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Gov. Charlie Baker declared Tuesday that Massachusetts will soon roll back a single step within the current phase of its economic reopening plans, as cases continue to spike across the state. The changes — which officially begin on Sunday, Dec. 13 — broadly impact restrictions on the number of people allowed inside facilities and implement new rules related to masks and dining.

Boise Idaho--Boise Police and Boise Mayor Lauren McLean requested the Central District Health meeting be postponed due to protests outside CDH and board member's homes. Due to large crowds outside of CDH offices and at least three board member's homes, CDH Director Russ Duke and Mayor McLean and Boise Police requested the meeting end over safety concerns...

Donald Trump's childhood home in New York -- already sold twice since 2016 -- is back on the market. But this time, the real estate agency is appealing directly to the president's fans to buy the house for the unprecedented price of $3 million and offer it to Trump as a gift. Paramount Realty agency on Tuesday launched a fundraiser on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, calling on Trump fans to contribute towards the goal of reaching $3 million. If the money is raised, the house will be given to the outgoing president. The agency had recently tried to sell the...

Tucker Carlson’s team reached out to Swalwell’s office and asked if Swalwell had an intimate relationship with honeypot and spy Christine Fang and they replied they couldn’t comment because that information could be “classified.” Swalwell cannot be trusted with classified information and should immediately be removed from the House Intelligence Committee.

The Ohio Department of Health has notified the Cuyahoga County Board of Health of a sustained surge in coronavirus fragments found in wastewater at two county treatments plants, which could portend a boost in COVID-19 cases in the region in the days ahead...People can start shedding virus within a day or two of infection and it’s believed that a corresponding increase in cases of COVID-19 could start showing up three to 10 days later. The volume of gene copies in the sewage at the Westerly and Easterly plants is as high as it has been since reporting began, Fugitt said....

With increased attention on how U.S. politicians are purchased by Chinese influence it is worth revisiting a speech made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo directly to an assembly of U.S. Governors who were on the 2020 CCP influence list. Pompeo’s remarks were made to the National Governors Association (NGA) Feb 8, 2020; and there’s an interesting segment where Pompeo reveals his awareness of a list of U.S. governors compiled by China’s communist party; and their alignment with China’s interests. A transcript of the key excerpt from his speech is provided

Texas on Tuesday filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging election procedures in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin over potential voter fraud. Then later this afternoon the Supreme Court denied the Pennsylvania injunction case before the court.This was the Sean Parnell and Mike Kelly case. Expert says SCOTUS rejected the PA case without any explanation because the same stuff is covered in the Texas case which is a bigger case that includes GA, MI, and WI.Following the ruling Senator Doug Mastriano vowed to continue the fight against the fraudulent Pennsylvania election.Let me be clear: I will not rest...

At least 65 homeowners might need to change their addresses if Montgomery County follows through with a plan to rename streets, facilities and trails that have Confederate references. The process would require homeowners to change the address on their utilities, mortgages, deeds and land records — a cost of a couple hundred dollars per property, county officials said Monday during a County Council committee meeting. The county is looking into the specific costs to each homeowner and the ability to set up an opt-in reimbursement program for those costs. The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) and the county’s...

FBI Investigators Q: “Hold it, they didn’t focus on the trailer that got loaded with ballots in Beth Page, New York… They wondered how people got to you and how you got on TV?” ? Video at Link ‘

The Georgia Senate Republican Caucus has issued a lengthy statement calling for absentee ballot signature audits, a GBI investigation and more Senate hearings. They vow to repeal @GaSecofState’s compromise settlement agreement with the Democrats on absentee ballot signatures. https://t.co/KMvDmVsHkf— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) December 8, 2020The Georgia Senate Republican Caucus has issued a lengthy statement calling for absentee ballot signature audits, a GBI investigation and more Senate hearings. They vow to repeal @GaSecofState’s compromise settlement agreement with the Democrats on absentee ballot signatures.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Majority Statement on Georgia Elections https://t.co/hMqNT5b8eI #gapol #GOP #gagop #vote #elections— GA Senate Republicans (@GASenateGOP) December...

Bishops’ migration chairman welcomes ruling fully restoring DACAWASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ migration committee Dec. 8 welcomed the court ruling fully restoring the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, but said only Congress can “take up and pass legislation granting Dreamers a path to citizenship.”The bishops “are particularly pleased that with this ruling,” handed down late Dec. 4 by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, because “youth who are first-time applicants are allowed to apply for the program for the first time since 2017,” said Auxiliary Washington Auxiliary...

“What is at stake here, and this is why I think out of all the cases this is the most significant – to be clear, there’s no doubt about it – this is the most significant of the cases that has been filed. It’s the most significant because it is completely outcome determinative. What does that mean? It means that if the Court were to rule in favor of Texas, those four states, the states named in the complaint, would in in fact have their state legislatures determine the outcome. They would pick the electors. This is a lawsuit, of...

A solid majority of voters – nearly three-quarters –think small businesses should be considered "essential" under COVID-related lockdown orders, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. When asked, 70% of the voters survey responded that "small businesses that a family relies upon for financial support" should be deemed essential and thus spared from coronavirus closures and shutdowns. "Essential" businesses are those that state governors and municipal leaders have deemed sufficiently necessary to be permitted to remain open during pandemic closures....

On November 30th the Trump campaign held hearings in Arizona on the allegations of massive voter fraud. Arizona went 5 points for President Trump in 2016. This year through massive fraud Democrats managed to steal the state. Of course, it is ridiculous to believe Trump, the most popular president in the modern era, would lose a traditional red state in this year’s election.During the hearing several witnesses testified on the massive fraud in the state. Others testified on the results. Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai presented very powerful data that completely obliterated the Biden victory narrative.Dr. Shiva presented his data at the...

We are pleased to announce version 7.6.21 of the Folding@home software and recommend that everyone upgrades! This version includes a number of significant updates, most notably the addition of ARM 64-bit support. ARM support is a great step forward given the rapid proliferation of ARM-based devices. We are especially grateful to Neocortix for helping make this possible! The new client also includes updates that better detect and automatically configure supported GPUs.

New York City residents may be looking at paying a $3 surcharge for online package deliveries to aid the failing Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). In an op-ed for the Daily News, John Samuelsen International President for the Transport Workers Union and Brooklyn Assemblyman Robert Carroll said the MTA’s budget crisis could be resolved with a new measure – a fee that would reportedly raise more than $1 billion a year. “We do not have to accept as inevitable the laying off of thousands of transit workers who have already endured and sacrificed so much keeping NYC moving, and functioning, during...

On this date in 1934, Chinese Communists beheaded John and Betty Stam in the Anhui province town of Miaoshu. The Stams had settled as China Inland Mission proselytizers in the town of Jingde (at their time generally rendered as “Tsingteh”). Betty Stam (nee Scott) had grown up in China, the daughter of a Presbyterian missionary. John was a New Jersey native who had graduated Moody Bible Institute in 1932. They had a three-month-old daughter named Helen Priscilla. On December 6, 1934, Communist rebels in China’s long-running civil war entered Jingde and seized the foreign family. According to a tribute page...

It’s been a while since I’ve written on Joe Biden turning into a mental dumpster fire for the cameras. That’s partly because he’s been mostly in hiding (even more so than usual) since the election. There’s also been a lot of other news out there to cover. But rest assured, Biden’s mental acuity has not been the recipient of a miraculous change. He’s still as incapable and obviously senile as he was during the campaign. Case in point, today Biden gave a speech in which he appeared to be a dead man walking: At one point he announces Xavier Becerra...

One of the striking features of America's alleged "peaceful transition" is that senior figures in the departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security and others are happy to undermine him in public, and indeed openly defy him. When the media report on this phenomenon, the roles mysteriously get reversed: Donald J Trump is openly defying the All-Knowing Fauci on public health, is openly defying his Cyber-Security guys by undermining confidence in the election, is openly defying his chiefs of staff by wanting to bring troops home from Hoogivsastan... In the American system, the President is head of the executive branch. For...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A three-member U.S. appeals court panel appeared sympathetic Tuesday to arguments by lawyers for two Nevada churches that say state COVID-19 restrictions treating churches differently than casinos and other secular businesses violate their First Amendment rights. The 9th Circuit panel in San Francisco heard arguments via video from lawyers for Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley east of Reno and Cavalry Chapel Lone Mountain in Las Vegas who want the appellate court to reverse earlier district court rulings upholding hard attendance caps Gov. Steve Sisolak has set on the size of indoor worship services. They say churches should...