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ATLANTA — Phil Niekro threw a pitch that baffled hitters and catchers. Heck, he didn’t even know where it was going most of the time. But the knuckleball carried Niekro to more than 300 wins, earned him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame and left him with a nickname that stuck for the rest of his life...Knucksie. The longtime stalwart of the Atlanta Braves rotation died after a long fight with cancer, the team announced Sunday, becoming the seventh member of the Hall of Fame to pass away in 2020. He was 81. Niekro won 318 games over...

[Takes a deep breath.] Kit Kat fans of America, I have some sad news for you. There will be no new Hershey’s Kit Kat flavors for Valentine’s Day and Easter this year. I repeat: no new Kit Kats for Valentine’s Day and Easter. Instead Hershey’s will be re-releasing Raspberry Crème in January and Lemon Crisp in March. So if you didn’t manage to snag either one of those this past year, now is your chance! However, I must admit, statistics show that Reese’s fans far outnumber Kit Kat fans. Or at least Reese’s product sales routinely outpace every other division...

We have a request for President Trump. We ask you to join us and inventor Jovan Pulitzer in our request to allow Jovan to audit the ballots and images from the 2020 election in select states. We believe the future of this country depends on this request, which is well within all our rights, to be accepted and ordered by you, President Trump. President Donald J. Trump please accept our request. We ask you to please write an Executive Order mandating that the ballots and images in select states be audited and reviewed for fraud by Jovan Pulitzer. We first...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lauded President Donald Trump for moving to sign the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government spending bill, but made no mention of the president’s demands, such as raising direct payments to $2,000. “I applaud President Trump’s decision to get hundreds of billions of dollars of crucial COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] relief out the door and into the hands of American families as quickly as possible,” McConnell said in a statement:

Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria Baldwin is responding to accusations she faked her Spanish accent and lied about her heritage for years. The Daily Beast reports a Twitter user named @lenibriscoe shared a long thread raising questions about Hilaria, who claimed she was born in Mallorca, Spain, and has given Spanish names to her five children with Baldwin (Carmen, Rafael Thomas, Leonardo Angel Charles, Romeo Alejandro David and Eduardo Pau Lucas). Tweets include footage of Hilaria’s accent fluctuating, including when she said she couldn’t remember the English word for “cucumber” during a “Today” show appearance, and evidence (including her yearbook and...

Vice President Pence was sued Sunday by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and several other Republicans in a far-fetched bid that appeared aimed at overturning President-elect Joe Biden's election win. The lawsuit focuses on Pence’s role in an upcoming Jan. 6 meeting of Congress to count states’ electoral votes and finalize Biden’s victory over President Trump. Typically, the vice president’s role in presiding over the meeting is a largely ceremonial one governed by an 1887 federal law known as the Electoral Count Act. But the Republican lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, asks a...

As we approach the final days of 2020 and many of us across the country are now hunkering down to stay warm amid cooler temperatures, I thought we’d take a look this week at sourcing activity for something a little different – cozy clothing. Sourcing for sweatshirts, sweatpants, and sweatsuits on the Thomasnet.com platform is up 379% year-over-year and has grown 230% over last quarter averages. In a relatedly comfortable category, searches for pajamas are up 162% year-over-year and up 90% over Q3 figures. The growing interest in these clothing options doesn’t necessarily come as a surprise. In 2018, the...

The study recruited the first participant in the world to the study earlier this month and has recruited 10 participants since then Scientists in the UK have begun trials of innovative antibody drug treatments that they hope could provide instant protection against COVID-19. The University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH) said that the researchers in the Storm Chase study believe a Long Acting AntiBody (LAAB) known as AZD7442, developed by AstraZeneca, may offer immediate and long-term protection to people who have been recently exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and prevent them developing COVID-19. The study, led by UCLH virologist...

I have always wanted to have a way of helping people. I feel that sharing Jesus in a way that takes Him out of rigid religion and that brings Him to the very heart of people is needed. Mary and Martha were Jesus's friends. Their brother Lazarus died. Jesus was heading their way, but in His own time. When Mary came out to see Jesus, she said, “Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died”. Jesus wept, the smallest verse in the bible had the greatest impact on me. The people who raised me told me...

(Thoughts from the UK...) The country this year which has been most ravaged by Covid-19 – losing a shocking 1,600 people in every million to the virus at the time of writing – is Belgium. That might come as something of a surprise. You could be forgiven for thinking it was America, thanks to Trump’s alleged ignorance of science. Or what about Britain, which locked down ‘too late’ because of its government’s short-lived but foolish belief in freedom? Or Brazil, whose right-wing leader complained that lockdowns and masks were for ‘fags’? If not those, then surely Sweden, where there has...

Finally, Bagel Bites is branching out by expanding its product line, as part of a humorous attempt to transform its miniature frozen pizza bagels into a sad snack. Bagels Bites, a brand known to hungry kids and hungover adults alike, is releasing a special "2020 Edition," which basically amounts to a box filled with "just a bunch of sad looking Bagel Bites," according to a press release. The "Bagel Bites: 2020 Edition" comes with an "assortment of lackluster pizza snacks" — again, a big change from the brand’s typical frozen offerings. The array of over-sauced, under-cheesed and just plain bagel...

CDMedia has begun to release information from a well-placed White House source on foreign interference in the Nov 3rd U.S. general election. The first release regarded the Nevada Secretory of State sending voter information to Pakistani intelligence services. Learn more about RevenueStripe... The second release is below, which show Dominion sent ballots for adjudication to 4 countries on election night – primarily Frankfurt, Germany. ——————————————— The Dominion Voting system is owned and controlled by foreign entities. We lose control of the data when it goes to a foreign country. o The electronic information went to Germany, Barcelona, Serbia, and Canada...

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Former President Barack Obama defended his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as Georgia Senate hopeful Rev. Raphael Warnock faces scrutiny for his defense of the controversial religious leader. The 44th commander-in-chief made the remarks during a wide-ranging interview with “The Breakfast Club” radio program Wednesday while promoting part one of his memoir “A Promised Land,” released earlier this month. Cohost Angela Yee asked Obama if he thought he would have had to distance himself from the reverend in today’s political climate versus during the 2008 presidential election. “Rev. Wright is an example of somebody who — supremely gifted preacher. Trinity...

Professor Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist who played a key role in convincing the British government to adopt lockdowns, revealed that the country’s lockdowns were meant to emulate those carried out by the Chinese Communist Party – modeled to strip civil liberties and exert authoritarian control over citizens. In Ferguson’s recent interview with The Times, he revealed that lockdowns he championed as part of Britain’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) Board, were rooted in those carried out by the Chinese Communist Party. Dubbed “Professor Lockdown” by many for his contributions to swaying the British government to adopt stringent lockdown measures,...

Hilaria Baldwin and her husband, Alec Baldwin, defended her identity on social media after it was revealed she was born in Boston, Mass., not Spain, as she had previously claimed. The 36-year-old yoga/wellness expert reacted to a tweet over the weekend, which said, "You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person." The tweet has since been deleted. Hilaria Baldwin has claimed she was born in Mallorca, Spain, and raised in Boston. She explained on a podcast in April 2020, "I moved here [to America] when I was 19 to go...

Carmakers will increasingly find themselves in a race to shut, switch or sell factories producing vehicles with internal combustion engines to avoid being left with “stranded assets”, as regulators set a course for a decade of electrification to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Traditional manufacturers are currently playing a “zero sum game” because growth in electric car sales eats into the value of internal combustion engine factories, which “are effectively stranded assets”, a leading analyst has warned. Philippe Houchois, an analyst at Jefferies, an investment bank, said carmakers’ share prices will be in large part dependent on their ability to avoid...

Today is Christmas. It is, though, a very different sort of Christmas. Nine months after the world spun off of its axis and the COVID Internment of America (and much of the world) began, Doctor-In-Chief Anthony Fauci has made his pronouncement as to how Americans are to celebrate this holiday. In a word, they aren’t. Fauci the Infallible, the ever-unimpeachable Fauci, the Good Doctor par excellence has spoken. Fauci refuses to see his family this Christmas—and so too should you. What should you to say to those of your loved ones who remain so selfish, so benighted, as to...

"Bridgerton,” the new series based on Julia Quinn’s romance novels and developed by hitmaker Shonda Rhimes and showrunner Chris Van Dusen for Netflix, is a Christmas cookie of a show — a sugary, sparkly treat that serves as a comfort in a grim winter. And in integrating the predominantly White world of romance novels by making some of Quinn’s characters Black, the show inadvertently provides a useful lesson for an entertainment industry struggling to meet viewers’ demands and corporate mandates for more diverse programming.

A video recorded in Jacksonville, N.C. appears to show the manager of an AMC movie theater refusing to allow a reportedly disabled child from entering the theater without a mask, and calling the police to escort her distraught family from the scene. The child, who was in a stroller at the time of the incident, is reportedly non-verbal and has a condition that precludes her use of a mask or face shield. The child's family members were all wearing masks. Police officers were ultimately asked to escort the upset family from the theater. The Jacksonville, S.C. Police Department and the...