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Wolves, grizzly bears, and other wildlife can be hunted on private inholdings in Grand Teton National Park, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Elk on private lands within Grand Teton National Park can be hunted, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed/NPS file The ruling stemmed from a National Park Service decision in 2014 that its wildlife regulations did not apply to 2,300 acres of privately or state-owned land inside the park that hugs Wyoming's western border. Among the organizations challenging that interpretation were the National Parks Conservation Association and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, which...

San Francisco’s stay-at-home order, which was tentatively expected to lift as of January 7 2021, has been extended “indefinitely,” Mayor London Breed and Director of Health Dr. Grant Colfax announced ThursdaySan Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management on December 31, the officials wrote that “due to ongoing regional ICU capacity limitations and continuing increase of cases, San Francisco does not expect the Bay Area will meet the State’s thresholds for lifting the order” by January 7.Even after the region’s ICU bed numbers allow the stay-at-home order to be lifted, the city might still be shut down, Breed and Colfax say. “Once...

See page 1074 of 2124. ‘‘American Innovation and Manufacturing Act of 2020’’ H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021116th Congress (2019-2020) httpsa://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr133/BILLS-116hr133enr.pdf

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA announced Monday that all 67 men’s basketball tournament games including the Final Four will be played entirely in Indiana in a bid to keep the marquee event from being called off for a second consecutive year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Games will be played one at a time on two courts inside Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts. They will also be held at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indiana Farmers Coliseum, Mackey Arena at Purdue, and Assembly Hall in Bloomington.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday is slated to hold a press conference in Atlanta. The event is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. EST. Watch at: https://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/532542-watch-live-georgia-secretary-of-state-holds-press-briefing \

U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak resigned his position Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. In October 2017, Pak was sworn into the office. He previously served as an assistant U.S. Attorney from 2002 to 2008 and in the Georgia General Assembly as a state representative from January 2011 to January 2017. Pak’s office offered no further comment about the resignation.

Record-breaking coronavirus rates can’t stop these partiers from continuing to rage. Despite surging COVID-19 cases, Florida beaches were packed with maskless revelers over New Year’s weekend. Photos of Fort Lauderdale Beach show nary a face covering and many a bikini as people continued to party despite the ongoing pandemic. On Jan. 3 at Miami’s Fontainebleau pool area, heavy daytime partying was photographed despite the state’s coronavirus dashboard reporting another 10,603 cases that day — the fifth consecutive day it reported more than 10,000 cases.

My wife and I had just recently finished reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I must have been subconsciously dreaming about that book last night when I was awakened from my slumber by a ringing phone. I answered the call and an eerie, mournful, voice on the line said, “You will be visited tonight by two ghosts-the Ghost of Christmas Past and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.” I replied, “Hey, I thought that there were supposed to be 3 ghosts.” The unknown caller sighed and said, “You get two ghosts-deal with it,” and hung up. I went...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C.’s mayor urged calm Monday as some 340 National Guard troops were being activated while the city prepared for potentially violent protests surrounding Congress’ expected vote to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. According to a U.S. defense official, Mayor Muriel Bowser put in a request on New Year’s Eve to have Guard members on the streets from Jan. 5-7th, to help with the protests. The official said the D.C. National Guard members will be used for traffic control and other assistance but they will not be armed or wearing body armor. Congress is meeting this week...

Inventor Jovan Pulitzer was the star of the show last week when he testified before Georgia lawmakers. On Wednesday during his live testimony before the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections, Pulitzer remotely accessed a Dominion Voting Machine — LIVE during his testimony. Pulitzer confirmed that the Georgia runoff IS connected to the internet. He established a two-way communication from a polling pad in a voting center. Pulitzer also suggested all absentee ballots in the state of Georgia be forensically examined and fraudulent ones identified in just a matter of hours. He called on state officials to allow the examination....

Throughout the last year, there’s been a great deal of rancor related to Chinese-owned tech companies that do business in the United States. The Trump administration spent the better part of 2020 attempting to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok. The U.S. government has also devoted energies in recent years to cracking down on Chinese-made smartphone manufacturers Huawei and ZTE, with the FCC, last summer, declaring both companies threats to national security. More recently, security researchers discovered what they described as a “Chinese backdoor” in TCL’s Android TVs that are sold in the United States. The acting secretary of homeland security, Chad...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promised Sunday to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice during the new congressional term. Pelosi delivered her speech after the House of Representatives elected her to lead the House; however, Pelosi enters the 117th with a slimmer majority, giving her less leverage against House Republicans. Further, Pelosi reportedly failed to secure a majority of House representatives to vote for her for Speaker. To build back better in a way that advances justices in America. Indeed the pandemic has pulled back the curtain on and showing and even worsened the disparities in our society. We must...

Today’s ongoing Democrat/media-created uproar about yet another completely appropriate conversation President Trump conducted in December with the utterly corrupt Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffernsperger shows that those on the left are much more worried about the President ultimately prevailing in his challenges to the clearly fraudulent election results than they pretend to be. Some of the more extreme leftists, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are already claiming that the call, in which the President clearly urges the worthless Raffensperger to look for the needed number of fraudulent votes to overturn the fraudulent vote count, somehow constitute grounds for impeachment, a la...

Even as he didn't outline what his Covid mitigation measures will be, Governor Pedro Pierluisi affirmed that curfews are an assault on individual liberties. In spite of this, the Executive stated that some of the ex-Governor's measures to mitigate the spread of the virus could remain, albeit with modifications. "What I want is not what's important, but my instinct would be to eliminate the curfews, because, as you know, the virus is with us 24/7. It's not like the virus only comes out after 9:00 PM. My instinct is that the people should always keep their freedom of movement and...

One of the US’s top gay circuit party organisers has fielded intense criticism for holding a New Year’s bash in Mexico, leapfrogging over a state’s coronavirus restrictions to do so even as cases nationwide rocket. Jeffrey Sanker is the founder of White Party Enterainment Inc, which hosts, among others, the largest circuit party in the US in Palm Springs, California. While Sanker postponed the Palm Springs bash, he went ahead with days-long event WP Unity, held from Wednesday (30 December) to Friday (1 January), alongside a Sunday (3 January) beach party in Mexico, its Eventbrite page said. But in doing...

As states around the country are working to distribute and administer doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, some governors are handling the responsibility better than others. While states such as West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Dakota top the charts for administering vaccines, ranking above a rate of 2,700 vaccinations per 100,000 people, other states such as California and New York are dragging their feet on implementation...

I got this response from Rob Portman. I had e mailed him to askhim to support the President: Dear xxxxx (my name) Thank you for contacting me regarding the 2020 Presidential Election. It is good to hear from you and I appreciate the opportunity to engage with you. The U.S. presidential election was held on November 3, 2020. With historic turnout across the board, it is clear that the American people were fully engaged in this election. The strong turnout for both candidates and both parties is a healthy sign for our democracy. Along with more than 71 million Americans,...

This guy videos a near empty hospital in Maryland. https://twitter.com/silver_fox9/status/1346161209024811011

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she is putting Scotland into full lockdown, with schools closed and the public required to stay in their homes. “I can confirm now in summary that we have decided to introduce from midnight tonight for the duration of January a legal requirement to stay at home except for essential purposes,” said Sturgeon, who leads the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) in comments to Scotland’s devolved parliament — roughly equivalent to a state legislature in the United States.

SUGAR HILL, Georgia — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) described the upcoming Senate runoff election as a “turnout election,” saying Sunday after a campaign event that the election outcome boils down to whether Republicans will show up to the polls January 5. Cruz, speaking to reporters after giving an impassioned speech at the final stop of Club for Growth Action’s “Save America Tour” Sunday afternoon at the Bowl at Sugar Hill, said that given the expectedly strong early voting numbers in counties that typically favor Democrats, “it all comes down to turnout” on election day on Tuesday.