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Raleigh, NC- Gov. Roy Cooper issued a new stay-at-home order on Tuesday to limit the spread of coronavirus, ordering most businesses to close at 10 p.m. each night, starting Friday. "We have to act now to save lives, preserve hospital capacity and protect our economy," Cooper said during an afternoon news conference. The order will require all restaurants, bars, personal care businesses and most retailers to be closed between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. Alcohol sales for on-site consumption will have to end at 9 p.m. The stay-at-home order "means just what it says – people are to stay home...

HODGKINS, Ill. (WLS) -- The Illinois Tollway has reached the first milestone in its enormous Mile Long Bridge project. The northbound section of the new bridge, a stretch of Interstate 294 between 75th Street and La Grange Road, is scheduled to open next week. Crews started building the new Mile Long Bridge alongside the existing one two years ago. Weather permitting, the northbound section of bridge will open by Wednesday morning. "We were hoping for the end of the year; clearly we're a month early and want to obviously thank everyone involved, but we're super excited that the bridge itself...

BEIJING (AP) — China lashed out at the U.S. on Tuesday over new American sanctions against Chinese officials for their actions in Hong Kong, along with the sale of more U.S. military equipment to Taiwan, moves touching on two of the most sensitive issues in the increasingly contentious relationship between the nations.The foreign ministry summoned Washington’s top diplomat in China to express “strong indignation and strong condemnation.”The U.S. actions “seriously violated the basic norms of international relations, seriously interfered in China’s domestic politics, seriously damaged China-U.S. relations, are arrogant, unreasonable and vile,” Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang was quoted as...

Update (1515ET): Just twelve hours after it was filed, the US Supreme Court has officially put Texas's lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on the docket, meaning the case will be heard. Unable to post the image -- you'll have to click the link and see for yourselves.

The House is poised to pass the annual defense authorization bill Tuesday, throwing down the first of two gauntlets before President Trump, who has threatened repeatedly to scuttle the $741 billion legislation. The only question is whether the bipartisan legislation will earn enough votes to override the president’s promised veto — and whether the Senate will follow suit. Over the summer, both the House and Senate passed independent versions of the defense bill by veto-proof majorities. But on Tuesday morning, the House Freedom Caucus, a group of about 37 conservative Republicans, announced that it would vote against the bill in...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Roy Cooper issued a new stay-at-home order on Tuesday to limit the spread of coronavirus, ordering most businesses to close at 10 p.m. each night, starting Friday. "We have to act now to save lives, preserve hospital capacity and protect our economy," Cooper said during an afternoon news conference. The order will require all restaurants, bars, personal care businesses and most retailers to be closed between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. Alcohol sales for on-site consumption will have to end at 9 p.m. The stay-at-home order "means just what it says – people are to stay...

Brandon Bernard is set to become the latest federal inmate executed by President Donald Trump's administration—even though five of the surviving nine jurors who condemned him to death have changed their minds.The 40-year-old is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana on Thursday.Judge Denies Stay Of Execution For Brandon Bernard Read moreBernard, who is Black, was 18 when he was convicted over the 1999 kidnapping and murder of youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley at Fort Hood in Texas.Bernard's co-defendant, Christopher Vialva, was executed for his role in the Bagleys' murder on September...

Pizza lovers, add this to your holiday wish list; Pizza Hut's new Triple Treat Box. Two medium, one-topping pizzas in the top and middle levels, and five breadsticks along with 10 mini cinnamon rolls from Cinnabon on the bottom level. And a partridge in a pear tree. Ok, there's no partridge, but everything else is there for just $21.

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Sen. Rand Paul on the Pandemic, Lockdowns, Schools, and More Video..

Washington (CNN)Congressional Republican leaders rejected a resolution that asserted that Joe Biden is president-elect, the latest effort by the Hill GOP to refuse to accept the election results even though it's been clear for weeks that President Donald Trump lost. The rejection came Tuesday in a private meeting after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer offered a motion to affirm that it is preparing for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rules Committee Chairman Roy Blunt of Missouri voted with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy in blocking the motion, effectively...

PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST FOR VACCINES: President Donald J. Trump is taking action to provide Americans priority access to our Nation’s COVID-19 vaccines.Today, President Trump is signing an Executive Order to ensure that the American people are first in line to benefit from United States Government COVID-19 vaccines developed or procured using taxpayer resources.Under this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to provide priority access to COVID-19 vaccines to Americans.Through this action, President Trump is putting the health and safety of Americans, the viability of our economy, and the security of our Nation first.The United States has...

A Nevada hospital has resorted to treating coronavirus patients in its parking garage — as hospitalizations soar in the state. Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno converted two floors of its parking garage into an alternative care site in early November to handle an overflow of COVID-19 patients if necessary.

Republican members of the Arizona State Legislature had an election integrity hearing on Nov. 30 that included President Donald Trump’s lawyers Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani, Ellis, and others held a hearing in front of Pennsylvania State Republican senators on earlier, where they argued that the state legislature should take steps to reclaim the ability to appoint electors to the Electoral College. Witnesses who claimed they saw allegedly illegal or irregular vote-tabulation efforts in the Keystone State also offered statements. According to GOP members of the Arizona State Legislature, the hearing is designed “to gather the evidence that justifies...

============================================================== Little-understood black hole phenomena could be string-theory "fuzzballs," scientists say. The math is still emerging, but the right instruments could maybe detect the fuzzballs. Black holes are enigmatic and require a different kind of thinking in the first place. ============================================================ What if string theorists have been right all along, and black holes are just balls of yarn? These celestial rat kings, scientists say, represent a place where a huge bunch of fundamental strings have tangled together and can’t be extricated. This sounds far out, but we don’t understand a great deal about how black holes work to begin with....

PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST FOR VACCINES: President Donald J. Trump is taking action to provide Americans priority access to our Nation’s COVID-19 vaccines.Today, President Trump is signing an Executive Order to ensure that the American people are first in line to benefit from United States Government COVID-19 vaccines developed or procured using taxpayer resources.Under this order, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is directed to provide priority access to COVID-19 vaccines to Americans.Through this action, President Trump is putting the health and safety of Americans, the viability of our economy, and the security of our Nation first.The United States has...

HOUSTON — Edward O’Neal was 18 when he first made headlines in 2016 as an alleged devil worshipper charged with murder. Now, O’Neal is in the news again because he’s accused of committing another murder while out on bond for the first case. Houston police say O’Neal, now 23, shot and killed 39-year-old Derrick Mike late last month at an apartment complex on 9601 West Montgomery Road. The motive isn’t clear. In the high-profile 2016 case, O’Neal was charged with stabbing 16-year-old Ryan Roberts to death and leaving his body in a wooded area. Christina Roberts told KHOU at the...

Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key positions in his Administration: Elaine L. Chao, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Lynn Friess, of Wyoming, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Douglas Manchester, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Hannah F. Buchan, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees...

More than a quarter of this censorship occurred between November 30 and December 7. A fresh study into Twitter’s mass censorship of President Trump over the last couple of years has revealed that tweets from Trump and his campaign have been restricted a staggering 436 times between May 31, 2018 and December 7, 2020. The study was conducted by media watchdog Media Research Center (MRC) and found that 111 of these censored tweets (around 25% of the total tweets) were flagged between November 30, 2020 and December 7, 2020. Some of the labeled tweets were simply live streams of Trump’s...

@paulsperry_ BREAKING: FEC records show fired FBI Director James Comey's wife Patrice last year gave at least $10,000 to Stacey Abrams' PAC which financed Abrams' campaign to change voting rules and regs in George and several other swing states, including Democrats' mass mail-in voting scheme