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Macy’s is closing its flagship store in Water Tower Place, creating a huge vacancy on the Magnificent Mile during an already challenging time for retail landlords. The 170,000-square-foot store in the North Michigan Avenue vertical mall will close after a clearance sale that starts this month and will run for 8 to 12 weeks, Macy’s said Tuesday. “After careful consideration, Macy’s has decided to close our Water Tower Place location,” Macy’s said in a statement. “This closure is part of the company’s strategy to right-size its store fleet, announced in early 2020. The decision to close a store is always...

Vernon Jones @RepVernonJones Moments ago, I announced that I am officially joining the Republican Party. Now more than ever, the Republican Party is in desperate need of leaders that know how to fight. I know how to fight. 10:09 AM · Jan 6, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

The incident in the video below occurred on an American Airlines flight from Charlotte to DC. Looks like we have taken the next logical step from mandating masks to mandating liking masks and refraining from making jokes about them — unless it was her Trump hat that got this lady tossed off the plane: =============================================================== Trump supporter just got kicked off my flight to Washington DC. #stopthesteal She made a joke about wearing a mask so they kicked her off. People on the plane begged the flight attendant to leave her alone@AmericanAir Flight 2198 RT!!!#BoycottAmericanAirlines pic.twitter.com/IgwIawSqPX — Terrence K. Williams...

London (CNN Business)The New York Stock Exchange will delist three Chinese telecommunications stocks to comply with an executive order from the Trump administration — its second about-face on the issue this week.

Texas Rep. Jodey Arrington is one of several Republicans who are going to challenge Wednesday's electoral college certification. The Electoral Count Act of 1887 gives lawmakers the right to do so if they believe that votes have been "unlawfully certified" in certain states. Their effort is getting plenty of pushback from Democrats. But in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed by over 40 Republican lawmakers, Arrington reminds her that she too has a history of supporting such objections. "In fact, during the joint session debate of the 2004 presidential election, you yourself characterized Democrats' electoral vote count objections...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has reportedly told his Republican members that they must each make the decision for themselves on whether to object to certifying Electoral College results, and that he “won’t judge anybody for their decision.” The comments came on a recent conference call, Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told Politico.

Hon. Beth Van Dyne: As one of your constituents, I am disappointed that I do not see your name on the list of Representatives that are challenging the fraudulent electoral votes that are scheduled to be cast today. Certainly anyone with an objective look at the illegal voting, fraudulent mail-in ballots, and likely voting machine malfeasance that was employed to overturn the real voice of the American People can see the validity of these claims of fraud. To allow this to stand not only encourages further erosion of the American's trust in the electoral process and undermines true democracy. The...

Evidence and laws have no place in the Swamp. If they did, Hillary Clinton would be in prison. Clapper and Comey would be cellmates and Joe Biden would be pleading the fifth instead of pleading for unity.Instead Biden is set to be officially declared by the U.S. Congress the next President of the United States. Actually that outcome was pre-determined last year when the Democrats decided to use COVID-19 to do what they couldn’t do themselves: Beat Donald Trump. Ignoring the state legislatures and the constitution, they used COVID fear to concoct new election procedures that threw accountability and election...

POTUS about to speak

OBAMA: “I was not in this body four years ago but what I observed as a voter, as a citizen of Illinois, four years ago were troubling evidence of the fact that not every vote was being counted.” UNKNOWN MALE: “Senator from New York.” CLINTON: “Mr. President, this is obviously a difficult debate for many reasons, but I commend the Senator from California for joining with members of the House, most particularly Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones in raising the objection because it does permit us to air some of these issues.” BOXER: “Why did a computing error in Franklin County...

Democrat Raphael Warnock edged ahead of incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Jon Ossoff outpaced incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue in Georgia’s two Senate runoffs — races that determine which party controls the Senate under a Biden administration.Late Tuesday night, Newsmax and partner Decision HQ made the call for Warnock, who, in early-morning remarks, promised he would go to the Senate to work for all of Georgia. ...Newsmax and Decision HQ called the Ossoff-Perdue race for Ossoff early Wednesday after Ossoff's lead widened to more than 16,000 votes.

LOS ANGELES — Ten congressional candidates from California filed a civil action in federal court this week, charging Gov. Gavin Newsom with overseeing an unconstitutional and fraudulent November general election. The complaint, which includes hundreds of sworn eyewitness reports of election code violations, irregularities and fraud, seeks to decertify the 55 electoral votes that the state awarded to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Other named defendants in the suit, filed by the Election Integrity Project-California in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, include Attorney General Xavier Becerra, whom Biden selected for a cabinet post, and Secretary of State Alex...

C-SPAN 2 IS COVERING THE TRUMP RALLY IN FULL (GIULIANI UP NOW 10AM EST)

Much of the world may be in store for particularly intense winter weather in the coming weeks, according to a study just released by a team in the United Kingdom. Researchers report a major meteorological event is occurring high in the sky above the North Pole. This sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event is estimated to occur in early January 2021. What exactly does that mean? The Earth’s stratosphere is a layer of the atmosphere located around six to 30 miles above the ground. Scientists consider an SSW event to be among the most extreme atmospheric phenomena. It usually leads to...

Congratulations #Warnock on the historic win! GOP should have run the real @AnnCoulter not someone who was trying to ridiculously look and sound like her #Loeffler pic.twitter.com/ifPeqmW8cM— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) January 6, 2021

I was cautiously optimistic that the GOP would hold at least one seat in Tuesday’s runoff elections in Georgia. Frankly, I gave the edge to Kelly Loeffler, whose opponent, Raphael Warnock, had been exposed as a far-left radical who supports defunding the police. Heck, while I still don’t believe Joe Biden legitimately won the state of Georgia, I’d believe him winning the Peach State before believing that this reliably red state would vote for the likes of Warnock. Georgia hasn’t voted for a Democrat for president since Bill Clinton in 1992. Not even Barack Obama was able to win the...

Carnival Cruise Line has announced further cancellations, and it now means that no Carnival cruise ships will sail in March. It delays the resumption of operations until April at the very earliest. Carnival Cancels All March Sailings Carnival Cruise Line has announced a new round of cancellations, and the suspension of operations will continue until April 2021. Select ships will also be delayed due to dry dock upgrades. Here is the full list of which ships are delayed and the current situation: All embarkations from U.S. homeports through March 31, 2021 Carnival Freedom from Galveston through April 10, 2021 (which...

An El Paso-Juárez border bridge was blocked Tuesday overnight when a huge group of Cubans and other migrants tired of waiting in Mexico showed stormed into the United States. Some left-leaning media reported that there were only 100 immigrants and they didn’t report about Biden’s chants. Almost lost in the distractions of the holiday weekend, on the night of December 29 up to 400 mostly Cuban migrants forced their way past Mexican immigration and overpayment turnstiles on the Paso del Norte Bridge from Ciudad Juarez with a desire to force their way into downtown El Paso, Texas, according to news...

Wednesday, MSNBC host Al Sharpton congratulated Raphael Warnock for his Senate runoff win over incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA). Sharpton, during “Morning Joe,” praised Warnock, telling him he has “always been a healing person.” “First of all, congratulations, reverend. I can attest to the fact that you have always been a healing person,” Sharpton told Warnock. “I talk to you all the time about the picture where you and I were at your church with Dr. King’s sister the night Obama won and we had that picture where you allowed National Action Network to have that rally that night.”

As newly re-elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looks forward to the Democrats slim chances of retaining the House again in 2022, she’s using her most powerful weapon as speaker. The move comes with majority influence over the House Rules Committee to weaken the power of Republicans who make up the chamber’s minority. On Monday, Democrat House Rules Committee chairman Jim McGovern and Speaker Pelosi watched as the House passed the new rules package for the 117th Congress. The bill passed in a 217-to-206 vote and has taken heavy criticism from Republican lawmakers, who have gone so as far as to...