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Mayor London Breed brought together San Francisco’s top law enforcement officials Tuesday in an attempt to reassure residents that the city is committed to keeping the public safe in the wake of violent street attacks that left two elderly men dead.

TOPLINE Some senior Democratic officials are open to setting an income limit of $50,000 for the next round of stimulus checks, according to The Washington Post, as Democrats try to shore up support from those like West Virginia Sen. Joe Machin (D) to help push through President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package.

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - When Saskatchewan nearly went bankrupt in the 1990s, there was a joke told repeatedly in the province, according to economist Jason Childs: “What do you get your kids for graduation? Luggage.” The financial problems of the prairie province in the early 1990s are playing out today in Newfoundland and Labrador, but experts say the issue is not getting enough attention during the election campaign, which is almost halfway done. Ottawa eventually bailed out Saskatchewan — after that province dropped an austerity budget that included rural hospital closures and service cuts, leading to some small towns emptying...

Rep. Adam Schiff is quietly lobbying Gov. Gavin Newsom and his allies to appoint him California’s next attorney general, according to people familiar with the matter. Why it matters: If Newsom selects Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee and a confidant of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Democrats would lose a powerful party voice in the U.S. House and temporarily give up a seat in their slim 221-211 majority. Nonetheless, Pelosi has given her approval to Schiff’s bid, a clear sign she thinks she can manage without him. according to people familiar with the matter. Spokespersons for Schiff and Pelosi...

Flanked by legislators and Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez, Gov. Ron DeSantis declared war Tuesday on a “big tech cartel” that has played fast and loose with Florida’s “public square” for too long, and he issued a series of recommendations that seem destined for fast track legislation this year as the Transparency in Technology Act. “Today they may come after someone who looks like me. Tomorrow they may come after someone who looks like you,” DeSantis warned toward the end of long-form remarks decrying tech companies and vowing action. The Governor, addressing reporters at the State Capitol after Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting,...

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is again refusing to buckle to pressure from Republicans who control the Arizona Senate and turn over elections equipment and ballots from November’s general election. The Republican-dominated board on Tuesday let a noon deadline for complying with a Senate subpoena pass without acting after hearing from their attorneys. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Warren Peterson, warned of “serious legal consequences” if the board continues to drag its feet. This could land them in jail for contempt, if one of the Senate Republicans who issued the subpoenas has his way. Peterson tweeted that...

Injury of Trump Supporter at Protest at the Capitol in DC, 6 January, 2021 about two hours after the impact. Courtesy Dean Weingarten After receiving new information from additional sources, this correction is in order. The booms heard on the west side of the Capitol, at about 2 p.m. were not commercial-grade fireworks as I wrote earlier. They were flashbang grenades launched by the Capitol Police. From the previous article:I could not detect any real leadership or strategy. Masses kept coming. People were frustrated. There was a little pulling on barricades at the choke point, the scaffolding where there appeared...

Now it seems that the PLAAF has taken it a bit further, as it conducted “simulated missile attacks” on the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) last month. According to The Aviationist, as many as 28 aircraft including as many as eight H-6 bombers “intruded” into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) between Jan. 23 and 24 – just three days after President Joe Biden took officer.

The burgeoning news organization is trying really hard to toe the line, but they've abandoned their base in the process. When MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell went on the Newsmax show, “American Agenda,” he was supposed to talk about the cancel culture that forced his banning on Twitter and removal of his product from multiple “woke” retail outlets. But as the conversation turned to voter fraud and evidence he has been trying to present, things got ugly. And now @newsmax is gone too. There is no news source in this country. It is all one party propaganda. https://t.co/p2GQ7x7Map —...

A woman whose mother passed away in a New York nursing home has accused NBC News and other media outlets of pressuring her into not saying “Cuomo failed us.” Dawn Best, whose mother died in April of this past year, told ‘Fox & Friends’ that NBC specifically asked her to say “New York failed us” rather than naming New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. “‘Can you say that a different way without Governor Cuomo’s name, and just say New York failed you?'” Best claimed were the instructions from an NBC reporter. “So I had no choice,” she continued. “So I had...

WASHINGTON - The nation’s top infectious disease expert doesn’t want the Super Bowl to turn into a super spreader. Dr. Anthony Fauci, says when it comes to Super Bowl parties during the pandemic, people should “just lay low and cool it.” He said during TV interviews Wednesday that now isn’t the time to invite people over for watch parties because of the possibility that they’re infected with the coronavirus and could sicken others. Big events like Sunday’s game in Tampa, Florida, between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are always a cause for concern over the potential...

This week, Seattle Public Schools (and other area schools) are teaching students in kindergarten to pick their gender, combat a so-called hetero-patriarchal society, and disrupt the nuclear family structure. The lessons are part of the Black Lives Matter at School movement. The radical, political agendas on gender identity and the family structure have some parents livid. These topics are not age appropriate. Hoping for an alternative viewpoint to BLM talking points? There are none presented to students and it’s by design. Indeed, SPS believes them to be bigoted. Seattle Public Schools will spend this week promoting Black Lives Matter lessons...

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Typically, evidence that a politician was personally responsible for thousands of deaths would be a career-ender. But Cuomo doesn’t think the normal rules of politics apply to him.The coronavirus pandemic was kind to Andrew Cuomo. The New York governor has a well-earned reputation as something of a bare-fisted political thug in Albany but an event that turned out to be a disaster for President Donald Trump and most Americans has been a political windfall for Cuomo. Or at least it was until last week, when New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a report concluding Cuomo’s administration had undercounted the...

February 3 2021 Wednesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church – New Orleans, LAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingHebrews 12:4-7,11-15 ©God is training you as his sonsIn the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of death. Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are addressed as sons? My son, when the Lord corrects you, do not treat it lightly; but do not get discouraged when he reprimands you. For the Lord trains the ones that he loves and he punishes all those that he acknowledges as...

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Tuesday on the “Utah Politics” podcast that it is disingenuous for Republicans to criticize Democrats for spending trillions of dollars on another coronavirus relief package after the GOP did not express deficit concerns under former President Donald Trump. Romney said, “There’s no question that if you begin doing things which break precedent or break tradition, the other side is going to do that when they’re in charge. This was before my time in the Senate, but when we’ve put a tax program on that basis that did not require any Democrat votes through reconciliation, we...

U.S. private employers added back far more jobs than expected in January, returning to growth even as the coronavirus pandemic and winter weather exerted pressure on hiring. Private payrolls increased by 174,000 in January, ADP said in its closely watched monthly jobs report on Wednesday. This compared to consensus estimates for a rise of 70,000, according to Bloomberg data. The U.S. economy had shed 74,000 private payrolls in December for its first decline since April, based on ADP’s revised print.

February 3 2021 Memorial of Saint Blase, bishop and martyr Church of St. Blaise, Dubrovnik, Croatia Lectionary 325Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingHebrews 12:4-7,11-15 ©God is training you as his sonsIn the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of death. Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are addressed as sons? My son, when the Lord corrects you, do not treat it lightly; but do not get discouraged when he reprimands you. For the Lord trains the ones that he loves and he punishes all those that he acknowledges as...

One year ago, Schumer incited a mob on the steps of the Supreme Court in order to bully justices to rule in Democrats' favor.nsible.” However, Sen. Josh Hawley’s efforts to censure Schumer for his violent threats were scuttled. The Washington Post write-up of Schumer’s threats focused instead on Republican opposition to them. “GOP seizes on Schumer’s remarks” read the headline. Schumer’s threats came just 17 months after the Supreme Court had been besieged and attacked by abortion activists upset at Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Like the Jan. 6 event, the October 2018 siege also involved Vice President Mike Pence being condemned by...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has started discussions with the utility and automobile sectors about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, White House domestic climate change adviser Gina McCarthy told Reuters. The talks are part of a broad effort by the Biden administration that McCarthy will spearhead to engage every federal agency to decarbonize the U.S. power sector by 2035 and the whole economy by 2050. McCarthy’s first major task will be to come up with a 2030 emission reduction target under the Paris climate agreement before Biden convenes world leaders for a climate summit on April 22. “We’re already...