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On November 4, 1980, there was a tidal wave in American politics. Former California Governor Ronald W. Reagan won 44 states, trouncing incumbent President Jimmy Carter with a thrilling 489-49 Electoral College drubbing. That’s what we remember. 44 states voted to throw out an incompetent liberal incumbent, electing the first conservative to the White House since Calvin Coolidge in 1924. But there are some other statistics about that day that we may have forgotten. The Republican Party also picked up a net of four more governorships that night… the Republican Party picked up a net of 34 members of the...

THE King has told actor Luke Evans how his bloodline shows he is related to Vlad Dracula.The Hobbit star had just finished the 2014 film Dracula Untold when he first met His Majesty, who was then Prince of Wales.The 15th century Romanian ruler Vlad III, also known and Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Tepes and Vlad DraculaThe actor, 43, played a fictional version of the 15th century Romanian ruler Vlad III, also known and Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Tepes and Vlad Dracula. In the movie, Vlad turns into a vampire. Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, Luke said: “I remember the...

The Luzerne County District Attorney's Office is investigating a report involving multiple ballots deposited in the counter-top drop box inside the election bureau, DA Sam Sanguedolce announced. According to his release, election bureau employees noticed someone place four ballots in the box. The ballots were segregated, and the bureau notified the DA's Office, it said. "The matter is currently under investigation, and the Election Board will be asked to decide what, if any action should be taken with respect to the ballots," it said. Sanguedolce noted the political party or parties of the voters listed on the ballots has not...

How many recent mainstream media hoaxes did you fall for? ... and/or still believe?Russian collusionTrump called neo-nazis "fine people"Jussie SmollettBubba Wallace garage pullCovington kidsGovernor Whitmer kidnapping plotKavanaugh rapeTrump pee tapeCOVID lab leak was a conspiracy theoryBorder agents whipped migrantsTrump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-a-LagoSteele DossierRussian bounties on US soldiers in AfghanistanTrump said drinking bleach would fight COVIDMuslim travel banHunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformationAndrew Cuomo best COVID leadershipTrump built cages for migrant kids"Austere religious scholar"Trump overfed Koi fish in JapanBuild Back Better will pay for itselfTrump tax cuts benefited only the richCloth masks prevent COVIDIf you get vaccinated you won't...

Former President Donald Trump released an ad urging voters to support America First Republican candidates to “help save America,” just days before next week’s midterm elections. The video starts with audio of Trump saying that next week’s election is a “referendum” on President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D), and Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D).” “The radical left Democrat Congress is destroying our country,” Trump said. “You’re going to elect an incredible slate of True America First Republicans up and down the ballot.” The video displayed text encouraging voters to vote Republican while the montage of Trump’s audio...

SARASOTA — Dan Smith moved from Ohio to Florida 26 years ago, and a Democrat hasn't won a governor's race since he arrived. The state was always competitive when election time rolled around, though. Indeed, the last three governor’s races in Florida were decided by a percentage point or less. This year feels different, said Smith, a retired plumber from Cincinnati and a registered Democrat. He cast his vote Wednesday for Democrat Charlie Crist in the governor’s race. But he doesn’t think Crist has much of a chance

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has torpedoed a suggestion that Republican lawmakers might use an upcoming fight over the debt limit to reign in federal spending on Social Security and Medicare. In an interview with Politico published Friday, Hawley bluntly rejected an idea proposed by some House Republicans to use an impending vote to increase the debt limit as leverage force Democrats to compromise on entitlement reforms. "That’s dumb," Hawley said. "We need to do everything we can to keep them solvent for sure. But the idea of fiddling around with them and using those as leverage? I hope nobody’s seriously...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Three adults were arrested at a Guilford County high school after police say they arrived at the school's campus to help assist their relatives in beating up a group of students. The Greensboro Police Department said Laquita Sims, 31, Tracy Sims, 49, and Demorshea Sims, 21, came onto the campus of Grimsley High School with two female students at around 12:30 p.m. to encourage and instigate a fight. The three women "encouraged" the fighting, according to a news release from the police sent to WXII. Laquita Sims was arrested for assaulting a teacher who tried to...

The past year or more has seen China’s position on the world stage change quite a bit. The nation’s increasingly aggressive stance toward Taiwan and the rapid expansion of its military and economic influence across the Pacific has left many western nations on edge. And, of course, China’s continued support of Russia during the invasion of Ukraine puts them at odds with all of NATO and the rest of our allies. That’s why it was rather surprising to see German Chancellor Olaf Scholz flying to Beijing this week to meet with Xi Jinping. Scholz clearly wanted to talk about renewed...

Keaira Bennefield’s estranged husband — who now stands accused of killing her with a shotgun — somehow obtained an order of protection against her after he savagely beat the mom of three in their home, The Post has learned. The stunning new details behind the Buffalo woman’s shocking Oct. 5 slaying are contained in an official transcript of ex-con Adam Bennefield’s arraignment in the vicious, caught-on-camera beating inside their home — less than a week before cops say he gunned down his wife. Keaira, 30, said that Adam Bennefield, 45, “told me to ‘shut the --- up’ and that he...

Devastating cuts to Twitter’s workforce on Friday, four days before the midterm elections, are fueling anxieties among political campaigns and election offices that have counted on the social network’s staff to help them combat violent threats and viral lies. The mass layoffs Friday gutted teams devoted to combating election misinformation, adding context to misleading tweets and communicating with journalists, public officials and campaign staff. The layoffs included a number of people who were scheduled to be on call this weekend and early next week to monitor for signs of foreign disinformation, spam and other problematic content around the election, one...

The NY Times is connecting some dots here, noting that President Biden has made a number of claims about the economy recently that aren’t true. But the framing of the piece, for the most part, puts all of this down to the normal Biden habit of “embellishing the truth.”As President Biden and his administration have told it in recent months, America has the fastest-growing economy in the world, his student debt forgiveness program passed Congress by a vote or two, and Social Security benefits became more generous thanks to his leadership.None of that was accurate.The president, who has long been...

Nike announced on Friday that it has suspended its relationship with the Nets star in the wake of his promotion of an anti-Semitic film and book on social media. The company also said it will no longer launch the latest iteration of Irving’s shoe, the Kyrie 8. “At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form of antisemitism,” Nike said in a statement. “To that end, we’ve made the decision to suspend our relationship with Kyrie Irving effective immediately. “We are deeply saddened and disappointed by the situation and its impact on everyone.”

The Biden administration will not say when the president plans on calling newly elected Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to congratulate him on his victory, drawing accusations the U.S. administration is trying to isolate the conservative Jewish leader before he even takes office.Asked on Thursday afternoon if President Joe Biden has any plans to phone Netanyahu following his victory this week in the Israeli elections, a White House spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon, "We don’t have any call to preview at this point."The Israeli media reported on Thursday that Biden is expected to call Netanyahu some time over the...

Statements by several Iranian officials lately show that despite often defiant rhetoric, they begin to fear that the Islamic Republic might be nearing its end. On Thursday, the escalation of unrest in Karaj, Tehran, Amol, Ghazvin, Esfahan and many other Iranian cities took the protests in Iran to a new height and intensity. Zabihollah Khodaeian, the chairman of State Auditing Organization has said that "Enemies believe the Islamic Republic is finished." Like most other Iranian officials who have signalled their fear that the Islamic Republic's downfall might be near, Khodaeian blamed foreign governments for the uprising although he acknowledged that...

Russian drones attacking an ammunition dump in the Ukrainian city of Krasnormeysk... A federal jury finding a former aide to President Trump not guilty... What happened when Paul Pelosi was attacked... Here in York, Pennsylvania Friday evening a big jump in gasoline prices... The price of oil dramatically higher... Inflation will rage until 2025... Protesters in the rain tonight in Dresden, Germany as demonstrations against government COVID, economic and Russia policies continue... More shortages on French supermarket shelves... Twitter's new owner Elon Musk is reorganizing... Meanwhile the Anti-Defamation League calling for a Twitter ad boycott... The Republican Trafalgar Group polling...

“Broken” is how a new report by the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee describes the FBI under the aegis of Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland. The 1050-page report, entitled FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS: WHAT THEIR DISCLOSURES INDICATE ABOUT THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, was officially released on Friday. It places the blame not on the front-line field agents but on Wray and Garland and the politicized bureaucracy and hierarchy within the agency. The report wastes no time outlining examples of abuses, starting in the executive summary:The FBI is artificially inflating statistics about domestic violent extremism in the nation....

Four years ago, a majority of Californians voted in favor of a ballot measure empowering the Legislature to end to the biannual ritual of clock-changing for Daylight Saving Time. This Sunday, Californians will still be setting their clocks back an hour. What happened? A MANDATE FROM THE PEOPLEThen the bill died in committee. Then Chu left office and the cause lost its champion. Irvine Republican Assemblyman Steven Choi took up the mantle this year, with Assembly Bill 2868. It failed get the required two-thirds vote required in order for it to pass. WILL More than 7.1 million Californians, nearly 60%...

As if John Fetterman’s debate with Dr. Oz wasn’t enough of a campaign killer, Joe Biden announced today that he will be closing coal plants in favor of wind and solar power.Joe Biden just said that he’s going to shut down coal plants all over America and replace them with wind and solar.Retweet so every voter in Pennsylvania and Ohio will see this.pic.twitter.com/65BvGIqzVG— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) November 4, 2022Let’s see how that goes over with Pennsylvania voters, especially considering that Fetterman claimed a while back he is against fracking, although he flip-flopped when asked about this in the debate.What happens...

Florida's Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine both approved a rule on Friday to prohibit minors in the state from receiving gender transition surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone therapies, the first such ban initiated through state medical boards. Under the new rule, people under 18 years old will be prohibited from receiving these treatments. The Board of Osteopathic Medicine passed an exception in its rule for those that are already enrolled in a Food and Drug Administration Institutional Review Board-approved clinical trial at an affiliated university center, while the Board of Medicine did not. Board attorney Ed Tellechea...