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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the chances are "50-50" that Republicans lose control of the upper chamber with just five days to go until the Nov. 3 election. “It's a 50-50 proposition. We have a lot of exposure. This is a huge Republican class," McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday during a campaign stop in Kentucky. "There are dogfights all over the country." Republicans are fighting to hold a slim 53-47 majority in the Senate as Democrats target several GOP-held seats they believe are competitive. In order to take back the Senate, Democrats would need to pick up three additional seats...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers have stolen $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party’s account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party’s chairman told The Associated Press on Thursday. The party noticed the suspicious activity on Oct. 22 and contacted the FBI on Friday, said Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt. Hitt said the FBI is investigating. FBI spokesman Leonard Peace did not immediately return a message seeking comment. The attack was discovered less than two weeks before Election Day, as both Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden made their final...

Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media. The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression. The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony,...

I just posted shocking numbers out of North Carolina that show that white voters, and particularly white, working-class voters, are way over-performing in early voting. http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3899468/posts Now check this out from Colorado and Virginia: Colorado-- In 2016, per exit polls conducted by CNN, white voters cast 78% of all votes in Colorado. Breaking this 78% white vote down: whites with a college degree cast 45% of the total votes in 2016, while non-college whites cast 33% of Colorado votes. In 2020, as of today, whites have cast 87%(!) of all the early votes. And this 87% broken down by education:...

An artist’s impression of a gravitational microlensing event by a free-floating planet. Credit: Jan Skowron / Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw ============================================================================= Our Galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, has announced the discovery of the smallest Earth-sized free-floating planet found to date. Over four thousand extrasolar planets have been discovered to date. Although many of the known exoplanets do not resemble those in our solar system, they have one thing in common — they all orbit a star. However, theories of planet formation and evolution...

Most Americans of all stripes flatter themselves that somehow we Americans are better than others. The sense that we are smarter, more civilized, built a greater country, just have something in us that makes us better because we live here. Even most leftists feel that way, quietly complimenting themselves that somehow they are better for being here in the America they hate. We soon shall see. Is there something uniquely corrupt and toxic in the German soul that explains Hitler’s rise? Maybe. But then you have to explain all the non-Jewish Germans like Oskar Schindler who risked and gave their...

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2010, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has been a steadfast champion of private property rights. Driven by many of his constituents’ horrific experiences living under communism, Sen. Rubio has taken a strong stand against eminent domain, intellectual property infringement, and taxes and regulations that make it difficult for people to pursue their livelihoods and the American Dream. Now, by continuing his commendable stand for property rights by standing firm against Venezuela’s vile expropriation schemes, the lawmaker has a chance to help the victims of Venezuela’s socialist regime reclaim property that was stolen from them. Under...

Former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson justified another night of riots and looting in Philadelphia by claiming that there’s nothing in the Bible which tells people not to steal. Yes, really. Numerous stores were trashed and looted while police officers were attacked again in response to the shooting of Walter Wallace Jr., who was killed after advancing towards officers with a knife. One of the stores targeted was Chick-fil-A, despite its CEO Dan Cathy previously shining a black rapper’s shoes in a pro-Black Lives Matter stunt. Responding to the looting, Williamson took to Twitter to declare, “There are people in...

A Michigan gun shop owner told Breitbart News that Black Lives Matter-related riots in Grand Rapids back in May brought a flood of single mothers into her store seeking to protect their children. Lisa Mayo owns Flashpoint Firearms in Comstock Park, Michigan, just a few miles north of Grand Rapids. She said her biggest sales day occurred after rioting in downtown Grand Rapids the night after a George Floyd protest took place. WOOD TV reported that the Grand Rapids Police Department headquarters was tagged with expletives. Storefront windows were smashed. Properties were destroyed. Police cruisers were torched. An estimated $2.4...

Last Updated Oct 29th, 2020 at 9:35 am Christmas family celebrations in the UK will be broken up by officers if they break lockdown rules, police said. West Midlands Police Commissioner David Jamieson said officers will investigate reports of rule-breaking over the holidays, and he fears that riots could be sparked by the enforcement. "If we think there's large groups of people gathering where they shouldn't be, then police will have to intervene. If, again, there's flagrant breaking of the rules, then the police would have to enforce. It's not the police's job to stop people enjoying their Christmas. However,...

I feel about this the way I felt about those Minnesota polls that Ed posted this morning: They can’t be reconciled with other data, so someone somewhere is wrong. It could be that the Minnesota polls are right — but if they are, then the national polling is wildly, wildly off. There’s no plane of reality where Joe Biden wins the national popular vote by seven points but loses a heartbreaker in Minnesota. Likewise, it’s all but impossible to believe that Biden is leading in Florida right now — slightly, according to the RCP average — if he’s turned a...

Minnesota went to Clinton in 2016 by a margin of just 44,000 votes, among the smallest margins of victory in the country. That tiny margin, coupled with the economic boom created prior to the Coronavirus outbreak, placed Minnesota within striking distance for team Trump. Polling for the state has Biden up 6 for the Real Clear Politics average, and 270 to win had Minnesota leaning blue. To compare to 2016, the last two polls had Clinton with a 10 and 8 point lead respectively, in a race that had Clinton win by 1.5 points. Now, the latest poll from Trafalgar...

I met up with The Planteman, Chris Plante, last weekend and he’s extremely busy with his weekly morning show, which has expanded to several US markets over the years and is heard all over the world via the Internet as well as the WMAL website. Some of the countries he’s heard at in real time are Sweden, Norway, Italy, Israel, Australia and many more. We chatted for a while and he was very appreciative of all of the support that the hardcore WMAL listeners have given him over the years, as well as Freepers who were a constant force at...

In contrast to Donald Trump, who continues to insist that the coronavirus pandemic is going to “end quickly” and the United States is “turning the corner,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday, amid a record-shattering spike in new cases, that everyday life for many Americans may not return to normal until the end of 2021 or into 2022.

he U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday increased the size of an inquiry which could reveal if the state is lowballing the number of COVID-19 fatalities among New York nursing home residents. The Associated Press reported that the DOJ is calling for information from hundreds of private facilities. The news outlet said that the DOJ letter requested a breakout of hospital fatalities that the health department has not shared publicly, and expands to over 600 facilities a similar request from earlier this year targeting a much smaller number of public facilities....

York County election officials hope to count every available mail-in ballot and announce results before they go home late on Election Day. Opening of mail-in ballots will begin at 7 a.m. on Election Day — the earliest Pennsylvania law allows. Mail-ins will then be processed by a sworn-in contingent of 75 people at a special location — being kept secret until Sunday — that allows space for social distancing. It’s an expansion of the plan carried out during the June primary, when a contingent of 25 people processed 40,000 mail-in ballots, completing the task at about the same time as...

HARRISBURG — Potentially thousands of mail ballots requested by Butler County voters appear to be lost, a county official said Wednesday, and the U.S. Postal Service has been asked to immediately investigate what happened to them. A USPS spokesperson, meanwhile, said the agency is “unaware of any significant delays or issues and is in regular contact with the Board of Election as we work to locate and deliver ballots as they are presented to us.” As of Tuesday, Pennsylvania voters are no longer able to apply for an absentee or mail-in ballot. Nearly 40,000 registered voters in the county requested...

Democrat Rep. Debbie Dingell (MI) sounded the alarm on Thursday and told CNN’s Dana Bash, “It’s tightening here in Michigan.” “Yesterday, I had some of the autoworkers, who I thought were going to go back to Joe Biden, were very clear with me…they’re voting for President Trump,” Dingell said as she stuttered.

Young Cuban Americans' embrace of the Republican Party and GOP candidates is one of the most underreported stories in this election cycle. We are within days of the 2020 election, and winning the Latino vote is extremely important for both parties because, with 32 million eligible voters, Latinos will be the largest ethnic minority in the electorate this year. The Cuban American community is one of the most influential subgroups within the diverse Latino community. Corporate media commonly repeat the narrative that there is a “generational divide” among Cuban Americans: While the older generation that escaped the terror of Fidel...

A man in Florida was sentenced on Wednesday for fatally shooting down a Jacksonville police K-9 named Fang as he attempted to escape arrest two years ago. Jhamel Malik Paskel, 19, received a 25-year sentence in Duval County Circuit Court after being tried as an adult after being arrested at 17 on six charges including the shooting of the dog, armed carjacking and kidnapping. He received five years for the dog's death and a 20-year sentence for the other charges, according to News4Jax. The teen's defense attorney had previously asked for leniency for Paskel as he faced up to 35...