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The bipartisan relief bill includes $55 million to help small businesses that have been affected by COVID-19. Grants of up to $20,000 will be available to Michigan small businesses that need support this winter, the state announced. The relief bill also includes $3.5 million for grants of up to $40,000 each for live music and entertainment venues, according to Whitmer.

The FBI has joined a criminal investigation of what police said appears to be an "intentional attack" on gas service lines in Aspen, Colorado, that left thousands of residents and businesses without heat as temperatures in the skiing mecca plunged to near zero degrees. Work crews are scrambling to restore gas service, and local authorities handed out electric space heaters to residents still without heat Tuesday, as a storm is forecast to bring up to 8 inches of snow in the Rocky Mountains region this week. Temperatures are forecast to fall to 2 degrees in Aspen on Tuesday night, according...

I believe this in-your-face, obvious presidential election fraud is America's Waterloo. It doesn't seem so because no army is invading our shores. There are no trumpets or gunshots or the usual noise of war. Yet here we are, on the precipice of losing our country, Constitution and our freedom. There really is no going back. Any election can be stolen with impunity if we don't have a backbone. Everyone knows there was massive fraud even if half the country won't admit it. The Marxists and their agitators and rioters are working feverishly as are their allies in the media. The...

The second stimulus bill was signed into law over the weekend, offering cash for many Americans hit by the pandemic, extended unemployment benefits and a quarter-trillion dollar Paycheck Protection Program. For some businesses, it will be a lifeline to keep them afloat. For others, it is too little, too late. Primo’s Pizza in Danville invested a lot in outdoor dining and was a huge hit for a while…but now its outdoor venue is closed down. And because he had one good quarter, owner Drew Nichols isn’t sure he will even qualify for relief. “That feels miserable, because we did everything...

At least six people died after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked parts of central Croatia on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said on Twitter. The ministry confirmed the deaths of a girl in the town of Petrinja, where the tremor caused widespread damage, and five men in the village of Majske Poljane. At least 26 people have been injured, six seriously, it added. "We are doing everything we can to help the citizens of Petrinja and surrounding areas in this dramatic and tragic situation," Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said in a tweet. "The destructive earthquake has taken human lives, destroyed homes,...

Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax said gatherings, like those at Thanksgiving attributed to fueling the current surge in cases, would result in thousands more people in city hospitals and hundreds more deaths. “I cannot emphasize enough how catastrophic it will be if people celebrate in ways that we normally do for New Year’s Eve,” Colfax said at Tuesday’s briefing. “There is more virus out there than ever before. We simply can’t get away with things you may have been able to get away even with in prior surges..." Hospitalizations continue to remain at record highs, with almost 200 people...

Many rifles may fall into the “Long Range Sniper Weapon” category, but in the case of the C15 (or, the Canadian Army’s designation for the McMillan TAC-50) it has the distinction of being a deadly firearm. And it didn’t just set the record for the longest kill with a rifle; the C15 was used on three separate occasions to set that record over a 15-year time span.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduces competing bill for $2K stimulus checks. It would also repeal Section 230 and set up commission to study voter fraud.

“A U.S. attorney who opened an investigation prior to the 2020 election into improperly discarded military ballots in Pennsylvania announced his resignation on Tuesday.”

School teachers and district employees preparing San Francisco public schools for reopening will be provided with COVID testing in the days leading up to a reopening date which has now on hold. According to the city, the program will prioritize SFUSD staff who work at the schools opening for in-person learning in the first phase of SFUSD’s rollout plan. The target date of January 25th to begin returning small cohorts will not be met...

Both Republican Georgia senators endorsed President Trump's push for $2,000 coronavirus stimulus checks, with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., looking to stall the Senate until it votes on the bigger payments...

President Trump’s signature Sunday on the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding bill started a 180 day countdown for the Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they know about UFOs. The provision received very little attention in part because it wasn’t included in the text of the 5,593 page legislation, but as a “committee comment” attached to the annual intelligence authorization act, which was rolled into the massive bill. The Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), said in the comment it “directs the [director of national intelligence], in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and...

In his Twitter thread, Jha first noted that Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said in October that the US would be prepared to have 100 million doses of the vaccine ready to ship by December, and that Azar later reduced that number to 40 million. Jha pointed out that Operation Warp Speed, the White House effort centered around the vaccine, had further reduced the estimate, saying there would be 20 million doses ready by the end of this year. While the specifics of how vaccines are distributed is up to states, the Centers for Disease Control and...

Trumpy Bear says Mitch McConnell is too compromised to lead the Senate. McConnell's wife is Elaine Chao whose family owns a Chinese shipping company. The ships are made by the Chinese, staffed buy the Chinese and managed by the Chinese. McConnell will have to support the Chinese or they an take that family company out. Also, McConnell is telling the Senators not to reject the rigged electoral college that aims to put China Joe Biden in office. McConnell couldn't wait to congratulate Joe Biden on his rigged election win. We have some good candidates for Majority Leader in the Senate....

Count me among the Pollyannas who was sure that when the election was done the pandemic would be “done,” too. November 4 would dawn bright and clear, the thunderheads of contagion looming on the horizon dissipated by a dry air mass of political reality. And I was not alone. None other than President Trump was with me, as were pols and pundits across the conservative landscape who speculated that the draconian restrictions on liberty were as much a political tactic employed by the Left as they were a public prophylactic against viral pestilence. If Biden won, the Democrats would stumble...

My letter follows. Please contact Cornyn & Cruz and let them know who their boss is! I expect our elected leaders to follow the Constitution! Just because Mitch McConnell doesn't agree with the republican voters of Texas, we fully expect you to represent US instead of the establishment. I strongly urge you to join with a few other brave congressmen and object to the corrupt elections that the courts haven't the courage to address. Texans are strong and expect strength from our leadership. We will remember your actions on this critical issue.

Health experts are weighing in after a local nurse tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving the Pfizer vaccine. In a Facebook message posted on December 18, Matthew W., an ER nurse at at two different local hospitals, talked about receiving the Pfizer vaccine that day. He told ABC 10News his arm was sore for a day but he suffered no other side effects. Six days later on Christmas Eve -- after working a shift in the COVID-19 unit -- Matthew, 45, became sick. He got the chills and later came down with muscle aches and fatigue....

<p>PETRINJA, Croatia (AP) — A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, destroying buildings and sending panicked people fleeing into rubble-covered streets in a town southeast of the capital. Authorities said at least seven people were killed and dozens were injured.</p>

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In Pennsylvania, a certified public accountant is claiming that the number of ballots is 202,377 bigger than the number of people who actually votedhttps://wjactv.com/news/local/pa-republican-lawmakers-analysis-finds-presidential-election-numbers-dont-add-upPA Republican lawmakers: Analysis finds presidential election numbers don’t add upDecember 28, 2020HARRISBURG, Pa. (WJAC) — A group of Republican lawmakers say they’ve performed an extensive analysis of election day data and they’ve found “troubling” discrepancies.According to State Rep. Frank Ryan (R-Lebanon), 17 lawmakers sponsored and participated in the analysis.Ryan, who is a certified public accountant, says they discovered discrepancies between the numbers of total votes counted and total number of voters who voted in the 2020...