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Fox News Channel finished a historic third quarter as the first cable network ever to surpass all broadcast networks in total weekday prime-time viewers for an entire three-month period. Fox News averaged four million weekday prime-time viewers, beating out leading broadcast network NBC (3.6 million viewer average). Between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m., Fox News averaged 3.5 million viewers to finish No. 1 in basic cable. MSNBC placed second with an average of 2.1 million viewers.

WASHINGTON – Yixin Ren, 36, of Brooklyn, NY, and Yishan Lin, 35, of Queens, NY, pled guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly to one count of conspiracy to use false, forged, and counterfeited documents, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, in connection with a scheme where Chinese nationals fraudulently obtained student visas by hiring people with fake Chinese passports to take an English proficiency test in their names.             The United States requires foreign citizens who wish to enter the United States on a temporary basis to study at a college or...

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Videos include minors filmed during medical examinations DENVER – United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Dr. Justin Neisler, age 32, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced to serve 276 months (23 years) in federal prison, followed by 10 years in supervised release for the production of child pornography.  He was also ordered to pay $10,100 in assessments to the Court and into funds set up to assist victims of child exploitation crimes.  Dr. Neisler appeared at the sentencing hearing in custody and was remanded at the hearing’s conclusion, to be placed in an institution designated by the U.S....

Today's top stories 29.09.20 Rival Palestinian factions reach an agreement that will see parliamentary and presidential elections held within six-months -- as part of a collective Palestinian effort to resist Israel's normalization with Arab and Muslim states.Damascus is reportedly seeking to revive direct-negotiations with Jerusalem.French president Emmanuel Macron accuses Hezbollah and its allies for the failure to attain much sought-after political breakthrough for Lebanon.

The Cardinal said he would tell Biden ‘not to approach to receive Holy Communion, out of charity toward him, because that would be a sacrilege and endanger the salvation and his own soul’ROME, Italy, September 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Raymond Burke stated that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is “not a Catholic in good standing” because of his support for abortion and, consequently, he “should not approach to receive Holy Communion.” “I don’t understand why Catholics who are involved in politics can’t get this straight in their heads, but they should,” said Burke during a Sept. 28 interview with...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine predicted Tuesday that the presidential race between President Trump and Democrat Joe Biden will be close in his state but will ultimately result in a Trump victory. DeWine’s comments came during one of his twice-weekly briefings where he discussed, among other things, the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the state’s economy, Cleveland's WKYC-TV reported. While discussing the prospects for Republicans of winning Ohio, DeWine said he “never bought into this argument that Ohio’s become a Republican state.”

A Chinese national was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $4.2 million for laundering drug proceeds generated by large-scale cocaine trafficking in the United States.Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia; Special Agent in Charge Wendy C. Woolcock for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Special Operations Division; Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey T. Scott of DEA's Louisville, Kentucky Field Division; Chief Jason Crosby of the Criminal Investigations Division of the U.S. Department of State’s...

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday again blasted the federal government for failing to provide relief for state and local governments amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, saying New York City’s deficit is “Donald Trump’s deficit.” “We have tremendous losses because of COVID, we're not liable for them,” Cuomo said. New York City has a $9 billion budget deficit and the state’s is $30 billion. “I’m not accepting liability,” Cuomo continued. “I'm not accepting the premise that New York City or New York State should pay.”

ST. LOUIS — The Archdiocese of St. Louis cracked down on its Immigration Task Force following a webinar in which panelists appeared critical of the Trump administration’s handling of refugees. Marie Kenyon, an accomplished attorney who oversees human rights issues for the archdiocese as director of the Peace and Justice Commission, also was put on leave over the matter. She couldn’t be reached for comment Friday. Church officials said they knew nothing of the webinar before the archdiocese recently hosted the program on Facebook, the first in a series titled, “Immigration and the 2020 Election: Education and Action for People...

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CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2020 / 03:01 pm MT (CNA).- The office of San Francisco's mayor announced Tuesday that places of worship will be permitted to hold services indoors at 25% capacity, up to 100 people, beginning Wednesday. Restaurants will also be allowed to reopen for indoor dining at 25% capacity, up to 100 people. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco thanked the mayor, as well as the thousands of Catholics who urged that they be permitted to attend Mass. “I want to thank Mayor London Breed for recognizing that faith is essential. As well, I want to thank the...

The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has apparently been overruled and the No-Sail order extended through October 2020. This was apparently confirmed from two sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between the two parties. There are of course to sides to the story as the CDC is purely focused on keeping people safe and healthy from viruses and not so much on the economic impact. Politics does come into play here even though that has been denied by officials. Florida is a huge importance for votes for the upcoming Presidential Election. Right now, Florida...

The Trump administration is preparing a series of immigration enforcement actions targeting sanctuary cities leading up to the November general election, sources told the Washington Post on Tuesday. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation is known informally as the “sanctuary op” and could reportedly begin as soon as this week in California and eventually move to cities including Denver and Philadelphia. So-called sanctuary cities have policies in place the extent to which local law enforcement cooperate with federal immigration officials. The president and other Republicans have strongly criticized those cities and their often Democratic mayors. Acting Secretary of the...

To slow the spread of COVID-19, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently recommends the use of cloth face coverings in public settings such as grocery stores where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain. Medical experts say that “Apart from avoiding crowded indoor spaces, the most effective thing people can do is wear masks.” Some state and local governments mandate the use of face masks or coverings in specific settings, typically in retail establishments and on public transportation. As face-covering requirements multiply around the country, lawsuits challenging them to follow. Trump has been reluctant to...

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that extended the deadline for counting mail-in ballots in Wisconsin until Nov. 9 as long as they are postmarked by the Nov. 3 election, AP reports. Why it matters: It's a big win for Democrats that also means that the winner of Wisconsin, a key presidential swing state, may not be known for six days after the election. Republicans are likely to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court, as the Pennsylvania GOP did after a similar ruling on Monday.

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Since we reviewed the key knowables and predictables about Covid-19 in April, new points have emerged. Sewage studies and patient samples seem to show the virus was circulating in Europe and South America before an outbreak was officially recognized in Wuhan. Lockdowns might or might not have been important contributors to suppressing eruptions that overwhelmed hospitals in the Chinese city, in New York, in Northern Italy. These episodes are not well understood. The hospitals themselves may have been a progenitor of local spikes. The mandatory closing of local businesses is hard to disentangle from the steps people were already taking...