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Tommy “Tiny” Lister, a longtime character actor best known for playing the menacing neighborhood bully in Ice Cube and Chris Tucker’s comedy “Friday,” has died at 62. Law enforcement was called to Lister’s Marina Del Rey apartment shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday, according to TMZ, which first reported the news. According to the outlet, Lister was pronounced dead at the scene. Lister’s manager, Cindy Cowan, told Variety that he had displayed coronavirus-like symptoms in recent days; the actor also had Type 2 diabetes. The 6-foot-5-inch Lister was born blind with a detached and deformed retina in his right eye, which...

McCarthy: “Speaker Pelosi was notified, I was not. I’m asking for an FBI briefing now. But if she knew and maintained Swalwell on Intel, wrong. He is a national security threat. He was put on in his second year. I will tell you as a Leader, Intel Committee is treated differently. Why? Because those who serve on Intel get information that members do not. For the Republican side, the leader — Republican leader appoints there; for the Democrat side, the Democrats appoint there. If you spend the last four years in Intel worried about foreign intrusion, Adam Schiff knew as...

Politico before the election: “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.” Politico after the election: “Justice Department’s interest in Hunter Biden covered more than taxes.”Politico before the election:“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say”Original: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201211035333/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276Politico after the election:“Justice Department’s interest in Hunter Biden covered more than taxes.”Original: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/justice-department-interest-hunter-biden-taxes-444139Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201211165256/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/justice-department-interest-hunter-biden-taxes-444139

Explanation: Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier from his famous 18th century catalog. His name is also given to these two large and remarkable craters on the Moon. Standouts in the dark, smooth lunar Sea of Fertility or Mare Fecunditatis, Messier (left) and Messier A have dimensions of 15 by 8 and 16 by 11 kilometers respectively. Their elongated shapes are explained by the extremely shallow-angle trajectory followed by an impactor, moving left to right, that gouged out the craters. The shallow impact also resulted in two...

"Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" is a power ballad[1] performed by the American musician Meat Loaf. It is a track off his 1977 album Bat Out of Hell, written by Jim Steinman. It reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a million-selling Gold single from the RIAA, eventually being certified platinum. It was the final song written for the album. The Japanese release changes the title of the song to use a percentage, translating it as "66% is good enough"Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad (1977)

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense announced on Friday that they will purchase 100 million additional doses of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine candidate. ...The purchase will bring the total doses of Moderna's vaccine owned by the federal government to 200 million, HHS said... An FDA advisory panel is scheduled to meet Dec. 17 to review the application. By the end of 2020, it expects to have approximately 20 million vaccine doses available in the U.S... “Securing another 100 million doses from Moderna by June 2021 further expands our supply of doses across the Operation Warp...

In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to recover deleted messages from the phone. According to the arrest affidavit, investigators discovered the student and teacher frequently messaged each other, “I love you.” Two days later, the teacher was booked into the county jail for sexual assault of a child. The Cellebrite used to gather evidence in that case was...

Around 10:20 a.m. on Dec. 1, a man got off a northbound Metra Electric District train at the McCormick Place station, pulled out a collapsible rifle from his backpack, and fired a single shot while standing on the platform, according to the FBI and Metra Police. ] The man then placed the rifle back into his bag and exited the station. Chicago Police and Metra Police searched the area for the gunman, but could not find him. Luckily for the FBI, he did it in front of cameras. Images showed a man with close-cropped hair and a receding hairline. “When...

All eyes are on Texas. Well, they’re on what Texas sent to the Supreme Court Monday night, a lawsuit that accuses Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia of engaging in unconstitutional practices to allow an environment ripe for voter fraud. But another lawsuit has just been docketed at the Supreme Court that could have major election implications. Attorney Lin Wood’s case against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been put on the docket. Finally.

Excerpt: Now, at the last possible moment, comes the State of Texas with a claim that outstrips the usual and customary false bravado of that state—to wit—undoing the lawful election and certification of the vote of four states of this Union— Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. The hubris with which Texas invokes the original jurisdiction of this Court for this purpose of undoing the Presidential Election in four sovereign states of the Union is breathtaking. However, for the many reasons cited in these materials, Texas has failed to meet the heavy burden that it must meet in order to be...

The Wisconsin Air National Guard has identified the F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot killed during a crash in Michigan's Upper Peninsula earlier this week as 37-year-old Capt. Durwood "Hawk" Jones. Jones, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, joined the Guard in 2011, according to a Friday Facebook announcement from the 115th Fighter Wing out of Truax Field Air National Guard Base in Madison. He completed F-16 basic qualification training in 2015 and deployed to Japan that same year to support operations in the Pacific, the post said.

A 26-year-old woman allegedly drove into a Lynwood police officer while trying to avoid arrest in the south suburb. Body camera video shared by police allegedly shows Megan Rozak in the driver’s seat Dec. 4 as she’s confronted by two officers who arrested a package thief moments earlier, Lynwood police said in a statement. After placing Stefan Wisnewski in cuffs for allegedly stealing a package from a porch, the officer walked over to Rozak and told her to unlock the car door, police said. She allegedly refused and sped forward into a second officer. The officer standing in front of...

House Republicans and Democrats are joining retail corporations to ask United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer to reduce tariffs on China in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis. The National Retail Federation (NRF) is circulating a pre-written letter asking Lighthizer to reduce U.S. tariffs on China and extend tariff exemptions so certain corporations continuing to make their goods in China are exempt from having to pay significant costs to export their products back into the U.S. marketplace.

Is Ivanka Trump Setting a Clever Trap to Take Out NeverTrumper Marco Rubio? Ivanka and her husband Jared are leaving the “NYC” life behind and setting up permanent shop in Florida, near her father. Ivanka and Jared will be moving to a part of Florida that’s very prestigious…the area they’re looking to move to is nicknamed “billionaire bunker.” It’s near Miami Beach and the couple are reportedly looking to buy a massive and beautiful home owned by Spanish singer Julio Iglesias. But it’s not the house that is the main focus of the Florida move – it’s what Ivanka is...

"The election was not close. There was no evidence of fraud. The states have certified the results," Clinton said in a tweet on Thursday. "Yet Trump continues to try to overturn the election at the expense of our democracy." "The emperor has no clothes," she added. "Republican electeds who continue to humor him have no spines."

New Hampshire Republicans are harshly condemning their mask-skeptical colleagues after the newly sworn-in speaker of the state House contracted COVID-19 and died. State Rep. Dick Hinch, 71, was found dead in his home last Wednesday, one week after he was nominated by his colleagues to serve as New Hampshire's speaker of the house, the Washington Post reported. On Thursday, New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald announced that a medical examination had concluded that Hinch's death was caused by COVID-19. Speaking at a news conference Thursday, Republican Gov. Chris Sununu called Hinch a close friend and "tireless leader," warning that...

Why are Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Michigan Judge Kevin Elsenheimer trying to prevent the public from seeing the results of an audit of a Dominion voting machine that was used in their state’s election?This article is called, “Michigan Secretary of State Issues Order to Delete Election Data Amid Audit Calls.”https://nationalfile.com/michigan-secretary-of-state-issues-order-to-delete-election-data-amid-audit-calls/You can read the order at this link:https://g1nbc.com/howell-mi/files/2020/12/Recount-Release-of-Security-Memo-Nov-2020-General.pdfThis video says that the audit has been completed, but Michigan Judge Kevin Elsenheimer has approved an order by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to prevent the results of the audit from being released to the...

Observers shoveled abuse upon the unfortunate spectacle, rivaling each other to come up with the most appropriate epithets to describe the appalling scene. “Mummified Mary,” “Weeble Jesus” (after the ovate children’s toys launched by Hasbro in the 1970s), “Martians,” “toilet paper rolls,” and “astronauts” were some of the comparisons made to the cylindrical figures meant to represent the Holy Family, the Magi, and the shepherds at Bethlehem. Others saw in one ominous figure the helmeted image of “the Mountain” from the Game of Thrones television series, while another conjured up memories of the Robot from Lost in Space:

There was a time when members of the press were concerned with ensuring that the American public was informed on the issues that matter. They spoke truth to power and exposed corruption occurring in our governmental institution. People in the profession were not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Bias still seeped into their reportage. But they had not yet descended into the depths of political hackery that we have seen over the past four years. Now, establishment media outlets have transformed into something that barely resembles journalism. At this point, it does not make sense to refer to...