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Approximately 3,000 mail-in ballots counted in the Nov. 3 election were supposedly cast by UCSB students residing in a voting precinct that, along with other dorm buildings, includes the Francisco Torres/Santa Catalina Residence Hall at 6850 El Colegio Road in Goleta. Problem: Due to COVID-19, the Torres Building, which normally accommodates 1,300 students, was empty and locked down through most of 2020, as were all other UCSB dorms. This means no students/voters were residing inside the Torres Building (nor any of the other dorms) during the election season.

Sure, Kamala Harris has been roundly roasted for her disastrously bad answer to Lester Holt's question about her plans to visit the border. But the beleaguered VP still has one defender, in the person of Mika Brzezinski. On today's Morning Joe, Mika suggested to Richard Haass that Kamala "deserves some credit" for meeting with leaders of Central American countries and "getting in their face." Pity those leaders!You'll see [screencap] Haass literally laugh at Mika's suggestion that Harris deserves credit. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

ROME – Before St. John Paul II, the old joke used to go that being pope meant never having to say you’re sorry. Since John Paul actually apologized for various failures and sins of the church well in excess of 100 times, that bit of papal humor no longer really applied. However, here’s another old papal saw that’s still highly relevant: “Do as I say, not as I do.” The thought comes to mind in light of news that the Vatican under Pope Francis, for the very first time in history, is carrying out a financial audit of the Diocese...

ABC News legal analyst and co-host of “The View” Sunny Hostin agreed with New York Times columnist Mara Gay that the combination of Trump flags and American flags was a threatening “message of white supremacy.” In a video Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” New York Times columnist Mara Gay said, “I was on Long Island visiting a dear friend. I was disturbed. I saw dozens and dozens of pick-up trucks with, you know, expletives against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags and some cases just dozens of American flags, which, you know, is also just disturbing. Essentially...

Lordstown Motors, the startup electric truck maker, warned Tuesday it is close to running out of cash and may be forced out of business in the next year. The news, which sent Lordstown shares down about 20% in midday trading Wednesday, is a blow to not only the company but also to the gritty industrial town from which it gets its name. For 53 years, Lordstown, Ohio, was home to a massive General Motors plant, which GM closed in 2019. The car giant sold the 6.2 million square foot factory, nearly twice the size of the Pentagon, later that year...

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order revoking former President Trump’s ban on Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat. The Verge reports that President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that revokes former President Trump’s ban on the Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat. Biden will instead be instructing the commerce secretary to investigate apps with ties to foreign adversaries that may pose a risk to American data privacy or national security.

Video recorded over the weekend shows black man yell ethnic slurs and profanities at Asian-American NYPD officer Incident took place in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, where protesters clashed with police over new 10pm curfew In footage uploaded to Reddit, black man repeatedly calls Asian cop a 'ch**k' and argues that 'black people cannot be racist' SNIP

I do not know how many people are killed by lockdowns in the leftist police state of Victoria in Australia. But I know that lockdowns are causing deaths. Lockdowns rob people of freedom and social connection thus causing despair. I know two young people in Victoria with friends who have suicided because of this despair. I know of one octogenarian and a nonagenarian who stopped eating out of grief when the people they knew and who loved them were no longer able to visit. Both died. A senior health professional has told me that these are not isolated incidents. Lockdown...

Why I Need an AR-15 A man disarmed by his government is not a citizen—he’s a subject.I don’t need an AR-15 for hunting: It’s not even legal to take a deer with one in my state—the caliber is too small. I also don’t need an AR-15 for self-defense, though I’d want to have one if someone broke into my house. And I certainly don’t need one just because it’s a beautiful piece of engineering. I need an AR-15 because the government doesn’t want me to have one.Governments hate private weapons, and have always hated them. In Europe, traditionally only gentlemen...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s workplace regulators are set to again reconsider controversial masking rules designed to protect employees against the coronavirus — requirements that business organizations say will make it harder for them to operate when the state fully reopens its economy next week. A “special meeting” of the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board was hastily scheduled for Wednesday after State Health Officer Dr. Tomás Aragón sent a letter to the panel reiterating the state’s plans to follow federal guidance starting next Tuesday. Aragón said the state will do away with virtually all social distancing requirements and...

To say that I can watch this all day on repeat is an understatement. pic.twitter.com/W66DiwTwDe — Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) June 8, 2021

My fellow New Yorkers, you know what we are doing is crazy: Unmask. It’s time. It’s long past the time. What happened to us? How are we entering summer 2021, with many of us still masked, despite all the evidence suggesting we should stop? There was never any need to wear masks outdoors. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci admits that, yet on every street there are people, often alone, continuing to wear a mask. Some stores continue to require masking, even as nearly 70 percent of New Yorkers are vaccinated. And our kids suffer most of all, as the science-denying teachers...

Grey, heavily cratered, and peering out from the black of space, Ganymede looks a lot like our moon. But the icy rock is more than 650 million kilometers (400 million miles) away – it's the largest moon in the Solar System, and it circles Jupiter. NASA's Juno spacecraft has been rocketing around Jupiter since 2016, but on Monday, it zipped past Ganymede, coming within 1,000 km (650 miles) of the moon. No spacecraft had gotten that close in more than two decades – the last approach was NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 2000. In just 25 minutes, Ganymede went from being...

Insane Lumber Prices Show How Governments Break EconomiesLockdowns, tariffs, and other market interventions made wood an expensive commodity.If, like me, you went to purchase lumber within the past few months for your garden, shelves, or other home projects, you found yourself paying through the nose for materials—or else putting off the work in hopes of lower prices in the future. It's even worse if you're a awaiting a new home, since expensive lumber is adding tens of thousands of dollars to the price of building the average house. You can blame pandemic-era lockdowns, tariffs, and other government interventions in the...

“Meanwhile, its program is galloping forward… The longer this goes on, the more the breakout time gets down… it’s now down, by public reports, to a few months at best. And if this continues, it will get down to a matter of weeks,” he lamented. Earlier Monday, the UN nuclear watchdog’s head said it was “becoming increasingly difficult” to extend a temporary inspections arrangement with Iran, as Tehran and world powers try to salvage the nuclear deal. In February, Tehran suspended some IAEA inspections, leading the agency to strike a temporary three-month deal allowing it to continue its activities despite...

The New York Times is defending their editorial board member who called American flags “disturbing.” Their staff member, Mara Gay, caused a firestorm after her appearance on MSNBC Tuesday. “I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed. I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with explicatives [sic] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing … Essentially the message was clear: This is my country. This is not your country. I own...

TENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME MATTHEW 5:17–19 Friends, in our Gospel today, Jesus declares that he would not undermine the Law and the prophets but fulfill them. Jesus himself was an observant Jew, and the themes and images of the Holy Scriptures were elemental for him. But what is he going to fulfill? Protestant theologian N.T. Wright has pointed out that the Old Testament is essentially an unfinished symphony, a drama without a climax. It is the articulation of a hope, a dream, a longing—but without a realization of that hope, without a satisfaction of that longing. Israel knew itself...

New Delhi -- At a time when the country is passing through the second wave of Covid-19, Delhi-based Sir Gangaram Hospital claims that monoclonal antibody can be a game changer with its better hold on the deadly pandemic. As per the hospital, the monoclonal antibodies will change the scenario of Covid-19 pandemic very soon. The healthcare facility came with new findings after treatment of two patients recently at its centre by successfully using monoclonal antibody which showed fast progression of symptoms within first seven days and changed the outcome. A 36-year-old healthcare worker with high grade fever, cough, myalgia, severe...

One Richmond family got a shocking delivery last month when 80,000 pennies were dumped on their front lawn. Now, they're using the money to help those in need. "I just turned 18. When I was in the middle of class, my dad came by. He had rented a trailer," Avery Sanford, a Deep Run High School senior, said. "He pulled up in front of the house and turned the trailer on so it dumped out all the pennies on the grass and my mom came out and was like, 'What are you dumping in my yard?' She didn't know who...

Ilhan Omar came to this country from Somalia, which is widely regarded as a sh*thole. It has seen an ongoing civil war for the last thirty years. You might remember how American casualties were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu following a UN effort to bring peace. Ilhan Omar left that country to come to the US. To gain entry to the US she is said to have married her brother. Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirmAbdihakim Osman is the first...