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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Kamala Harris's loss in the U.S. presidential election was a setback for women's progress — and cited several recent incidents that he said suggest women's rights are under attack by "regressive" and "reactionary" political forces. In an address to an Ottawa gala for Equal Voice, an organization that works to get more women elected to public office, Trudeau said politicians who are hostile to women's rights — particularly a woman's right to choose abortion — are "winning too often, unfortunately." He said feminists like himself have to be "lucid" about the challenges ahead....

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion to drop all four felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump in connection with his effort to overturn his 2020 presidential election in the lead-up to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S Capitol. Trump was first indicted on four felonies in August 2023: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. The case was then put on hold for months as Trump’s team argued that Trump could not be prosecuted.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are demanding more information from the FBI about its use of “software tools” to seek out election-related speech on social media after a bureau analyst mentioned their use during a recent deposition — before being barred from saying any more by FBI lawyers. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told FBI Director Christopher Wray Tuesday to hand over the information as President-elect Donald Trump’s looming return to office creates uncertainty for Wray’s future employment. “In a transcribed interview… on October 23, 2024, an FBI Criminal Investigative Division Analyst previously assigned to the [Foreign Influence Task...

Article III Project founder Mike Davis talked to Real America's Voice host Steve Bannon about government weaponization and the need to ensure it never happens again at the Department of Justice. STEVE BANNON, HOST: And Mike, here's where I want to start. I don't think we even have any clips because the mainstream media does not want to report this at all. And that is not about your controversy between you and the Attorney General of New York. We'll get to that maybe towards the end. Jim Jordan today sent Jack Smith a preserve your documents letter in fact of...

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan will rule on whether to toss President-elect Donald Trump’s felony conviction relating to hush-money payments to adult star Stormy Daniels. Trump’s impending decision will affect legal standing as he prepares to return to the White House. The judge, who had postponed Trump’s sentencing until after the 2024 election, has until Tuesday to determine if the conviction should stand. The decision comes after Trump’s legal team argued he should be shielded from specific legal proceedings under constitutional protections. CNN’s chief legal affairs correspondent, Paula Reid, said Trump’s attorneys want the sentencing tossed together. “They’re going...

New York Attorney General James Vows Continued Legal Fight Against Trump in Fiery Speech NEW YORK— New York Attorney General Letitia James delivered a pointed speech on Wednesday, underscoring her commitment to pursuing accountability against former President Donald Trump and his associates in the wake of a substantial court ruling in a civil fraud case. Speaking forcefully, James emphasized her office’s dedication to upholding the rule of law amid what she described as “egregious” and “intentional” financial misconduct. Gov Kathy Hochul and Leticia James just threatened @realDonaldTrump @DonaldJTrumpJr https://x.com/unvarnishedOpi/status/1854245721907892309? “For months because we’ve been here before,” James said, asserting that...

JUST IN: MSNBC host Joy Reid says the media has "said all they can" to help Kamala Harris before doing a whole segment on how Trump is like Hitler & Mussolini. The propagandist compared Trump to every historical dictator she could think of in the bizarre meltdown. "We begin our final sprint having arrived at that point in the election season where basically we, on this side of the TV screen have said, all we can, we've laid out the stakes in this crucial election where one side stands for freedom while the other meets the textbook definition of fascism."...

CV NEWS FEED // In the days leading up to Election Day, YouTube limited CatholicVote’s new ad campaign showing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris posing with a well-known member of the drag troupe the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI), an anti-Catholic hate group. Google, YouTube’s parent company, claimed the ad buy violated its “Improper Content” policy, which restricts the scope of content deemed “suggestive or inappropriate.” The ad debuted a week ago. As CatholicVote previously noted, its 30-second ad shows “a montage of multiple clips of SPI members dressed in lewd costumes mocking nuns and performing sexually suggestive dances on...

Americans struggling to pay bills? Record credit card debt? High grocery prices? Higher cost of living? No problem! A Washington Post columnist is idiotically claiming Americans are better off economically than they were four years ago.

WATCH: Rachel Maddow says the government will pull all of @elonmusk ’s contracts for supporting Trump.

The Kamala Harris campaign has escalated from pandering to threats in the election’s closing days with an ad featuring Saturday Night Live alum Will Ferrell, who vowed to hold people “personally accountable” if they do not vote for the Democrat candidate. The Kamala Harris campaign has once again drafted Will Ferrell in an apparent attempt to browbeat white males into backing the Vice President’s bid for the presidency. In an advertisement released by the campaign on Sunday, the 57-year-old Hollywood actor spoke to a fictionalized hesitant voter named ‘Gary’, seemingly chosen to represent the average white male in the United...

NBC aired a 90-second Trump ad during NASCAR on Sunday in response to complaints about Kamala Harris’ last-minute appearance on Saturday Night Live, which appeared to violate the FCC’s Equal Time Rule. Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, sparking claims it violated “Equal Time” rules that dictate a licensed broadcaster using public airwaves must give equal air time to a qualified candidate ahead of an election. “This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct...

Filing triggers 'Equal Time' requirement, but will be difficult to meet in time for Tuesday election NBC acknowledged giving Vice President Kamala Harris free air time on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” program. The “Equal Time” filing with the Federal Communications Commission, however, was made Sunday evening, probably too late for equal time to be given to Ms. Harris’ rivals. “Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for president in the 2024 national election, appeared without charge on NBC’s ’Saturday Night Live’ (SNL) for a total period of 1 minute and 30 seconds on November 2, 2024,” the network states in its...

Election officials across the country are trying to prepare for what's out of their control. When millions of Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, some voters might encounter minor issues including equipment malfunctions or delays. Election officials say that they are prepared for those inevitable challenges, which can come up every election year -- but that they struggle with the torrent of misinformation that could follow, where bad actors or election skeptics will sometimes use minor issues to amplify unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. Anticipating issues on Election Day, election officials in some counties have prepared pre-written fact...

Jontay Porters Burner @JontayMurray_99 Facebook is totally throttling the election. Zuckerberg is a liar . They blocked my post when I said this was ‘INTRIGUING’ ? @facebook @finkd @elonmusk #arrestedbykamala @JamesOKeefeIII https://arrestedbykamala.com 9:40 PM · Oct 16, 2024

Democrats were confronted earlier this year with a terrifying reality: a cap on out-of-pocket costs for patients to limit Medicare drug spending passed as part of Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act was set to spike premiums for millions of senior citizens just weeks before the 2024 presidential election. To avoid the political catastrophe of presiding over major premium increases in the middle of a closely contested election, the Biden-Harris administration used its authority to reroute appropriated funding to subsidize the premiums for seniors until after the election. The administration’s $5 billion budget gimmick kicked the proverbial can down the road,...

(Columbus) – Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose filed a lawsuit in federal court today on behalf of the citizens of Ohio, demanding the Department of Homeland Security provide access to United States citizenship records, which they have unlawfully withheld. “I swore an oath to uphold our state constitution, and that document clearly requires that only United States citizens can participate in Ohio elections,” said Secretary LaRose. “The Biden-Harris Administration is engaging in obstruction and outright abuse of power to prevent us from removing noncitizens from our voter rolls. I take my duty seriously, so if they want a fight...

Democrats are readying a rapid-fire response to flood social media and the airwaves with calls for calm and patience with vote-counting should Donald Trump try to prematurely claim election victory, as he did in 2020, Harris campaign and party officials told Reuters. The Republican candidate told reporters this week that he hoped to be able to declare victory on Election Day, although election experts have cautioned that it could take several days for the final result to be known, especially if there are demands for vote recounts in some key areas. Trump is locked in a razor-thin race with Democratic...

ACT BLUE may have been funneling foreign money by attaching names of unsuspecting Americans to “donations” about which they knew nothing.

Green politicians from across Europe on Friday called on U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to withdraw from the race for the White House and endorse Democrat Kamala Harris instead.“We are clear that Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House,” Green parties from countries including Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Estonia, Belgium, Spain, Poland and Ukraine said in a statement, which was shared with POLITICO ahead of publication.