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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is predicting Republicans will have a “very good election” next year, implying the party has a good chance of taking both chambers of Congress. The GOP winning control of both the House and Senate in 2022 would bring President Biden's agenda to a grinding halt. “I think the fall of ’22 is likely to be a very good election for Republicans,” McConnell told reporters at the St. Elizabeth Healthcare and Life Learning Center in northern Kentucky.

As China expands the formidableness of its forces and the frequency of its naval exercises, it is increasingly apparent that Taiwan’s sovereignty may be in jeopardy. A Chinese incursion or major attack might come in the form of an embargo, blockade, airborne assault, cyber war, or amphibious attack — or, more likely, in concert. Taiwan faces the daunting challenge of defending itself from each. While the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) would carry the largest role in response, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) — the military’s fifth-largest service, located within the Department of Homeland Security — can contribute invaluably...

If a reporter asks a president a question in which the answer is deceptive at best and a flat out lie at worst, would that make the reporter asking the question "disrespectful?" According to Joe Biden's senior adviser, Cedric Richmond, it does. Despite the fact that Biden answered Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy's question about if each illegal crossing the border who was temporarily separated from their children would receive a payment of $450,000 in a much less than candid manner, the outrage should be directed towards Doocy in the bizarre reasoning of Richmond.

Former Mr. Olympia Shawn Rhoden has died of a heart attack at age 46, according to reports. Rhoden, known among bodybuilders as “Flexatron,” passed away after winning Mr. Olympia in 2018 at 43 – the oldest strongman to ever win the title, Generation Iron reported Saturday.

The wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom took to social media to defend her husband and call out 'haters without a life' who criticized Newsom's 12-day disappearance from public view in a since-deleted tweet. -snip- Newsom was last seen in public on October 27, receiving a COVID-19 booster shot in Oakland. He said it was painless and then flexed in celebration, urging others to get boosters as well.

A nationwide strike against vaccine mandates will take place from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11, according to the main organizer for the walkout, Leigh Dundas, a human rights attorney and public speaker. The event will kick off in Los Angeles on Monday. The locations of the marches have not yet been disclosed. The walkouts involve people from various industries such as trucking and telecom. Air and rail transport workers are not federally allowed to go on strike due to a law passed in 1926 named the Railway Labor Act, but some plan to protest anonymously. “The Golden Gate Bridge Rally...

As part of the “Salute to Service” game, the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos held a number of tributes to honor the military and to help promote the National Medal of Honor Museum, which will break ground on construction in the stadium district here early next year. Former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush took part in Sunday’s coin flip, and the Cowboys wore a red stripe on their helmets to honor the U.S. Armed Forces and Medal of Honor recipients during Sunday’s game at AT&T Stadium.

Two hyenas at the Denver Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19 — but they’re laughing it off and are expected to make a full recovery. The cases involving Ngozi, 22, and Kibo, 23, at the 80-acre zoological garden are the first confirmed ones among the animals worldwide, according to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories. The spotted hyenas are experiencing mild symptoms — including slight lethargy, nasal discharge and some coughing — but their energy levels are normal, according to the zoo. “Hyenas are famously tough, resilient animals that are known to be highly tolerant to anthrax, rabies and distemper. They...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection last week seized imports from a Chinese company backed by an investment group in which climate czar John Kerry holds a $1 million stake. Kerry and his wife are invested in Hillhouse China Value Fund L.P., part of the Hillhouse investment group that is a top shareholder in a Chinese solar panel company that works with companies known to be using forced labor. It was on that account that CBP seized the imports from LONGi Green Energy, citing a law that prohibits foreign imports produced through labor abuses. The news could raise additional concerns about...

If you’re having turkey at your Thanksgiving, Karen Davis is not the guest you want at your table. The president of United Poultry Concerns and a tireless advocate for chickens, turkeys and other farmed fowl, Davis can rattle off details and statistics about how turkeys are raised and “harvested” (industry-speak for slaughtered) that are guaranteed to curb — or kill — your appetite. But she’ll settle for three big reasons to skip the turkey this Thanksgiving: “Animal cruelty, disease, filth — the toxic waste in the conditions in which the birds are forced to live.” ADVERTISEMENT According to the U.S....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seven suspected hackers linked to ransomware attacks that have targeted thousands of victims have been arrested since last February as part of a global cybercrime crackdown, European law enforcement authorities announced Monday. The FBI and the Justice Department were expected to announce criminal charges tied to ransomware later Monday as well as the seizure of $6 million, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter by name ahead of a news conference and spoke on the condition of anonymity. None of the arrested hackers was identified by name, but Europol said two...

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A former surgeon at the John Hopkins Children’s Center is describing the Biden administration’s move to vaccinate young children for COVID-19 as a “giant experiment,” arguing there is no sufficient data to determine the long-term risks posed by the shots. “Do we want to put our children at risk, when we know that the risk of the disease to them is relatively small, but we don’t know what the future risks are? Why would we do a thing like that? It makes no sense whatsoever,” said Dr. Ben Carson in a Sunday interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday...

Democratic governors hailed passage of a bipartisan infrastructure package that will send billions of dollars to state coffers to launch new projects and rebuild crumbling roads and bridges. But only a handful of their Republican colleagues heralded the bill, which won votes from 19 Republican senators and 13 Republicans in the House. “This bipartisan bill will put America’s infrastructure on the right track to grow jobs and make our economy competitive for the twenty-first century without raising taxes or adding to the debt,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said in a statement. “After decades of gridlock, I’m proud to have...

When angry Democrats lashed out over Terry McAuliffe's loss in Virginia last week, they blamed "white supremacy" and racism for Republicans winning, but particularly directed their ire at white suburban moms. Now, some of those moms are speaking out. What happened? CNN anchor Pamela Brown sat down with four white suburban moms to understand how President Joe Biden won a greater share of white suburban moms in the 2020 election, but Glenn Youngkin carried a greater share of them last week. ... all four supported Youngkin. The women said they believe that suburban moms "100%" are the reason Youngkin won,...

On Saturday morning's The Cross Connection, MSNBC viewers got a triple helping of racist comments as frequent guests Roland Martin and Elie Mystal took aim at whites. After Mystal claimed in the show's first hour that blue-collar whites only care about "using their guns on black people and getting away with it." And in the second hour, Martin declared that he was "sick of white men" like veteran Democratic strategist James Carville criticizing the far left, adding that he should "shut the F up." After Martin's racially specific hit on Carville evoked laughter from the panel, host Tiffany Cross mused...

In the spring of 2018, the world’s mountain of debt reached $250 trillion. Now, as 2021 draws to a close, global debt (both public and private sector) has comfortably surpassed the quarter of a quadrillion mark and is about to crash through $300 trillion (Source: Global Debt Monitor/September 14th, 2021, IIF).What is most striking about this dismal fact is that the voices calling for debt to be reined in are far less audible than one might expect, and the concern that economists and bankers used to express at the uncontrollable rise in debt is less apparent now than it was...

Dr. David Healy, Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University Canada, gave his testimony during a three-hour panel discussion hosted by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on 3 November in Washington D.C. The expert panel included doctors and medical researchers who treat Covid injection injuries and they were joined by patients who have experienced adverse events to Covid injections.Prof. Healy’s main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture. He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and...

VIDEOThe best known journalist in America and perhaps the world other than Julian Assange, James O'Keefe, is under attack and had his home as well as those of his Project Veritas colleagues raided by the FBI. An obvious attack upon press freedoms by the government. Therefore, he most definitely qualifies for one of the International Press Freedom Awards which will be announced by the Committee to Project Journalists on November 18.Exit Question: If O'Keefe does receive an International Press Freedom Award, should Christopher Wray receive an invitation to attend the ceremony?

If turkey tends to be the star of your Thanksgiving, chances are, you have a favorite cut of meat. Maybe it's the golden brown, crispy skin, glistening with rendered fat to the point where it almost resembles bacon; maybe it's a simple slice of breast meat, waiting to be doused (and then doused some more) with a flood of gravy. Or maybe it's the meaty, juicy turkey legs, which you're prepared to battle your table-mates for every year. If that's the case, this recipe for Chipotle-Spiced Smoked Turkey Legs is going to deliver for you big-time—it's 100-percent drumsticks, and you...