Month: July 2021

The COVID-19 vaccine floodgates are now open, with more than half of U.S. adults receiving at least one dose and the public and private sectors pouring billions of dollars into the effort. Yet there are also major gaps in who’s actually gotten a shot, and officials are already trying to reach vaccine holdouts — a group that …

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Former President Donald Trump highlighted the election in New York City on Wednesday as another example of faulty American elections, calling for additional security reforms. “Check out the New York election today, by the way, they just realized it’s a disaster,” Trump said. “They’re unable to count the votes.” Trump spoke about the elections during …

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A new ad from the Lincoln Project is taunting former President Trump, telling him he has lost control of his political base and declaring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) the leader of the Republican Party.  “Does Mitch call the shots now, Donald?” the narrator of the ad asks. “He says he runs the Republican Party, the party you built. …

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Gun owners in San Jose, California, will soon face a yearly tax and be required to carry additional insurance after their city council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to impose the new measures. The forthcoming fee for gun ownership in the city has not yet been determined, but officials said that anyone found to be in noncompliance …

San Jose to tax gun owners, will confiscate firearms for noncompliance Read More »

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will step down from his position in September while the group – a far-right, self-described chauvinist gang labelled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – focuses its efforts around local politics in the aftermath and political fallout from the Capitol insurrection. In an interview with NPR, Mr Tarrio said he will …

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America’s first black billionaire says recent talk of Critical Race Theory and Black Lives Matter protests aren’t enough to make up for past injustices against black people: He’s reiterating his call for $14 trillion in payments to the descendants of slaves – including himself. Robert Johnson, 75, who started Black Entertainment Television in 1980, would give 40 …

America’s first black billionaire says taxpayers need to ‘pay out of their paychecks’ and fund $14 TRILLION in reparations for descendants of slaves if they really want to make atonement – and he wants a check, too Read More »

The New York City Board of Elections on Tuesday night announced a “discrepancy” in the ranked-choice vote tallies in the Democratic mayoral primary, sowing confusion hours after newly released results showed a tightening race. The latest tally of votes released Tuesday afternoon had shown Eric Adams leading Kathryn Garcia by a little more than 2 percentage points, or 15,908 …

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Donald Trump called on Republicans to get rid of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – and revealed he has made up his mind about whether to run for the White house in 2024. Speaking with Sean Hannity at a Fox News town hall in Edinburg, Texas – near the U.S.-Mexico border – on Wednesday, the former president said, …

‘He can no longer do the job’: Trump calls on the GOP to get rid of Mitch McConnell during Fox News town hall at Texas border – then admits he HAS made a decision on 2024 run…. but refuses to reveal what it is Read More »

South Dakota’s Republican Governor Kristi Noem said on Tuesday up to 50 National Guard troops from the state were being sent to Texas to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, in a deployment paid for by a private donation. The move comes amid a hail of criticism from high-profile Republicans of Democratic President Joe Biden for …

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Ashli Babbitt‘s husband Aaron Babbitt and Attorney Terrell Roberts joined Tucker Carlson earlier this month to discuss the continued challenges they have had getting any information on her death or the identity of her government-employed killer. During the discussion, Tucker Carlson asked Attorney Roberts about the report that Ashli’s shooter also left his loaded gun in a US Capitol restroom Tucker …

Report: Ashli Babbitt Shooter Is Member of Mike Pence’s Security Detail — Officer Still Not Named After Nearly 6 Months Read More »