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As we reported earlier, the New York Times claims they have obtained nearly two decades of Trump related tax return data, for him and hundreds of related companies that make up his organization. Now there are a lot of questions here, starting with who leaked the data. The New York Times says it was someone who had a legal right to the data. But that doesn’t mean they had a legal right to leak it. Money bet is obviously on Democrats trying to do a hit on Trump in the final days before the election. And there’s definitely got to...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff are both from New Jersey. They married politicians who have been in the national spotlight for years. And now they're building a team as the better halves of the Joe Biden campaign. Biden and Emhoff have rapidly become two of the campaign’s most prolific surrogates, engaging in in-person campaign events and virtual fundraisers at a pace that often outmatches their spouses at the top of the ticket. While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have spent their days campaigning in key states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida, Jill Biden and Emhoff...

President Donald Trump on Sunday said the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court will be done quickly and easily before the November election. There is a “tremendous amount of time” for her nomination, the president said on Sunday. “I think we could have it done easily before the election,” he told Fox News, adding that they were “going to try and have it done quickly,” while saying, “I think she’ll be confirmed.” The president unveiled Barrett as his choice for the Supreme Court on Saturday at the White House, coming about eight days after Justice Ruth Bader...

President Trump officially nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Judge Barrett, who was surrounded by her husband and seven children, declared her devotion to the nation and the law during remarks she delivered in the Rose Garden. “I love the United States and I love the United States Constitution,” she said thunderous applause. Barrett said she clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia more than 20 years ago. “His judicial philosophy is mine, too,” she said. “A judge must apply the law as written. Judges are not...

Deputy U.S. Marshals from the District of Arizona arrested 140 people in August and September during a violent gang enforcement operation. Deputies executed “Operation Snake Eyes” in the Phoenix metropolitan area. U.S. Marshals Service deputies carried out a six-week operation beginning on August 10 in the Phoenix area to target violent fugitives and gang members, AZFamily.com reported. Operation Snake Eyes (OSE) led to the arrest of 140 fugitives, including 51 gang members, and the seizure of a large number of firearms and cash. “One issue that most people will agree with while debating police issues, is that those who intentionally...

President Donald Trump laid out the evidence of mail-in voter fraud for reporters at a White House press conference on Sunday. “We are gravely concerned about the Democrat assault on election integrity,” Donald Trump said. The president cited the following stories, questioning the integrity and stability of the mail-in voting process: In Brooklyn, 25 percent of mail-in ballots were ruled invalid during the June Democrat primary.In a New Jersey special election, nearly 20 percent of the ballots were thrown out, and four people are being prosecuted for fraud.In a Florida primary, more than 35,000 mail-in ballots were rejected, and over...

CNA Staff, Sep 26, 2020 / 06:01 am MT (CNA).- Catholic leaders in Russia are expressing concern about a bill that would restrict the ability of Russian religious ministers who receive religious education abroad to teach or preach in Russia. The bill calls for “recertification” in Russian educational institutions of pastors and “personnel of religious organisations” who have received religious education abroad, ostensibly with the goal of preventing the spread of “extremist ideology” from abroad, the Barnabas Fund reports. The bill was proposed in the Federal Assembly and approved for first reading Sept. 22, but the reading has been postponed....

Former campaign manager for Donald Trump, Brad Parscale, who was replaced by the President less than four month until November’s vote was reportedly armed with a gun and threatening to harm himself at his Fort Lauderdale home on Sunday afternoon. Police have not confirmed that Parscale worked for Trump, but records confirm that the property in Fort Lauderdale is owned by Parscale, 44, and Local 10 has spoken to neighbors who also said it was the former advisor to the President. Fort Lauderdale Police responded to a home in reference to an armed male attempting suicide Sunday afternoon. When officers...

The copy of “Angels Unawares” will be permanently installed near the National Basilica.Last year, on the occasion of the 2019 World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis unveiled the life-sized sculpture “Angles Unawares,” which depicted the plight of immigrants and refugees over the course of history. To commemorate this year’s event, a replica of the massive sculpture has been permanently installed near the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will unveil and bless the sculpture tomorrow, Sunday, September 27, and will be joined by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the...

Donald Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale has reportedly barricaded himself inside his Fort Lauderdale home with a gun.

Democrats, their media friends want us to know, are furious. If Republicans exercise their constitutional prerogative and fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court, the Democrats are prepared to burn it all down. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) told his caucus on Saturday that if Republicans move forward with a nomination, "nothing is off the table." Others were more explicit: If the Democrats retake the Senate in 2021, Massachusetts senator Ed Markey vowed to abolish the filibuster; his failed primary challenger, Rep. Joe Kennedy, promised to pack the Court. They'll bestow statehood on Puerto Rico and...

Take a trip on a horse-drawn towing barge from Limehouse into old Central London! The trip goes over the Regents Canal from Limehouse, via the Wharves of East London, Mile End Road, Various locks, White Chapel, Heartford Union Canal, Old Ford, Acton's Lock, Hackney, through Islington Tunnel, passes under the New River, over the GNR at Kingscross, under the Midland at St.Pancras, Kentish Town, Alpine Chalet, through Regents Park and London Zoo and ends at Paddington Basin just off Edgeware Road.

The House would decide via state delegations...the Republicans currently control 26 delegations to Democrats’ 22, with Pennsylvania tied and Michigan a 7-6 plurality for Democrats, with a 14th seat held by independent Justin Amash. Can you imagine the chaos on the legal challenges to *every single* House race?

President Trump paid his respects to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Thursday, but was met with protesters who booed and chanted “vote him out.” The President, joined by his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, and sporting a mask, stood silently before Ginsburg’s flag-draped coffin for a few minutes. The crowd below abandoned decorum and began booing Trump. Many individuals even began chants of “vote him out,” a scene which some might view as a particularly tacky display in the presence of a revered figure such as Ginsburg and the President of the United States.

On Tuesday George Pell flies back to Rome, a challenge to powerful enemies now caught in the Vatican’s worst financial scandal in decades. Those enemies hoped Cardinal Pell, the Vatican’s former corruption buster, would rot in an Australian jail on suspiciously false charges of child sexual abuse. But Pell returns in triumph, and it’s his nemesis, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who could now face jail instead. And once again, former Vatican officials ask: is there a connection to this scandal and Pell’s legal nightmare in Australia? Pell was the Vatican’s fourth most powerful man, overseeing church finances, until Victoria Police charged...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s wife, Jill Biden, shut down a question Sunday from CNN’s Jake Tapper about any “gaffe” her husband may make. “Oh, you can't even go there,” Jill Biden told the “State of the Union” host when he led into a question by noting that the former vice president “has been known to make the occasional gaffe.” “After Donald Trump, you cannot even say the word gaffe,” she said. “I can't even say the word gaffe?” Tapper asked. “Nope. Done. It's gone,” she responded. “Over, so over,” she added. Q: "Your husband has been known to make...

Azerbaijan and Armenian forces engaged in fierce clashes Sunday when a decades long conflict over disputed land erupted into renewed war involving tanks, artillery and aircraft. Russia and international organizations including NATO, the European Union and the OSCE called on both sides to halt fighting over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkey backed its ally Azerbaijan and said it was ready to offer assistance. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared martial law and ordered a general mobilization, after accusing Azerbaijan of "preplanned aggression." Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, who also announced martial law, said in a state TV address that Armenian forces...

Explanation: Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, details about how lightning is produced remains a topic of research. What is known is that updrafts carry light ice crystals into collisions with larger and softer ice balls, causing the smaller crystals to become positively charged. After enough charge becomes separated, the rapid electrical discharge that is lightning occurs. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known...

For years the liberal press and Democrat politicians have pressured President Donald Trump to release his tax returns. -------snip------ On Sunday The New York Times reported on President Trump’s tax returns saying the president did not pay taxes some years because of huge losses. The NY Times found NOTHING on Russia nor any of the phony scandals the anti-Trump publication has been reporting on for years.

Happy,Happy! MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election, a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground state. more at link above: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-wisconsin-elections-us-supreme-court-courts-9f58fae97f3296c1a318f9f1082cf198?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP