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When Warner Bros. announced that “Wonder Woman 1984” would land on the streaming service HBO Max on Christmas, the same time it debuts in theaters, many expected it to be an isolated case in response to an unprecedented pandemic. Instead, the studio will deploy a similar release strategy for the next 12 months. In a surprising break from industry standards, Warner Bros.’ entire 2021 slate — a list of films that includes “The Matrix 4,” Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” remake, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical adaptation of “In the Heights,” “Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark” and “The Suicide Squad” — will...

President Donald Trump reminded lawyers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood about the importance of the Georgia runoff election for Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler according to a source familiar with the call. Breitbart News reached out to several White House sources for confirmation of the news but did not receive a response. But the source familiar with the call told Breitbart News that Trump did speak to the two lawyers and said that while he appreciated them fighting for election integrity, he urged them to stop telling Georgia voters to boycott the runoff election. Jonathan Swan at Axios...

Didi Taihuttu and Family =========================================================== Didi Taihuttu, his wife, and three kids bet all they have on bitcoin. In 2017, CNBC spoke to the Dutch family of five when they were in the process of liquidating their assets — from a profitable business and 2,500-square-foot house, to their shoes — and trading it all in for the popular cryptocurrency and a life on the road. Nearly four years and 40 countries later, Taihuttu and his family still don’t have bank accounts, a house, or all that much by way of personal possessions. All of the family’s savings remain tied up...

Carnival Cruise Line has provided a major update that includes another delay for the new Mardi Gras cruise ship and cruises in February out of three homeports. This comes as the cruise line continues to work on making sure operations can resume safely in 2021. Mardi Gras Delayed Again The Mardi Gras will be delayed once again which will be a huge disappointment to those guests that were looking forward to the ship’s debut in February 2021 out of Port Canaveral. Carnival has said the ship will be delivered from the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland later this month but...

Another shiny monolith reminiscent of the one featured in “2001: A Space Odyssey” has appeared, this one on top of Pine Mountain in California. Dozen of hikers have trekked up to the top of the mountain in Atascadero, northwest of Los Angeles, to take pictures with the 10-foot shiny monolith, the Atascadero News reported. “The object was welded together at each corner, with rivets attaching the side panels to a likely steel frame inside. The top of the monument did not show any weld marks, and it appears to be hollow at the top, and possibly bottom,” the paper wrote,...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday refused to hear President Donald Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, saying the case must first wind its way through lower courts. The legal defeat was the latest in a string of losses for Trump’s post-election lawsuits. Judges in multiple battleground states have rejected his claims of fraud or irregularities. Trump had asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state’s two biggest Democratic counties, alleging irregularities in the way absentee ballots were administered. His lawsuit...

On any major issue, it’s obvious that the self-appointed fact-checkers are biased. If you look up election fraud in 2020, Snopes will tell you that it didn’t happen. But if you look up the Trump Campaign colluding with Russia, then Snopes will tell you that that did happen. And if you look more into that “collusion” on Snopes, it will tell you that the information Trump declassified regarding Obamagate and what happened to Michael Flynn is “unverified,” which unfairly erodes its credibility. So, in short, stories that benefit Democrats are all “real” while stories that would benefit the Trump Campaign...

Georgia Republican Party Chair David Shafer said Wednesday night that Fulton County is rescanning a batch of 12,000 ballots over “unexplained technical problems.” “Fulton County Commissioner [Liz Hausmann] just alerted me that Fulton County is re-scanning a batch of 12,000 ballots due to unexplained technical problems,” said Shafer. “We have dispatched Republican monitors back to the tabulation center. This is maddening.”

If you've been spending time all snug in your bed, with visions of sugarplums dancing in your head, you're in luck -- Dunkin has announced a new drink called Sugarplum Macchiato. Just in time for the holidays, the hot or iced drink features bright berry flavors of blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and plum. RELATED | McRib returns to Las Vegas According to Jill Nelson, Vice President, Marketing Strategy at Dunkin’, “Our Sugarplum Macchiato is a colorful twist on a well-known, but perhaps mysterious-tasting, flavor of holiday lore. It’s the perfect complement to our fan-favorite holiday latte lineup and brings even more...

An investigation has revealed that Dominion received a staggering $400 million payout from a Swiss bank account co-owned by the Chinese Communist Party, according to reports. SEC filings have revealed that Dominion Voting Systems' parent company received the funds less than one month before the U.S. presidential election this year.

With a war raging on the political right, especially over attorney Lin Wood’s comments about Republicans in Georgia, The National Pulse is publishing a full list of the Atlanta-based lawyer’s political donations. The Breitbart News Network published an incendiary article noting Wood’s prior donations to Barack Obama and John Edwards. While The National Pulse believes it is right for Republicans to vote Republican in Georgia’s special elections, we do not believe it is correct to target people for once donating to Democrats. It is irrelevant, petty, childish, and unproductive. People’s decisions on how to vote in January is their own...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with churches against California's coronavirus gathering restrictions. In an unsigned opinion, the court granted the churches injunctive relief and sent the case back to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court asked the lower court to consider the churches' plea in light of a decision in which New York houses of worship sued to undo Gov. Andrew Cuomo's restrictions. In that case, the court granted an injunction to Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues, saying they were treated unequally in lockdown orders. Attorneys for the California churches, run by Harvest Rock Church and...

<p>The previous thread was removed as a dupe. But it's not a dupe. This is a different hearing. Trump's legal team is presenting right now and it's good stuff.</p>

There's a famous centuries-old parable by Aesop about a farmer who finds a snake freezing in the snow. Overcome with compassion, the farmer picks up the serpent and folds it under his clothes next to his chest to keep it warm. Once the snake has been revived, it bites the farmer, who, just before dying, expresses his shock that his generosity has been answered by such betrayal. The snake responds by reminding the farmer, "You knew what I was when you picked me up."

Vaccination cards will be issued to everyone who receives the coronavirus vaccine, according to health officials. The Department of Defense shared photos of the cards for the first time Wednesday, according to CNN. The cards will be the “simplest” way to keep track of the COVID-19 vaccinations, Associate Director of the Immunization Action Coalition Kelly Moore told the outlet. “Everyone will be issued a written card that they can put in their wallet that will tell them what they had and when their next dose is due,” Moore told CNN. “Let’s do the simple, easy thing first. Everyone’s going to...

Changing the financial rules about college moving forward is a separate debate. Changing the rules retroactively, however, is dishonorable and unjust.Two massive potential federal programs to ease the financial burden of college are being debated. One involves some type of free college program, and the other some type of student loan bailout. There is, however, a fundamental ethical difference between the two. The first affects the decisions of students moving forward, while the second rewards only select people based on past actions.Even at a very young age, children know it’s blatantly unfair to change the rules of a game while...

Every Republican and Democratic senator has let Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) pass a bill through the Senate that will supercharge the outsourcing of the white-collar jobs needed by America’s professional class and its college-educated children. Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 while promising to curb immigration and the huge H-1B program, said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers, a group that opposes the visa worker programs. He can veto the bill, or he can sign this bill when it is buried in the huge coronavirus bailout bill, Lynn said, adding, “If this is what Trump wants to be...

ROME — The Vatican suggested Thursday a Biden presidency might inject new life into the stagnant Paris Climate Accord after President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal in 2017. The Vatican COVID-19 Commission announced Thursday that it is organizing a webinar next week in preparation for a December 12 global climate summit to be co-hosted by the United Nations and the UK to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. In its preparatory document, the Vatican team lamented the lack of initiative and commitment around the Paris climate goals, something it said needs to gain renewed momentum...

In a delicious display of buffoonish irony, self-avowed democratic socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is hawking over-priced merchandise in her personal online shop. Just as a reminder, here’s AOC’s opinion on our current economic system: “Capitalism is an ideology of capital – the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit…so to me capitalism is irredeemable.” -Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, South By Southwest Conf., 2019 Yes, an irredeemable system that has uplifted the quality of life of hundreds of millions of people to a better life. But, maybe AOC has changed her views on capitalism. She’s...

The transition has only just begun, but already the liberal media are fawning over Joe Biden’s “historic” choices to staff his administration, as he selects “very experienced,” “very diverse” and “not political” “adults in the room” who actually “know what they are doing.” PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor even suggested Biden’s bland bureaucrats were “superheroes” who will “save us all.” The contrast with the media’s reaction to President-elect Trump’s selections four years ago could not be more stark. Then, the media slashed those cabinet choices as a “racially insensitive” group of “hard-line” “radicals” and “ignoramuses” who will bring about “environmental disaster” and...