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While most jurisdictions have just about finished tabulating 2020 Election results, many observers are highly unimpressed that it’s taking New York City so long to count every ballot. The New York Times released their latest look at the election data from the state and found that only 84 percent of the estimated vote total has been processed, and there is a large fraction of outstanding votes in multiple counties. By the Times’ estimation, only 56 percent of the votes have been reported from Westchester county, 60 percent from Manhattan, 64 percent in Queens, and 74 percent in the Bronx. The...

House Democrats voted Wednesday to elect Nancy Pelosi (CA) as Speaker of the House for the 117th Congress. “Congratulations to Speaker Pelosi, once again elected by House Democrats to be our fearless leader and nominee for Speaker of the House for the 117th Congress!” House Democrats said in a tweet on Wednesday.

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana city wants to install a facial recognition video network camera system downtown in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The step comes as state health officials on Friday added 13 more COVID-19 deaths to the state’s pandemic toll.

The Senate failed to advance the nomination of Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve Board — further complicating what was an already rocky confirmation process. Shelton, a longtime Fed critic who favors a return to the gold standard, was blocked in a 50-47 vote that was shaken up by some GOP senators being absent and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris making a return to the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) needed just 50 Republicans to vote in favor of Shelton to move her nomination forward. The upper house of Congress currently has a 53-47 GOP majority, meaning that...

orkers in Chinese car factories were mobilized by the People's Liberation Army on Saturday as the country stepped up its wartime preparedness with joint military and civilian drills. The PLA Army conducted its strategic military-civil "deep fusion" exercises in conjunction with the municipal government of Chongqing in southwestern China, Beijing's official military news site JS7tv reported the day after. Among the protocols simulated was a requisition order for large platform trailers. Automobile factories temporarily repurposed their equipment and staff in order to convert 20-ton semi-trailer trucks into wider, sturdier vehicles capable of transporting a 40-ton Type 59 main battle tank...

Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah thinks that the U.S. needs to keep troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, stating that even after 20 years of a military presence there, “conditions for withdrawal have not been met.”

Why wouldn't Democrats use any possible means at their disposal to remove Donald Trump from the White House? It makes perfect, logical sense, doesn't it? This column is not a listing of all the evidence supporting the Trump campaign's legal arguments that anonymous election officials worked behind closed doors to game their state's balloting systems so that mail-in votes would put their preferred candidate, Joe Biden, into the White House. Making that argument is not my job, and the Trump campaign has a whole host of attorneys putting together legal arguments to handle that task. Instead, my intention is to...

NFL LIVE THREAD WEEK 11Here are all the games you shouldn't watch this week!Arizona at Seattle Philadelphia at Cleveland Atlanta at New Orleans Cincinnati at Washington Detroit at Carolina Pittsburgh at Jacksonville Tennessee at Baltimore New England at Houston Miami at Denver New York Jets at Los Angeles Chargers Green Bay at Indianapolis Dallas at Minnesota Kansas City at Las Vegas Los Angeles Rams at Tampa Bay Week 11 Bye Teams: Buffalo, Chicago, San Francisco, New York Giants Keep them prayers up for our FRiend Danny (Bender2) rehab is a long hard road.

Independent journalist Megyn Kelly is pulling her children out of school and leaving New York City after her boys’ school promoted a call to “reform white children” and accused white people of “reveling in their state-sanctioned depravity” and slaughtering black people. Kelly, who founded Devil May Care Media, revealed a letter that her boys’ school administrators circulated among parents and faculty during an episode of her podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show,” on Monday. Kelly said that she and her husband were pulling their children out of school and leaving New York City over the “out of control” racial social justice...

As many parts of the (so-called) developed world enter second lockdowns, and people line up for miles in their cars seeking food handouts in Texas, the less developed nations are busily discovering Cvoid-19 treatments that actually work. Really well. They work in an outpatient setting, in mild, moderate and severe cases of Covids-19. They work prophylactically. As always, I present the studies for your thoughtful examination.

Ohio has a compliance hotline you can call to report a business or person not wearing a mask.1 833 427 5634 I believe this number needs freeped. Cancel thanksgiving,cancel christmas,just like they did easter,,its all about control,you will be forced to submit and comply for the good of the collective. If we dont fight this now we wont be able to later. admins and mods forgive if ive posted this in wrong place

The recent switch away from Daylight Savings Time marks the annual end of “summer time” for most Americans, and this year we turned back our clocks two days before the presidential election. For many this heralds the onset of so-called Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD.This social affliction could be far worse this year as Democrats impose tyrannical control to essentially lock people in their homes. These new shutdowns interfere with Americans mingling with family and friends during the upcoming holidays.The “dark winter” that Joe Biden promised in the final presidential debate will become a reality if he becomes president. Fortunately,...

John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud Elex, you are TOTALLY missing the point here. It is not that King Newsom made a “mistake,” it is that this clearly exposes that he doesn’t believe his own restrictions are remotely legitimate/needed. He is telegraphing he knows they are just political theater. THAT is the issue! Quote Tweet Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson · 13h Here is CA Gov. Gavin Newsom attending a friend's birthday at the French Laundry in Napa on 11/6. The diner who took these pictures sent them exclusively to @FOXLA. She was surprised to see the Gov. with so many other families. He's apologized...

There was all this talk before the election from people on the right who believed the hysteria over the coronavirus pandemic would end after the election. I never really bought that. It made sense that people believed that. After all, it was blatantly obvious, especially with mail-in voting, that Democrats and their media allies were exploiting the China virus for political advantage. To me, though, this political exploitation went deeper than just a presidential election. Softening us up, getting us used to being locked down, slow boiling us into accepting the normalcy of a governor conjuring up the power to...

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) – Police have made an arrest in the killings of former Lakeland city commissioner Edie Yates Henderson and her husband David Henderson. Marcelle Waldon, 36, is charged with 10 felony counts, including first-degree capital murder in connection with the killings, which happened at the couple’s home on Lake Morton Drive, according to police. Police believe Waldon got into the home through an unlocked door, and said the crime scene was “absolutely horrific” after he allegedly stabbed the couple to death. Police believe Waldon had tried to set their home on fire. When they got to the home,...

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on Wednesday revealed the city’s worst kept secret — he is running to replace Bill de Blasio as the next mayor of New York City. The former NYPD officer, who has already raised nearly $2.6 million for a run he has long been teasing, made the announcement via a virtual event to officially toss his hat into the crowded ring for the 2021 mayoral race. His campaign will be focused on appealing to more moderate portions of the party, including predominately black precincts in Central Brooklyn and southeastern Queens, experts say.

The National Education Association, the endorsement of which in March helped push Joe Biden further into the lead against Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, has delivered its wish list to the Democrat, and it includes icing ICE, packing the courts with liberals, and curbing school rules such as zero tolerance. In its 50-page “NEA Policy Playbook,” the nation’s largest teachers union also urged Biden to adopt a long list of liberal policies to limit the expansion of charter schools, to block teachers from having guns, and to grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. The report is...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A former Army Green Beret pleaded guilty Wednesday to divulging military secrets to Russia about his Special Forces unit's activities in former Soviet republics. Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, 45, of Gainesville, Virginia, pleaded guilty to a charge under the federal Espionage Act at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. He faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced in February. Debbins, a Minnesota native, had a 15-year relationship with Russian intelligence, dating back to 1996 when he was an ROTC student at the University of Minnesota and on a visit to Russia for...

The largest randomized controlled trial of masks ever (n=6,000) from Denmark fails to show a statistically significant difference in infection rates. Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers

A Black Lives Matter protester who was filmed punching a Trump supporter in the head at last weekend's Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C., has reportedly been identified as a journalism student... ...the assailant in the video is Brittany S. McAlister, 29, of Washington, D.C. McAlister is a student studying journalism at Howard University and also works as a freelance journalist... According to a news release from the Metropolitan Police Department, McAlister has not been arrested and is not yet charged with any crime, though police say they are looking for the suspect in the film....