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First Lady Melania Trump reviews the Christmas decorations Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, in the Cross Hall of the White House.

Shut Down DC is one of several violent Antifa groups combining forces to target patriots attending a pro-Trump rally to be held in Washington, D.C. on December 12, 2020. Using the hashtag #DefendDC, militant groups are doxxing specific staff members of hotels who dare to host Trump supporters, and plan to confront patriots exercising their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. SEE BELOW ON HOW TO TAKE ACTION! The Antifa groups are using the website defenddc.org to organize their comrades. Some of the Antifa groups listed are: Black Lives Matter DC, All Out DC, Autonomous Liberation Collective NYC, Baltimore Liberation...

A startup near Tokyo has recently begun accepting orders for a service beginning next spring to fly customer items high into the stratosphere by balloon and capture images of them against the backdrop of Earth and outer space. Space Balloon Inc. based in Mito, northeast of Tokyo, will launch a balloon carrying remote-controlled cameras and objects of a customer's choice that will travel to an altitude of around 25,000 meters above sea level to capture images giving the impression that the items are floating in space. The balloon, inflated with helium gas and measuring about 2 meters in diameter, will...

Explanation: Mons Rumker, a 70 kilometer wide complex of volcanic domes, rises some 1100 meters above the vast, smooth lunar mare known as Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. Daylight came to the area late last month. The lunar terminator, the shadow line between night and day, runs diagonally across the left side in this telescopic close-up of a waxing gibbous Moon from November 27. China's Chang'e-5 mission landing site is also in the frame. The probe's lander-ascender combination touch down on the lunar surface within a region right of center and north of Mons Rumker's domes on December 1....

Vatican Makes Ecumenism an ObligationDiktat ignores obstacles of women's ordination and same-sex 'marriage'VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Engaging ecumenically with Protestant and Orthodox denominations will no longer be "optional" but "a duty and obligation" for bishops, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity declared Friday.Obstacles to ecumenism: Women 'bishop' Sarah Mullally The Vatican document, titled "The Bishop and Christian Unity: An Ecumenical Vademecum," extends the bishop's pastoral ministry "not just to the unity of his own church, but to the unity of all the baptized into Christ."Directing Catholics to join Protestants "in each other's non-Eucharistic services," the handbook is a historic...

1 And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. 2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, 3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? 4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the...

The Daily Beast and Business Insider tried to spin the nursing home death of Kristi Noem’s 98-year-old grandmother into a political hitjob, despite the fact that the death was not COVID-related and the nursing home enacted strict protocols for visitors. “Shameful,” was the reaction of Noem’s policy director Maggie Seidel to National Review. Daily Beast special correspondent Michael Daly — who has bashed Noem in five articles since August, but has yet to cover New York’s deadly COVID nursing home policy — tried to juxtapose the death of Aldys Arnold with Noem’s “downplaying of the pandemic and her continued refusal...

In April 2000, Oscar Velazquez, a 22-year-old hard-working Chicago truck driver gave 17-year-old Regina DeFrancisco a ride home. Two months later, she and her sister repaid that favor by shooting him in the back of the head and burning his remains before evading police capture for two years. On June 6, 2000, the incinerated body of an unidentified Hispanic male was found on the south side of Chicago. Detectives had scant evidence to go on, according to “Killer Siblings,” airing Saturdays at 6/5c on Oxygen. The victim had been wrapped in a bed sheet with blood on it. Nail polish...

President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak in Georgia today in a stump appearance for Republican Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and Sonny Purdue, and has named the media’s WiFi router “Make America Great Again”, and the password to gain access, “RiggedElection!”

Sometime in December of the year 999 — the exact date is not recorded — Fulk III, Count of Anjou (allegedly) had his wife, Elisabeth of Vendôme, burned at the stake in her wedding gown. Truly a man of his unruly age, Fulk Nerra, “the Black Count”, wore his outsized passions on his mailed sleeve. He was a remarkable captain of the Angevin realm; we have even met him glancingly in these pages as, having married his niece to the king of France, Fulk and his allies were embroiled in the court politicking that resulted in medieval Europe’s first heresy...

A Louisiana woman was arrested and charged, Sunday, after another woman's wig was pulled off her head and 'set on fire' during an argument that also involved the brandishing of 'a knife and a shovel.' The spat, involving Sherita L. Griffin, 34, and another woman, began at 8:30 a.m. outside a home in Clayton Street, Port Allen, near to Baton Rouge, police said. According to an affidavit obtained by Baton Rouge's WAFB-TV, the argument soon became physical and Griffin allegedly hit the woman. The other woman allegedly stabbed Griffin with a knife. Things got particularly heated when Griffin pulled the...

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) admitted during a press conference on Friday it was Democrats' decision to withhold crucially needed aid for Americans suffering from the effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns.When asked by CNN reporter Manu Raju if it was a "mistake" to wait months for a concerted effort to pass a clean COVID relief bill, Pelosi got defensive."I’m going to tell you something — don’t characterize what we did before as a mistake, as a preface to your question if you want an answer. That was not a mistake, it was a decision, and it’s taken us...

Locked within the capsule is the first ever subsurface sample from an asteroid. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed that the 16-inch container had touched down on the flat, ochre plains of the Woomera Prohibited Area more than 200 miles southeast of Coober Pedy at approximately 4:37 a.m. local time (10:07 a.m. PT, Saturday). The landing is the culmination of a decade of work by JAXA scientists and engineers, and it comes six years after Hayabusa2, which is about the size of a washing machine, departed Earth. The spacecraft travelled over 3.2 billion miles on its journey to near-Earth...

Protests erupted in Eugene, Oregon, Friday night following the shooting of a black man armed with a knife. The man allegedly charged police with a knife after violating a domestic violence protective order. The man remains hospitalized in critical condition. Black Lives Matter protesters took to the roadways of Eugene Friday night to protest police officers shooting an armed man following a domestic disturbance. Video tweeted by independent journalist Andy Ngo shows protesters blocking a major intersection in the city.

Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) is offering to buy his socialist colleague, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, and other congressional socialists plane tickets so they can campaign with Democrat Jon Ossoff ahead of the January 5 runoff in Georgia. Perdue also offered to buy a plane ticket for socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who like Sanders supports Ossoff, to campaign for the Georgia Democrat. “Jon Ossoff is eager to put his socialist supporters like AOC and Bernie on liberal cable news shows, but he won’t have them come down and campaign for him in Georgia,” Perdue...

Britain's Royal Air Force has obtained images of what is considered the largest iceberg as it veers toward the island territory of South Georgia. Pictures of A68a were released Friday following a reconnaissance flight of the iceberg. At roughly 93 miles long and 30 miles wide, the floe is believed to be the world's largest. The pictures taken by British military aircraft, offering some of the closest views of the iceberg thus far, show cracks and apparently smaller chunks of ice breaking off. In a Facebook post, British officials note that because of the iceberg's massive size, it's nearly impossible...

Trump has nominated Scott O'Grady to a top Pentagon post O'Grady retweeted a post calling on Trump to declare 'martial law' The post calls for the military to oversee a revote Also tweeted post calling the election a 'coup' Trump pardoned his former national security advisor before Thanksgiving Flynn blasted out article by 'We the People Convention' calling for martial law It called for Trump to 'immediately declare a limited form of Martial Law' Wants to 'suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections' Says only the military can be trusted to carry this out Comes as AG...

An Alabama Sheriff's Office has caused a stir after posting a picture of its Christmas tree decorated with "thug" mugshots. The Mobile County Sheriff's Office took a novel approach to the festive period this year by adorning their tree with mugshots of criminals captured over the year. "We have decorated our Tree with THUGSHOTS to show how many Thugs we have taken off the streets of Mobile this year! We could not have done it without our faithful followers!" TEAM SHERIFF of the Mobile County Sheriff's Office wrote on their Facebook page on Thursday. The post continues to advertise a...