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After an initial delay Monday evening, numbers were drawn on Tuesday for the record $1.9 billion Powerball. The drawn numbers were 10-33-41-47-56 with a red Powerball of 10. "The #Powerball numbers for Monday's drawing were 10, 33, 41, 47 and 56 with Powerball 10 Check your tickets now at http://powerball.net/checker," Powerball USA tweeted Tuesday morning. Drawing for the record jackpot was meant to take place Monday evening, but was delayed after one state's lottery did not report data in time. "Monday's (November 7th) #Powerball drawing remains delayed while one of the participating lotteries processes sales data. Once all the requirements...

If you hadn't noticed, Joe Scarborough's transformation from hardcore conservative to partisan Democrat is complete. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough waxed nostalgic over the 1998 midterm elections, when Rush Limbaugh was wrong in anticipating a Republican triumph after the Year of Lewinsky, and instead, Democrats enjoyed what Scarborough described as a "glorious night."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

“When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’” Luke 17:10This is a hard phrase to say and it is even harder to truly mean when said. Imagine the context in which this attitude toward Christian service must be spoken and lived. For example, imagine a mother who spends the day cleaning and then preparing the family meal. At the end of the day, it is certainly nice to be recognized for her hard work and to be thanked for it.Of course, when the family is...

There will likely be tens of thousands of undated and wrongly dated ballots rejected statewide under a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling. Lt. Gov. John Fetterman’s campaign for U.S. Senate has joined the legal fight over whether mail ballots with no date or the incorrect date should be counted in Tuesday’s election. There will likely be tens of thousands of undated and wrongly dated ballots rejected statewide under a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling. .There will likely be tens of thousands of undated and wrongly dated ballots rejected statewide under that ruling. Because mail ballots are so disproportionately used by Democrats over...

Twitter owner Elon Musk faced a barrage of criticism on Monday after posting a satirical tweet with an archival photo of a Nazi soldier. The tweet said, “How times have changed” and included a photo of a soldier carrying a container of three carrier pigeons. The pic was captioned “3 unread messages.” A follow-up tweet said: “Back when birds were real.” And another from the Twitter CEO, who has 115 million followers, compared the birds to Twitter's bird logo, “But if Twitter is bird, that’s means…” But a steady stream of users quickly pointed out that the soldier in the...

A bomb threat called into a New York City school Sunday temporarily suspended operations at the early voting site, police and election officials said. Election workers and early voters were evacuated from the East Harlem school around 12 p.m. until the NYPD could provide the “all clear.” “The NYPD notified us of a bomb scare at 1573 Madison Ave, which is an early voting site. Emergency protocols were initiated immediately. Staff along w/ a handful of voters were escorted out safely,” Board of Elections Deputy Executive Director Vincent Ignizio wrote on Twitter. No one was injured and police are searching...

As the Republican Party appears poised to regain a Senate majority in Tuesday’s midterm elections, prior speculation of a challenge to Mitch McConnell’s leadership has only increased as the final hours count down. As reported by The Hill, Florida Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has long hinted at the possibility that he might challenge McConnell for the position of Senate Majority Leader. On Sunday, Scott again refused to rule out the option of running against McConnell after NBC’s Chuck Todd asked him about such a showdown on “Meet the Press.” When Todd asked if Scott would consider running for Senate Majority...

Biden’s magic trick was to turn the economy into a train wreck. Example? The 30-year mortgage rate was 2.88% on Biden’s inauguration day (January 20, 2021). They are now 7.32%, a 154% increase under Biden. ... The US economy is suffering from knucklehead energy policies, reckless Federal spending and rampant inflation. Joe Biden doing economic magic tricks, turning a vibrant economy into an inflation-ravaged one.

Did I say “despite”? Perhaps “because” might apply instead.When Elon Musk took over Twitter on October 28, a great wailing and gnashing of teeth arose from not just Twitter’s employees but also the Twitterati on line. The cognoscenti declared the platform dead, and a number of them announced their departures. Others predicted that Musk would drive the platform into oblivion by chasing off all of its dynamic content providers.It’s still early days, but according to The Verge, it looks more like Musk has touched off a renaissance instead:Twitter’s daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of...

1,036 residents of Cobb County, Georgia, requested a mail-in ballot but never received it The deadline for some residents of Cobb County, Georgia, to return their mail-in ballots was extended by a judge on Monday after election officials failed to send out ballots to 1,036 people who requested them. Some of the affected voters filed a lawsuit over the weekend asking for an extension after election officials admitted that the mistake was due to an error on their part. "This is an important result for these Cobb County voters, who through no fault of their own did not receive the...

In the late hours of November 3, 2020, Donald Trump seemed to have done the improbable: against the unified opposition of bureaucracy, academia, media, and military, against unprecedented big tech censorship, and against the superior funding and organization of the enemy, he seemed to have won a second term. The polls had once again proven themselves to be nonsense, and the 45th president held small but substantial leads in the key Rust Belt states that had brought him victory in 2016. Bookies gave Trump roughly 75% odds of a second term, and on PredictIt Trump’s odds of victory peaked at...

Should mail-in-votes that are undated or incorrectly dated be counted in Tuesday’s midterm elections? Common sense, state law, and a Pennsylvania court all say “no,” but Democrat Senate wannabe John Fetterman thinks otherwise and took his case to court Monday. Fetterman, who’s in a tight race (notice I didn’t say “neck and neck”) with Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, joined the Democrats’ U.S. House and Senate campaign arms and two Democratic voters to sue in a federal court in Pittsburgh, arguing that the handwritten date requirement is a burden and an attempt at voter suppression.I guess the argument is that...

This is totally fine and normal, good citizen. 2+2=5. The title of this story is this: Early election night results might not indicate final tallies (and why that's OK) And super-totally-non-partisan ABC says we'll see a "red mirage" instead of a red wave. Mhmm. As early Election Day results come in on Tuesday, it will likely appear that a Republican candidates vying for any number of the federal or statewide races appear to be leading their Democratic opponents, even by large margins. Their leads will dwindle, or crumble completely, after perceived "dumps" of votes are recorded by state election officials...

One of the country’s leading election handicappers says the House is “easily” within the reach of Republicans, who are heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections with the highest expectations that they’ll have control of the chamber next year. In their final analysis heading into the polls, election experts at the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan group based in Washington, acknowledged the lingering uncertainty surrounding this year’s outcome. But with the political winds shifting decisively to the GOP’s advantage in recent weeks, Republicans are all but guaranteed to flip the lower chamber, Cook said.

In a throwback to 2020, ABC News reports that a “red mirage” could make it look like Republicans are winning big on the night, but that a full vote count could take “weeks.”The legacy news outlet has published an article titled ‘Early election night results might not indicate final tallies (and why that’s OK)’.The piece explains how Republicans may “appear to be leading their Democratic opponents, even by large margins” in federal and statewide races, but that their leads “will dwindle, or crumble completely” after “dumps” of mail-in and absentee ballots are counted after election day, which could take “weeks”.Why...

A Washington thief accidentally knocks himself unconscious after running into a plate glass window as he tried to get away with luxury stolen goods, according to a report. The brazen robbery, which was caught on video, took place at a Louis Vuitton store in Bellevue in broad daylight.

Even the liberal Washington Post is giving President Joe Biden a "bottomless Pinocchio" rating for making multiple misleading and debunked claims in his recent statements....Biden received his own bottomless Pinocchio for continuously repeating that he has traveled 17,000 miles with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a claim that has never been proven....There were several other highly misleading statements presented in the Post's fact check roundup, including Biden's false claim that gas prices were more than $5 a gallon when he took office.

Although this ballot would require an Amendment to the State Constitution requiring an I.D. to vote, the expanded reading of the ballot is more defining vs the condensed version. Don't be deceived. If it is sponsored and supported by the aclu and naacp then that's enough for me to be against it.

Within hours of polls opening in Pennsylvania Tuesday morning, a "last minute change" is already causing vote count delays in notoriously corrupt Philadelphia. Before the change this morning, votes in the city were expected to be fully counted by Wednesday morning. From the Philadelphia Inquirer: City officials voted Tuesday morning — as polling places opened and the vote count began for the midterm elections — to reinstate a time consuming and labor-intensive process for catching double votes that will slow how quickly they can report results.If Pennsylvania’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race is as close as expected, a wait for results...

Notorious Nigerian fraudster 'Ray Hushpuppi' who flaunted his bling lifestyle on Instagram is jailed in America for 11 years as FBI calls him 'one of the most prolific money launderers in the world' Ramon Abbas, 40, hacked into emails and convinced people to wire him money He laundered millions stolen from banks, a soccer club and a New York law firm He boasted 2million Instagram followers he tried to 'inspire' with his lifestyle A Nigerian influencer who flaunted his lavish lifestyle online has been jailed for 11 years after laundering millions of stolen dollars by hacking into emails and convincing...