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Both Germany and France announced new nationwide lockdowns on Wednesday as Europe enters a deadly new phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Chancellor Angela Merkel says German officials have agreed to a four-week shutdown of restaurants, bars, cinemas, theaters and other leisure facilities in a bid to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus infections. Merkel and the country's 16 state governors, who are responsible for imposing and easing restrictions, agreed on the partial lockdown in a videoconference Wednesday. It is set to take effect Monday and last until the end of November. Merkel said, "We must act, and now, to avoid...

Joe Biden said his campaign has assembled the “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics� in a podcast published Saturday — an unfortunate slip of the tongue, as the presidential election will likely see major legal battles over the legitimacy of millions of ballots cast via mass-mail voting.Speaking to former Barack Obama staffers on Pod Save America, host Dan Pfeiffer asked Biden what his message was to people who have not yet voted.A transcript of this exchange follows below: DAN PFEIFFER: One final question for you, Mr. Vice President. This interview is gonna come out tomorrow,...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said that young Americans will vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, not because they think he is “their favorite person” but because they believe they can more easily sway him to act on behalf of their interests.

Pope Francis called for the passage of civil union laws for same-sex couples in a documentary that aired in Rome on Wednesday, in a major departure from the position held by the Vatican’s doctrinal office. “Homosexuals have a right to be part of the family,” the pontiff said in “Francesco,” a documentary about his life. “They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it.” “What we have to create is a civil union law,” he added. “That way, they are legally covered. I stood up for...

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has claimed that photographs of underage girls and other “very sensitive” materials were discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop and have been handed over to Delaware police. In an explosive interview with conservative news channel Newsmax, the former New York City mayor said he found disturbing content on a hard drive that allegedly belonged to the 50-year-old son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. According to Giuliani, a text message sent from Hunter Biden to his father complains about how Hunter’s sister-in-law, who was once his lover, told his therapist that he had been “sexually...

The New Yorker has suspended reporter Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating on a Zoom video chat between members of the New Yorker and WNYC radio last week. Toobin says he did not realize his video was on. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers,” Toobin told Motherboard. “I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video,” he added. Two people who were on the call told Motherboard separately that the call...

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is vowing to bring no “agenda” to the court, batting back senators’ questions Tuesday on abortion, gun rights and the November election, insisting she would take a conservative approach to the law but decide cases as they come. “Judges can’t just wake up one day and say I have an agenda, I like guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will on the world,” Barrett said at the second day of confirmation hearings before the Senate. The 48-year-old appellate court judge,...

A Portland, Oregon, mayoral candidate was seen wearing a skirt featuring the faces of communist leaders responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Communist dictators Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin can be seen on the skirt, along with the murderous Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. The leftist candidate, Sarah Iannarone, leads incumbent Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler by as many as 11 percentage points, according to Willamette Week. Journalist Andy Ngo tweeted out a picture of Iannarone wearing the skirt on Monday.

All summer long, Joe Biden surrogates in Pennsylvania lived in fear of a rerun of 2016’s Nightmare on Election Night, when the Democratic candidate for president, after leading in the polls for weeks, lost the state to Donald Trump by less than one percentage point, clearing his path to the White House. Their biggest concern was tactical: By avoiding in-person campaigning during the pandemic, Biden insiders worried that the former VP was ceding a big advantage to Trump. The tipping point, sources within the campaign say, was a September 26 ABC News/Washington Post poll showing much softer support among the...

Twitter will remove tweets wishing for President Donald Trump’s death following his and first lady Melania Trump’s Thursday coronavirus diagnosis, the social media giant told Motherboard. “Content that wishes, hopes or expresses a desire for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against an individual is against our rules,” Twitter told Motherboard, which is part of Vice Media. The company added that the months-old rule applies to posts about the president, and Tweets that violate the policy will be removed. The social media platform also added that not all tweets that appear to engage in the prohibited behavior will be...

Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden is taking all of his negative attack ads off the air in the wake of President Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis. Biden's deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, said Friday that the Democratic presidential contender will continue to air positive ads. The decision to take down the campaign's attack ads was made before the White House announced Trump would be heading to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the next few days "out of an abundance of caution."

The US NAVY SEALs and the Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) recently changed their ethos and creed statements to reflect a gender neutral presentation of the elite NAVY outfits, doing away with gendered terms like "brotherhood".

President Donald Trump during Tuesday night’s debate said he secured the endorsement of the “Portland sheriff” -- presumably a reference to Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese. Reese shortly after tweeted that was false. “In tonight’s presidential debate the President said the ‘Portland Sheriff’ supports him," Reese said on Twitter. "As the Multnomah County Sheriff I have never supported Donald Trump and will never support him.”

President Trump is calling for a “review” of Rep. Ilhan Omar following reports of alleged “ballot harvesting” in the Minnesota congresswoman’s district. The New York Post reports that Project Veritas, the controversial undercover video production company, claims to have uncovered a scheme in which hundreds of ballots are being illegally harvested from elderly Somali immigrants. “Numbers don’t lie,” says one of the individuals captured on video as he displays hundreds of envelopes on his car’s dashboard. He asserts that they are for Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman. “You can see my car is full. All these here are absentee...

Joe Biden, during a speech to the U.S Conference of Mayors on Saturday, claimed he was elected to the Senate “180 years ago. He seemed to realize what he said but did not correct himself. Breitbart noted that, ff that was true, Biden would have been in the Senate in 1840 with the likes of John C. Calhoun, James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, and Henry Clay. On Friday, Biden appeared on MSNBC but lost his train of thought and host Stephanie Ruhle bailed him out: “For example, the paycheck protection act. You know, one percent of the money has gone out....

Constitutional Attorney Robert Barnes joins The Alex Jones Show to break down how Judge Amy Coney Barrett is a deep state trojan horse and President Trump should consider appointing Judge Barbara Lagoa to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat.

<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hours after a Kentucky grand jury brought no charges against Louisville police for Breonna Taylor's death and protesters took to the streets, authorities said two officers were shot and wounded Wednesday night during the demonstrations expressing anger over the killings of Black people at the hands of police.</p>

Law enforcement officials reportedly informed the Associated Press on Sunday of an arrest related to the ricin poison sent to the White House. An as-yet-unidentified woman was arrested at the Canada border on Sunday, three law enforcement officials told the Associated Press. The woman is suspected to be the sender of a letter intercepted on its way to the White House containing the deadly poison, ricin. The letter was addressed to President Donald Trump. The woman was reportedly arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Peace Bridge border crossing near Buffalo. The letter itself is believed to...

Actress Samaire Armstrong launched into an impassioned speech in a 7-minute video that saw the O.C. star hammer the “far-left mob,” call out the “Marxist criminals” and “uneducated woke white” people pushing the Black Lives Matter movement, and she declared Joe Biden and Kamala Harris “out of their minds.” Armstrong also praised police, who she said “have been thrown under the bus by spineless politicians.” Armstrong said Joe Biden and his running mate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) are “out of their minds.” The actress called the Black Lives Matter movement an “act of warfare at the hands of Marxist criminals,...

BLM rioters took to the streets in downtown Milwaukee Tuesday night protesting racial injustice, and it turned physical at one point. The protest started at the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial around 7:30 p.m. About 50 people gathered, protesting recent police violence against black people and other social issues. At one point the group started marching down 1st St. towards city hall. The protesters met with a group of Trump supporters, and the two groups squared off, shouting at each other. It turned physical, with some punches thrown before police showed up and calmed the tensions. It’s unclear what lead up...