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Editor’s note: This post has been updated with new information. Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, infections are still skyrocketing. With air passenger traffic at 34% of what it was pre-pandemic, and travelers hungry to get back on the road and into the skies, the scramble to find a solution is on. For more TPG news delivered each morning to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Vaccines have arrived, but mass production and broad availability could still be months away. As the industry continues to explore ways to jumpstart travel, some airports and airlines have a potential...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police released new video of a random attack that was caught on camera last month in the Bronx. It happened in broad daylight shortly before 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 28 along Southern Boulevard. Surveillance video shows the suspect walk up to a 32-year-old woman and backhand her in the face. Police said the victim was taken to an area hospital with injuries to her head.

On Monday, Nevada officials charged Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn's forms "are clearly fraudulent." On Thursday, prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., also charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year's general election. Acorn spokesman Scott Levenson calls the Nevada criminal complaint "political grandstanding" and says that any problems were the actions of an unnamed "bad employee." But Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada's Democratic Attorney General, told...

We'll likely have to carry around papers to show we were vaccinated in order to live, even unfreely with masks, in this society, but illegal aliens can vote. That is the upshot of the latest insidious Supreme Court decision to allow lower courts to shred all voter verification processes in election law. For the past few weeks, we've been told "states' rights" force us to pursue a "live and let live" policy toward state governors who violate the state's election law to weaken voter integrity laws. However, this principle is evidently a one-way street and doesn't apply to governors who...

The Justice Department declassified a batch of internal FBI messages from Peter Strzok, the former counterintelligence investigator who oversaw Crossfire Hurricane. The messages provide a real-time glimpse into the probe, which began on July 31, 2016, and looked at possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Senate Republicans pushed for the messages to be released as part of their investigation into Crossfire Hurricane. The Justice Department declassified a batch of internal FBI messages from Peter Strzok, the former counterintelligence official who oversaw the bureau’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia. The messages, which Senate Republicans released...

Lt Governor praised student exchange that gave state Fang FangRevelations this week that thousands of Communist Chinese Party members had infiltrated major institutions worldwide brought renewed scrutiny to the country’s ties with the state of California. Besides the bombshell that CCP spy Fang Fang had a curiously close relationship with Bay Area Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, another development that requires reexamination of California’s world diplomacy is Sacramento’s commitment to China’s Belt and Road program. “Can anyone please explain to me how Gavin Newsom signed my state up for the #CCPChina Belt & Road Initiative,” asked Internet sleuth Eve @myfinewords this...

The US on Wednesday broke daily records for new coronavirus cases, deaths and hospitalizations, according to reports. More than 247,000 new cases of the global pandemic were reported in the country, with a record high of more than 3,600 Americans dying from the deadly virus, CNN reported. There are now in excess of 113,000 people hospitalized with the virus in the country.

Australian actress Sam Frost posted a tearful message to her 567,000 Instagram followers, begging them to “use correct pronouns” after stumbling upon a social media post from someone who said “nasty comments about pronouns and non-binary gender identity.” “Why using the correct pronouns matters,” the Home and Away star began, explaining that she came across the comments from an individual she grew up with. “It completely broke my heart, I was deeply affected by it,” she said, explaining that she “can’t think about it without crying.” “It’s important to use correct pronouns, because firstly, it’s basic respect. Secondly, because it...

Senate Republicans will continue to monitor alleged election fraud before Congress counts Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, according to Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., on Newsmax TV. Asked if he would be willing to join a House member in objecting to the Electoral College vote, Scott was noncommittal when answering host Greg Kelly on Wednesday night’s "Greg Kelly Reports.” "We’ll see," said Scott, a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that met earlier in the day. "I think today was an important day. I think Chairman [Sen.] Ron Johnson [R-Wis.] did a good job. He held an...

VIDEOThe first of the media giants being "MySpaced" since the election is Fox News. This was a no-brainer since Fox completely alienated their conservative viewers with their Election Night antics. Another candidate for being "MySpaced" is YouTube since conservatives and everyone else who resents the increasing censorship at that site have the option of uploading their videos to Rumble.Com which I highly recommend as a backup plan.

When China Live opened in 2017, it was a big deal in San Francisco. Totaling 30,000 square feet and four stories, it was a $20 million investment three years in the making. Of the more than 200 employees it takes to run the place, he laid off 182 in March, and slowly hired a few back, so currently, 40 people are rattling around the giant building. When One65 opened in 2019, it was like swinging open the doors to an entire department store or food hall filled with French revelations. Tall and narrow, it’s 20,000 square feet stacked up six...

Billionaire GOP mega-donor Charles Koch is urging elected Republicans and Democrats to pass amnesty for illegal aliens and increase legal immigration levels, even as 24.5 million Americans remain jobless or underemployed. Koch, in an op-ed with Brian Hooks of Stand Together, writes that Republicans and Democrats should “come together” to give amnesty to the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States and increase legal immigration levels beyond the 1.2 million green cards given to foreign nationals annually.

One of the best and detailed looks at the steal. Navarro is a genius.

This is a SHORT (30 secs) video. Please watch.

President-elect Joe Biden has picked an experienced but not widely known state regulator, Michael Regan of North Carolina, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.

A group of small California businesses and national business groups sued California state agencies Wednesday, seeking to rollback broad workplace protections against the coronavirus implemented last month. The National Retail Federation and the National Federation of Independent Businesses say rules adopted by the California Department of Industrial Relations to prevent virus infections in the workplace violate the state’s Administrative Procedures Act and weigh too heavily on businesses that have been pushed to the breaking point by the pandemic. The National Retail Federation and the National Federation of Independent Businesses say rules adopted by the California Department of Industrial Relations to...

The elites, in and out of government, mobilized against Trump with resources that he could not match. The so-called Masters of the Universe dogged him unmercifully, censoring him at crucial moments that had a significant, if not decisive, impact on the election. Pollsters did not use the wrong methodology in conducting polls; almost certainly they misreported results on purpose to suppress turnout. The media was uniformly against him, suppressing news—which the FBI said was credible but not worth investigating—about Hunter Biden’s corrupt dealings, trading on his father’s connections with Russia, China, and Ukraine. The role of the Dominion Voting system,...

Let the Church Roar: Archbishop Viganò’s address to the Jericho MarchOn December 12, 2020, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Empress of the Americas, thousands upon thousands of patriotic Americans flooded our nation’s capital. They came for a day of public prayer for the safety of our country which is undergoing a Socialist coup through a fraudulent election. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former Papal Nuncio to our Country, was one of the public figures to address the masses of patriots. Others included General Michael Flynn. Catholic Family News has received a copy of the address given by the Archbishop...

George Clooney wants you to know that if you don’t agree with his stance on mask etiquette, you are a “dumba**.” The Batman star told radio shock jock Howard Stern all about how the government forcing anyone to cover up their face is NOT a violation of their freedom. Clooney has a long history of “Hollywood-splaining” to the average American. The Hollywood elite likes to fancy himself as an average guy from Kentucky, but the basic fact is that he is all left coast liberal.

Father of one of the victims of the downed Ukrainian plane called the commander of the Revolutionary Guards air force and Mohammad Javad Zarif a "criminal." He made the remarks on the eve of the anniversary of the downing of the Ukrainian plane and at a protest gathering of families of victims. Mourning for the victims of downed Ukrainian plane According to reports, several families of the victims of downed Ukrainian plane gathered in Tehran Military Court on Monday, December 14, and strongly protested lack of punishment of perpetrators of this incident. On January 8, 2020 A passenger plane of...