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ATLANTA (AP) — Some of Georgia’s most prominent corporate leaders on Wednesday began to more forcefully criticize the state’s sweeping new election law, acknowledging the concerns of civil-rights activists who say the measure threatens the democratic process. ... Speaking later on CNBC, Coca-Cola chief executive James Quincey called the legislation a “step backward.” “It does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting, around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity,” he said. “This legislation is wrong and needs to be remedied.”

Democrats in New York are working on creating a fund that would give some illegal aliens and ex-convicts more than $27,000 apiece in direct payments for financial hardships related to the coronavirus pandemic. Politico reported Tuesday that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is in talks with state lawmakers to create something called the Excluded Workers Fund, which would offer direct payments to “undocumented immigrants and formerly incarcerated individuals” who missed out on work opportunities amid the pandemic. “Right now discussions are around eligibility and access,” Democratic state Sen. Jessica Ramos told the outlet. The state would set aside $2.1 billion...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- Waukegan's Board of Education met Tuesday night as it considers changing the names of two of its schools, Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Daniel Webster Middle School. Jefferson, who was the nation's third president, owned slaves. Webster was a former senator who supported slavery. Renaming committees were formed for each school, and included people in the community, students and staff. The school board heard concerns from the public Tuesday night over one of the finalists in the running to be the new name for Thomas Jefferson Middle School. The country's first Black President and First Lady,...

CHICAGO (CBS) — The carjacking crisis in Chicago is getting worse. Police said there have been 352 carjackings in the city so far this year, and only 62 arrests. Authorities say a 14-year-old girl was behind at least four of the carjackings. The 14-year-old girl, whom we are not identifying because of her age, appeared in court Wednesday with her family. She is facing four felony charges accusing her of involvement carjackings. One of the victims was Uber driver Carolyn Andrews – who still can’t get back in the driver’s seat without thinking about it. “One jumped behind me so...

It is an extraordinary thing when a movie becomes so meaningful, timeless, and impactful, that it remains relevant and popular while its audience grows with each new generation. In the case of Cecil B. De Mille’s The Ten Commandments, there are a multitude of reasons for that. The Ten Commandments has two significant components that work in its favor. For one; consider the source. The Biblical book of Exodus explicitly chronicles the sovereignty of God, as well as His intercessory involvement in freeing His chosen people, the Hebrews. It is an integral part of Hebrew history, and plays a vital...

A top U.S. border official said on Tuesday he expects more than a million migrants will arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border this year, a sign of a growing humanitarian challenge for President Joe Biden on the southwest border. If the figures reach 1 million, it could mirror a similar increase in border crossings in 2019 during Donald Trump’s presidency, when nearly 978,000 migrants were taken into custody. Border Patrol arrested about 100,000 migrants in February, the most in a month since mid-2019. More migrants typically cross between April and June, Raul Ortiz, deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, told...

Excerpt: These SARS-CoV vaccines [2012] all induced antibody and protection against infection with SARS-CoV. However, challenge of mice given any of the vaccines led to occurrence of Th2-type immunopathology suggesting hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV components was induced. Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.

CHICAGO — The city has seen a “quantum leap” in cases since a month ago — meaning Chicago has to puts reopening plans on pause, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday. On March 1, the city was seeing an average of 295 confirmed cases per day. But as of Wednesday, an average of 498 confirmed cases are being reported each day — a 68.8 percent increase since the start of the month. Just since a week ago, daily new cases are up 37 percent. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 across Illinois and Chicago’s positivity rate are also rising. Deaths...

"In an era when everyone is online, everyone is a public figure." — Bill Maher on HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Mar. 26 That's 100 percent correct. Social media gives everyone and anyone a broadcast studio that can potentially reach millions in a viral minute. And that means everyone is a potential target for the woke brigade as it continues to add scalp after scalp to its trophy room. How utterly ridiculous is our country getting thanks to an increasingly woke media that is replacing the isms in going from journalism to activism? Consider Exhibit A: The Washington Post...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — A Florida man is calling for 1 million people to mark "one year of mask tyranny in Broward County" with a march in Fort Lauderdale. The "Million Maskless March" will be held April 10 near Las Olas Beach in Fort Lauderdale. Organizer Chris Nelson wrote that the event will be a "celebration of freedom" and recognize those who have "faithfully endured" the county's mask mandate. The protest, billed as a non-partisan event, will also include a mask burning, according to organizers. Other organizers listed on the protest invite include Nelson's ReOpen South Florida, UnMasking America and...

JUST IN: Key eyewitness will plead the 5th if called to testify. Atty for Morries Lester Hall, who was inside Cup Foods & the SUV w/ #GeorgeFloyd asks for subpoena to be quashed. Otherwise he will "invoke his 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

We are going to end up at the end of March 2021 this evening. Shortly it will be the beginning of April 2021.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida woman was arrested Tuesday accused of stabbing her roommate multiple times over $60 of her own stimulus money, WFLA reports. Samantha Clark, 46, is facing a charge of attempted murder after allegedly attacking her 77-year-old roommate Dale Neary after an argument relating to $60 of Clark’s federal stimulus money, police said. The elderly man was taken to the hospital where he is in serious condition but expected to recover. Police caught up with Clark blocks away from her home and said the 46-year-old appeared to have taken narcotics, WFLA reports. Clark was arrested...

India’s economy has bounced back amazingly from the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown over the last one year, but it is not out of the woods yet, according to the World Bank, which in its latest report has predicted that the country’s real GDP growth for fiscal year 21/22 could range from 7.5 to 12.5 per cent. The Washington-based global lender, in its latest South Asia Economic Focus report released ahead of the annual Spring meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that the economy was already slowing when the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded. After reaching...

Parkland parent Andrew Pollock joins me to discuss how mass shootings can be prevented.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop has released an apology and says it has taken corrective action after the shop sent out an email promoting gun magazines for “your trip to the hood.” The gun club says the email, which reportedly said “we have 30 rnd mags for your trip to the hood,” was inadvertently sent out without the shop’s approval. “This email was completely unacceptable and goes against our core principles. Once we became aware of the situation we took immediate corrective action with the employee and revised the email,” Chris Williamson of the Osseo...

Moments after George Floyd was taken away in an ambulance last May, former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was confronted by a witness who took issue with Chauvin’s allegedly kneeling on Floyd’s neck. “That’s one person’s opinion,” Chauvin responded as he got into his squad car. “We had to control this guy because he’s a sizable guy. It looks like he’s probably on something.” Jurors in the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin have heard testimony from 11 witnesses so far who have recounted the death of George Floyd over the last three days. Chauvin is facing...

A video of just deseves, as my biological brother should have.

Just like Judge Sullivan in the Flynn case, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts is now acting as a prosecutor and demanding why there is no Durham report, no Kavanaugh prosecutions, no Hunter Biden investigation, no FBI prosecutions of Hillary, Comey, Peter Strozk and Lisa Page, no inquiry into judges who closed their eyes to FISA regulations. Speculation on the Hill suggest that Donald Trump has something big on Roberts. What could that be? A video of Judge Roberts leading a conga line of young boys into the men's washroom on Epstein’s Island? Who knows? Yes, this is phantasy. But wouldn't...

Plenty of solar system objects emit X-rays — everything from Venus to Saturn to moons of Jupiter, the scientists write in a paper describing their research. In fact, of the solar system's planets, only little-studied Uranus and Neptune were missing from the list. The team of astronomers were particularly drawn to study Uranus in X-rays because the planet's alignments are quite jumbled: the planet lies on its side and the axis of its magnetic field is akimbo from both the orbital plane and the spin axis. The skewed axes may trigger particularly complicated auroras, which can emit X-rays. So the...