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Los Angeles County’s Friday coronavirus order exempts protests and religious services as cases rise in the densely populated area. The temporary order, which is set to last three weeks, bars all public and private gatherings with individuals outside of one’s own household, but allows the “constitutionally protected rights” to protest and attend religious service, according to KTLA. The mandate also slashes the allowed occupancy of essential retail, non-essential retail, personal care facilities, libraries, outdoor gyms, museums, aquariums, recreational facilities and other businesses, the local outlet reported. “We know we are asking a lot from so many who have been sacrificing...

Supposing the farce of a vote steal reaches the Senate with Biden electors in the majority. Article II section 1 says the next step should be: The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. Now it does not go into great detail about how the President of the Senate should count the votes. I suggest that all the Democrat Senators be pushed back to the edge of the room by security. Big cardboard cutouts should be put up obscuring their view...

In response to a question from CNSNews.com, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said today he agreed with Joe Biden’s plan to force public schools to let transgender “women” (biological males) play on girls’ sports teams and use their bathrooms and locker rooms. At the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Senator Schumer: “Joe Biden said that on his first day of office he will give transgenders students access to sports, bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity in all federally funded schools. Do you think he has the ability to this and do you agree with...

Twitter did a great job censoring the Dominion Watch hashtag. Georgia elected officials had no idea we were on the ground filming them destroying evidence. 6:16 PM · Dec 1, 2020·Twitter Web App

CNA Staff, Nov 30, 2020 / 04:00 pm MT (CNA).- Cardinal George Pell has spoken of his surprise at the apparent extent of “criminality” involved in recent Vatican financial scandals. Speaking in an interview with Associated Press Monday, the cardinal, who led the Vatican’s Secretariat for the Economy from 2014-2017, said that he regretted that his efforts to bring tough mechanisms for financial transparency and accountability had been vindicated by the details of recent scandals. Pell told AP that he knew, from the time Pope Francis put him in charge of a key part of his curial reform agenda, that...

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As the coronavirus outbreak continues to surge, more small businesses are forced to shutter both temporarily and permanently. Massachusetts has been no stranger to the pandemic’s devastation. New research reveals that as of Nov. 16, the number of small businesses open in Mass. decreased by 37% compared to January of 2020. Small business revenue in Massachusetts has dropped 44% compared to the start of last year as well, according to the Economic Tracker tool from Opportunity Insights, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization at Harvard University that aims to use insightful scientific research to impact policy change. ... “Massachusetts is seeing the...

The Recount @therecount Georgia election official @GabrielSterling addresses Trump directly and demands he stop inciting violence under false voter fraud allegations. Video: https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1333876986377359362

SALEM, Oregon — More than 400 flag-waving, rosary-toting demonstrators huddled outside the Oregon Capitol Nov. 28 to press against state coronavirus limits on church attendance. Despite a pewter sky and frigid temperatures, the largely Catholic crowd enthusiastically declared an even deeper mission: Stop marginalizing faith from public life. “We will not surrender one more centimeter of religious freedom to any government,” said Father Theodore Lange, chaplain of the Oregon Knights of Columbus. The Knights organized the rally after Gov. Kate Brown announced a 25-person limit in churches statewide. After protests from Archbishop Alexander K. Sample and other leaders, Brown on...

Berlin — Six former European diplomats are calling on European governments to coordinate efforts to urge an incoming Biden administration to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, from which President Trump withdrew in 2018, and to agree with the regime in Tehran on steps for mutual compliance. The call comes amid fears that Friday’s assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh could complicate attempts to restore the deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “In response to reimposed U.S. sanction [sic] since 2018, Iran has increased its nuclear activities and continues to step away from its commitments under the...

Officially, it’s all part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s campaign to eradicate absolute poverty in ethnic minority areas by teaching local people new skills to enable them to increase their incomes and improve their livelihoods. These so-called “vocational training programs”, made infamous by the Muslim Uighur camps run in western Xinjiang, have more recently been extended to Tibet. But it is evident from official Chinese declarations in Tibet and Xinjiang that it’s not only about educating “rural surplus workers” in ethnic minority areas Beijing perceives as “backward.” Official Chinese documents on “poverty alleviation” quoted extensively by the non-partisan, Washington-based Jamestown...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A Democratic group dedicated to representing secular values unveiled a slate of recommendations for President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration on Monday (Nov. 30), outlining a sweeping agenda designed to roll back many of President Trump’s actions involving religion and to “restore a vision of constitutional secularism.” The 28-page document, crafted by the Secular Democrats of America PAC, is being presented to the incoming administration by Democratic Representatives Jamie Raskin and Jared Huffman — both co-chairs of the Congressional Freethought Caucus. The SDA’s agenda offers a wide range of policy recommendations to push back against the so-called “Christian...

“.....That is not what the AP reported nor what the AG states” The Department will continue to receive and vigorously pursue all specific and credible allegations of fraud as expeditiously as possible.” @ Catherine Herridge added: KEY QUOTE @MikeBalsamo1 “U.S. attorneys + FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints + info they’ve received, but ‘to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.’”

Dana Perino: “And the Obama Administration did this a lot too. There’s like ‘this is the first, the first, the first’ … there’s nothing wrong with that, if you think you want to get a quick hit in the media, you know exactly how to do it.” “Conservative administrations typically don’t do that, and also as a conservative woman you know you’re not going to get the glowing profile, so you just get your shit done — you get your stuff done, get your stuff done!” Greg Gutfeld: “This is the best Monday after Thanksgiving ever!”

San Jose’s Democrat Mayor Sam Liccardo has issued an apology after he failed to take his own advice and celebrated Thanksgiving with people outside of his immediate household, despite urging residents to “cancel the big gatherings” amid the coronavirus pandemic. In his apology, Liccardo said his Thanksgiving arrangement with his family was “contrary to the rules” established by the state. “In summary, eight of us representing five households sat around three distanced tables in our own family groups on the back patio, and we wore masks when not eating,” Liccardo wrote in a lengthy statement. “I have a very large...

New York City’s top doctor Tuesday warned that those vulnerable to COVID-19, as well as their household members and caregivers, should stay home when possible — and wear masks “at all times.” Urging what amounts to a self-imposed second lockdown on the group, the de Blasio administration said in a statement, “Effective immediately, the City’s Health Commissioner is advising older adults and people with underlying health conditions who are at an increased risk of severe COVID-related illness to limit activities outside the home, except leaving home to travel to work or school, or for essential purposes including medical care, grocery...

CNN said it is involving “law enforcement” after James O’Keefe, the founder of the right-wing group Project Veritas, crashed a morning editorial call with CNN President Jeff Zucker and said Project Veritas would be releasing tapes from previously recorded phone calls. “Legal experts say this may be a felony. We’ve referred it to law enforcement,” the CNN PR account tweeted on Tuesday in response to a video of the call O’Keefe posted on Twitter. In the video, O’Keefe can be seen unmuting himself on a phone and telling Zucker, “We’ve been listening to your CNN calls for basically two months...

<p>A Chicago man has been charged with murder after a fatal fight that began when he put his hands in Thanksgiving leftovers, authorities said.</p><p>James Dixon, 28, is charged with killing Vincell Jackson, 52, who was the boyfriend of the Thanksgiving party host.</p>

US Bishops oppose excluding undocumented immigrants from censusBishop Martin Dorsonville, chairman of the USCCB’s Commission on Migration, issues a statement voicing the Bishops’ opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census.The Bishops of the United States have renewed their opposition to Donald Trump’s plan not to include undocumented immigrants in the decennial population counts that will determine the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives. On July 21 the President presented a Memorandum instructing the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to exclude irregular immigrants from the state-population totals that are produced by the 2020 Census...

Political leaders from around the world have rallied behind Australia in the wake of China's newly imposed 200 per cent tariffs on wine which could cripple the $6billion industry. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China - made up of more than 200 MPs from 19 countries - has urged millions of citizens to buy a 'bottle or two' of Australian wine before Christmas as a show of support. Australia's wine industry exports 39 percent of all its total product to China. The introduction of huge tariffs last week, brought in as apparent payback after Scott Morrison called for an inquiry into...