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"Election law can only be decided by one body, and that's the 50 state legislatures across the United States," former Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann told "Just the News AM". (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) By Carrie Sheffield Updated: October 28, 2020 - 12:40am Article Dig In Key Republican leaders argue that Democrats are wrongly trying to redefine who has constitutional authority over running elections in order to sow chaos and delay a clear presidential election result. However, Republicans say they are hopeful the U.S. Supreme Court — especially with the newly-sworn Justice Amy Coney Barrett to possibly tip the balance...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) criticized the media in a Tuesday tweet for what he said was it not reporting a drop in the COVID-19 mortality rate in Spain, which is experiencing a surge in new coronavirus cases. “New COVID infections up 33% in Spain but mortality down 82%,” Paul tweeted while sharing a link to Spain's coronavirus totals. “The Leftwing media reports the new cases but refuses to let anyone hear the good news — mortality rates are plummeting!” According to Worldometers, Spain recorded 17,396 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, along with 93 deaths. The country recently declared a state...

October 28 2020 Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles Thirtieth Wednesday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: Reading 1 EPH 2:19-22 Brothers and sisters:You are no longer strangers and sojourners,but you are fellow citizens with the holy onesand members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets,with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.Through him the whole structure is held togetherand grows into a temple sacred in the Lord;in him you also are being built togetherinto a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Responsorial Psalm PS 19:2-3, 4-5 R. (5a) Their message goes out through...

Updated: October 27, 2020 - 10:42pm Article Dig In In a lengthy interview with Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night, former Biden family business associate Tony Bobulinski accused Joe Biden of a "blatant lie" in denying any familiarity with his son Hunter's business undertakings, claiming he himself met with Biden on two separate occasions to discuss prospective ventures into Chinese markets. Bobulinski painted a picture of the Democratic presidential nominee as actively aware in broad strokes of plans for the Biden family to enter into a business partnership with Chinese nationals closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party and People's Liberation...

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Over one million Republicans have voted early in battleground Florida, according to data from the Florida Division of Elections. All 67 counties in Florida now offer early in-person voting, and while Democrats have, thus far, held an advantage in overall voter turnout in the Sunshine State, Republicans are narrowing the gap day by day. According to Monday’s data, 1,020,877 Republicans cast their ballots early, compared to 766,794 Democrats who have done the same. This gives the GOP a 254,083 advantage in early voting alone. While it is true that Florida Democrats hold an overall advantage due to an increase in...

PARIS - Professor Philippe Juvin, a leading member of Paris’ Georges-Pompidou hospital, told RTL radio on Wednesday that France had to accept a new, national lockdown to tackle a resurgence of the COVID-19 virus. “We must take it up,” said Juvin. French President Emmanuel Macron will give a televised address on Wednesday evening. His government has been exploring a new, national lockdown from midnight on Thursday, BFM TV reported, albeit a slightly more flexible one than the two-month shutdown that began in mid-March. Schools could remain open even as restrictions on people’s movements become more severe, BFM TV added. France...

former Navy lieutenant who spent six months in 2017 in business with Hunter Biden, trying unsuccessfully to get a joint venture with a Chinese firm off the ground, has made public an audio recording from earlier this month, which he claims was a Biden associate trying to silence him. Tony Bobulinski appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show on Tuesday night and an audio was played of Rob Walker - whose wife works for Jill Biden - allegedly warning Bobulinski not to go public with the information. 'If he doesn’t come out on record I am providing the facts,' Bobulinski...

According to Blaze reporter Elijah Schaffer, Philadelphia Police have lost control of the riot and white people are now being “specifically targeted and attacked.” The mob is so anti-white, that Antifa was not welcome with them and had to hold a separate demonstration in another location. Schaffer, who was violently attacked earlier in the evening while reporting live from a shop that was being looted, tweeted that the rioters are also “shooting each other.” “Philadelphia police have completely lost control of the affected rioting region which stretches multiple city blocks,” Schaffer tweeted. “Looters have broken into over 30+ stores...

BOSTON -- Judge Juan Torruella, the first Puerto Rican to sit on a U.S. federal appeals court, died Monday at the age of 87, the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. Toruella served nearly four decades on 1st Circuit and took part in such high-profile rulings as the tossing of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence this year.

monthlong mission in Ohio recently turned up 45 missing children and led to 179 arrests, authorities said. In an operation dubbed Autumn Hope, the US Marshals Service in Ohio and Virginia tracked the children, including a “high-risk” 15-year-old girl from Cleveland who was linked to suspected human trafficking, authorities said Monday. Twenty other children were also located as authorities checked on their well-being. During one of the missing children recoveries, a loaded gun was recovered. A 15-year-old boy had two warrants and is suspected in multiple shootings and a murder, authorities said.

Rep. Ilhan Omar expects Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, if elected, will become far more progressive than the moderate he has presented himself as. Speaking during an interview with “Axios on HBO” that aired Monday, Omar (D-Minn.) made the comments after being asked what kind of negotiating power progressives will have with a Biden administration. “A president is only as successful as his collaboration is with Congress. And we will have a cohort of progressives that are very clear about their objectives for wanting the implementation of Medicare-for-all and a Green New Deal and raising the minimum wage and not...

The Black man fatally shot by Philadelphia police officers on Monday was an aspiring rapper who sometimes rhymed about shooting people, including police officers, and was awaiting trial for allegedly threatening to shoot a woman, according to media reports. Walter Wallace Jr., 27, also rapped about social justice and police injustice on his social media, WPVI-TV reported. Court records obtained by the news outlet also show Wallace had a criminal history. In 2017, he pleaded guilty to robbery, assault and possessing an instrument of crime, according to documents obtained by Fox News. Authorities said he kicked down the door of...

As reported earlier “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter protesters rioted, looted and attacked police in Philadelphia on Monday night after police shot a black man who was threatening them with a knife. The BLM believes the cops are to blame. The far left protest immediately turned into rioting and looting. One female police officer was run over by a truck. Several more were injured. The city was run over by rioters. On Tuesday Democrat Governor Tom Wolf suggested the mass riots were peaceful protests

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Top 2016 pollsters Robert Cahaly of Trafalgar Group and Matt Towery of Insider Advantage joined Sean Hannity on Tuesday night to discuss the latest 2020 election numbers. Both Cahaly and Towery told Sean President Trump has the highest numbers in the black community of any GOP presidential candidate Top 2016 pollsters Robert Cahaly of Trafalgar Group and Matt Towery of Insider Advantage joined Sean Hannity on Tuesday night to discuss the latest 2020 election numbers. Both Cahaly and Towery told Sean President Trump has the highest numbers in the black community of any presidential candidate

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The Jewish Community of Warsaw issued a special statement supporting the protesters after the Constitutional Court's judgment on abortion. "We understand the bitterness of women in Poland, including members of the Jewish Community in Warsaw , related to depriving them of the possibility to decide about their life and health, as well as the lives of their families," we read in a statement published in social media. "It is sad and painful that today women and the men supporting them are forced to defend their rights on the streets of Warsaw and all over Poland in the time of...

The Texas Guard said troops would be sent to Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio Maj. Gen. James K. Brown of the Guard, said the move would offer support to local law enforcement 'as we did previously to deter any civil disturbance at sites in various cities within Texas' In the nation's capital businesses close to the White House began to board up their windows Monday Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills will also board up ahead of November 3 in anticipation of violence there In Washington state up to 300 National Guard soldiers are undergoing training to to...

Here we go again. By the numbers: Countless: Brazen acts of violence and riots that plague the “City of Brotherly Love.” Thirty: Number of Philadelphia police officers, including one run over by a truck, injured in the latest trashing of the city by looters and thugs. Too numerous to quantify: Items stolen; dumpsters and police cars set on fire; shards of glass from shattered storefronts; and lives destroyed. 1.4 million: Philadelphians who continue to suffer under Mayor Jim Kenney’s unprecedented incompetence - their just desserts for re-electing him. Zero: On a scale of one to ten, Philly’s prospects for becoming...