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A security firm in Tennessee cutting a deal with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Ellison's office probing an allegation that armed guards were being recruited for polling places in Minnesota... Efforts by President Trump's campaign to monitor activity at ballot drop boxes in Philadelphia with video recording may be voter intimidation. That's the view of... Pennsylvania's Supreme Court with an elected 5-2 Democrat majority ruling that that election ballots cannot be rejected for mismatched signatures... Is this all just a political stunt? That's what Republican lawmakers here in York County, Pennsylvania are asking... More towns added to Connecticut's Red Alert...

VIDEO In one of the DUMBEST ideas ever, Walmart has stopped accepting Samsung Pay. In other Walmart is now forcing us to use our physical credit cards rather than the much more secure method of Samsung Pay. Not only that we are now also forced to have another level of physical contact during the pandemic with Walmart via the process of physically inserting a credit card into their payment machines. My strong suspicion is that Walmart has taken this DUMB move in order to hype their Walmart Card because every time I complain about Samsung Pay being blocked an...

TikTok's US footprint is saved in a deal that includes Oracle and Walmart owning 20% of a newly formed TikTok Global and an IPO within 12 months. Oracle said it will be TikTok's cloud provider in a deal that gives it a 12.5% stake in the social media network and a key reference customer. Walmart will own a 7.5% stake and explore the intersection of TikTok and e-commerce. In a statement, Oracle said "the technical decision" by TikTok was based on the Zoom reference account. However, TikTok, owned by ByteDance, was facing a Sunday shutdown order over security concerns by...

Newsdump Update: US Sends More Troops, Armored Vehicles To Syria Following Recent Incident With Russian Military Police Six Bradley fighting vehicles and 100 soldiers sent into northeast Syria...... Fantasy news out there nowadays along with the real news that I like to post here...We led off with the story in Syria where Russian and American soldiers have played cat and mouse games and even "bumper cars".... The Republicans are backed by the energy industry in the US and folks like Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton pushing for sanctions on Russia and even a Democrat mixed in Jean Shaheen. She must...

Man wearing a "Back the Blue" tshirt was asked to leave by a "young" Walmart associate while school supply shopping with his 12 yr old daughter.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday threatened to impose “a personal price” on business leaders if they resist attempts to unionize during his presidency. Biden made the threat as he vowed to be the most pro-union president in history during a Labor Day webstream with AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka. “I’m going to hold company executives personally liable for interfering with workers who are attempting to unionize. It’s not enough just to have their corporations pay a fine. If they’re part of the problem, they are going to pay a personal price,” Biden said.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area police officer was charged Wednesday with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a Black man inside a Walmart store in April. The charge was filed Wednesday in the April 18 killing of Steven Taylor, 33, when San Leandro Police Officer Jason Fletcher, 49, responded to a call about an alleged shoplifter inside the store who was holding a baseball bat.

San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher, 49, was charged on Wednesday Steven Taylor, 33, was shot dead in April in a San Francisco Bay Area Walmart Fletcher had responded to a call about an alleged shoplifter inside the store Officials said he did not wait for backup and instead tried to grab the bat from Taylor, then fired his Taser and his service weapon, all in less than 40 seconds

Walmart boss says work to do on racial injustice and other social issues by Kim Souza (ksouza@talkbusiness.net) 19 hours ago Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said there is no such thing as “business as usual” at the retail giant. “Not a day goes by that we are not asking ourselves how we can do more —do better,” he noted in his opening statement in the company’s annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report released Wednesday (Aug. 26). He said the health crisis that quickly spread around the globe this year has been no exception. “Followed by the senseless and tragic killing...

Walmart said it’s joining Microsoft in a bid for social media company TikTok’s U.S. assets, revealing its plans hours after the video company’s chief executive said he would step down.CEO Kevin Mayer, a high-profile former Disney executive, is leaving three months after joining TikTok, in the middle of negotiations to sell the Chinese-owned short-form video app’s U.S. operations to Microsoft Corp. or Oracle Corp.The sale of TikTok is happening as the company is under fire from the Trump administration as potential national security risk due to the vast amount of private data the app is compiling on U.S. consumers.The Trump...

Video:"How wonderful! "Our God is greater than any government dictators who try to deny the people their 1st Amendment right to freely assemble in church to worship!"

A video of Christians meeting at Walmart, reportedly in North Versailles, Pennsylvania, has gone viral on the internet. The Christians were banned from meeting at their church thanks to Governor Wolf so they took to Walmart to come together in worship.

Grab your popcorn! Walmart is lifting the curtain on plans for the Walmart Drive-in, a drive-in movie theater experience, which is rolling into 160 Walmart stores across the country beginning this month, created in partnership with the Tribeca Film Festival. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200805005617/en/ Available for free to Walmart customers, the Walmart Drive-in will transform Walmart parking lots into outdoor cinemas from August 14 through October 21 with 320 showings of hit movies. Starting today at 5:00 p.m. ET, families can visit www.TheWalmartDriveIn.com to discover dates, store locations and the movies for each...

A middle-aged couple is under fire after they berated a group of teenagers and punched one of the boys because they were not wearing face masks inside a Walmart in Post Falls, Idaho. "You guys are abusing your freedom. Stop it," the woman said just before hitting one of the boys in the shoulder.The North Idaho News reports that police were contacted and the victim intends to press charges."You think this is cute not wearing a mask," the man said. "Get a damn mask and put it on your face."The woman was literally screaming to anyone who would listen, "Their...

Comedian John Crist is back with a hilarious video that highlights the absurdity of cancel culture. All it took was a quick visit to Walmart to show how people are offended by everything. Nothing is sacred to these sensitive leftwing activists. No brand or legacy is immune. Crist’s video brilliantly showcases how we live in an era where loud and aggressive people are defining everything as offensive. Then these things get “canceled.” Christian comedian John Crist’s shopping trip highlights how easy it is to pick virtually any brand and find a way to make it “offensive”. At the rate things...

McDonald's will close 200 locations in the United States as the chain faces a bumpy recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic after second quarter global sales dropped by 30 percent due to lockdowns limiting operations to drive-thru and delivery. The fast-food company reported a bigger-than-expected drop in second-quarter profits on Tuesday as a result of much lower sales due to coronavirus closures that affected most of the chain's worldwide network. The fast-food company suffered a 68 percent drop in profits to $483.8 million, following a 30 percent decline in revenues to $3.8 billion. McDonald's is set to accelerate restaurant closures this...

Two people wore swastika-emblazoned masks inside a Marshall, Minnesota, store Saturday as a form of political statement against Gov. Tim Walz's recent executive orders concerning COVID-19, including the latest order mandating masks. Other shoppers recorded the two on their cell phones as they checked out of the store and urged them to take the masks off because they were considered offensive. The two declined and attempted to justify wearing the Nazi masks as a form of protest for the recent executive orders which have shut portions of the state's economy down. The two were cited for trespassing, and Walmart told...

Walmart and other major retailers made headlines last week with a new requirement for customers to wear masks in its US stores. But the new rules only go so far. Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walgreens, CVS and others say they still won’t prohibit customers who refuse to wear a mask from shopping in stores. The issue, they say, is they want to avoid confrontations between angry customers and employees.

Welcome and lets start with what happened 50 years ago this month when there was warning from a Western American Bozeman, Montana's Chet Huntley about a big government bureaucracy in our country. Huntley was leaving the anchor desk at NBC News seeing a divided America where he didn't wish to choose sides but wished to stand on principle.... "these labels that get thrown around they're unfortunate because I look at myself and I don't know where I an in terms of conservative and liberal....my attitudes towards the federal government, the federal structure, I'm disenchanted like so many other Americans with...

Walmart receives a lot of hate, but when it's not around, you realize how much you miss its low prices, well-stocked shelves, and wide selection of goods. I’ve been living abroad since 2012. People sometimes ask me what I miss most about America. The answer to that is easy: Walmart. I’m not kidding. Walmart blows my mind. It’s a monument to human ingenuity. The prices are unbelievably low, the selection is incredible, and each time I visit a Walmart, I am rendered speechless as I wander from gleaming aisle to gleaming aisle. Currently, I live in Brazil. I’ve also lived...