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As several coronavirus vaccines inch closer toward FDA approval, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert has called on the public to double down on public health measures. Dr. Anthony Fauci, in a virtual discussion with The Hastings Center on Thursday, said the eventual vaccine is meant to protect the individual from getting sick from the coronavirus, but may not prevent that person from spreading the virus to others.

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The final county in NY-22 counted their mail in ballots today, and Claudia Tenney, the GOP challenger and former congresswoman for this district, is still ahead by 339 votes over the 'Rat incumbent Anthony Brindisi. Tenney was ahead of Brindisi by about 30,000 votes on election night. There are still challenged ballots to be ruled on by a state court judge in Oswego County; it isn't clear how many of these are left. Hopefully she hangs on. The count of confirmed winners are: Rats, 222; GOP, 209. The GOP leads in the four undecided districts, CA-21 (by about 1,800 votes),...

Netflix’s new limited series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” leads the site’s top ten most popular list for the third straight week since its late October premiere, making it one of the platform’s most-watched shows of 2020. This feat is all the more impressive considering the steep competition among streaming providers this year. Adapted from Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel and brought to life by veteran screenwriters Scott Frank and Allan Scott, the mini-series depicts the unexpectedly cutthroat world of 1960s chess against the lavish backdrop of the Cold War era, when chess boards were just another arena in which rival nations competed...

Liberation Theologian Leonardo Boff Is a Keynote Speaker at Vatican’s ‘Economy of Francesco’ ConferenceThe controversial former Franciscan priest was disciplined by the Vatican in the 1980s, for disseminating Marxist-oriented ideas that demonstrated ‘a profound misunderstanding of the Catholic faith.’VATICAN CITY — The controversial Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff will be a keynote speaker at the Economy of Francesco, a three-day international Vatican-organized conference that starts tomorrow aimed at making finance inclusive and sustainable.A former Franciscan priest, Boff will speak on “socio-ecological responsibility: global view, territorial actions” along with Father Vilson Groh, who works with the poor in the favela...

Speaking from the Republican National Committee in Washington D.C. Thursday afternoon, Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell detailed foreign corruption behind Dominion Voting Systems, the same software used during the 2020 presidential election in the United States. "There is no doubt it has been used to alter elections in other countries," Powell said, explaining the system was developed at the direction of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to remain in power. "The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction...

PHOENIX - A recall effort is being launched against Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, calling his response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic 'ineffective.' A nonpartisan group called Accountable Arizona is made up of veterans and volunteers. They're collecting petition signatures, trying to force a recall election. Group founder Adam Halleck says Gov. Ducey has been playing partisan politics to appease President Trump. “There has not been one point during his COVID response that Doug Ducey was ahead of the curve. He’s had every decision that he’s made was made late. It was made because people were, you know, yelling at him...

Nov. 18 (UPI) -- An Indonesian man turned an unusual bit of property damage into a fortune when he sold the meteorite that crashed through his roof for over $1 million. Josua Hutagalung, 33, said he was working outside his home in Sumatra when the meteorite crashed through the roof of the house and landed outside. "When I lifted it, the stone was still warm, and I brought it into the house," Hutagalung told news outlet Kompas. Hutagalung posted a video to Facebook showing the spot where the metallic object had crashed through his tin roof. The 4.5-pound chunk of...

The devastating news the Warriors feared came to fruition on Thursday. Klay Thompson suffered a season-ending Achilles tear while working out with fellow NBA players in California, ESPN.com reported. Thompson, 30, will miss his second straight full season after being out in 2019-20 for a torn ACL he suffered in the NBA Finals against the Raptors. It is a crushing blow for Golden State, which had hoped to regain its place on top of the NBA with Thompson and Steph Curry healthy

The first COVID-19 vaccine could arrive in Pennsylvania next month, and a second could arrive in January, state Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said Thursday. However, the early supply will be severely limited, with the initial doses reserved for front-line health care workers, first responders, the elderly and people living in group health care settings. Plus, the expected first vaccines will require two doses to be effective, further limiting the supply. Pennsylvania plans to distribute the vaccine in three phases, with the second involving high-risk people not included in the first phase, and the third involving the general public....

Another brilliant mind on the Internet revealed how votes were shifted from President Trump to Biden in the 2020 election. This Internet sleuth shared his results on Twitter. This is what the Trump team just announced today at their press conference! An expert on twitter with the name @redpillx2 shared his results on Twitter on how the 2020 election was fixed for Joe Biden. We agree with his overall thesis – this is 2020 – the major election fraud occurred in the data maintained and massaged within the voting system. Looking at dead people voting is good, but the gorilla...

Top Economist Mocks Utopian ‘Fratelli Tutti’'Poveri Tutti' conference: 'Pope wants us all to be paupers'ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - A distinguished Italian economist is deriding Pope Francis' encyclical Fratelli Tutti as "not at all inspired by the thought of St. Francis of Assisi, but rather by the satirical novel Utopia by St. Thomas More."Fratelli tutti has been widely criticized for its left-wing ideology "But St. Thomas More, writing Utopia, was joking, he was not serious," quips Professor Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, a contributor to Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate and former president of the Vatican Bank.Speaking in Rome Wednesday at a...

The Hill opinion columnist Joe Concha nuked the “marshmallow media” for consistently lobbing “T-ball” questions at former Vice President Joe Biden in the relatively few press conferences he’s held since clinching the Democratic nomination. This comes after the pro-Biden liberal media has dragged the country through nearly four years of mind-numbing anti-Trump political hell. With a potential new presidency at hand, the media have barely made Biden have to defend much — if any — of his leftist policy agenda. This is especially true of how the media has handled coverage of Biden’s radical economic agenda. As Concha put it...

Last month the UK's Ministry of Defence showcased new high-tech equipment including the Nano Bug mini drone that can fit in the palm of a soldier's hand. It can travel at speeds of up to 50mph and provides the troops on the ground with a bird's eye view of the battlefield. arlier this month, the UK's Chief of Defence, Gen. Sir Nick Carter suggested that the British Army could fill out its ranks with "robot soldiers." The deployment of robots could address the recruitment shortfalls that the UK has faced in recent years, but could also give its forces an...

Sunshine State authorities busted a massive child sex trafficking network — accused of exploiting a single teen — this week, ending a two-year probe that netted 178 arrests, including a high-profile booster for Florida State University, according to a report and police. The operation, called “Stolen Innocence,” which began in November 2018, wrapped up on Tuesday — and those allegedly involved face charges ranging from solicitation of prostitution to human trafficking of a minor, the Tallahassee Police Department said in a press release. It began when department investigators spotted images of a child posted on a website that advertises sex...

Abolishing the Electoral College would be a disaster for freedom and the constitutional imperative to prevent the concentration and abuse of power.If former Vice President Joe Biden prevails in the 2020 election by scoring a victory in both the electoral and popular vote tallies, it will not curtail the clamoring nor the movement to send the Electoral College to a crematorium. The Washington Post editorial board, for example, recently renewed its call to abolish it. Abolishing the Electoral College would be a disaster for freedom and the constitutional imperative to prevent the concentration and abuse of power. It would also...

But the Gig is finally up, and the only ones who don’t know it are the desperado Democrats and their media-proclaimed ‘President-Elect’ Joe Biden Did key members of President Barack Obama’s campaign team use the same Dominion Voting Switch-Vote election system used to steal the 2020 Election from President Donald Trump, to steal the 2015 Canadian election from Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, installing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau as Canadian Prime Minister?

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) warned on Thursday that the closure of gyms and indoor dining experiences will “very likely” begin within the next two weeks. “So for everyone who honestly might feel, somehow, a little better if they knew that indoor dining was going to be closed or gyms were going to be closed, I’m sorry to tell you — for the sake of those business owners and everyone who loves those gyms and loves indoor dining — it’s just a matter of time,” de Blasio said, adding that it is “very likely to be in...

In the fairy tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes, an emperor hires two swindlers who claim they can weave a magical cloth that is invisible to anyone who is “unfit for his office or unforgivably stupid”. The Emperor hires the weavers to make material for his councillors so he will know who’s unfit. The swindlers work late into the night and pretend to weave on empty looms. The Emperor’s prime minister and councillor are sent to monitor the work. They can’t see the material but if they admit that, they’ll be exposed as stupid or unfit for office. Instead they praise...

The boards of elections in at least 15 Pennsylvania counties did not implement last-minute state instructions on "curing" faulty ballots on Election Day, while at least 14 counties followed the secretary of state's advice, according to a Just the News survey that exposes a two-tiered vote counting system that could face legal challenge. In guidance sent to her state's 67 counties dated Oct. 21, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar advised that a voter whose mail-in ballot was rejected would be eligible to vote in person with a provisional ballot on Election Day as a way to "cure" their ballot....