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ATLANTA — Democrats seeking to create divides among supporters of President Donald Trump and the Georgia Republican Senate candidates doubled down on their messaging on Tuesday. Really American, a left-wing super PAC that spent close to half a million dollars campaigning against Trump and in support of Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, reiterated Tuesday that as Trump and his legal team pursue voter fraud allegations in a handful of states, including Georgia — where certified results showed Trump trailed Biden by a narrow 0.26 percent margin — Republican incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler have somehow failed...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) vowed that he will not vote for packing the courts or ending the filibuster if Democrats take the majority in the Senate. Manchin also expressed opposition to defunding the police, Medicare for all, and the Green New Deal.

The U.S. economy added 661,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell to 7.9 percent, indicating that the economy continued to add jobs even as coronavirus infections rose across many states. Economists had forecast an addition of around 800,0000 jobs and a decline in the unemployment rate to 8.2 percent from 8.4 percent last month. So Friday’s figures missed on job creation but beat on the unemployment rate.

The feud between Jimmy Kimmel and Sean Hannity shows no signs of letting up, with both TV hosts launching attacks through their shows and Twitter on Thursday and Friday. In the latest installment, Hannity resurfaced a clip from over a decade ago of Kimmel donning blackface as part of a skit for The Man Show.

A modern production of “Julius Caesar” — with an actor made up as Donald Trump getting offed onstage — will continue to play in Central Park as scheduled, the theater company said. The production — part of the annual Shakespeare in the Park series — has been ripped by the White House since it was mounted Sunday.

McCain (R-Ariz.) argued Comey has a “double standard” for publicly announcing Hillary Clinton was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing for her email server investigation, whereas President Trump has not been publicly vindicated by him. Comey explained Clinton was cleared because the email server case was “completed,” whereas the separate Russia investigation involving Trump affiliates is “nowhere near” complete, so a conclusion cannot yet be made. Sherman was baffled by the comparison.

"Evelyn Farkas Admits She Helped Spy On Trump For Obama" Listen to Mika introduce Evelyn Farkas here and watch Evelyn Farkas' on camera acknowledgment (head nodding) of what Mika was saying. "And then, Evelyn Farkas, the other big story of the day, you actually knew about this, uh, attempt to get and preserve this information; and full transparently doing some work yourself. Tell us about that."

Farkas notably served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia under President Obama, and parted ways with the White House in 2015 after some five years amid the ongoing debate over how to respond to Russia's role in the unfolding conflict in Ukraine. ... Farkas would go on to serve as a foreign policy advisor for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, telling the New Yorker earlier this month that she thought Clinton "got it" when it came to issues regarding Russia.

On Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters that he is moving on after the Republican health care bill was pulled from a floor vote in the House of Representatives. As market and political analysts work to understand what the bill’s failure means for the future of tax reform, one outspoken advocate for tax cuts expressed concern. Grover Norquist, president and founder of Americans for Tax Reform, a politically conservative organization that opposes all tax increases, said health care reform is an essential first step to achieving significant tax reform. “It has to go first in order to have a significant...

A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report shows that nearly 5,000 more people died from opioids in 2015 than in 2014. Both heroin and opioid use have exploded in the US, after decades of doctors over-prescribing painkillers in the 1990s and 2000s. A report from the CDC released Thursday found that the drug problem has become so deadly that heroin deaths outnumbered gun fatalities last year for the first time in US history. Until 2007, gun deaths outnumbered heroin deaths five to one, according to the Washington Post. But 2015 saw 12,989 people die from heroin and 12,979...

Last week was a real eye opener for me regarding how valuable outrage can be. Outrage can be held to a standard to discover what else the US Taxpayer should be outraged about. For example, we are told how outrageous it was for taxpayer money to be used to "retain" the very ones who caused the mess in the first place (the Financial Products Division of AIG) and that they wouldn't have a job in the first place except for the taxpayer money that was used in support of their jobs. We even found out that contracts or tax rates...

In recent events around the country, Mrs. Pelosi has warned members of the House they should be ready to return to Washington after the election. "We have some harsh decisions to make. Some of them can't wait until January," she said earlier this week in Denver. "What we can't wait for is a stimulus package." On Monday, Mrs. Pelosi will host an "economic forum" in her Capitol Hill office, bringing a group of economists together with the House Democratic leadership to discuss steps to strengthen the economy.

Here is what I suggest for McCain to offer at some point in the debate, maybe at the conclusion: A Homework assignment for the American electorate. After giving the assignment, he should dedicate a portion of his web site on the matter as folks check in for their grades. Lets put here the homework we believe is essential for the American electorate to study before the election. I beleive the assignments must be balanced between general topics, research on McCain/Palin, and research on Obama/Biden. Here are three assignments on my mind currently: Assignment: What are the root causes of the...

It must be asked. What would have happened if it were Sarah who got all "choked up" on stage? It would have been game over. Also, Joe's moment looked contrived to me, and I am one to give large frontiers of benefit of doubt. Also, has the McCain campaigned sandbagged this debate intentionally for 5 weeks? (See, I give large frontiers of beneift of doubt.) I think that would imply strategy where clearly the McCain campaign has been adrift for a few weeks. All in all, I really enjoyed the debate. If McCain loses, it is his loss. Sarah did...

MCCAIN: Jim, when I came home from prison, I saw our veterans being very badly treated, and it made me sad. And I embarked on an effort to resolve the POW-MIA issue, which we did in a bipartisan fashion, and then I worked on normalization of relations between our two countries so that our veterans could come all the way home. I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

I think part of the dynamic with Governor Palin and the American Electorate is a kind of "Jesse Venturaism" of sorts. We are full up to our eyes of the establishment "vetting" our leaders for us. The Minnesota politicians completely discounted Jesse Ventura as "not vetted" by the establishment and therefore "not allowed" to be Governor. Of course, I'm not associating Governor Palin with Governor Ventura on policies, but I think there is a dimension of this that was pioneered by Jesse. It is a completely different kind of "glass ceiling" that Jesse broke through and I don't think that...

What is the Washington DC equivalent of the "Kitchen Table"? You hear about how we American gather around the kitchen table wondering how we are going to balance the dollars coming in from the dollars going out. Yes, this is real life. We can't just vote ourselves a raise or print more money. But what is the DC equivalent of the "Kitchen Table"? Is it the "Pig Trough"? Does Congress gather around the "Pig Trough" to really worry about our "Kitchen Table"? I am with McCain. Back to basics. Government has become nothing more than Partisan Politics on all sides...

Question: Is $250,000/year the new million? I have noticed Obama throw out this income level nodding his head, smiling, and saying "you've done pretty well these last few years". The image in my mind is one of a suggestion of coming (forced) economic karma, as if the only way someone could make $250,000/year is for the government to allow them to. Is $250,000/year beyond the American Dream?

Well, the night came and Sarah was up to the task. As I have slept on it now, I wonder just what transpired last night. The media and pundits were generally behaved and declared an evening cease fire of sorts. I am sure they will be back at it again. But what was the night about for us voters? What has been sinking in for me since her announcement as VP candidate is that Sarah is "us". She is real and she is authentic. She is someone you could have talked to at the mall. In that, she doesn't fit...

BARTIROMO: SO YOU'RE SAYING IT'S A TINY LITTLE FOOTPRINT, ACTUALLY THE OPERATIONS IN PRUDO BAY, BUT PEOPLE THINK OF IT AS SO EXPANSIVE AND SO MASSIVE THAT IT'S GOING TO HAVE A MATERIAL EFFECT IF IN FACT WE WERE TO SEEDRILLING THERE ON THE WILDLIFE AND ON THE COMMUNITY. PALIN: WELL, ANWR AT THAT POINT IT'S ABOUT 2,000 ACRES THAT IS BEING ASKED TO BE LOOKED AT AND TO BE EXPLORED AND TO BE PRODUCED. 2,000 ACRES OUT OF 20 MILLION ACRES. THAT FOOTPRINT, IT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF L.A.X. OR ONE OF THE LARGER AIRPORTS ACROSS THE NATION. AND...