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A former Texas state Senate candidate claims she was “gagged, bound [and] tortured” in a hotel — and three people have been arrested in connection with the assault. Vanessa Tijerina, a Republican who lost in the November election, said she received a call about meeting to discuss “something very important regarding her safety” at a Texas Inn in Raymondville, news station KVEO reported. “They made it seem like they had something really, really important to tell me and they couldn’t tell me on the phone,” Tijerina, 42, said in a tearful Facebook Live video. Instead, she was beaten to a...

Vice President Mike Pence was set to travel overseas for the first time during the Covid pandemic just hours after presiding over the congressional session where should be declared the winner in the presidential election. Pence was planned to depart on Jan. 6 for a trip that will include stops in Bahrain, Israel, and Poland, according to a government document obtained by NBC News, and remain abroad through Jan. 11. Well, that trip is canceled. A planned visit to Israel by US Vice President Mike Pence was called off less than two weeks before he was due to arrive, the...

A couple of weeks ago it was reported that the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that over 200,000 Biden voters were illegitimate. This obviously places this state in favor of Trump. Will this be reflected on January 6th? The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed with the President’s position on indefinitely confined cases. They ruled in favor of Mark Jefferson and the Republican Party of Wisconsin. But the court noted that a determination must be made in every case before tossing a ballot, as President Trump has sought in a separate lawsuit. Under Wisconsin law, a voter may receive a ballot by mail...

QUINCY (CBS) – It started with lasagna dinners for friends, mostly restaurant workers, who lost their jobs due to the pandemic. When Nicky Bandera started Project Paulie on March 24, she originally thought she would make 20 lasagna dinners. She was far off. Nine months later, she’s helped distribute 2,500 meals to those in need. “My family owns an Italian deli on Cape Cod. I kind of grew up whenever there were issues you would bring people food,” Bandera said. “We were making them all out of our house,” she said. “We were waking up at 5 o’clock in the...

Fish and hydrocorals. (University of Edinburgh) ================================================================ It's taken nearly five years, 45 research expeditions, and more than 80 scientists and students, but the largest oceanic research enterprise, the ATLAS project, is officially complete. Exploring 12 locations in the deep northern Atlantic, the project has set a gold standard for future marine research. Driving underwater robots to areas never before explored, researchers have uncovered a dozen newly identified species, including fish, cold-water coral and other invertebrate sponge species. Not to mention the discovery of 35 known species in previously unknown areas. Already, the results have produced 113 peer-reviewed papers, with...

Bishop Strickland triples down on opposition to abortion-tainted vaccinesWe have 'to live the truth that Jesus Christ has revealed to us.' December 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Joseph Strickland has once again spoken out against abortion-tainted vaccines in this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show.Besides highlighting the immorality and anti-Catholicism of vaccines linked to aborted baby cells, Bishop Strickland also addressed other concerns regarding the coronavirus, including mandatory vaccine laws.“I would encourage people to resist any forcing of receiving these vaccines,” Bishop Strickland said. “We need to look at all the sides of the issue and make a well-informed...

President Trump has always put his personal interests above nearly everything else, and Republicans are paying the political price. Mr. Trump lost his re-election bid to Joe Biden, and now he may cost Republicans the Senate too. Mr. Trump lost his re-election bid even as Republicans did better down-ballot because more voters liked his policies than liked him. The President hewed to a largely conservative agenda as long as he needed to maintain GOP support. But now that he’ll soon leave Washington, he’s throwing that over to punish Republicans and anyone else who refuses to indulge his fantasies about overturning...

Sir Paul McCartney has claimed he's been talking to George Harrison, as he believes his late friend's spirit has inhabited a tree at his home. The music icon, 78, made the candid confession while appearing on NPR earlier this month, and said his fellow Beatles member, who passed away in 2001 from lung cancer, had given him the fir tree as a gift. He explained: 'George was very into horticulture, a really good gardener, so he gave me a tree as a present. It's a big fir tree and it's by my gate.'As I was leaving my house this morning,...

Scientists are scrambling to determine if the Chinese coronavirus’s new variant will worsen the pandemic. Health officials documented the first case in the U.S. in Colorado, the state’s Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. In Los Angeles, public health officials are concerned the mutant strain may already be fueling a surge in infections there. Despite implementing the strictest lockdown and mask mandates in the country, California, the most populous state in America, is now the epicenter for the worst coronavirus spread in the United States, overwhelming hospitals and killing more people each day.

Even during the COVID-19 pandemic and darkest days of 2020, Americans proved their benevolence and generosity in ways the government never could.Two-thousand and twenty is a year most Americans are in a hurry to forget. From a chaotic political atmosphere to uncontrolled riots and violence across the country, to a pandemic that revealed the worst instincts in our politicians, the year seemed to resemble a horror-house of our worst fears.Because of all we’ve been through, most people would just as soon get on with ending this year of chaos, mobs, and quarantines and get on with the business of believing...

Close coordination between Israel and Qatar to facilitate sufficient funding for Hamas to keep Gaza’s economy from collapsing will likely be the key to moving Doha to a normalization deal. Relationships developed between Israel and Qatar to provide sufficient funding to Hamas and avoid an economic collapse and war in the Gaza Strip could be the engine for normalization between Jerusalem and Doha, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Pressed that in November, Qatar rejected any imminent normalization with Israel, sources told the Post confidently that this would likely change during the incoming Biden administration’s term. Ironically, even as Hamas is...

“The Covid-19 Pandemic” ……. is it real? Some people stepped in to help right away! Let's think about it…..(well of course that would go against the MSM and the social media platforms like Face Book, Twitter, Google, YouTube, etc.) Miss-handlers or pushers of the fraud? Things went wrong and questions arose in the events in New York City early on. A tragedy was occurring with the need for hospital rooms and more nursing staff and equipment. President Trump responded with moving a Navy medical ship – The USS. Comfort with 1200 crew members up to Pier 90 in Manhattan, New...

O.J. Simpson is something of a notorious figure. As such, it should come as no surprise that the one-time NFL legend has his fair share of detractors. What is a bit surprising is why some folks are hating on Simpson this week. On December 25, the retired running back tweeted out a photo of himself with a ‘Merry Christmas’ caption. Harmless enough, right? Not in the eyes of some on Twitter. They noticed something in the background of his picture that left them absolutely livid.

EU member states gave political backing to Brussels’ planned investment pact with China on Monday, clearing the way for a deal between the world’s biggest economic blocs. At a meeting of ambassadors, the German EU presidency noted that no member had “raised a stop sign and the way for a political endorsement was thus cleared.” The diplomats noted “recent positive developments” in negotiations, with China reportedly addressing concerns over the alleged use of forced labour on its farms. This came after the Chinese foreign ministry said last week that “negotiations have entered the final stretch” — and a second EU...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is urging film and TV productions in the area to shut down as fears of another coronavirus surge wash over the state. “Although music, TV and film productions are allowed to operate,” the health department said according to Deadline, “we ask you to strongly consider pausing work for a few weeks during this catastrophic surge in Covid cases. Identify and delay higher risk activities, and focus on lower-risk work for now, if at all possible."

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said Wednesday he will object on Jan. 6 to certification of the Electoral College’s selection of President-elect Joe Biden.

The US military flew nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Middle East Wednesday "to underscore the US military's commitment to regional security and demonstrate a unique ability to rapidly deploy overwhelming combat power on short notice," according to a statement from US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the region. The bombers were sent from the US. The flight comes amid ongoing tensions with Iran and Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, as well as concerns that Iran may seek to retaliate against US interests to mark the one-year anniversary of the drone strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, Iran's second most...

Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) discussed why he is “strongly opposed” to increase the coronavirus stimulus checks to individuals from $600 to $2,000. Congress initially agreed on a $600 payout, but President Donald Trump has been fighting for the checks to be $2,000. Toomey said the economy “is in such a completely different place today” than in March when the CARES Act sent out $1,200 to individuals was passed. He noted that there was “33 percent economic growth in the third quarter,” so it is “not the same situation” as it was in the early stages...

Boston Dynamics is dancing into the new year. The Waltham company released a carefully coordinated dance routine featuring their Atlas, Spot and Handle robots. Earlier this month, the Hyundai Motor Group reached a $1.1 billion deal to buy a controlling interest in Boston Dynamics.

Dr. Fauci, the media darling of the Covid pandemic, is nothing more than a liar and politically-minded bureaucrat. He acts like he is trying to save America, yet all he does is bend to the political winds of the time. When lockdowns are popular, he supports them. If they fall from grace, he cautions against them. He was against masks, then he wasn’t. He set one number for herd immunity, then he changed it. Every statement he has made he has gone back on, and often he changes his mind multiple times! But the worst instances of that flip-flopping are...