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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a number of election reforms that include photo ID requirements for absentee voting, the need for drop box security, and mandatory early voting dates, among other changes to how the state’s elections are run. “I was proud to sign S.B. 202 to ensure elections in Georgia are secure, fair, and accessible,” Republican Kemp announced on Twitter. “I appreciate the hard work of members of the General Assembly to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”

Texas officials on Thursday raised the death toll from February’s winter storm and blackouts to at least 111 people — nearly doubling the state’s initial tally following one of the worst power outages in U.S. history. The frigid weather also was blamed for dozens of more deaths across other Southern states including Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. The majority of the Texas deaths are associated with hypothermia, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. And the dramatic number of new victims is still a potential undercount, as officials continue investigating deaths that happened around the time the...

FRANK BRUNO once set out an ambitious bid to become an MP, just four years after reportedly promising to "leave the UK" if Labour was voted in.The former heavyweight boxer said he wanted to contest the traditionally safe Conservative seat of Brentwood and Ongar. Currently held by Trudy Harrison, Bruno was ready to go toe-to-toe against independent MP Martin Bell in the 2001 general election. He later stated that he would be standing as a Tory against Mr Bell, telling the public: "Don't be a plank, vote for Frank." EU citizens rush to NORTHERN Ireland as vaccine standoff escalates The...

JOY DIVISION was founded in 1976 and while only together for a short time, made a big impact on the post-punk movement - but what does their name mean?Joy Division started life thank to Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook, who formed a band after going to a Sex Pistols concert. The duo were joined by vocalist Ian Curtis and drummer Stephen Morris and the group self-released their debut EP An Ideal for Living in 1978 before their debut album Unknown Pleasures, recorded with producer Martin Hannett, came out in 1979. The band then broke up a year later. How did...

Gene Simmons is done with the Golden State. The Kiss rocker has announced his departure from California after more than 35 years. “We are moving out of L.A. for a number of reasons: one of which are the tour buses,” Simmons explained to the New York Post. “After a certain point, we have had enough of that, even though we appreciate the attention.” It’s not just the tourists that have gotten to Simmons. The rocker listed “earthquakes, fires and pandemics every year” among his further reasons for moving. Primis Player Placeholder Instead, the Kiss bassist will now reside in a...

The father of slain Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley said his son was a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment – and would have reportedly hated to see his death used for political purposes. “My son would have been deeply offended to know his death would be used to promote gun control. Before he was an officer, he enjoyed shooting,” Eric Talley told TMZ about the 11-year veteran, who was among 10 people slaughtered at a King Soopers supermarket on Monday. The grieving dad told the news outlet that the late hero cop owned an AR-15, which he often used...

So why are there so few mothers, so few fathers, so few families of any size in modern science fiction stories? As I said above, the answer is that, in the so-called modern mindset, families (especially large ones) are considered pathologies. They are considered an abnormal “deviation giving rise to social ills.” When families are portrayed at all, they are made individually and collectively the butt of tasteless jokes; this provides the social reinforcement for the ideological notion that having a family is irresponsible. These insulting stereotypes encourage the absurd notion in our collective ultra-modern hubris that children, families, and...

78-year-old Joe Biden held his first press conference today and it was a total dumpster fire. Biden had a binder of notes waiting for him today at his first press conference. Like a parrot, he read off all of his foreign policy answers including his entire answer to the North Korea question. And Biden was calling on reporters from his prepared list. Biden’s handpicked, friendly and sycophantic reporters couldn’t even save him from jumbling his words and losing his train of thought. Advertisement - story continues below President Trump phoned in to Laura Ingraham’s show on Fox News Thursday night...

TikTok user Amelia M. Goldie claimed in a viral video that the songstress, 62, Photoshopped her face onto Goldie’s body while promoting her “Rebel Heart” album via Instagram in 2015. Goldie, 28, told BuzzFeed that she “thought it was a joke” when she first saw the post and didn’t take it seriously until she saw it was posted from the singer’s official account. She told the publication, “I tried to reach out via Instagram to her team twice, to no response … I [would] definitely laugh and say I’m flattered, but of course that I wish I was credited!”

The former president slammed Biden for curtailing wall construction and canceling 'Remain in Mexico' agreement with President Obrador. Former President Trump joined "The Ingraham Angle" in an exclusive interview Thursday night to respond to the first news conference of President Biden's term, held earlier in the day. Host Laura Ingraham played for Trump a video clip of Biden appearing to accuse Trump of leaving migrant children to "starve to death" on the Mexican side of America's southern border. "When an unaccompanied child ends up at the border, we [aren't] going to let them starve to death and stay on the...

The phrase revenge bedtime procrastination rings strangely, and its meaning is, perhaps, unintuitive. Yet, it has seen lots of attention from the press and the public. What is the phenomenon of bedtime procrastination, and what is it revenge on? We investigate. It is late at night. Your day’s work — day job duties, homework for your course, house chores — is all done. You glance at the clock: it is past midnight already. You are all ready for bed and so tired that you could almost pass out. However, instead of closing your eyes and drifting off to sleep, something...

In a hot mic incident recorded over the Mineta San Jose International Airport’s air traffic control scanner, an unidentified pilot was heard delivering an expletive-heavy rant, according to the travel site The audio is archived online at Live ATC, a website that livestreams air traffic control audio transmissions. Though the audio is fuzzy and the context of the remarks unclear, the pilot can be heard repeatedly cursing.

Two more cases of a Covid variant first identified in Brazil have been found in the UK, bringing the total number to 12. Both - one in the West Midlands and one in Haringey, London - were linked with international travel to Brazil. Some variants, like this one, appear to be more contagious and there are concerns current vaccines may not work as well. What are these new variants? There are many thousands of different versions, or variants, of Covid circulating. Apart from the Brazil variant (also known as P.1), concerns focus on a few: A UK or Kent variant...

A new "double mutant" variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India. Officials are checking if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, may be more infectious or less affected by vaccines. Some 10,787 samples from 18 Indian states also showed up 771 cases of known variants - 736 of the UK, 34 of the South African and one Brazilian. Officials say the variants are not linked to a spike in cases in India. India reported 47,262 cases and 275 deaths on Wednesday - the sharpest daily rise this year. The Indian...

A coalition of House committees is asking the White House and 16 other agencies to turn over a trove of documents from the Trump administration related to the electoral vote count and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The request includes the Office of the Vice President, and seeks all White House communications between Dec. 1 and Inauguration Day, specifically asking to relay "communications, if any, with participants in the events of Jan. 6" or their associates. The documents could provide an insight into how a number of Trump administration officials prepared for and responded to the attacks. The...

Three big things stood out in President Biden’s first press conference. 1. The leader of the free world is often lost at sea and says many things that are blatantly false. 2. The media is in the tank and cannot be trusted to hold him accountable. 3. Because of Nos. 1 and 2, America is headed for serious trouble. For this sickening spectacle we had to wait 64 days? Still, the event was meaningful in one distressing way. Now we know beyond all doubt there is no way to deny the terrifying truth. This was Biden’s coming out party, and...

LONDON — William Frostman, a lighting supervisor who has toured with the Rolling Stones and Queen, has just spent a whole year at home, the longest time in his decades-long career. “I just want to wake up on a bus,” Frostman, 60, told dozens of his fellow roadies...Nostalgic as he was for life on the road, there were a few fears at the back of his mind, he said: Would anyone employ him? How would a vaccine passport work? ...But for many roadies — who often rely on monthslong world tours to make a living — a return to full-time...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) have singled out some of President Joe Biden’s statements from his first formal press conference about immigration numbers and said that his statements were not true.

MISSOULA COUNTY, Mont. — A mountainous, 2,600-square-mile region with a population of approximately 119,600 does not seem like your prototypical setting for machine politics. Yet a recent audit of mail-in ballots cast there found irregularities characteristic of larger urban centers — on a level that could have easily swung local elections in 2020, and statewide elections in cycles past. The Biden administration, the Democrat-controlled Congress, and the Democratic National Committee are collectively pressing to both nationalize, and make permanent, many of the extraordinary pandemic-driven voting measures implemented during the 2020 election —particularly mass mail-in voting.

Here is an all too typical Twitter post making the claim that AR-15s are the weapon of choice for mass public shooters. But you have to wonder though if all this media coverage that these are the best weapons for mass public shooters actually causes more of these particular guns to be used than would otherwise be the case.