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Minneapolis crowd forces police cruisers away following the killing of an armed felon MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police said a man has died following an exchange of gunfire with a felony suspect during a traffic stop on Wednesday evening. MPD spokesperson John Elder told reporters that officers conducted the traffic stop around 6:15 p.m. near a gas station at 36th Street and Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis. Elder said gunshots were exchanged during the stop and the suspect was wounded. Police said medics on the scene pronounced the man dead. An adult female passenger at the scene was not injured. No officers...

2020 has been a year that none of us will ever forget. We experienced the worst global pandemic in 100 years, we witnessed the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, civil unrest erupted in major cities all over America, and we had one of the wildest presidential elections in our history. Other than that, it was a pretty quiet year. For a few moments, let’s take one more look back at the past 12 months. The following are 20 numbers from 2020 that are almost too crazy to believe…#1 When 2020 began, nobody had ever heard...

Russia is using its vaccine program for soft power diplomacy. On Tuesday, Argentina and Belarus became the first two countries to begin coronavirus vaccinations via the Sputnik V vaccine. Building on the Sputnik V vaccine's momentum, Russia is now claiming it has successfully developed the world's first "antidote" to COVID-19. According to RT News, Russia's Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) announced this week that an experimental drug to combat the virus is the world's first direct-acting antiviral antidote if clinical trials are successful. FMBA head Veronika Skvortsova has claimed that the experimental antidote is more than 99% effective. "This...

"Assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham. Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted" (Heb. 2:16-18). Jesus came to sympathize with us, so He could be our merciful and faithful High Priest. In his letters to...

The NBA is planning to roll out an ambitious aspect of its leaguewide contact tracing program by requiring players and many team staffers to wear sensor devices during all team-organized activities outside of games starting Jan. 7, according to a league memo obtained by ESPN. Only Tier 1 and Tier 2 individuals -- designations outlined in the league's health and safety protocols that include players and specific staff members, such as coaches -- will be required to wear Kinexon SafeZone contact sensor devices on the team plane, the team bus, during practices and to and from the arena or their...

Yesterday Senator Josh Hawley announced that he will object during the Electoral College certification process on Jan 6. He will call for Congress to launch a full investigation of potential fraud and election irregularities and enact election integrity measures. Several House Republicans have previously signaled their intention to do the same. With members of both the House and Senate planning objections, it’ll set off a dramatic scenario requiring a vote in both chambers. Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote in a tweet that the word on Capitol Hill is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may...

SANTA FE, N.M. - Lily Guido was having trouble hearing and she felt warm while talking to her co-worker at a California nursing home. She knew something was wrong. Fearing the coronavirus, Guido, 30, of Santa Rosa, California, didn’t go home to avoid possibly spreading it to her five children, isolating in a hotel room provided for health care workers like her. “They confirmed that I had COVID, and my husband was like, ‘Oh God, what’s going to happen?’” she said last week. “I couldn’t take it. I was in tears. I was in denial.” Out of work, her family’s...

OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON, Sunday, Dec. 30. Another prop of the Old Public Functionary has been knocked from under him. The resignation of Secretary FLOYD yesterday, after an excited Cabinet discussion, running through forty-eight hours, will surprise no one, after what is already known. Yet some details, from reliable authority, may be interesting. It appears that Secretary FLOYD, with the full knowledge and consent of the President, pledged his honor that no change should be made in the position of affairs in Charleston harbor, -- South Carolina giving a pledge to respect all public property in the meantime, -- until...

Sen. Josh Hawley traded sharp words with Walmart’s corporate Twitter account on Wednesday over his contention of the 2020 election results, prompting the superstore giant to apologize to the Missouri Republican. After announcing his intention to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory Wednesday, Walmart’s Twitter account responded, “Go ahead. Get your 2 hour debate. #soreloser,” in a since-deleted tweet. Hawley later shared a screenshot of the tweet, calling out Walmart for what he called “insulting condescension.”

One of the most bizarre features of the alleged COVID-19 ‘global pandemic’ has been the mysterious disappearance of the seasonal flu in medical and public health record keeping. It’s as if the Flu just vanished into thin air after being the most common perennial seasonal respiratory virus.As it turns out, recorded seasonal influenza cases have literally nosedived by 98% across the globe.This improbable phenomenon has led a number of experts to ask, “Has Covid killed off the flu?”“The disappearing act began as Covid-19 rolled in towards the end of our flu season in March. And just how swiftly rates have...

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Yesterday’s round of bombshell testimony before the Georgia legislative committee revealed many things we did not know before. But buried in the slew of evidence demonstrating rampant voter fraud on and after election night was an anecdotal tale that, by itself, proves there was massive voter fraud in Cobb County.Debbie Fisher, who was part of the voter review panel during the general election, revealed major discrepancies and multiple instances of apparent attempts to cover them up. She noted that military ballots were often uniform, unfolded, and overwhelmingly came out in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden. Members of the...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a TV interview Thursday that is was “inevitable” that a new COVID-19 strain, which has ravaged the UK, has appeared in Colorado and California — and predicted its spread in the US. “We predicted it would be, when you have so much of it in the UK, which then spread to other countries in Europe and Canada, it was inevitable that it would be here,” Fauci said on NBC News’ “Today.”

Chief Justice John Roberts has faced many accusations over the years, particularly in the last few weeks as his weak leadership of the Supreme Court has seemed to be the primary roadblock to President Trump correcting the fraudulent 2020 election. He’s been accused of working to block the President’s reelection, of traveling to Epstein Island, and of a few other things. Most of the accusations have been debunked.A new accusation comes from attorney Lin Wood. The famed lawyer who has filed multiple lawsuits challenging the 2020 election has not been shy about sharing conspiracy theories, and this one definitely falls...

I am fully aware of the onslaught of attacks being made against me based on my revelations about Chief Justice John Roberts. Before attacking me, maybe fair-minded people would first ask Roberts to tell the truth.Or ask Jeffrey Epstein. He is alive.— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 31, 2020

Not just foster care providers, but religious groups of all kinds are closely following the case of Fulton v. the City of Philadelphia. Indeed, all those who care about our nation’s children should be.While this case before the U.S. Supreme Court to be decided in 2021 directly concerns the provision of foster care, by placing hypothetical arguments about non-discrimination ahead of the religious freedoms ensconced in the First Amendment — and ahead of children’s actual needs — the broader ramifications of the case threaten to force religion further from the public sphere.In his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2012,...

Illinois U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger may have shown a willingness to publicly criticize President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican.

A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss. Their ethos holds that children shouldn’t have to read stories written in anything other than the present-day vernacular—especially those "in which racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of hate are the norm," as young-adult novelist Padma Venkatraman writes in School Library Journal. No author is valuable enough to spare, Ms. Venkatraman instructs: "Absolving Shakespeare of responsibility by mentioning that he lived...

.. MORDECAI, H E R O A N D G O A T . ESTHER 2 - 4 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . C L I C K : To read ESTHER 2-4 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it HIGHLY recommended by Maudeen! To see an ANIMATION of Esther 4 8 3 B. C. . CHAPTER 2 19 When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate. 20 But Esther had kept secret her family background and...

Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) on Wednesday slammed Republicans, including President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, for challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election. According to Duncan, those who question the results are partaking in a "misinformation" campaign – and that could have a detrimental impact on the Georgia runoff elections slated for next week."The part that I think really hurts us here in Georgia for our January 5th runoff is to have conversations about misinformation," Duncan told Fox News host Sandra Smith. "It's to have folks like Rudy Giuliani walking around the Georgia capital today, just...