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Defund the police ballot initiative is getting trounced in Minneapolis with 92% reporting. Question: Replace Police Dept. With Public Safety Dept. No 57% Yes 43% — 129,502 votes reported

Hearing Pelosi is telling people she is not running for re-election tonight. Doesn't want to be tied to 2022.

Republican Mike Carey is projected to win a special election to replace former Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) in Congress, holding on to Ohio's 15th Congressional District for the GOP. The Associated Press said Carey, a coal industry lobbyist, had bested Democratic state Rep. Allison Russo on Tuesday. The race largely favored the GOP from the outset, given the district's Republican tilt. Stivers, the district's former representative, stepped down from Congress earlier this year to take a job as the president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. But Democrats had hoped to pull off an upset victory, banking on...

Yahoo has shut down its services in mainland China, becoming the second Western tech giant to pull the plug on China over the past month.The company stopped providing content for mainland Chinese users as of Nov. 1, according to a statement from its official website. “Products and services remain unaffected in all other global locations,” it said.Yahoo made the decision “[i]n recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China,” a company spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email on Tuesday, adding that “Yahoo remains committed to the rights of our users and a free and open...

Two researchers say countries should halt the administration of COVID-19 vaccines to pregnant and breastfeeding women after re-analyzing a study performed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers.The study in question, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April, has been used by the CDC and health agencies in other countries to justify vaccination recommendations to pregnant women and new mothers.“A U.S. study of over 35,000 women who were pregnant and had an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine showed that the side effects following vaccination were very similar in those who were pregnant when compared to those who...

On Monday The Times reported British social media users could face a two-year prison term if they send messages or post content deemed to have caused “psychological harm” under the UK government’s draft ‘Online Safety Bill’ to tackle hate speech and abuse online. “It includes an anti-misinformation offence … In this regard, The Times reported that unnamed government sources had referenced the example of ‘anti-vaxxers spreading false information that they know to be untrue’,” RT reported. In Taiwan, a similar law has been in place from 19 June 2019, if not earlier. The Communicable Disease Act (or Infectious Disease Prevention...

Indonesian health officials have approved the COVID-19 vaccine produced by U.S.-based biotechnology company Novavax Inc., marking the Asian nation the first country worldwide to authorize the new shot.“The first authorization of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine exemplifies our commitment to equitable global access and will fill a vital need for Indonesia,” said Stanley Erck, Novavax’s chief executive.Made using protein-based technology, Novavax’s vaccine uses different technology than the mRNA products offered by BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna.The Novavax jab implements a more traditional technique and works by introducing spike protein of the virus made in moth cells and an adjuvant made from natural soapbark tree...

Top Republican Congress members voiced concerns of possible domestic air travel concerns due to President Joe Biden’s pending COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, including Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers.Up to 40 percent of TSA workers, who oversee airport security checkpoints, have not gotten vaccinated yet, the GOP lawmakers wrote in a letter to TSA Administrator David Pekoske. They requested that Pekoske provide an update on whether a staffing shortage of TSA workers looms and if the agency has a contingency plan in place.“Unfortunately, it appears TSA is headed toward a scenario in which up to 40 percent of its...

Fairfax County is rescanning roughly 20,000 ballots from multiple early voting sites after there was a technical issue with a thumb drive the votes are stored on, according to Fairfax County's Office of Elections Public Information Officer, Brian Worthy. County officials said there is a paper trail of votes cast and staff are working on them as of now. Worthy told WUSA9 that the county had some problems with the thumb drive votes are recorded on. He said this thumb drive holds 20,000 ballots from four early voting sites. Rescanning the thousands of ballots from those early voting sites means...

The role of the prosecutor is supposed to be to represent the state in the interests of justice. That means that the point of the prosecution isn’t necessarily winning — it is that justice. If, for example, the prosecutor has exculpatory evidence — evidence that will clear the defendant — the prosecutor is required to turn that over to the defense.A prosecutor is supposed to tell the truth in the interest of justice, even if it is not advantageous to his case.So I have some questions for the prosecutor about his opening statements in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial which is...

Democrat Eric Adams will become the next mayor of New York City after defeating Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in the city's mayoral election.Adams, a former state senator and police captain, had been the clear-cut favorite to win the general election after beating a number of Democratic opponents in the city's primary election in July. The likely incoming mayor beat out former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia, former City Hall legal adviser Maya Wiley and 2020 presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang in the primary race that was largely centered on crime and the "defund the police" movement pushed by progressives....

UPDATE:After he initially made it sound like he would be riding out a painful election loss at home with his family on Tuesday night, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe's campaign suddenly announced he was en route to his campaign's Election Night party to deliver remarks some 90 minutes after the race was called by Decision Desk and Townhall. "We've still got a lot of votes to count because every single Virginian deserves to have their vote counted," a defiant Terry McAuliffe said claiming he's been holding seven to ten events per day for the last 328 days. Omitted from his...

[Catholic Caucus] Praying for the Dead: Duty and PrivilegeMy mom had a strong devotion to the holy souls and prayed for them often. Even before she became ill, she would tell us to make sure that the priest who buried her did not eulogize about her saintliness. She was brought up to believe that Catholics had a duty to pray for the dead, and not only was it our obligation; it was our privilege.Straight-to-Heaven-for-All Illusion Dutch psychologist Gerard van den Aardweg, author of Hungry Souls: Supernatural Visits, Messages and Warnings From Purgatory (Tan, 2009), thinks Catholics today have a general...

New footage of events that led to a shooting involving Kyle Rittenhouse reveals the Illinois youth was charged by several leftist demonstrators, with one man involved in arson activities firing a weapon at Rittenhouse just before Rittenhouse was attacked by Joseph Rosenbaum. Rittenhouse shot and killed Rosenbaum when he went for Rittenhouse’s rifle, later facing an attack from other Kenosha rioters and shooting two more people. Jack Posobiec published the footage on Tuesday morning, before it was displayed in opening arguments during Rittenhouse’s trial. The footage, containing both aerial thermal imagery and video of the street in Kenosha where the...

Peter Navarro was a key adviser in the Trump administration. He was an important part of making sure the Trump administration delivered on the promises that were made to the American people. Navarro is releasing a new book called “In Trump Time.” The book is going to be a behind-the-scenes look at what took place during the Trump administration. This will be a trustworthy account, unlike the books that come out from Fake News hacks and RINOs. In the book, he talks about the fight to stop Joe Biden from stealing the 2020 election. According to Navarro, Pence was fed...

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is a man in a hurry. His president expects him to produce foreign policy success stories. Success stories are desperately needed as post-Afghanistan, the superpower has become a laughing stock universally. The trans-Atlantic alliance is seriously disoriented and Russia is on the prowl in the heart of Europe with natural gas to sell. The Iranians are yet to give a date for the resumption of talks on the US return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear accord. As for China, the less said the better. The chairman of the US Joint...

"The New Jersey’s Governor’s race is hanging by a thread. And that thread is blue collar, where working class towns like Bloomfield, Bayonne, Wood-Ridge and Carteret are making it a real contest, and sending shivers up the spines of Democrats."

In late September, the Dallas Mavericks announced that fans would be required to provide proof of vaccination or have a negative COVID-19 test in order to attend Mavericks home games. Now, six games into the 2021-2022 NBA season, the Mavericks are reversing course. As announced on the Mavericks website on Saturday, most fans will no longer be required to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to attend home games. “The Mavericks, in conjunction with the NBA, announced today that beginning Nov. 15, fans seated beyond 15 feet of the court will no longer need to complete a...

China’s Manufacturing Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) fell 0.4 percentage points in October to 49.2—any number below 50 represents a contraction in manufacturing production—according to official figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. The data was worse than expected with market analysts expecting a figure of 49.7. This is the second consecutive month the index has indicated a contraction, and is the lowest the index has been since the onset of the pandemic.Article by Edward Cheng from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.Perhaps more worryingly, the data shows signs of stagflation—slow economic growth coupled with accelerating inflation. Driven by...

HOUSTON — Despite a hot start in Game 5, the Atlanta Braves couldn’t close out the World Series at home Sunday night. Now the series is back in Houston for Game 6 Tuesday night. The Braves split their first two games in Houston last week, but it only takes one more win to claim the title. “We’re going to a familiar place now. I thought they handled it really good the first go-round, and I think because we’ve been there now and the whole routine and into the routine and all that, they’ll be -- none of that will be...