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President Trump on Wednesday said he felt like a wartime president as his administration seeks to reduce the spread of the coronavirus and ease the economic impact of the pandemic. “I view it in a sense, a wartime president,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if he viewed the United States as being on wartime footing.

U.S. Attorney William McSwain of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania blames Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for the rise in violence in the City of Brotherly Love. Krasner’s policies, McSwain announced, “create a culture of lawlessness; they leave criminals emboldened; and they have inevitable consequences.” Indeed, since Krasner took office in 2018, homicides are up 49 percent and shootings have climbed by 59 percent. If the trend holds, Philadelphia will tally more than 450 homicides in 2020—the highest count in nearly 30 years. Crime is spiking precisely because Krasner isn’t holding serious offenders accountable. An analysis by my group, the...

The small number of mishandled military ballots at a Pennsylvania elections board that sparked a federal inquiry and allegations from the Trump campaign that Democrats were "trying to steal the election" were actually "incorrectly" tossed by a temp, a county official said Friday. In a press release, Luzerne County County Manager David Pedri said a "temporary seasonal independent contractor" who started work sorting mail at the Elections Bureau on Sept. 14th had "incorrectly" thrown out a small number of military and overseas ballots.

A photo showing two New Jersey high school students apparently mocking the police death of George Floyd has been circulating on social media. The photo shows one shirtless student wearing a red “Make American Great Again” hat and a police badge on a chain pinning his knee to the back of the neck of another teen on the ground in an ape mask, NJ.com reported. Floyd died May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for nearly eight minutes. Multiple parents have confirmed to NJ.com that the unmasked student in the photo attends Hunterdon Central Regional High...

America needs a leader “That’s gonna work his ass off,” an upbeat President Trump boasted Friday night, earning laughs at a Virginia campaign rally by chiding “Sleepy Joe” for routinely calling it a day early. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden frequently calls early “lids” that indicate to reporters no more campaign events are planned, Trump joked. The president told a roaring crowd in Newport News that he, by contrast, powers through jam-packed days of events. “I got a guy, he stays in his basement all day long and I’m doing this,” Trump said during the hour-long speech, which followed earlier...

President Trump on Friday unveiled his "Platinum Plan" at an event in Atlanta, which is aimed at investing $500 billion in Black communities. Trump did not disclose how the plan would be funded but that it would boost lending to Black-owned businesses, reduce taxes, and also include education, healthcare, and criminal justice reforms. He also said the plan would make Juneteenth, a holiday celebrated by Black Americans that marks the end of slavery in the U.S., a national holiday. He said that the plan would focus on the prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan and antifa as well as designating...

Former first lady Michelle Obama says Americans shouldn't "listen to people who say ... your vote will get lost" during the 2020 presidential election. Her comments aired during an Instagram Live virtual event on Tuesday for her voter-registration group, When We All Vote, featuring celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Zendaya. "Voting is easy," the former first lady said during the event, according to Axios. "It is something that we can do. Don’t listen to people who will say that somehow voting is rigged and your vote will get lost and it won’t be counted. That is not true." https://www.instagram.com/p/CFS3SloAjLN/?utm_source=ig_embed She...

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Bangkok, Sep 25 (efe-epa).- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Russia to supply his country with the vaccine against COVID-19 that Moscow hopes to have ready by October or November, before those developed by China, the United States or Europe. This was communicated by Hun Sen to the new Russian ambassador in Phnom Penh, Anatoly Borovik, in a meeting on Thursday in which he also congratulated the Russian government on the progress of its vaccine, according to the official Facebook page of the Cambodian president. With 275 cases and no deaths detected, the Cambodian authorities are keeping the pandemic...

A Unitarian Church on Fourth Street offered sanctuary to protesters who stayed there when the curfew in Louisville went into effect. Peggy Muller, president of the board of trustees for the First Unitarian Church, said part of their mission is to believe in social justice and equality. She said the church offered sanctuary to the protesters to avoid any direct confrontation with Louisville Metro officers.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) warned Trump to not fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of long-serving Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She went on to ironically claim that "the appointment of a successor who does not share the same perspective on abortion rights will signal that the Republicans are coming after our children." The reality is that during her time on the Court Ginsburg was a staunch opponent of any limitations on abortion. She helped steer the Court to strike down many state statutes that sought to limit the carnage wrought against the tiniest humans. Her replacement...

The hero Bronx dad who was wounded as he shielded his three small children from gunfire at a Bronx car dealership this week lost his jobs because of the injury — according to a fundraising page that surpassed $100,000 on Friday. Anthony Jefferson, 39, visited the used-car business on Boston Road in Eastchester around 7:30 p.m. Monday to look for a car to surprise the mother of his kids, Danica Jefferson, on her upcoming birthday. Instead of leaving with a car, Jefferson found himself in the midst of a shootout — and was shot himself as he covered his children...

Two Amish brothers in Missouri admitted having sex with their 12-year-old sister and getting her pregnant — but managed to avoid jail time because a prosecutor feared they’d “be eaten alive” in prison, according to a report. The abuse came to light after a doctor alerted authorities that the girl was pregnant just after she turned 13 — and she said that four of her brothers, two of them also minors, had been having sex with her, according to the Webster County Citizen. The eldest two — Aaron Schwartz, 22, and 18-year-old brother Petie — admitted to police that they...

Just this week, enraged that they will lose control of the Supreme Court, the Democrats threatened that if they ever take control of the government again, that they will admit as many states as they need to in order to take control forever, and prevent Republicans from ever regaining control. Well, it goes much further than that. Earlier this year, Harvard Law Review published the blueprint of the actual MASTER PLAN. Admit enough new states so that they can pass new amendments that will completely rewrite our constitution, and our government. Some excerpts: "If we truly hold to be self-evident...

San Francisco is seeing a sharp uptick in burglaries, according to police data, but in some neighborhoods the number of break-ins reported doubled since last year. The city's Park District had a 100% jump in burglaries from Jan. 1 through Sept. 20 compared to the same time period last year. The area experienced 373 break-ins this year, more than double the 186 recorded in 2019, according to figures from the San Francisco Police Department. The area covers the Haight and the surrounding neighborhood of the University of California, San Francisco.

President Donald Trump highlighted one of his supporters on Thursday who made a video message detailing what the president means to him. The African-American man, Gary Lamb, began the almost ten-minute video message by thanking Independent journalist Tim Pool, who helped make his video message a viral sensation. “To me, Trump is a freaking God sent,” Lamb said in the video. “To me, Trump is life. To me, Trump is a second chance.”

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday claimed President Donald Trump is “placing this constitutional republic in jeopardy” if he does not accept election results because of mail-in ballot concerns. Friday, Scarborough again sounded off on Trump refusing to commit to accepting the election results, saying the people that still defend the President are engaging in “really stupid jackassery.” “It’s kind of crazy if you think about it,” Scarborough began. “The really stupid jackassery that’s going on out there by people who are trying to stay close to the President of the United States, what they don’t realize is...

A Democrat operative says the United States Postal Service (USPS) workers who despise President Trump will sometimes help election fraudsters by throwing in the garbage mail-in ballots from Republican-heavy neighborhoods. Last month, as Breitbart News highlighted, a Democrat operative told the New York Post‘s Jon Levine a number of stories in which insiders like him lead teams of fraudsters to commit election fraud by paying homeless voters off, taking advantage of the elderly, posing as registered voters, and printing up fake ballots. One notable tactic, the Democrat operative said, is how insiders will use USPS workers to help sway election...

Country music star Willie Nelson has released a new animated music video for his single “Vote ‘Em Out,” which he originally wrote for the 2018 midterm elections. Willie Nelson, who is backing Joe Biden’s bid for the White House, doesn’t mention President Donald Trump in the song or the new music video. But on his official YouTube page, the octogenarian singer encourages viewers to register to vote with the progressive, anti-Trump group Rock the Vote.

Posted here: tiebreakers, including Divisional records, which MLB calls INTRADIVISIONAL And the next tiebreaker is Divisional Record in the 2nd half, which is the final 20 divisional games. THE focus is on the National League. Look for A.L. info sporadically in the thread. NOTE: St LOUIS is scheduled to play a doubleheader makeup on MONDAY at DETROIT. THE doubleheader will be played if it effects which 8 teams qualify. If that doubleheader only effects seeding, one or two of those games will be cancelled. NOTE: there will be no tiebreaker games. Example, if CIN and PHIL tie for the final...