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Three men were arrested in Manchester on drug chargesMore than $600,000 worth of drugs -- hidden inside pizza boxes -- were seized by authorities in the U.K. after police discovered cocaine, marijuana and cash during a raid of two homes on Christmas Eve, according to the Greater Manchester Police Department. Police raided two homes in the Tameside and Hollingworth neighborhoods of Greater Manchester where they found a staggering nine pizza boxes containing a kilogram of what was suspected to be cocaine. More than half a million pounds worth of drugs were found in the boxes seized after the raids,...

Today is born of the Virgin him who holds all creation in the hollow of his hand. He whose essence is untouchable is wrapped in swaddling clothes as a babe. The God who from of old established the heavens lies in a manger. He who showered the people with manna in the wilderness, feeds on milk from the breasts. And the bridegroom of the Church calls the Magi. And the Son of the Virgin accepts gifts from them. We venerate thy Nativity, O Christ. —Verses from the Royal Hours, Christmas Eve, Eastern Orthodox Church

An Illinois woman says she found a COVID-19 test swab at the bottom of a package from Kohl’s. Andrea Ellis of East Moline ordered garden flags online as a Christmas gift for her grandmother, but she says at the bottom of the yellow padded envelope she found the swab, which belonged to a woman in Virginia. Through the clear bag, Ellis could see the patient’s testing information, so she contacted her and made some other calls. “Calling the health department, calling non-emergency, talking to some nurse friends or doctor friends, reaching out to anyone I thought could maybe have something...

The Republican Party has stabbed their constituents in the back. Michigan state senate majority leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) is clearing Dominion voting systems of any wrongdoing in the 2020 presidential election, despite a recent forensic audit that may indicate otherwise. Bridge Michigan reporter Jonathan Oosting made the announcement of Shirkey’s latest betrayal in a Twitter post: Shirkey’s claim that Dominion did nothing wrong comes shortly after a forensic audit of Dominion computers in Antrim County, Mich. reportedly outlined many troubling irregularities. Dominion disputes the validity of the report. Big League Politics reported last week that the Dominion audit in Antrim...

CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Police Department has blocked off several streets downtown after an RV with its engine running was reported to authorities. Police officers are at the scene near the Federal Building on 6th Street to investigate after the RV was reported to them by security.

President Trump is coming under fire by the usual Trump-hating naysayers for issuing pre-Christmas pardons on December 23rd to several of his associates who were caught up in the Russia collusion hoax. They were treated unfairly by the FBI and prosecutors involved in the Mueller investigation. One of the most notable pardons went to Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager who received an overly harsh sentence and even spent some time in solitary confinement for white collar crimes. Another pardon went to Roger J. Stone Jr., a political ally and longtime friend of Trump’s who was arrested following a...

After years of steady decline, the city’s jail population started going up this year. More than 4,700 people were in jail in November, compared to 3,800 at the end of April, based on the latest complete data available from the city. The majority are people who've been accused of a crime but were not able to pay bail while waiting for their cases to play out in court. That’s still much lower than the nearly 7,000 people in jail at the end of 2019. But it’s not what was expected in the year when New York enacted a groundbreaking new...

With unexpectedly cold weather in the forecast and pandemic-related curfews in some places, Florida is about to have a Christmas unlike any other in recent memory, and it may involve falling iguanas. The National Weather Service earlier this week warned that South Florida could experience the coldest Christmas Day in 21 years. Morning lows on Saturday could drop into the low 30s and 40s degrees Fahrenheit, the weather service said. “ Brrr! Much colder temps expected for Christmas," the National Weather Service in Miami tweeted earlier this week. “Falling iguanas are possible."

In a Washington Post editorial published Wednesday, authors Deborah E. Lipstadt and Norman Eisen argue for the radical comparison of challenging recent election results with denying that a Nazi Holocaust, the “best-documented genocide in the world,” ever occurred. The essay, titled “Denying the Holocaust threatens democracy. So does denying the election results,” makes several comparisons while suggesting how to combat such “denial.” Claiming to have “learned the hard way” to take Holocaust denial seriously, the authors state they have “watched with alarm the birth of another powerful disinformation mythology,” referring to the “false conviction pushed by Trump and his enablers”...

Question: at CNN, is there any distinction—whatsoever—between being a "correspondent," which might imply a certain degree of objectivity, and being an unabashed liberal partisan? Apparently not, judging from the comments of prominent CNN "correspondent" Abby Phillip on this morning's New Day. Phillip described the election of Barack Obama as "progress" for America, whereas the election of Donald Trump was "a couple of steps back," with the "pendulum swinging" in the wrong direction. Phillip followed that bit of blatant liberal punditry by describing the prospective election of Kamala Harris as VP as "a thrilling moment." Shades of Chris Matthews' famous thrill...

Link is the schedule ot the tournament. Finland Germany starts in a minute. So far, Slovaks beat the Swiss 1:0

"We . . . see Him who has been made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone" (Heb. 2:9). Jesus Christ is the only One who could recover man’s destiny. The ultimate curse of our lost destiny is death. God warned Adam that if he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would die (Gen. 2:17). In the restored kingdom we will be elevated again over a redeemed earth....

Another Christmas is upon us, and it’s the same old story: in Muslim lands, Christians are oppressed and in constant danger of violent jihad attacks. And in the lands once known as Christendom, jihadis threaten new jihad massacres. And so it was no surprise when International Christian Concern reported Wednesday that “security forces in Pakistan reportedly stopped a major terror attack planned to take place on Christmas Day in Peshawar. In a raid on a house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district, four terrorists, including the leader of a banned militant outfit, were arrested.” Among those arrested was Zakir Afridi, the...

Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept, said the media’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic was the "worst event of media misconduct.” Speaking on Hill.TV’s “Rising,” Greenwald said that the media's coverage of the pandemic was initially geared toward forcing people to stay home, and shaming those who went outside for acting irresponsibly. Greenwald then added that the media shifted its tone around its coverage after the protests against police brutality over the summer following the police killing of George Floyd in May. “Suddenly, it all turned to ‘What these people are doing is noble,’” he said. “And not only do...

Lance Gooden @Lancegooden $33,000,000,000 for democracy in Venezuela. $130,000,000 for democracy in Nepal. $15,000,000 for democracy in Pakistan. $0 and ZERO effort to investigate the massive claims of voter fraud in America that threaten our democracy. That's why I will be OBJECTING on January 6th! 10:52 AM · Dec 23, 2020

In the video clip below from CBS News, we see Anthony Fauci appearing to be vaccinated in his left arm, but when being interviewed about it a short time later he points to his right arm as the place where he is experiencing "injection site soreness". Hmm, if his arm was so sore, you would think he would naturally point to the proper arm, but somehow he does not. All criminals are liars, and when you tell lies it is hard to remember which ones are which. This is exactly what we see on display here. So that begs the...

President Trump has been very selective when using his clemency powers. But whenever he does use them, the left is predictably outraged. When Trump granted a full pardon to former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, they had a collective hissy fit. Never mind the fact that if there was ever a case where there was a miscarriage of justice, it was this one, and the pardon was long overdue when it was granted. Democrats want us to forget that Flynn was set up by the Obama administration and railroaded by the FBI. Simply put, they went after him...

From the early hours of the morning of Thursday, December 24, a series of earthquakes were registered in Puerto Rico from magnitude 2.1 to the most recent at 12 p.m. (Puerto Rico time) of a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 on the Richter scale followed about half an hour later with a 4.7. The Puerto Rico Seismic Network (Red Sísmica) has recorded earth movements in the south since early this morning. None caused a tsunami alert, but island residents have shown concern about the earthquakes that began in December 2019 and have not stopped since then, although they did decrease in...

A judge may force the Trump administration’s Justice Department to schedule the only woman on federal death row’s execution for when after President-elect Biden takes office. US District Court Judge Randolph Moss told lawyers representing Lisa Montgomery and the Justice Department that he was vacating an order from the Bureau of Prisons director rescheduling the execution for Jan. 12. That date was set by Moss in November, after Montgomery’s attorneys contracted coronavirus and asked for an extension in order to file a clemency petition.

A doctor in Northern California has been fired from his job after he co-authored a letter that questioned the science behind his county’s lockdown order. Dr. Michael deBoisblanc was working as the trauma medical director for John Muir Health in Contra Costa County, California, until last Friday, after he questioned the scientific basis for again locking down citizens of the area. KNTV reported that deBoisblanc wrote a letter to the county health director and board of supervisors voicing his concern regarding the continued lockdown policies prior to his dismissal. The former medical director spoke from his own experience as a...