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A new survey conducted by Whitman Insight Strategies and MRC Data in partnership with DISQO measured the intersection of entertainment, influence and politics among 1,103 likely voters. The votes are in, and Tom Hanks, Dwayne Johnson, Oprah Winfrey and LeBron James have the most trusted opinions on political and social issues, according to a new survey of American voters. NBA star James was also cited for doing the most to raise awareness and motivation around voting in the general population and among Gen Z voters, and for having the most trusted opinions among Black voters. Conducted by Whitman Insight Strategies...

The Biden tax plan is a horrible idea. As with all schemes that would raise taxes on the American populace, it would severely limit economic growth because it would divert resources from investments to wasteful and failing government programs.

A new ECU Poll of South Carolina, conducted October 24-25, shows Senator Lindsey Graham ahead of challenger Jaime Harrison among likely voters, 49% to 46%, with 5% undecided.

about a whole lot more than Donald Trump, or Joe Biden. The election has been classed as a contest between old decency and raw, rumbustious America First rhetoric. The characters of both men have been instilled in their campaigns. One, contradictory, argumentative and bristling with brash confidence. The other, plodding pragmatic and relentlessly reliable. Trump, the maverick outsider last time out, now has to stand on a record which can be scrutinised no matter how many rinses it gets in the spin-cycle. Biden too has a long shadow going back over decades. He has been in the environs of Democratic...

The chaotic crash-landing of a robotic spacecraft called Philae has yielded serendipitous insights into the softness of comets. In 2014, the European Space Agency’s pioneering lander touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, after a ten-year journey aboard its mothership, Rosetta. But rather than fix itself to the surface, Philae bounced twice and ended up on its side under a shady overhang, cutting its mission short. After a meticulous search, an ESA team has now discovered the previously unknown site of Philae’s second touchdown — and with it an imprint that the craft left in comet ice that is billions of years...

THE only chink of light in 2020 could be the imminent defeat of Donald Trump in next week’s US Presidential election, but his profound influence on politics and society will be much harder to dislodge than the man himself. After just one term in office, Trump has already appointed three Supreme Court justices, tipping the court to a six-three conservative majority – the most conservative it has been in 70 years. His latest appointment, 48-year-old Amy Coney Barrett, is the least experienced nominee to the court in 30 years. Barrett, a law professor before Trump nominated her to 7th Circuit...

The United States announces that it killed seven senior leaders of Al-Qaeda in Syria in an air strike last week as they were meeting near Idlib, US Central Command announced on Monday. Central Command spokeswoman, Major Beth Riordan, said the strike was conducted on 22 October. The leaders were not identified. “The removal of these AQ-S leaders will disrupt the terrorist organization’s ability to further plot and carryout global attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians,” Riordan said. “With our allies and partners, we will continue to target al Qaida and other terrorist organisations.” she added. According to...

I didn't see this event listed yesterday. President Trump will be in Rochester, Minnesota on Friday evening. Jason Lewis for Senate, Michelle Fischbach for MN-07 and Tyler Kistner for MN-02 must be thrilled!Event Details: Fri, October 30, 2020 05:00 pm (CDT) Doors Open: 02:00 pm Rochester International Airport 7600 Helgerson Dr. SW Rochester, MN, 55902Link

Call me the 1617 Project. Yep, that’s the year my first ancestor born on these then-wild and woolly shores saw the light of day in the touch and go environment of the Jamestown Colony. You’re not supposed to say things like this—but I am proud of Temperance Bailey Cocke. At the age of six, Temperance cheated death by hiding out at Jordan’s Journey, a settlement upriver from James Fort, while Powhatan engaged in a historic massacre. As a result, voila--here I am. Can’t thank you enough, Temperance, you brave gal, you! On behalf of Temperance and other intrepid colonial souls,...

...The Biden Five is composed of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden; his younger brothers Frank Biden and James Biden, his sister Valerie Biden, and his daughter Ashley Biden. Marlow highlighted Schweizer’s latest book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite, as “the gateway into understanding not just Joe Biden and the Biden family, but also the entire institutional Democratic Party at this moment and their corruption.” Marlow described Schweizer’s investigation of the Biden family as yielding “indisputable evidence that Joe Biden is running a crime-like syndicate where he is, if nothing else, enabling his family members to...

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Eric Dreiband issued the following statement today commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act:Twenty years ago, on Oct. 28, 2000, Congress enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), condemning human trafficking as a “contemporary manifestation of slavery” that is “abhorrent” to our ideals of freedom, human dignity, and unalienable rights.On Oct. 19, 2020, I was pleased to participate in the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. During that meeting, 20 agency officials across the federal government, including the Department of Justice, explained how the federal government is combatting...

The Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging Haji Najibullah, a/k/a “Najibullah Naim,” a/k/a “Abu Tayeb,” a/k/a “Atiqullah”  with six counts related to the 2008 kidnapping of an American journalist and two Afghan nationals.  Najibullah, 44, was arrested and transferred to the United States from Ukraine to face the charges in the indictment.    Najibullah will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang.  The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla.“Najibullah is charged with taking an American journalist and others hostage in Afghanistan in November 2008.  Journalists risk their lives...

lose to half of all self-identified likely voters have already cast a ballot in the 2020 election, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen . Among a subset of voters who identified themselves as “likely” to vote, 47% said they had already done so, while 37% said they intend to vote at a polling place on Election Day. The remaining 16% said they plan to vote in between now and Election Day, less than a week away...

In the final presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden promised that, if elected, he will create “a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people.” While most of the pundits focused on how such a massive amnesty would impact America, there is also much disagreement surrounding the question of how many illegal aliens actually reside in the country. So where did Biden get his “11 million [illegal aliens]” figure? And is it accurate? To answer those questions, we must first consider how experts calculate estimates for how many illegal aliens currently reside in the United States. The answer...

More Than 3,000 Law Enforcement Agencies to be Certified Over Next 90 Days as Result of President’s Executive Order Today, the Department of Justice announced Standards for Certification that will be used by credentialing bodies so they can begin certifying thousands of law enforcement agencies over the next three months. The Standards of Certification are a result of President Trump’s June Executive Order 13929, Safe Policing for Safe Communities. “The fundamental responsibility of government is to keep its citizens safe and today’s action to certify thousands of law enforcement agencies around the country will further enable us to do just...

Police say a Taylorsville woman was behind the crime, when a man was kidnapped, beaten and forced to strip naked. According to an arrest report, the incident happened last month in Taylorsville. Police say 36-year-old Leslie Tindle admitted to luring the victim from his home. That's when an accomplice hit him, according to the arrest report, and Tindle forced him to strip. The man was later found along Bloomfield Road, naked and beaten with his hands zip-tied behind his back. Police say Tindle told them it was all because the victim was in the car when someone else took her...

He ran for President at a time of record unemployment and economic despair, with democracy itself in apparent retreat around the globe. He overcame tremendous personal hardship and promised to heal a battered nation. His friends thought of him as a unifier; his enemies called him a socialist. If this sounds to you like Joe Biden, you’d be right. If this sounds like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, you’d also be right.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has successfully verified all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski, the Daily Caller has learned. Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson will not call Bobulinski to testify before the November 3 elections, as the committee is working to review all the information provided to the committee by Bobulinski. The information has to be verified, as it is subject to the same false information to Congress laws that verbal or written testimony does. However, a Johnson spokesperson told the Caller that all the material provided by Bobulinski that has...

Remarks as Prepared for DeliveryGood afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today for a conversation on one of the most pressing challenges we face – the continuing fight against the online exploitation of children.  I want to thank Berit Berger and Columbia Law School for hosting us virtually, and for putting together this event on such an important subject.As Berit said, my name is Beth Williams, and I am the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy or OLP.  OLP sits at the intersection of the Justice Department’s many components, and is responsible for developing...

Former DEA Public Affairs Officer Scammed Victims by Posing Falsely as Covert CIA Officer Involved in a Highly-classified Intelligence Program A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) public affairs officer was sentenced today to seven years in prison for defrauding at least a dozen companies of over $4.4 million by posing falsely as a covert officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).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; Assistant Director in Charge Steven M. D’Antuono of the FBI’s Washington Field Office; CIA Acting...