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China intends to “deepen” its partnership with Russia as a bulwark against the United States over the next year, according to a top diplomat in Beijing.

Michigan state Rep. Cynthia Johnson declared that the “Biden-Harris administration owes the city of Detroit” in a newly-posted video message. The Democrat posted another head-scratching rant on social media as she continues to hold her seat in the state government despite facing backlash over her behavior. Johnson was stripped of her committee seats this week and may face further disciplinary action for controversial videos she had already posted in which she appeared to threaten President Donald Trump’s supporters. Johnson ignited backlash last week after her treatment of witnesses who were speaking with Trump’s legal team and then complained she was...

A suicide bomber 'screaming Allahu Akbar' blew himself up and injured six people today in an attack in southern Russia near FSB headquarters, reports said on Friday. The country's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said an unidentified person tried to break into an area where police were conducting searches. The person then triggered the bomb when officers tried to arrest him, the committee said, adding that 'six officers were lightly injured' in the blast. The unidentified man carrying explosives also died at the scene. The explosion was close to the FSB counterintelligence service's office in Uchkeken village in the volatile mainly-Muslim region...

Michael Flynn and the Department of Justice should not allow Judge Emmet Sullivan’s final irrational and unhinged act of judicial defiance to go unanswered. On Dec. 8, federal Judge Emmet Sullivan dismissed as moot the criminal charge against Michael Flynn following President Trump’s pardon of the retired lieutenant general. Those outraged over the vindicative and unjust targeting of President Trump’s former national security advisor by the Obama-Biden administration and then the special counsel’s office celebrated the conclusion of the case. Yet Judge Sullivan’s dismissal came in the form of a vindictive, unconstitutional advisory opinion, designed to convict Flynn of a...

Federal agents on Thursday raided one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of ghost-gun parts, a sign that federal law enforcement is cracking down on kits that allow people to make weapons at home. The raid target, Nevada-based Polymer80, is suspected of illegally manufacturing and distributing firearms, failing to pay taxes, shipping guns across state lines and failing to conduct background investigations, according to an application for a search warrant unsealed Thursday after the raid took place. The probe focuses on Polymer80’s “Buy Build Shoot Kit,” which includes the parts to build a “ghost” handgun. The kit, which Polymer80 sells online,...

Royal Caribbean had to bring its cruise ship Quantum of the Seas to port this past week after a passenger aboard the ‘cruise to nowhere’ tested positive for Covid-19. snip S&P Global Ratings said it has placed Royal Caribbean Group (ticker: RCL) on credit watch negative following the suspension of cruises. It did the same for NCL, a subsidiary of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) that holds debt. In a press release this week, the rating firm said Royal Caribbean’s listing “reflects the heightened likelihood that we will lower our rating within the next few months, given a high degree...

THEY WERE THE Navy’s last chance. It was 10:20 a.m. on Thursday, June 4, 1942. Forty-seven U. S. Navy dive bombers had found what they were looking for. Far below, four Japanese aircraft carriers were launching the first planes of a massive strike that could decide the Battle of Midway. So far, two days of American air and submarine attacks had failed to damage a single ship of the peerless Japanese Aircraft Carrier Striking Force. The priceless intelligence advantage the U.S. had gained through years of backbreaking effort by Navy codebreakers was about to be squandered. The heroic sacrifice...

<p>PEMBA: The gunfire broke out before dawn, waking Aziza Falume as the jihadists mounted a new attack in their campaign in northern Mozambique.</p><p>Nine months pregnant, with no news of her fisherman husband, she had no choice but to flee.</p>

Santa Clara Board of Supervisors are on the verge of approving a 15% cap on third-party food delivery fees in an effort to help local restaurants as they brace for weeks under lockdown. At Tuesday’s board meeting, supervisors unanimously voted to draft up a countywide ordinance relating to a temporary cap on commissions and fees charged by third-party delivery services by the next meeting on Dec. 15 instead of its original plan to report by January.

Tens of thousands of President Trump’s supporters are set to descend on Washington, D.C. this weekend to demand transparency and protect election integrity. One America News will have a crew on the ground Saturday, December 12 and will provide live coverage of the event.

Ten Nigerian troops were killed and one was taken hostage in clashes with IS-linked jihadists in northeast Nigerian Borno state, according to two security sources. Clashes erupted on Monday when a team of soldiers stormed a camp of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Alagarno village in Damboa district. “We lost 10 soldiers in the fight and one was taken by the terrorists,” a security source told AFP on Tuesday. The hostage was seized while fleeing to safety after the troops were outgunned, he said. “It was an intense battle and the terrorists also suffered casualties but they were...

The FBI has investigated at least six internal sexual misconduct allegations involving top brass over the last five years — but none of the accused officials ever faced discipline, even when the reports were substantiated... The cases include an assistant FBI director who was accused of drunkenly groping a female subordinate, a senior FBI official who allegedly sexually harassed eight employees and another high-ranking official accused of blackmailing a young employee for sex... Two of those claims came this week ... none of the high-ranking members faced discipline beyond quiet transfers and early retirements. “They’re sweeping it under the rug,”...

Let's take a break from the election. "Eighty and six years I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong," said Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, in A.D. 156 before climbing onto a pyre where Roman authorities would burn him to death. Eyewitnesses reported the local authorities respected Polycarp and begged him to recant his faith in Christ. He would not. The Romans did not even tie Polycarp to a post because they knew he would not flee the fire. Polycarp fed his captors, prayed over them and then climbed the pyre to die. Authorities carted off Polycarp's friend...

In this audio clip, Joe Biden admits that Trump “Beat The Living Hell Out Of Us Across the Country”. Even Joe knows!

Rita Hart, an Iowa Democrat, lost her bid in the open 2nd Congressional District by six votes out of more than 394,000 cast. Now, rather than continuing to appeal in court, Hart is taking her case directly to the House because it's a necessary step to get the results her campaign wants, she said in an online video.

Some of you need a lesson in English. I’m talking to all of you who want to call the Texas-led election lawsuit “a frivolous effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans.” You know who you are.This is maddening. You shouldn’t be using words like these unless you know what they mean. I hate to play the schoolteacher, but if you need a lesson in definitions, you need a lesson, even if it has to be a remedial one.“Evidence”I’d start with the word “frivolous,” but some of you are going to say it really is frivolous because “there’s no evidence of fraud.”...

Ben & Jerry’s debuted their latest ice cream flavor combination this week and, much to the dismay of millions of patriotic Americans who love this country, it’s name is inspired by none other than former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Of course, Colin Kaepernick’s new Ben & Jerry’s flavor is vegan and social justice friendly! Colin Kaepernick Teams Up With Ben & Jerry’s Yahoo News reported that “Colin Kaepernick’s Change the Whirled” is a vegan, nondairy frozen dessert that is set to launch through Ben & Jerry’s in 2021. The flavor is described as a “caramel, sunflower butter base with fudge...

Lake Tahoe is closing the slopes to keep tourists from spreading coronavirus.The California side of the popular tourist destination will be closed for visitors for three weeks beginning Friday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.“Unfortunately, yet again, Tahoe is closed,” Chris Fiore, communications manager for the city of South Lake Tahoe, told the Chronicle.Under the order, outdoor dining is shut down, retail stores are limited to 20% capacity and all nonessential travel is banned into and out of the region.Under the order, outdoor dining is shut down, retail stores are limited to 20% capacity and all nonessential travel is banned...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump lost a Wisconsin lawsuit Friday seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, the latest in a string of legal defeats. Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek ruled against every argument Trump made challenging ballots in the state’s two largest counties, saying the election was properly administered and there was no wrongdoing as the president alleged.

For four and a half years, Donald John Trump has embarked on a daring mission to help rescue America. Almost singlehandedly he has destroyed the credibility of the legacy media, killed long-exhausted sacred cows of the political establishment, and reminded Republicans that we can fight for more than a slower surrender. He has built a multi-ethnic workers’ party that loves America without shame while simultaneously revealing the shameless depravity of rootless elites who will do anything and destroy anyone to cling to power.President Trump is now going to the courts and coming back to the rally stage to expose electoral...