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Georgia will begin a second recount on Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s campaign requested another recount over the weekend. “Today, the Trump campaign filed a petition for recount in Georgia.” The Trump campaign said in a statement on Saturday. “We are focused on ensuring that every aspect of Georgia State Law and the U.S. Constitution are followed so that every legal vote is counted.” “President Trump and his campaign continue to insist on an honest recount in Georgia, which has to include signature matching and other vital safeguards.” The statement continued. “Without signature matching, this recount would be a sham...

Democrat Senate candidate Jon Ossoff (GA) is endorsed by the Mike Bloomberg-founded gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety. Everytown originally announced its endorsement of Ossoff on September 15, 2020, then re-announced it following the development of a January 5, 2021, runoff between Ossoff and pro-Second Amendment Senator David Perdue (R-GA). On November 8, 2020, Everytown posted their announcement of support for Ossoff in the runoff, making clear their backing includes the support of Bloomberg gun control subsidiary, Moms Demand Action for Gun Safety. Everytown’s John Feinblatt said, “David Perdue…[has] declared fealty to the gun lobby and opposed bipartisan gun...

Massive (but not widespread) election fraud occurred on November 3: Smartmatic election software was developed in Venezuela with porous security and built-in functionality allowing system administrators to override the security features it pretended to incorporate. Among the extraordinary privileges it granted to administrators were abilities to: 1. shave votes continuously from one candidate to another; batch ballots for later “adjudication” but which instead became a pool of votes that the administrator could simply assign to the candidate of choice; generate blank ballots. 2. Through a string of corporate mergers and acquisitions, that software ended up in systems made by Dominion...

By Jim Reid, chief credit strategist at Deutsche BankMonday’s are the new Friday’s. AstraZeneca/Oxford Uni kept the vaccine Monday theme going this morning by revealing their vaccine is effective (70% average) albeit with the tantalising prospect that the technique that suggested 90% effectiveness (half dose first followed by the full dose) could be used for all rather than the 62% effective treatment (two full dosages). In terms of why a half dose might be more effective first it could be with how it better primes the immune system.Today’s chart of the day updates when we could first vaccinate the vulnerable...

An employee at a Publix supermarket in Miami-Dade county was allegedly prohibited from wearing a mask at work. Now his family is suing the company over his death. The coronavirus had already made its way well into the US by the time Gerardo Gutierrez, 70, asked his employer if he’d be permitted to wear a face mask while he worked. Despite the fact that his deli counter colleague was showing signs of the illness as they worked together on March 27 and 28, Publix told him that masks were not allowed because they may “scare” customers, the family’s lawyer has...

White House just gave the two minute signal With two minutes notice, the White House just announced President Trump will make remarks from the briefing room. — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 24, 2020

Frequently asked questionsWhat is Amazon Sidewalk? Amazon Sidewalk is a shared network that helps devices work better. Operated by Amazon at no charge to customers, Sidewalk can help simplify new device setup, extend the low-bandwidth working range of devices, and help devices stay online even if they are outside the range of their home wifi. In the future, Sidewalk will support a range of experiences from using Sidewalk-enabled devices to help find pets or valuables, to smart security and lighting, to diagnostics for appliances and tools. "Amazon Sidewalk is a shared network, coming later this year, that helps devices like...

Life is too short to live it in fear of dying.More than eight months after “15 days to flatten the curve,” our so-called medical experts, politicos, and pundits are bidding us to avoid our family at all costs over the holidays, lest we die. This Thanksgiving week, family separation is the name of the game, with governors and local authorities implementing onerous restrictions to discourage people from leaving their homes.“If you are planning to spend Thanksgiving with people outside your household, we urge you to reconsider,” wrote a group of governors in the pages of the Washington Post. These authors...

British Shorthair Bianca meets her little brother, Snickers and much cuteness and playtime ensues. Video, 4 minutes & 41 seconds

@kgosztola The Biden-Harris Transition released a list of individuals who are briefing President-elect Joe Biden on national security matters. Here's a thread examining each of these people. Lloyd AustinLloyd Austin is a retired four-star military general, who was the commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) from 2013-2016 under President Obama. He was responsible for operations in Middle East and central and south Asia. He oversaw campaigns against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. As a bio for him celebrates, Austin was an assistant division commander in the 3rd Infantry Division. He helped "spearhead the invasion into Iraq in March 2003." He...

Politicians locked us in our homes for months on end, well beyond the initially proposed two-week public period to "flatten the curve." They put iron fists on churches, restaurants, and small businesses while allowing strip clubs and state-owned alcohol stores to remain open. They've even tried to bait us into canceling our standard Thanksgiving and Christmas...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his decision to allow the General Services Administration (GSA) to coordinate with former Vice President Joe Biden for a transition of power. “Remember, the GSA has been terrific, and Emily Murphy has done a great job, but the GSA does not determine who the next President of the United States will be,” Trump wrote on Twitter. Remember, the GSA has been terrific, and Emily Murphy has done a great job, but the GSA does not determine who the next President of the United States will be. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 24, 2020...

A San Diego Superior Court judge Monday dashed the hopes of restaurant and gym owners who were hoping to reopen indoors, turning down their request for a temporary restraining order that would have lifted the county’s current order limiting in-person service to outdoors only.Acknowledging the need to weigh both the financial harm being suffered by the local businesses as well as the health and safety of the populace amid a widening pandemic, Judge Kenneth J. Medel concluded that “the impact on public health of dismantling a portion of the state’s COVID-19 response designed to reduce community spread outweighs the economic...

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By | cdimuro@pennlive.com The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported that there were 6,669 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, bringing the statewide total to 321,070. There are 9,951 deaths attributed to COVID-19, an increase of 81. Currently, 3,897 patients are hospitalized with the disease. Most of the patients hospitalized are ages 65 or older, and most of the deaths have occurred in patients within the same demographic. The number of tests administered within the last seven days between Nov. 17 and Nov. 23 is 405,883 with 49,539 positive cases. There were 38,668 test results reported to the department through 10...

New Secretary of State pick Antony Blinken has a long-standing relationship with President-elect Joe Biden going back to their days in the Obama administration, but State Department emails revealed that during that time Blinken appeared to have made a connection with Hunter Biden as well. President Trump has long claimed that there was something improper about Hunter Biden doing business with a Ukrainian firm while his father was vice president. The elder Biden, while in office, had pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who had been investigating the company, but Biden's campaign claimed it was due to concerns that the...

Despite tanking 35% within weeks at the height of pandemic uncertainty in February and March, the Dow Jones Industrial Average–a key U.S. stock market index measuring the performance of 30 large-cap companies–has hit a historic milestone, reaching 30,000 points on Tuesday for the first time ever. The Dow reached the threshold just minutes before 11:30 a.m. EST on Tuesday amid market bullishness fueled by blowout earnings, coronavirus vaccine optimism and fading uncertainty in Washington as President-elect Joe Biden formally begins his transition to the White House. Leading the Dow's gains this year are many firms representative of the pandemic market–including...

Every year, in late fall, street food stalls in northern Vietnam, particularly in Hanoi, serve a very special dish that looks very ordinary at first glance, but that actually contains a very peculiar ingredient. Chả rươi looks like a well-done egg dish mixed with various herbs, but owes its meaty texture and seafood taste to the ingredient that gives the treat its name – sand worms. Beaten egg, tangerine peel, onions, dill and spices, before the two-inch-long sea worms are added. The result is an ordinary-looking omelet with a very meaty kick that fans can’t get enough of in the...

Tucker Carlson came under scrutiny recently after he seemed to attack attorney Sidney Powell for ignoring his call for Ms. Powell to be on his show after Powell made rounds on other nighttime news show alleging she has enough information to overturn the election. Sidney Powell claims she has enough information that the voting systems that the counties in question used could be (and were) manipulated in favor of one candidate. Tucker claimed that if she had the evidence, she could come on his show and prove it to the world. He said he would give her the full hour,...

Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday night gave a sobering take on where she sees post-election reality, what should happen next, and the optimism she believes Trump supporters should have moving forward.After opening the “Ingraham Angle” with a reference to Trump late Monday giving the go-ahead to the GSA to begin the transition process with Biden, Ingraham laid out “where we stand tonight,” as she sees it.“As unpleasant and disappointing as these past three weeks have been to so many of us, as much as we wish things were different, this is where things stand tonight. Now legal challenges...