUpNow007 @death_nwo o Since 2002 Anthony Fauci has been collaborating with USAMRIID in Fort Detrick where GILEAD developed Remdesivir! o Fauci spearheaded the research on Remdesivir! @ShawningArmor @AGRichard1 https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA87855114&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00368075&p=AONE&sw=whttps://web.archive.org/web/20161224000431/http:/www.usamriid.army.mil/press_releases/Travis%20ID%20Week%20FINAL.pdf https://irp.nih.gov/catalyst/v22i6 Image of text: https://mobile.twitter.com/death_nwo/status/1291789250967609345/photo/3 As drug manufacturers speed up their efforts to find a new treatment drug for the coronavirus outbreak that has devastated China and has caused a world-wide panic, a Chinese drug company just announced that it has started mass-producing an experimental drug...

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson slammed the media for its reaction to the Breonna Taylor grand jury findings. He argued their motivations were not honest but instead an effort to win over voters for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for November 3. Transcript as follows: CARLSON: The chaos you were watching the promise of potential violence tonight. All began with a tragedy that took place six months ago.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Harrisburg, capitol of Pennsylvania, announced on Thursday that, working with the FBI on a tip, it had discovered a small batch of mail-in military ballots that had been discarded by election officials in Luzerne County, whose county seat is the town of Wilkes-Barre. Not surprisingly at all, each and every one of those discarded ballots were cast for Donald Trump. Here is the statement from the DOJ: Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Middle District of Pennsylvania FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, September 24, 2020 Statement Of U.S. Attorney Freed On Inquiry Into Reports Of Potential...

NASA currently expects to land the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars on February 18, 2021. Once the rover is on the surface and working, it will begin to search for traces of microscopic life that could be billions of years old. The rover is fitted with an instrument called PIXL, which is a lunchbox-sized device at the end of the seven-foot-long robotic arm fitted to the rover. . PIXL uses more than an x-ray beam alone, it also has a hexapod, which is a device featuring six mechanical legs connected to the robotic arm guided by...

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A federal judge ruled earlier this week to extend the cutoff to count absentee ballots by six days after the election, but the decision is being appealed by the GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature and is expected to make its way all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge William Conley's decision came Monday after Democrats argued that an extension was needed to accommodate for the influx of voters requesting mail-in ballots, and allow them time to both receive and send back their votes just five weeks before the election. Republicans have said there is more than enough...