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A county in Michigan has voted in favor of a hand-recount of its 2020 presidential election ballots and will hire an outside firm to investigate any possible voting machine tampering. The Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 to send a letter to the state elections director seeking a hand recount of the ballots and a comparison of the results with those reported after the Nov. 3 election, The Hill reported. Donald Trump won the county with 64% but Joe Biden won Michigan by 154,000 votes. The board also proposed hiring an “accredited election auditor” to examine whether the county’s...

In a leaked State Department cable from 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the Wuhan Institute of Virology could lead to “biological weapons proliferation concern.”

Researchers from the New York University School of Medicine have developed a brain implant designed to detect pain sensations in real-time and deliver bursts of pain-relieving stimulation. The device is still deeply experimental but a new proof of concept study demonstrates it working effectively in rodent models. In the world of brain implants the chasm between science fiction and reality is still quite vast. Apart from some exciting human tests showing paralyzed individuals with implants regaining a sense of touch or controlling computers with their mind, most research in the field is still nascent. Animal tests have demonstrated incremental technological...

Joy Behar told her co-host Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump was somewhat responsible for the recent crime rate spikes across America because he spent “four years normalizing crime.” Behar said, “Well, you know, I’m old enough to remember many decades where crime spiked. I was afraid to, you know, go out at night. You know, you were scared you were going to be mugged in New York City. And then I have another statistic here that’s interesting because from 1993 to 2019 — and that is a period that I was not scared to go out...

Grace discussing Hunter Biden and paying for "escorts" as Secret Service is in the lobby.

Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, after Republicans have criticized her for months for not making the trek. President Joe Biden had put Harris in charge of dealing with the root causes of the migration crisis, which quickly turned her into the person to blame for the spike in migrants coming into the U.S. Politico reported Harris was making the trip, alongside Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. She'll beat former President Donald Trump to the region by five days.

While you sit stunned and agape at the startling audacity of scientists suggesting the human genome should be bioengineered to prevent them from eating meat, do you really expect me to believe that these individuals would have ethical qualms about tinkering with viral genomes?

President Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are vowing to press forward after Republicans blocked Democrats’ sweeping elections bill, which was largely seen as a symbolic base-rallying gesture designed to show pushback on GOP state election reforms. In a statement after the upper chamber of Congress failed to bring the For the People Act up for debate, Biden pledged that the fight to expand voting rights was “far from over.”

The Supreme Court struck down a California regulation granting union organizers access to farmworkers on agricultural fields, ruling Wednesday that the 1975 measure violated growers’ private-property rights. The decision, by a 6-3 vote along the court’s conservative-liberal divide, erases a major victory that Cesar Chavez’s farmworker movement achieved in the 1970s, when they argued the nature of agricultural labor made it too difficult to reach workers outside the fields.

U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken stated that America would not allow the Russian Federation to use the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as a tool for putting pressure on Ukraine and Europe as Reuters reported. "Our goal remains to ensure that Russia cannot use energy as a coercive tool as a weapon against Ukraine, or anyone else in Europe," Blinken stated. Related: Zelensky: Nord Stream 2 - weapon against Ukraine He also reminded the opinion of Washington that the Nord Stream 2 is the geopolitical project of Moscow, threatening the energy security of Europe and disrupting the security of Ukraine...

The Daily Caller reports Joe Biden ATF nominee David Chipman allegedly made a racist comment in 2007 about black applicants who passed a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) exam.The Daily Caller notes a former ATF agent claimed Chipman was reviewing exam results from individuals wishing to be a Special Agent in Charge when he allegedly said: “Wow, there were an unusually large number of African American agents that passed the exam this time. They must have been cheating.”Another ATF agent told the Daily Caller News Foundation, “[Chipman] made this remark in front of a bunch of witnesses....

A new book is out about the Culture War and the manipulation of the meaning of words, speech, and language by the left to undermine and subvert the nation’s culture and in the process achieve political objectives. “Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds” by Michael Knowles

Laura Mallozzi, whose 18-year-old son developed myocarditis two days after his second Pfizer vaccine, said she would never have connected the dots between the vaccine and her son’s symptoms if she hadn’t read about the condition in The Defender. ===================================================================================== Laura Mallozzi’s 18-year-old son, David, was hospitalized with myocarditis on June 10 — two days after his second dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. According to Mallozzi, David, from Indiana, felt pressured at work by his employer and co-workers to get vaccinated. “They were uncomfortable that he wasn’t vaccinated,” she said. “So he got the COVID vaccine without telling me.” Mallozzi’s...

The confirmation of President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), David Chipman, received another blow on Tuesday. GOP Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), who has voted for some of Biden’s nominees, announced that she will not support Chipman’s controversial nomination. "After meeting with Mr. Chipman, listening to Mainers, and reviewing his record, I have decided to vote against Mr. Chipman’s nomination to serve as the ATF Director," Collins said in a statement, per Fox News. "In recent years, Mr. Chipman has been an outspoken critic of the firearms industry and has made statements that...

There was a shooting in New York City the other day. It happened in broad daylight. A man was shot, and two children barely escaped death. There was a shooting in Chicago that left a father dead and his wife injured. Now call me crazy, but the perps do not appear to be white supremacists. I will bet a ton of money that they do not have legal permits for those guns, and I will bet they're not members of the NRA. President Rutabaga has made several declarations over the last few months about the greatest threat to this country....

Lorraine Sue Garza, 45, was charged on June 18 with two counts of abandoning or endangering a child. According to the arrest report, a woman called police because she was giving three children, ages 11, 13, and 15, food and letting them shower at her home. The children told her that their mother left the house on June 3 and hasn't been back since. San Antonio police spoke with the 15-year-old girl, who told them that their mother just left and took the family's only cell phone with her, so there was no way they could contact her. The water...

Teachers instructed to classify 'Make America Great Again' as racist 'It's not education, it's naked political vengeance' Art Moore Published June 22, 2021 Teachers in an Iowa school district are being instructed to classify President Trump's signature theme "Make America Great Again" as a form of racism and white supremacy, according to slides in a presentation that was leaked to media. Newsmax TV host Benny Johnson, who posted some of the slides on Twitter, called it evidence that Critical Race Theory is being used as a political weapon against Republicans.

MUFTI CONDEMNED RY EX-TERRORRIST: FAKHRI ABDUL HABIS OPEN LETTER TO MUFTIThe Palestine Post⁩⁩, 3 February 1939. In a leaflet which is being widely distributed the Arabs Fakhamong , ri Abdul Hadi, who was Fawzi Kaukaj's lieutenant during the 1936 disturbances and who returned to Palestine from Damascus (where he had been in exile) some three months has rinted an ago, repopen letter sent to Haj Amin al Husseini, in which he bitterly referred to the machinations against himiself of Izzat Darwuza and others in the Mufti's entourage. Fakhri Abdul Hadi is a native of Arrabeh village near Jenin, and he...

D.C. police officer Michael Fanone suffered a heart attack and a brain injury from defending the U.S. Capitol against pro-Trump rioters on January 6. Only on “CBS This Morning,” Kris Van Cleave speaks with Fanone, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell about the need for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the insurrection. Air Date: Jun 23, 2021 - 6 minute video clip