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Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, a Democrat, opposes voter identification laws because poor people and "people of color" are "less likely to have their ID at any one given time."

President Donald Trump argued Monday that he should be declared the winner of the 2020 election, citing fraud and election interference by the FBI.The former president pointed to reports that the FBI worked to bury the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop on social media right before the 2020 election.“This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our Country,” Trump wrote on social media.Trump said the FBI purposefully tried to stop him from winning the 2020 election.He proposed two solutions.“REMEDY: Declare the rightful winner or, and this would be the minimal solution, declare the 2020...

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin intends to increase the number of his troops by 137 thousand people. Experts attribute this decision to the numerous losses of the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine. What the Kremlin is guided by and whether it will change something at the front - says OBOZREVATEL. The fiasco of the "special operation" According to Putin's decree, which comes into force from the beginning of next year, the full-time strength of the Russian army increases to 1,150,628 people. "The Government of the Russian Federation should provide for the allocation of budgetary allocations from the federal budget...

North Korea's Mini SubmarinesImage: Creative Commons. North Korea’s Submarine Fleet: Just How Dangerous? After having published a recent article on the status of the submarine fleet of one of the United States’ strong East Asian allies – that being Taiwan’s – it would only be appropriate for 19FortyFive also to analyze the submarine fleet of one of America’s critical adversaries in the USINDOPACOM area of responsibility (AOR). No, not the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but rather the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK); given the headline-grabbing acts of intimidation waged by the PRC against Taiwan, it’s easy to lose...

Donald Trump is taking his case against FBI "election interference" to the American people — and to a new level — by demanding to be declared the "rightful winner" or "have a new election." "So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn't, 'Trump would have easily won the 2020 Presidential Election,'" Trump wrote Monday in Truth Social. "This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a level never seen before in our country." Trump added the "remedy" for the 2020 presidential election meddling should be...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said former President Donald Trump simply "broke" Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who "decided she is a Washington, D.C., left-wing Democrat now." Cruz, speaking on his "Verdict" YouTube show, spoke of Cheney's recent loss in the Wyoming Republican primary after she joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 select committee as vice chair. "There are some people who Donald Trump just broke," Cruz, R-Texas, said. "They hate Trump so much that their mind went on fritz. "And I got to say, Liz is unrecognizable. She has become a left-wing Democrat now." Cruz said, while he sometimes takes...

With more than 2 million people in New York State alone becoming eligible for student loan forgiveness under President Biden’s recently announced plan, loan providers nationwide need to staff up to handle the influx of paperwork, says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. He called on the companies to add “thousands” of staff to process loan forgiveness applications and answer questions. “We need our loan processors to get with it and inform students how to do this,” Schumer said at a Midtown press conference, adding that loan providers are currently understaffed.

A 'filter team' of FBI agents poring over 15 boxes of material seized from Mar-a-Lago has already completed its review of material that may involve attorney client privilege, and told a judge they would provide a more fulsome review of the material they removed. That material, however, will remain under seal, following a federal district judge's 'preliminary intent' to grant former President Donald Trump's request for a 'special master' to go through the documents. 'The Privilege Review Team ... identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,' the government wrote US District Judge Eileen Cannon in...

Joe Biden's student loan relief plan could trigger up to $1,100 in state-level taxes in at least 13 states because the $10,000-$20,000 in forgiveness could count toward an individual's income when filing their taxes. Some of the states with the largest poverty levels, including Arkansas, West Virginia and Mississippi are among the states where individuals and couples could see increased tax burdens due to the student loan forgiveness. The Tax Foundation think tank notes that 13 states currently would consider this relief income, but the states that might impose taxes on this student loan relief could shrink if legislative or...

Republicans lead Democrats by two points on the generic congressional ballot, according to a CBS News poll released Sunday. The poll found that of the 2,126 registered voters surveyed, 47 percent said they would vote for the generic Republican candidate. In contrast, only 45 percent of the respondents said they would vote for the generic Democrat.

Does it really have the radar signature of a bumble bee? The U.S. Air Force thinks so. I am talking, of course, about the F-22, a $108 billion program that at the time of its development was the most advanced fighter in the world. The F-22, though, is expensive to fly and maintain. It sets the Air Force back $68,000 per hour of flight – more than the F-15E Strike Eagle and the F-16C Fighting Falcon. Why did the U.S. military insist on buying it despite the cost? The main reasons are its stealthiness; its supercruise, or ability to fly...

Intelslava reports on the attempted ukie offensive near Kherson... 🇷🇺🇺🇦 "The AFU attempted a limited "counterattack" today on the Kherson front. The troops and equipment involved were immediately savaged by Russian artillery and airstrikes. The AFU has no meaningful offensive capacity. Leaving their defensive positions only hastens their destruction. 39.6Kviews 11:44 Intel Slava Z 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south, the area - north of Posad-Pokrovsky: ▪️Two Su-25 attack aircraft of the Armed Forces of the Ukraine were shot down ▪️7-8 infantry fighting vehicles, 4-5 tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed...

Here's a hypothetical. Sometime after October 1, 2022, a civil bench trial (no jury) is taking place in state district court in Albuquerque. The judge will decide both the facts and the law. The only people in the courtroom are the judge; the court reporter; the bailiff; the plaintiff; the plaintiff's attorney, Mr. X; the defendant; and the defendant's attorney, Ms. Y. It's a routine creditor-debtor dispute, where the plaintiff is asserting that the defendant breached a contract and owes him money. One day has been allotted for the trial. It's just before noon, and attorney Mr. X is almost...

On the menu today: Last week brought a pair of odd and troubling comments from New York governor Kathy Hochul and aspiring Florida governor Charlie Crist, both echoing an arrogant decree from former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and suggesting that a governor has the moral authority to decide which political values are acceptable in his or her state. What happens when this arrogant mentality really takes hold? Meanwhile, Chris Stirewalt, the former political editor of Fox News Channel, shares a hard lesson about telling people things they don’t want to hear. And the reader reviews of Gathering Five Storms...

t the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of Philadelphia started #MaskUpPHL, encouraging Philadelphians to wear masks to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. The Philadelphia City Council’s COVID-19 Community Advertising Plan laid the groundwork for a $400,000 communications campaign entailing radio public service announcements, video messaging from Council members, billboard advertising and newspaper advertisements. It was wonderful. Our city government was making strides to take care of its people, letting us know the protective benefits of mask-wearing. What none of us anticipated, however, was the rise in popularity of so-called “Pooh Shiesty” masks, known to non-Gen Z’ers as...

LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — A Pinellas Park woman was arrested on Saturday after Largo police officers said she was driving with nearly three times the legal limit of alcohol in her system and carrying a bag of cocaine in her bra. According to a Largo Police Department arrest report, officers spotted a van swerving between lanes on East Bay Drive near Huntington Drive at around 10:43 p.m. They pulled over Tiffany Lynn Novak, 33, and claimed they noticed “numerous signs of impairment”, including glassy eyes, slurred speech and a strong smell of alcohol that would grow stronger as she spoke...

"The Constitution and federal law establish a detailed timetable following the presidential election during which time the members of the electoral college convene in the 50 state capitals and in the District of Columbia, cast their votes for President and Vice President, and submit their votes through state officials to both houses of Congress. The electoral votes are scheduled to be opened before a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021. Federal law specifies the procedures for this session and for challenges to the validity of an electoral vote. This report describes the steps in the process and precedents...

Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist Mark 6:17–29 Friends, today’s Gospel tells of the death of John the Baptist. Herod had arrested John, from whom Jesus had sought baptism, and put him to death. The arrest and death of John the Baptist were signals for Jesus. Immediately after the arrest, Jesus withdraws to Galilee and commences his own ministry of preaching and healing. Are these two events just coincidentally related? Hardly. Jesus read the arrest of John as a kind of signal that he was to begin. We must remember that Jesus, like any Jew of his...

Kinzinger, a fervent Trump critic, was responding to claims Lowry made in a recent New York Times guest essay in which he argued that the various investigations into Trump, including the probe into his conduct on January 6, are unlikely to produce clear-cut evidence of the kind necessary to responsibly undertake the destabilizing exercise of prosecuting a former president. [cut] Kinzinger responded by arguing that existing law is surely broad enough to implicate Trump in criminal behavior on January 6, and even suggested passing new legislation targeting Trump if existing statues weren’t sufficient to prosecute. "Look, I had a lot...