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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department cannot step in to shield President Donald Trump from a libel lawsuit filed by a woman who claims he raped her in a New York City department store more than 20 years ago. The Justice Department had sought to block the lawsuit, filed by former gossip columnist E. Jean Carroll, by arguing that the president was acting in his official capacity when he told White House reporters that she made up the rape story. Carroll sued, claiming that his statements branding her a liar damaged her...

The fourteenth century was a time of Dickensian paradox. Though it was a calamitous time of war, plague, corruption, and social disintegration, it also enjoyed a surprising number of reforms — which would in time bring renewal and restoration to the whole fabric of western civilization. All through the century, the peace of Christendom was shattered as the Hundred Years War raged between the kingdoms of France and England. At the same time, the catholicity of the church was sundered by the Great Schism — the apostasy of both the Avignon usurpation and the “babylonian captivity” scandalized the faithful across...

The farm will produce mealworms as a low-carbon protein source. About an hour north of Paris, the world’s largest insect farm is being constructed. The new farm could help to provide a low-carbon source of alternative protein. While some are looking for ways to introduce them directly into our diet, the company behind the farm, Ÿnsect is focusing on ways to use insects to shrink the environmental footprint of agriculture. The farmers believe that insects are a sustainable way to replace other animal proteins in the supply chain, by using them to feed fish and livestock or in pet food....

ou hear it every day. Someone says, “I just want the election to be over,” hoping out loud that things will somehow “return to normal” once the 2020 vote ends. But it won’t. The left already has plans to ensure that. By “return to normal,” of course, we refer to an America not so riven by politics that families and neighbors no longer talk to each other because of the deep political divide. An America where people again become friendly and human, politics recede in importance, the economy and schools reopen, and suspicion of others’ political motives fade into the...

This is criminal action by Twitter.It is electioneering.The social media giant again today censored President Trump’s account after he questioned mail-in voting integrity.There have been dozens of studies that prove mail-in voting is not as secure as in person voting.There is a reason that Democrats and the fake news media supports it. There is also a reason why even the most populous countries require voter ID and in person voting.But it’s even worse this time.Breitbart.com reported: Twitter now displays a warning label over the tweet, warning users that “some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and...

The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with the City of Houston resolving allegations that personnel at Houston Fire Department (HFD) Station 54 discriminated and retaliated against former firefighter Jane Draycott in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII is a federal statute that prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex and religion.   The department also announced the April 28, 2020 settlement of the Title VII claims brought in its lawsuit on behalf of Houston firefighter Paula Keyes. Once the resolution announced today involving...

It will be A long dark December and there's reason to believe Maybe if H1N1 Did Nothing Right Biden wins this year will be better than the last I remember the last thing that you said - Fauci's a disaster Now the days go by so fast And it's one more day up in the NIH playing on Instagram And it's one more night on CNN If you think that you could vote for Biden I wish you would -------------------- Counting Crows - A Long December (Official Video)

Former Obama Administration Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and 50 other former intelligence officials have signed a letter asserting that the disclosure of the emails and videos on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop is "Russian disinformation." "The fact that these emails and such have been verified to have been authored or received by Hunter Biden doesn't change my opinion," Clapper asserted. "After all, Hillary Clinton's emails were real, but we all concluded that the Russians were involved in making them public. They could just as easily be orchestrating the events leading up to the laptop being discovered and its...

Major U.S. media outlets are living in an alternate fantasy world in which the Biden scandal is a 'miasma' meant to confuse and mislead gullible Americans. It’s hard to read Anne Applebaum’s recent article on the Hunter Biden scandal at The Atlantic without guffawing at the outlandishness of her argument, which is that the whole thing amounts to a shadowy “psy-op” that’s too complicated to understand—a “miasma” conjured up by unreliable Fox News characters trying to create a “foggy world in which misdeeds might have taken place, and in which corruption might have happened.”Applebaum’s approach is emblematic of the mainstream...

As a libertarian, I think it’s reprehensible that liberals are against medical marijuana, and also reprehensible that they tried to raise the price of wheat at a time when millions of Americans were hungry. I hope Amy Coney Barrett will help overturn these rulings. In the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich, the court ruled that a person who grew and smoked their own medical marijuana was engaging in interstate commerce, even thought the marijuana never crossed state lines, and no money changed hands.Voting for the majority were Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Scalia.The dissenters were O’Connor, Rehnquist,...

South Lawn9:06 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, this is a momentous day for America, for the United States Constitution, and for the fair and impartial rule of law.The Constitution is the ultimate defense of American liberty. The faithful application of the law is the cornerstone of our Republic. That is why, as President, I have no more solemn obligation and no greater honor than to appoint Supreme Court justices.On this October evening — and it is so beautiful — the First Lady and I welcome you...

Following a unanimous vote by the Judiciary Committee last week, the Senate just confirmed Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to become the 115th Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court.“Having confirmed her to the Circuit Court in 2017 with bipartisan support, the Senate has already undertaken a thorough and rigorous review of her record,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said after President Trump made the nomination last month.Throughout Justice Barrett’s career, she has faithfully upheld our U.S. Constitution as written. The American Bar Association gave Barrett its highest rating, and she has an impressive track record...

This is crazy. She works the senior to change her vote, and then rewards her with a gift.

It was a blockbuster story. A respected Chinese virologist appeared on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News in mid-September to share the results of her just-completed report. The conclusion: The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was likely engineered in a Chinese lab. On Carlson's show, she claimed it was intentionally released into the world. Then, its validity began to unravel. The publication of the paper by lead author Li-Meng Yan -- an expatriate from China seeking asylum in the US -- was quickly linked to former White House adviser Steve Bannon, long a strident critic of China's government. The Johns...

We knew it was a bad time for commercial real estate. We didn't imagine it was this bad. Among CEOs, 76% told Fortune their company will need less office space in the future. And 28% say they'll need a lot less office space. That's the finding from a Fortune survey of 171 CEOs in collaboration with Deloitte between September 23 to 30.*

BREAKING: New audio of Hunter Biden talking about his partner “the f**king spy chief of China” “I’m receiving calls from SDNY”  @TheNatPulse https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1321138196097490947 

As we noted last week, there is nearly 12 million square feet of vacant office space now spread across San Francisco, including 5.6 million square feet of un-leased space and 6.2 million square feet of space which has been leased but is now sitting vacant and actively seeking a subletter (which is up from 770,000 square feet of sublettable space at the same time last year). For context, the 1,070-foot-tall Salesforce/Transbay tower at First and Mission, which is the tallest building in San Francisco, contains 1.35 million square feet of office space spread across 59 floors. In other words, there’s...

Non-essential offices are allowed to bring employees back to their buildings in San Francisco starting Tuesday. A 25% indoor capacity limit still applies. Under the new guidelines, employers must conduct a health check of employees each day. “When they started realizing what was happening, they shut down our office and made us permanent remote, ” said SF resident Christiana Ratto. “I don’t think anyone is ready to go back to the office. The more I talk to them, it’s still a little iffy.” “I don’t think anyone is ready to go back to the office.” CHRISTIANA RATTO, SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT...

With only a small percentage of fans returning to college football games across the country, the financial impact is not only affecting the universities directly, but the businesses closely tied to these schools. The coronavirus has kept more and more people out of communities. As a result, smaller operations that once thrived during the heart of the season are suffering. Colleges still are struggling to hone their COVID-19 protocols, and the packs of fans who are so eager to don their school colors and head out to bars, restaurants and other venues are stuck inside the confines of their own...

WASHINGTON - A climate advocacy group comprised of high-profile backers of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Tuesday urged the former vice president to consider using U.S. financial regulation as a tool to fight global warming if he is elected. Evergreen Action, a group of former staffers of Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Senator Elizabeth Warren who have advised the Biden campaign on a range of issues, handed the campaign a policy memo detailing how he could use the U.S. financial system to counter climate change within his first 100 days in office if he defeats Republican President Donald Trump....