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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Over four decades, Mary Nichols has been the regulator behind some of the nation’s most ambitious climate policies and, in recent years, she’s been their staunchest defender against President Donald Trump’s effort to dismantle them. With Joe Biden heading to the White House, Nichols hopes she is not done yet. Nichols, 75, ends her second tenure as chair of the California Air Resources Board next month, a job that’s made her the top air and climate regulator for the nation’s most populous and economically influential state. She is viewed as a leading contender to be named as...

A Talent man has been charged with murder after police say he shot and killed a Black teenager in the parking lot of an Ashland hotel on Monday. The shooting has drawn condemnation from Southern Oregon’s Black community, which raised concerns about the area’s culture and history of white supremacy. The teen, whose name has not been publicly confirmed by police, has been widely identified on social media and in news reports as Aiden Ellison, 19. Another Ashland resident Robert Keegan, 47, has been charged with his murder. Keegan is facing four criminal counts, including second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, reckless...

RIYADH/JERUSALEM - A historic meeting between Israel’s prime minister and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has sent a strong signal to allies and enemies alike that the two countries remain deeply committed to containing their common foe Iran. Last Sunday’s covert meeting in the Saudi city of Neom, confirmed by Israeli officials but publicly denied by Riyadh, conveyed a coordinated message to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden that Washington’s main allies in the region are closing ranks. It was the first publicly confirmed visit to Saudi Arabia by an Israeli leader and a meeting that was unthinkable until recently as the two...

A California teen whose portrait of...Kamala Harris went viral received a call from her appreciating his work on Wednesday. Fourteen-year-old Tyler Gordon shared a video of his conversation with....

Many Trump haters have been lying all along about President Donald Trump, what he stands for, what his record has been, and who his supporters are. Now they tell us they want unity. What Trump wants -- and want his supporters want -- is for America to reclaim its greatness, its robust liberty tradition, its prosperity, the integrity of its borders, fair trade deals with foreign nations, and its military strength. He has made great strides in achieving these goals. Trump's opponents -- the media, Democrats, never-Trump Republicans -- have never given him a moment's rest, never a benefit of...

Donald Trump holds a video conference with troops worldwide on Thanksgiving Day and answers questions from reporters on November 26, 2020. Uploaded to YouTube for archival purposes by Factba.se (https://factba.se)

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) extended his order blocking local governments from enforcing mask mandates across the Sunshine State. DeSantis, who said that Florida will “never do any of these lockdowns again, extended the order he issued in September, which lifted key restrictions in the state and suspended fines for breaking local protocols in relation to mask-wearing. “Just as an act of executive grace, all outstanding fines and penalties that have been applied against individuals are suspended,” DeSantis announced at the time of the initial order. “I think we need to get away from trying to penalize people for not...

November 27 2020 Altar of the Franciscan church in Józefów Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 507Reading 1 RV 20:1-4, 11—21:2I, John, saw an angel come down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a heavy chain. He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, and tied it up for a thousand years and threw it into the abyss, which he locked over it and sealed, so that it could no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years are completed. After this, it is to be...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo bitterly dismissed the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against his coronavirus restrictions on religious services, claiming the decision is “irrelevant.” On Wednesday evening, the high court ruled in favor 5-4 with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Orthodox Jewish synagogues in their lawsuit alleging Cuomo’s gathering restrictions, which limited house of worship attendance from 10 to 25 people, violated religious freedom under the First Amendment. “The Supreme Court made a ruling. It’s more illustrative of the Supreme Court than anything else,” Cuomo told reporters on a conference call, the New York Post said. “It’s irrelevant...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been nominated to be Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” The magazine published the list on Wednesday. Whitmer is in the running with: Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Rapper Kanye West Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Pope Francis Singer Billie Eilish Dr. Anthony Fauci Prince Harry Artist Megan Thee Stallion Vice President Mike Pence Global warming activist Greta Thunberg, who won in 2019 Artist Bad Bunny Black Lives Matter activists House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) Former Vice President Joe Biden Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams New York...

Reports began to surface this week of potential cabinet appointments and priority government projects for Democrat Party presidential challenger Joe Biden should he take office in January. Many of these, both the individuals and the policies, are vestiges of the departed Obama administration that Biden. In foreign policy Biden has promised a return to a status quo under his former boss that fueled global instability, wasted American tax dollars, and hurt the American worker. Below, six policies Biden has promised to resurrect from their political death under President Donald Trump and the setbacks they represent to policies that, for the...

Steve Bannon, Jack Maxey, and Greg Manz discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic as the gang celebrates Thanksgiving. Calling in is Larry Schweikart and Chad Robichaux to celebrate and honor our nation's heritage. Aired On: 11/26/2020

Despite the controversial nature of many of Donald Trump’s presidential pardons, including that of his associate, Michael Flynn, this week, Trump has granted clemency far less than any of his predecessors in the past century, according to a U.S. research group. The Pew Research Center, using aggregated data from the Department of Justice, said President Trump has issued 29 pardons, including Flynn’s Wednesday, and 16 commutations since taking office in 2017. By contrast, Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, issued 212 pardons and 1,715 commutations during his eight years in office. President George H. W. Bush issued 74 pardons but just three...

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John Gilbert Getty — an heir to the Getty oil fortune — reportedly died in Texas on Friday. He was 52.Getty had been found unresponsive in a San Antonio hotel room and foul play is not suspected, law enforcement sources told TMZ.MORE AT LINK

An independent audit of the unemployment benefits system found the administration of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) paid up to $1.5 billion in “fraudulent” claims. Fox 17 reported on the investigation of the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) conducted by Deloitte: “The company interviewed 24 UIA and Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) personnel including executive leadership. They reviewed documents, emails, charts, polices, and federal and state UI guidance.” The report found the agency paid $22.9 billion in claims from March 15, 2020, to October 23, 2020, as the unemployment rate skyrocketed from 3.6 percent to 24 percent amid...

Even though U.S. Attorney General William Barr has loosened restrictions on investigating voter fraud, there has been no public announcement of any investigation, according to a story by the Washington Post. “The Justice Department has met President Trump’s fantastical claims of widespread voter fraud with two weeks of skeptical silence,” the Washington Post reported in a story published Saturday. The Department of Justice is “not taking any overt moves” to investigate claims of a worldwide conspiracy to steal the election lobbed by Trump lawyers in statements outside of court, the article said. In a few cases, the DOJ has “quietly...

What many have failed to realize, however, is that over the past several decades, this great nation has slowly been infiltrated by the communist specter. Amid credible allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities, America is now on the brink of falling into the communist abyss. The communist specter gave rise to the regimes in the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, and China. Its ideology of totalitarianism seeks control over, rather than the flourishing of, mankind. Its gradual takeover of the West has been carried out in broad daylight. As French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote back in 1864, the “greatest...

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The former data and strategy director for President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign Braynard assembled a team just days after the election to look for inconsistencies in six contested states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada. Braynard said he has signed declarations to go with his work, which is being used in court filings in five states. One of Braynard’s biggest findings involved voters who had submitted a National Change of Address form to the post office, indicating they had moved out of state, yet appeared to have voted in 2020 in the state they moved from. In Georgia,...