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Usually, three brushes with the law can invoke serious punishment. Not for Caroline Biden, 33, who is the niece of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden. On Dec. 3, she pleaded to a charge of driving under the influence and driving without a license after she slammed her car into a tree in Pennsylvania in August 2019. According to the New York Post, the official record of her case says she faced “confinement” that could range from 20 days to six months. But Biden, 33, won’t actually be locked up, the Post reported. She instead faces five-plus months of probation, according to...

Pizza company, Pizza Punks, are selling special kits this December where you can 'punk up your pizza' by using Christmas dinner ingredients as your toppings. f there are two things that we know to be true, it's that pizza is delicious and so is Christmas dinner. These, my friends, are foods of the gods, so why not combine the two and create the ultimate festive pizza?! Sounds interesting, right? Well, it turns out that this is something one pizza company have already done. Pizza Punks, which has pizzerias located in Glasgow, Belfast and Newcastle, have launched an Xmas Pizza Party...

United States President-elect Joe Biden plans to publicly receive a Covid-19 vaccine injection on Monday (Dec 21) in an effort to boost confidence in its safety ahead of its wide distribution next year. Mr Biden has vowed to make the fight against the coronavirus, which has killed more than 300,000 Americans and infected more than 17 million, his top priority when he takes office on Jan 20. At age 78, he is in the high-risk group for the highly contagious respiratory disease. Republican President Donald Trump, who lost the Nov 3 election to his Democratic rival, frequently downplayed the severity...

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Last week a massive data leak from China revealed the names of almost 2 million Communist Party members around the world, many of who had infiltrated some of the world’s largest Western companies. Now, the Department of Justice (DOJ) accused China-based Xinjiang Jin, who reportedly was Zoom’s chief liaison with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence, of sharing user data at the request of the communist Chinese government.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn, a conservative, explained his ruling against a contest-of-election lawsuit brought in the state by President Donald Trump’s campaign.In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, Hagedorn said he found nothing in the law or the evidence presented in the case that would have allowed Trump to win the lawsuit.A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Dec. 14 rejected Trump’s lawsuit challenging the election results in the battleground state about an hour before the Electoral College cast Wisconsin’s 10 votes for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. In the 4-3 ruling, the court’s three...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The $900 billion economic relief package that emerged from Congress over the weekend will deliver vital aid to millions of households and businesses that have been struggling for months to survive. Yet with the economy still in the grip of a pandemic that has increasingly tightened curbs on business activity, more federal support will likely be needed soon. And it’s unclear whether or when the government might provide it.

A recently released report from Georgia senators studying the Nov. 3 election found evidence of illegal activity carried out by workers at State Farm Arena. “The events at the State Farm Arena are particularly disturbing because they demonstrated intent on the part of election workers to exclude the public from viewing the counting of ballots, an intentional disregard for the law. The number of votes that could have been counted in that length of time was sufficient to change the results of the presidential election and the senatorial contests,” the report from the state Senate’s Election Law Study Subcommittee reads....

President Donald Trump on Monday morning announced that there will be “big news” in Pennsylvania as he challenges the election results in the commonwealth.“Big news coming out of Pennsylvania,” Trump wrote, without elaborating. “Very big illegal ballot drop that cannot be accounted for. Rigged Election!”It’s not clear if the president was referring to the appeal that his campaign filed on Sunday in the U.S. Supreme Court, previously revealed information by third parties, or a new development. The Epoch Times reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment, but hasn’t yet received a response.Trump’s campaign’s case (pdf) is attempting to reverse three...

COVID, Woke Science—and DeathIn this brave new world of ours, will we be pruning back the elderly altogether by credentialed “ethicists,” whether because of their longevity or race?Since March, the Left has proclaimed itself the guardian of science in dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic. Its champions are the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Dr. Fauci. All in the past have rendered valuable service to the public, and often life-saving aid.Yet the mixture of COVID-19, the first national quarantine, and Trump Derangement Syndrome have combined to give us reason to question their judgment. These authorities variously have...

LONDON - Trucks waiting to get out of Britain backed up for miles and people were left stranded at airports Monday as countries around the world imposed stringent travel restrictions on the U.K. because of a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus in England.A growing number of countries halted air travel from Britain, while France banned British trucks for 48 hours while the new variant is assessed.British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the strain is “out of control” around London and southeastern England, though experts have said it is not clear whether it is more lethal, and...

If the state senator was in the field working, she certainly was not ‘indefinitely confined’ under the meaning and intent of state statute. So, did she break the law? How many others did?MADISON, Wis. — Outgoing Wisconsin state Sen. Patty Schachtner, a full-time county medical examiner, earlier this year claimed to be “indefinitely confined,” receiving the special status accorded under state election law. The Democrat and her husband signed a statement claiming they were confined to their home “because of age, physical illness or infirmity” in seeking an absentee ballot to be automatically sent to their Somerset home. It begs...

The full report of Wednesday's proceedings having been received too late for insertion in our entire edition of yesterday, we reproduce the following portion: J.P. REED introduced a resolution, first ordering the President to appoint a Cashier and Deputy-Cashier; second, ordering the Clerk to superintend the printing of the Convention; third, that reporters for public journals shall be allowed access to the hail for the purpose of reporting; fourth, that the regular hour for meeting shall be 10 o'clock, subject to a special order; fifth, that an alphabetical list of their members, with their Post-office address, be provided; sixth, that...

Firebrand lawyer Sidney Powell was spotted leaving the residence side of the White House on Sunday evening.Powell has been leading the charge to challenge the election results, which many believe to have been fraudulent.When questioned by a CNN activist “reporter” about the reason for her visit, Powell put him in his place — telling him that “it would be none of your business.”“SPOTTED tonight at the White House: attorney & conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell. @abdallahcnn & I saw her leaving the residence side of the White House shortly before 9p. She denied meeting with Trump tonight. When pressed again, she...

CNN's New Day was in deep-fret mode this morning, with hosts and guests feeding each other's fears about President Trump potentially refusing to leave office. Why can't they just cover what happened yesterday, instead of always imagining the lurid worst about tomorrow? Substitute co-host Erica Hill ratcheted up the paranoia, saying: "He’s increasingly desperate. It’s clear . . . When does that desperation really become dangerous, if it hasn’t already?"Anna Palmer, for the moment still a senior Washington correspondent for Politico, was only too happy to take the hint: "That’s the question everyone’s asking. No one knows what his end...

Patrick Byrne details his Friday night meeting at the White House with Sidney Powell and General Flynn, accusing WH Counsel Pat Cipollone of leaking details to the New York Times.Byrne also says Mark Meadows is lying to Trump to get him to concede.“My involvement is I was in the room when it happened. The raised voices included my own. I can promise you: President Trump is being terribly served by his advisers. They want him to lose and are lying to him. He is surrounding by mendacious mediocrities.” In addition, any suggestion if there was talk of a military coup...

Four fatal shootings in the past week have pushed Portland’s homicides to 53 this year, marking the most killings in the city since the early 1990s.

Patrick Byrne details his Friday night meeting at the White House with Sidney Powell and General Flynn, accusing WH Counsel Pat Cipollone of leaking details to the New York Times. Byrne also says Mark Meadows is lying to Trump to get him to concede. “My involvement is I was in the room when it happened. The raised voices included my own. I can promise you: President Trump is being terribly served by his advisers. They want him to lose and are lying to him. He is surrounding by mendacious mediocrities.” In addition, any suggestion if there was talk of...

...Pope Francis famously stated, “Is it right to take a human life to solve a problem? It’s like hiring a hitman.” By that same standard of comparison, it’s fair to assert that presumptive President-elect Joe Biden is in the process of assembling a collective “mafia”... The most striking example to date is Biden’s incendiary Dec. 7 announcement that he wants California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as his secretary of Health and Human Services. As attorney general and previously as a California state legislator, Becerra has prioritized the advancement of abortion and the persecution of pro-life perspectives, to a...

Rep. Devin Nunes accused the Justice Department and FBI officials of misleading Congress regarding documents Republicans sought as part of their investigation into abuse of the FISA program. Nunes said Sunday that he plans to submit criminal referrals to the Justice Department regarding information found in newly declassified FBI messages from Peter Strzok. Nunes said that the messages should have been provided to his committee years ago, but that government officials denied they existed.