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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. health chief declared Friday that positive results from coronavirus vaccine trials mean the world “can begin to dream about the end of the pandemic,” but he said rich and powerful nations must not trample the poor and marginalized “in the stampede for vaccines.” In an address to the U.N. General Assembly’s first high-level session on the pandemic, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned that while the virus can be stopped, “the path ahead remains treacherous.”

This woman is a monster. During Wednesday night’s monumental hearing to expose vote fraud in the Michigan House Oversight Committee, one lawmaker stood out as being particularly reprehensible and belligerent: Democrat state representative Cynthia Johnson of Detroit. Johnson has a long history of being a psychotic far-left activist. She has even endorsed the idea of doing show trials in which conservatives are forced to defenestrate themselves before Democrat tribunals to atone the sin of supporting President Donald Trump. Her tweet supporting the idea has been archived here: Big League Politics has reported on how tens of thousands of mysterious ballots...

Former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said in an interview with The 19th‘s Amanda Becker that while President Donald Trump has “the right” to exhaust his legal challenges, it looked like Joe Biden “will prevail.” Conway said, “Well, The president wants to exhaust all of his legal avenues, as he has made clear many times. His team is doing that. I see in the papers they are doing that, going to different states and trying to do that. And of course, that is his right.”

The latest video evidence that Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani calls a 'smoking gun' that 'proves' the election in Georgia to be fraudulent has been reviewed by the Republican Secretary of State's office, which found no such thing. Giuliani touted new video evidence as a revelation at a Thursday hearing in Atlanta Thursday – after taking his election fraud roadshow claims to Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. 'The video tape doesn't lie. Fulton County Democrats stole the election. It's now beyond doubt. Go to the tape! he tweeted. According to the fact check he tweeted, 'Two high-level officials with the Georgia...

Carmelo Duncan was shot multiple times and killed in his father's car driving in Washington DC on Wednesday night Police believe at least two gunman opened fire from a moving car in targeted attack, striking Duncan family's car 10 times Carmelo suffered gunshot wound to the head, in addition to other injuries Toddler's father and eight-year-old brother were not harmed Carmelo is the youngest shooting fatality so far this year in Washington DC, which has seen the number of killings reach 187

Explanation: A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is nearby, about 30 million light-years distant toward the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way. Its bright core and majestic spiral arms lend the galaxy its popular name, The Sunflower Galaxy, while this exceptionally deep exposure also follows faint, arcing star streams far into the galaxy's halo. Extending nearly 180,000 light-years from the galactic center the star streams are likely remnants of tidally disrupted satellites of M63. Other satellite...

A former social worker accused of siphoning money from dozens of B.C.'s most vulnerable children for more than a decade has been arrested and now faces 13 criminal charges, the RCMP said Friday. Robert Riley Saunders, who eluded civil officials for months after the allegations first surfaced, was recently arrested in Alberta, the Mounties said. He was charged Wednesday with 10 counts of fraud over $5,000, one count of theft over $5,000, one count of breach of trust and one count of uttering a forged document. He remains in custody. Former foster children, the majority of whom are Indigenous, have...

Vatican City, Dec 2, 2020 / 11:30 am MT (CNA).- Pope Francis said Wednesday that he was praying for Nigeria following a massacre of at least 110 farmers in which Islamist militants beheaded an estimated 30 people. “I want to assure my prayers for Nigeria, where blood has unfortunately been spilled once more in a terrorist massacre,” the pope said at the end of his general audience Dec. 2. “Last Saturday, in the northeast of the country, more than 100 farmers were brutally killed. May God welcome them in His peace and comfort their families, and convert the hearts of...

A job applicant spurned by New York Life Insurance Company has filed a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the company discriminated against applicants who had previously been arrested, even if no charges stemmed from the arrests. Aliea Hughes-Phillips and her lawyers at Outten & Golden alleged in a Manhattan federal court complaint Thursday that even though she was qualified for a customer service position, her job offer was revoked due to arrests in 2010 and 2017. She said she was not charged after either arrest.

Tucker Carlson of the Fox News Channel says Senate Republicans are attempting to pack foreign workers into high-paying U.S. jobs while nearly 18 million Americans are jobless. On Thursday evening, Carlson slammed Senate Republicans for failing to stop Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) green card giveaway that will allow Indian nationals to effectively monopolize employment-based green cards for at least a decade and tech corporations to privatize the system. The giveaway solidifies that employment-based visas only go to temporary foreign visa workers, mostly on H-1B visas, who have been imported to the U.S. by corporations to replace American workers, thus rewarding...

PHOENIX – Four Republican leaders in the Arizona Legislature are calling for an audit of Maricopa County’s election equipment and software. Senate President Karen Fann and Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers, along with Senate Government Chair Michelle Ugenti-Rita and House Majority Leader Warren Petersen, issued a press release on the matter Friday after “numerous phone calls with members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.” The five-member board, which has four Republicans, unanimously certified the county’s results Nov. 20 after hearing extensive reports from elections officials who said the vote count was correct and noted that all tests and...

A survey released by the French Court of Auditors has warned of the increasing disappearance of local shops from vulnerable, impoverished no-go areas across the country due to security issues. The survey described a “phenomena of withdrawal” of businesses from some of the estimated 1,500 disadvantaged neighbourhoods where the poverty rate is three times higher than the average for metropolitan France. The Court of Auditors noted that no-go areas are not attractive for business investment due to the “low purchasing power” of residents and “acute security issues”. A senior official of the Ministry of the Economy told newspaper Le Parisien...

Arizona Republican Representative and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs demanded Friday that Justice Department Attorney General William Barr release the current findings of “his election fraud investigation.” Biggs, who spoke at a press conference outside on Capitol Hill, said on Twitter that it “is imperative that the American people receive clarity as to the allegations and claims that have been raised about the 2020 election.” “This election took place almost exactly one-month ago,” said Biggs, who is the Chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. “And when this election was concluded at least on that November 3 day, and there...

About 17% of Cadillac’s 880 U.S. dealerships decide against spending for necessary upgrades About 150 General Motors Co . dealers have decided to part ways with Cadillac, rather than invest in costly upgrades required to sell electric cars, according to people familiar with the plans, indicating some retailers are skeptical about pivoting to battery-powered vehicles. GM recently gave Cadillac dealers a choice: Accept a buyout offer to exit from the brand or spend roughly $200,000 on dealership upgrades—including charging stations and repair tools—to get their stores ready to sell electric vehicles, these people said. ~snip~ Most dealers who accepted the...

A Texas high school football game took a sudden turn on Thursday when a player who'd been ejected ran onto the field and slammed into the referee. During the game between the Edinburg High Bobcats and the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High Bears, Edinburg's Emmanuel Duron was ejected. After the ejection, he went back onto the field looking like he wanted to take on the referee. He aggressively ran onto the field and slammed into the referee, Fred Garcia, who was unsuspecting and fell to the ground. After the incident, the referee was evaluated in an ambulance outside the stadium for a...

Cardinal Koch Doubts That Anglican Orders Are Null And VoidThe Vatican released on December 4 a handbook for bishops on ecumenism which claims that ecumenism is not an optional “but a duty and obligation.”Catholics are warned against a “polemical presentations of Christian history and theology” [read: offering historical and theological facts].At the handbook’s presentation, Cardinal Kurt Koch, the President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, called for a “better interpretation” of the Catholic teaching that Anglican orders are “null and void”, claiming that this issue “needs to be studied.”"Null and void" refers to Leo XIII's bull Apostolicae Curae...

This Saturday, President Trump will hold his first rally since Election Day as he heads to Georgia to fire up the Republican base for Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Senator David Perdue (R-GA). Both of the incumbent Republican senators are locked in tight run offs with their Democratic challengers.

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in Georgia on Friday claiming the election process was overwhelmed with fraud and irregularities and a new election should be ordered immediately. The lawsuit claims over 300,000 ballots were processed illegally. The suit was filed in Georgia on Friday on behalf of Trump and David Shafer, a presidential elector pledged to the president. The suit named Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and a slew of local elections officials.

Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Bryan Cutler and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, have sent a letter to the state’s congressional delegation urging them to object to PA’s Electoral College votes on Jan. 6.

President Donald Trump has filed suit in Georgia claiming the election process was filled with “significant systemic misconduct, fraud and other irregularities” resulting in “many thousands of illegal votes” being cast and counted.The suit was filed in Georgia on Friday on behalf of Trump and David Shafer, a presidential elector pledged to the president. The suit named Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and a slew of local elections officials.It is asking the court to prevent certification of the results and order a new presidential election.The suit claims:The election code mandates that those wishing to vote by absentee ballots may...