Vatican News Wrote:A note from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was approved by Pope Francis, gives the green light during the pandemic to the use of vaccines produced with cell lines derived from two fetuses aborted in the 1960s
It is "morally acceptable" for Roman Catholics to receive coronavirus vaccines that used fetal tissue from abortions during research, the Vatican announced Monday.

Fox News Wrote:President Trump vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 Wednesday, calling it a "gift" to U.S. adversaries China and Russia and making good on a promise to veto if it did not repeal a law that shields certain Big Tech companies from liabilities.

US President Donald Trump Wrote:My Administration recognizes the importance of the Act to our national security.
Unfortunately, the Act fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military's history, and contradicts efforts by my Administration to put America first in our national security and foreign policy actions.

Fox News Wrote:Section 230 grants Internet companies liability shielding not available to other forms of media. It says they cannot be considered publishers or speakers of information posted to their platforms by third-parties.
It protects sites, including Facebook and Parler, from lawsuits if they allow controversial or critical speech to be shared by their users, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. It does not protect users from being accountable for their own posts.

Fox News Wrote:Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined fellow Republicans Wednesday in calling for an end to allowing all voters in the state to submit absentee ballots without providing justification for why they cannot vote in person.
Many states instituted "no-excuse" absentee voting in 2020 so that voters could avoid crowds at polling sites during the coronavirus pandemic, although Georgia has had it for 15 years. After the high voter turnout and tumultuous aftermath of the 2020 election, Raffensperger endorsed eliminating the practice during a Georgia House hearing.

Fox News Wrote:Portland Assistant Chief Michael Frome, who oversees the bureau’s human resources department, told the Portland Tribune that 14 officers have filed papers to retire by January, nine have resigned since November, and seven have filed to resign within the next few weeks. He explained the number of resignations may be even greater, as records requests from other police departments suggest "we have around 25 people that may be in the process of trying to get hired in other places."
In the past, officers in smaller towns like Beaverton, Bend, Hillsboro, Tigard and Boise, Idaho, would come to larger cities like Portland seeking more pay.

Fox News Wrote:A California doctor who was fired after questioning his county’s coronavirus stay-at-home orders spoke out to Fox News on Wednesday.
Dr. Michael Deboisblanc was removed from his post as trauma medical director for John Muir Health after writing a letter to health officials in Contra Costa County, Calif., that questioned the effectiveness of the county’s lockdown measures.
Deboisblanc told "America’s Newsroom" Wednesday a group of parents advocating for the reopening of schools in the area asked him to write the letter.
Deboisblanc wrote the letter along with Dr. Pete Mazolewski and Dr. Brian Hopkins. "The science is clear that more lockdowns lead to much more non COVID morbidity and mortality," the letter reads in part.

Epoch Times Wrote:Since the CCP virus began spreading in China this year, Dalian has announced several waves of new outbreaks, the latest occurring around Dec. 15, when authorities announced that four workers at the Gangyidu frozen food company had tested positive.
A day earlier, the city fully sealed off five neighborhoods in Jinpu New District, meaning residents can’t leave their homes and only one person per household can shop for basic life necessities in controlled zones. All companies, stores, schools, and restaurants must be closed.
Zhang Mei (a pseudonym) operates a local restaurant. She said the government has actually locked down the entire district—not just the five neighborhoods announced by authorities—since the morning of Dec. 22.
Residents had to shop quickly for food to prepare for the lockdown.

Times of Israel Wrote:A pair of television polls aired Tuesday evening put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc of right-wing and religious parties short of a majority, but also predicted that his rivals would have had a hard time building a viable coalition.
The polls were published shortly before the Knesset dissolved at midnight Tuesday, with the expiration of a deadline for the 2020 state budget, triggering the fourth national election in two years.
One of the surveys also had former Likud minister Gideon Sa’ar nipping at Netanyahu’s heels in terms of the candidate deemed best-suited to be the prime minister.

TicoTimes Wrote:The first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will arrive in Costa Rica on Wednesday night, President Carlos Alvarado announced.
Costa Ricans will begin receiving the vaccine on Thursday.
“The vaccine getting here today — one of the first countries in Latin America to get it — is enormous news,” said Health Minister Daniel Salas. “It’s a light in a year that has been so full of darkness.
“But it’s not that we’re getting the vaccine and we have beaten the pandemic. We are at the beginning of a long process, to build a house of immunity,]but it will be constructed little by little.”

BBC Wrote:EU ambassadors are to receive a Christmas Day briefing on the post-Brexit trade deal reached with the UK.
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will update the diplomats on the agreement, reached after months of fraught talks on fishing rights and business rules.
The UK is set to exit EU trading rules on 31 December - a year after officially leaving the 27-nation bloc.
MPs are still waiting to see the full text of the free trade deal ahead of a vote in Parliament on 30 December.
Labour said it was a "thin agreement" but they would back it as the only alternative to a no deal, meaning it should win approval.

Fox News Wrote:President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter still owns a 10% stake in a Chinese private equity firm, less than one month before his father is set to take office, business records reviewed by Fox News show. 
The development, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, contradicts Joe Biden's October 2019 pledge to keep his family free of foreign entanglements if he was elected president.
Chinese business records reviewed by Fox News show that a U.S. company, Skaneateles LLC, owns a 10% equity stake in Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co. Hunter Biden is the sole beneficial owner of Skaneateles, according to Washington corporate records.
Hunter previously sat on the Chinese firm's board -- whose financial backers include the Bank of China -- before announcing in October 2019 that he would be stepping down over mounting scrutiny from his father's presidential bid.
A source close to Hunter told Fox News on Wednesday that he is still in the process of offloading his stake in the Chinese investment firm. The Biden transition team didn't return Fox News' request for comment.

Fox News Wrote:A woman was arrested in New Hampshire for making threats against – and sending pictures of a naked, mutilated body to – a Michigan election official who had initially refused to certify local votes in favor of Joe Biden, according to officials.
Katelyn Jones, a 23-year-old former Olivet, Mich., resident, was arrested Wednesday and charged with sending threats and "threatening communications" to Monica Palmer of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers, authorities announced in a same-day press release.
Palmer headed a raucous meeting of the Board of Canvassers on Nov. 17. She and a fellow Republican on the four-member board initially refused to certify Wayne County’s election results, typically a routine step on the way to statewide certification. They cited problems with absentee ballots in Detroit.
When the meeting turned to public comment, Palmer and William Hartmann were criticized for hours by people watching on video conference. They subsequently changed their votes and certified the election totals, saying they were assured by the board’s two Democrats that a post-election audit would be performed. Biden won the county on Nov. 3 with 68% of the vote.

BBC Wrote:A Mexican nurse became the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus jab when her country began its vaccination programme on Thursday.
Mexico has received an initial shipment of 3,000 doses of the US-German Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The country has one of the highest pandemic death tolls in the world, behind only the US, Brazil and India.
A short time later on Thursday, Chile and Costa Rica also began administering Pfizer-BioNTech.
Argentina also plans to start inoculations in the next few days but has chosen the Russian-produced vaccine Sputnik V for its initial phase, with a delivery of 300,000 doses arriving in the capital Buenos Aires on Thursday morning.
Brazil, which has recorded the highest number of deaths in the region, is not due to start until mid-February despite a recent surge in the number of cases.

Fox News Wrote:The justices this week set a reply deadline for Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar and the other respondents named in the case of Jan. 22. The campaign had asked for the Supreme Court to order those on the other side of the litigation to respond by Wednesday and have reply briefs from the Trump campaign submitted by Thursday. It also asked the court to rule by Jan. 6. But the court did not oblige.

Fox News Wrote:Miami's Republican mayor said Thursday he hopes to draw some of the big financial firms from Wall Street down to Biscayne Boulevard, as a relief from the high tax burdens and other restrictions of New York.
Mayor Francis X. Suarez told "Your World" he is already having success in talks with firms like Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.
New York State continues to be near or at the top of the list when it comes to taxation and other categories that businesses take heed of, while Florida does not impose a state income tax among other benefits.

Breitbart Wrote:The Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society released a report Wednesday documenting the effect of donations by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to private-public partnerships that turned out the vote in key Democratic counties in 2020.
The report, titled “The Legitimacy and Effect of Private Funding in Federal and State Election Processes,” alleges that when Zuckerberg gave money to government institutions to assist with elections during the coronavirus pandemic, the donations were targeted at Democrat-heavy areas in swing states with the specific purpose of tilting the election to Joe Biden.
The report, according to Amistad Project director Phil Kline, documented the use of “more than one half of a billion dollars, more than the federal government expended [$400 million] in the CARES Act, to fund the election during the COVID crisis.

Fox News Wrote:Detroit has filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter activists, alleging a "civil conspiracy" and claiming the protests in the city "have repeatedly turned violent, endangering the lives of police and the public," according to reports.
The city claims the activists participated in the conspiracy, "defamed" the mayor and police, and contends that the city should be awarded damages, The Intercept reported.
The city cites four protests that occurred in the city this year, and alleges that injuries to police officers included "cracked vertebrae, lacerations, and concussions," according to the report.
The repeated violence should negate BLM protest group Detroit Will Breathe’s claims that the demonstrations should be protected under the First Amendment, the city asserts, the report said.

Fox Business Wrote:A Christmas morning explosion that rocked downtown Nashville left at least 41 businesses "materially damaged," in addition to displacing some residents and injuring three others, officials said.
Metro Nashville police officers responded to reports of gunshots when they found a parked RV broadcasting a warning message just before the explosion.
Mayor John Cooper said the Friday blast was caused by a "deliberate bomb" in a motor home that went off. Three people sustained non-threatening injuries but no deaths were reported.
Several buildings were damaged and some residents were displaced. One building collapsed from the explosion, officials said. Cooper issued a 48-hour curfew for the affected area started at 4:30 p.m.

BBC Wrote:An ally of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained in Moscow after an early morning raid on her home, Mr Navalny's supporters say.
They say Lyubov Sobol is suspected of threatening an agent who Mr Navalny said was involved in poisoning him in a near-fatal attack in August.
Ms Sobol was also detained for hours on Monday after going to the agent's flat.
According to Mr Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), police raided Ms Sobol's flat at about 07:00 (04:00 GMT) on Christmas Day and took her away for questioning.
Ivan Zhdanov, head of the FBK, said Ms Sobol was being investigated for trespassing "with the use of violence or a threat to use it", AFP news agency reported.
It comes four days after she had gone to the home of Konstantin Kudryavtsev, a member of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), whom Mr Navalny had the previous week apparently tricked into divulging details of the attempt on his life.

BBC Wrote:A Russian historian who admitted shooting and dismembering his student partner in St Petersburg has been jailed for 12 and a half years.
Oleg Sokolov, 63, an expert on the Napoleonic wars, pleaded guilty to the murder of Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24.
He was found drunk in a river in November 2019 with Ms Yeshchenko's severed arms in his backpack.
An online petition with more than 7,500 signatures accused St Petersburg State University of ignoring previous complaints from students against Sokolov.
He has now been dismissed from the university and from another academic post in France.

BBC Wrote:Several people are dead in northeast Nigeria after Boko Haram militants raided a mostly Christian village and burnt down a church on Christmas Eve.
Local sources said at least 11 people had been killed, according to AFP news.
Fighters rode into Pemi, in Borno state, on trucks and motorbikes shooting indiscriminately, a local leader told the news agency.
Pemi is close to Chibok where 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in 2014.
Boko Haram have carried out a number of attacks in northern Nigeria where they are fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
Boko Haram loosely translates to mean "western education is forbidden".
The attackers burnt a church, abducted a priest and stole medical supplies from a hospital, before setting it on fire.

Japan Times Wrote:The people who tested positive with the new strain, which is said to spread more easily and was blamed for a recent spike in infections in the U.K., returned to Japan this month — two at Tokyo’s Haneda airport and and three at Kansai International Airport in Osaka.
Japan on Thursday imposed a temporary ban on new arrivals of foreign nationals from Britain coming for purposes such as business or study, but existing foreign residents and Japanese nationals have still been allowed to enter.
On Saturday, Tokyo reported a record 949 new COVID-19 cases as infections continue to climb throughout the country.

Fox News Wrote:Five days after calling the coronavirus relief bill a "disgrace," President Trump signed the massive $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government spending package Sunday night.
The president's decision to sign the package into law will avert a government shutdown, restore unemployment benefits, stop evictions, provide rental assistance, add additional funding to the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program and invest in vaccine distribution, among other items in the bills.
Trump has also sent a "redlined version" of the bill to Congress, which includes an item by item breakdown and formal rescission request insisting that any "wasteful items" be removed from the bill.

Fox News Wrote:New York State Health officials said on Saturday they are investigating a Brooklyn-based healthcare provider on suspicion it violated state guidelines for distribution of COVID-19 vaccine.
ParCare Community Health Network "may have fraudulently obtained COVID-19 vaccine, transferred it to facilities in other parts of the state in violation of state guidelines and diverted it to members of the public - contrary to the state's plan to administer it first to frontline healthcare workers, as well as nursing home residents and staffers," state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said in a statement.

BBC Wrote:A Chinese tycoon who died on Christmas Day was poisoned, Shanghai police say.
Lin Qi, 39, was the chairman and chief executive of games developer Yoozoo, best known for the Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming strategy game.
The Shanghai police statement pointed to one of Mr Lin's colleagues - identified only by his surname Xu - as the main suspect.
Mr Lin was believed to have a net worth of around 6.8bn yuan (£960m), according to the Hurun China Rich List.
Yoozoo released its own statement, saying Mr Lin had admitted himself to hospital after feeling unwell but was in a stable condition.
According to local media reports, the person in custody could be Xu Yao, who heads Yoozoo's movie production arm.

BBC Wrote:A Chinese citizen journalist who covered Wuhan's coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years.
Zhang Zhan was found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", a frequent charge against activists.
The 37-year-old former lawyer was detained in May, and has been on hunger strike for several months. Her lawyers say she is in poor health.

BBC Wrote:Ten of 12 Hong Kong democracy activists arrested at sea as they tried to flee to Taiwan by speedboat have gone on trial in mainland China.
The hearing was closed to foreign reporters and diplomats but the court said in a statement that both prosecution and defence lawyers spoke.
Court was adjourned with no verdict.
Two of the 12 dissidents are underage and will face private hearings on a separate date.

BBC Wrote:The pact, expected to be finalised this week, will give EU firms better access to the Chinese market and improve competition conditions.
Talks on the investment deal began in 2014 but have been stuck for years over a number of issues.
But rising trade tensions between the US and China may have helped change the Chinese position, officials said.
According to multiple reports, the deal would open up China's manufacturing sector to EU companies, as well as construction, advertising, air transport and telecoms.
One of the sticking points was China's demands for access to the EU's energy market given sensitivities over national security. The deal is expected to give Beijing access to a small part of the European renewable energy sector on a reciprocal basis.
The pact is also designed to remove barriers to investment in China such as joint-venture requirements and caps on foreign ownership in certain industries.
On Monday, the European Commission reported progress on the talks with Beijing, including the core issue of workers' rights in China.

BBC Wrote:Ambassadors from the 27 EU member states have unanimously approved the EU-UK post-Brexit trade deal, paving the way for it to take effect.
The deal is likely to become law on 1 January, as the UK Parliament is expected to approve it on Wednesday.
Under EU rules it can take effect provisionally, though the European Parliament will vote on it in January.
The deal sets the framework for trade once the UK leaves the EU single market and customs union in four days' time.
The deal ends nearly 50 years of UK membership of the bloc, covering a vast array of policies besides those governing common trade rules.
[The deal] enables the UK to continue selling goods to the EU market - the UK's biggest trade partner - without tariffs or quotas

BBC Wrote:George Blake, the former MI6 officer and one of the Cold War's most infamous double agents, has died aged 98, Russian media has reported.
Over nine years, the Soviet spy handed over information that led to the betrayal of at least 40 MI6 agents in Eastern Europe.
He was jailed in London in 1960, but escaped in 1966 and fled to Russia.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said Blake "had a genuine love for our country".
His death, reported by Russia's state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, was confirmed by Sergei Ivanov, the head of the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
Russian president Vladimir Putin described him as an "outstanding professional of special courage and life endurance".

BBC Wrote:A US judge has turned down a $28.5m (£21.4m) bail package by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who is awaiting trial on sex crime charges.
The New York ruling said the suspect, 59, poses a flight risk and the offer did not assure her appearance at future hearings.
She is accused of helping the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein groom young girls, which she denies.
It is the second time bail for Ms Maxwell has been denied.

BBC Wrote:A Japanese company and Kyoto University have joined forces to develop what they hope will be the world's first satellites made out of wood by 2023.
Sumitomo Forestry said it has started research on tree growth and the use of wood materials in space.
The partnership will begin experimenting with different types of wood in extreme environments on Earth.
Space junk is becoming an increasing problem as more satellites are launched into the atmosphere.
Wooden satellites would burn up without releasing harmful substances into the atmosphere or raining debris on the ground when they plunge back to Earth.

BBC Wrote:Spain is to set up a registry of people who refuse to be vaccinated against coronavirus and share it with other European Union nations, the health minister has said.
Salvador Illa said the list would not be made accessible to the public or to employers.
He said the way to defeat the virus was "to vaccinate all of us - the more the better".
Spain has been one of the countries in Europe worst affected by the virus.
In other comments on Monday, Mr Illa said people would be contacted by regional authorities when it was their turn to be inoculated.

BBC Wrote:Four people have been seriously injured after a shooting in Berlin in the early hours of Saturday, police say.
Heavily armed police officers were deployed to the scene in the Kreuzberg district, German media report.
The four injured were aged between 30 and 42. One man was pulled from the Landwehr canal, reportedly with a gunshot wound to the leg.
The city's attorney general said the incident could have been carried out by members of rival organised crime gangs.
A murder investigation team has taken over the investigation.
Photographs from the scene show gunshot damage to a doorway of a building opposite the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

USA Today Wrote:Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow died of COVID-19 on Tuesday [29] at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport.
Letlow, 41, was transferred from St. Francis Medical Center to the Ochsner LSU Health ICU on Dec. 23 and  had been treated there since then.
Luke Letlow is survived by his wife, Julia Barnhill Letlow, and two young children.
Letlow,  a Republican, announced Dec. 18 he tested positive for COVID-19 and was first quarantining at his Richland Parish home.

Letlow Family Wrote:The family appreciates the numerous prayers and support over the past days but asks for privacy during this difficult and unexpected time.
A statement from the family along with funeral arrangements will be announced at a later time.

Fox News Wrote:The person infected was described as a Martin County man in his 20s with no history of travel, the state Department of Health said Thursday.
"The Department is working with the CDC on this investigation," the department tweeted. "We encourage all to continue practicing COVID-19 mitigation."
The first case of the new strain -- called B.1.1.7 -- in the United States was announced Tuesday. Colorado health officials said an Elbert County man in his 20s was in isolation after becoming infected. It has since been found in California as well.

Be careful, Floridans!

Fox News Wrote:About 40 people damaged businesses and property in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday night, police said.
The group assembled in the city’s Director Park before marching downtown around 7 p.m., police said in a news release. Thursday. While marching, members of the crowd broke windows, fired paintballs and spray-painted several buildings, including City Hall and the Portland Police Bureau's headquarters.
Other properties damaged included the Oregon Historical Society, the University Club, First Republican Bank, a Starbucks and several restaurants.
Police said officers attempted to contact someone leading the march, but their vehicle was spray-painted as well.
No arrests were made. Investigators are asking anyone with information about the vandalism to contact police at crimetips@portlandoregon.gov.

Fox News Wrote:A suburban Milwaukee pharmacist who allegedly spoiled hundreds of COVID-19 doses by removing them from refrigeration has been arrested, authorities said Thursday. 
The now-fired employee's actions resulted in 57 people receiving ineffective vaccine doses at the Advocate Aurora Health Hospital in Grafton, hospital officials said. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, adulterating a prescription drug and criminal damage to property, all felonies, the Grafton Police Department said.
Authorities have not determined a motive. The pharmacist has not been identified.

Law & Crime' Wrote:The Delaware computer repairman at the center of the Hunter Biden laptop story that popped up before the election filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter on Monday that also was dismissed on Monday. John Paul Mac Isaac attempted to sue Twitter for $500,000,000 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida but was immediately shot down because the complaint “fail[ed] to allege complete diversity.”
The complete diversity requirement means “no plaintiff shares a state of citizenship with any defendant.” But Twitter is incorporated in Delaware and Mac Isaac is a Delaware resident. For this reason, the judge said, the court lacked jurisdiction.

BBC Wrote:The UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.
Boris Johnson said the UK had "freedom in our hands" and the ability to do things "differently and better" now the long Brexit process was over.
But opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: "Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on."
BBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, "but there is regret still at Brexit itself".
The first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.
UK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.
But officials have insisted new border systems are "ready to go".

BBC Wrote:China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom Hong Kong have all been targeted by the Trump administration.
Shares in the telecoms giants will be suspended on the NYSE next week while proceedings to delist them have begun.
The companies earn all of their revenue in China and have no significant presence in the US.
The delisting is seen more as a symbolic blow amid heightened geo-political tensions between the US and China.
The three firms' shares are thinly traded in the US compared to their primary listings in Hong Kong. The state-owned companies dominate the telecoms industry in China.
The shares of China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom Hong Kong will be suspended from trading between 7 and 11 January, the NYSE confirmed.

BBC Wrote:The delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.
The Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.
But prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the "Games will be held this summer" and be "safe and secure".
Japan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could "explode".
The Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.
A poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.
Suga said the Games going ahead could serve as a "symbol of global solidarity".

BBC Wrote:Iran intends to start enriching uranium to 20% purity, the UN's atomic watchdog says - its most significant breach of an international nuclear deal so far.
This remains short of the 90% required to make a nuclear bomb. But under the 2015 agreement Iran was supposed to keep enrichment below 4%.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran had informed it of its plans to enrich to a purity of up to 20% at its Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, a facility built deep inside a mountain.
But the agency added: "Iran's letter to the agency ... did not say when this enrichment activity would take place."
However the increase to 20% was mandated in a law passed by Iran's parliament last month in response to the assassination of the country's top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Fox News Wrote:Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., has accused his opponent in next week's runoff election, Democrat Jon Ossoff, of lying by failing to disclose his business ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
During an exchange Thursday with Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy, Ossoff described charges that he knowingly failed to disclose compensation from Hong Kong company PCCW Media Limited, which is connected to the Chinese government, as "utter nonsense."

Senator David Perdue Wrote:This question needs to be asked, but is not asked by any of the liberal media that's out there.
It's amazing to me that you can have the Eric Swalwell crisis, the Hunter Biden crisis, and ignore the Jon Ossoff crisis.
This is clearly a pattern of activity from the Chinese Communist Party. They identified Jon Ossoff after his 2017 attempt to run for the U.S. House ...They identified him as an ambitious young politician on the Democratic side that they probably could get influence with.
So they hired him and he worked for two years for this propaganda company of the Chinese Communist Party ... and he hid it from the people of Georgia during his primary.

Fox News Wrote:Trump backed Noem’s candidacy for Senate while referring to Thune as a "RINO," or "Republican In Name Only." Thune drew Trump’s ire recently after he criticized the president’s bid to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Noem has been a staunch ally of Trump since she assumed office in 2019. The president repeatedly has clashed with Thune.
The president stepped up his attacks on Thune after the senator said any attempt by Trump or his allies to challenge the Electoral College’s vote would "go down like a shot dog." Congress is set to review the results Jan. 6 in a final step before President-elect Joe Bide becomes president later in the month.

US President Donald Trump Wrote:I hope to see the great Governor of South Dakota @KristiNoem, run against RINO @SenJohnThune, in the upcoming 2022 Primary.
She would do a fantastic job in the U.S. Senate, but if not Kristi, others are already lining up. South Dakota wants strong leadership, NOW!

Fox News Wrote:A 60-year-old Republican state senator from Virginia has died from coronavirus complications, the senator’s office confirmed Friday night, according to reports.
Sen. Ben Chafin of Lebanon in Russell County died earlier in the day after spending the past two weeks being treated at VCU Medical Center in Richmond, WRIC-TV of Richmond reported.
Several state lawmakers posted tributes to Chafin on social media.

Oregon Health Authority Wrote:OHA is closely monitoring the case, which involves an employee at Wallowa Memorial Hospital who experienced anaphylaxis after receiving a first dose of the Moderna vaccine this week.
The individual is recovering at a hospital.

Fox News Wrote:Chicago Teachers Union area vice president Sarah Chambers opposes requiring teachers to return to the classroom and posted a photo that appears to show her poolside in Puerto Rico, WGN-TV reported. Chambers has since deleted her Instagram account, according to the station.

Sarah Chambers Wrote:I got 4 covid tests (2 rapid, 2 PCR) b4 coming here [and] wore 2 masks (N95).
Scientists said airplanes are safer than grocery stores [because] airplanes have ICU level filtration [and] everyone wears masks. My doc said it’s extremely unlikely for me to get Covid again since I had it so badly.

Military News Wrote:Two senior administration officials close to President Donald Trump told Axios on Wednesday that the president recently received an intelligence briefing with not-yet corroborated claims China offered bounties to attack U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and he plans to declassify that intelligence soon.
The officials said national security adviser Robert O’Brien briefed Trump on the preliminary intelligence on Dec. 17. Axios reported they did not receive any intelligence documents, but an intelligence summary was described to them in a phone call with the administration officials.

Daily Caller Wrote:Facebook temporarily shut down the advertising account for a Republican fundraising group just four days before Election Day in the Georgia Runoffs.
“Big Tech is at it again,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said Friday on Twitter. “Facebook has shut down the ad account for the Georgia Battleground Fund, a joint fundraising committee for NRSC, @Perduesenate, and @kloeffler. This is unacceptable with only 4 days to Election Day.”
The NRSC’s Twitter post included a screenshot showing that the ad account was “disabled for [a] policy violation."

Facebook Spokesperson Wrote:An automated error caused this ad account to be disabled.
The account has since been restored.
We don’t allow ads that promote products, services, schemes or offers using deceptive or misleading practices, including those meant to mislead or scam people out of money or personal information.

Stop the Steals Wrote:Georgia election data indicates 17,650 votes were switched from President Donald Trump to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, data scientists testified on Wednesday during a state Senate hearing.
A team led by Lynda McLaughlin, along with data scientists Justin Mealey and Dave Lobue, presented the results before the Georgia Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections.
Mealey worked as an electronic warfare technician in the U.S. Navy for nine and a half years and was a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor as a data analyst and programmer for the National Counterterrorism Center. He currently works for one of the “Big Four” accounting firms as a programmer.
Lobue is a data scientist with over a decade of experience in a number of industries.
According to their analysis on time series election data which was published online as early as Dec. 24, Trump’s votes were decrementing in various counties instead of increasing as they do normally.
17,650 votes were allegedly switched from Trump to Biden as result.

Data Scientist Justin Mealey Wrote:What we have here is we actually have fraud that we can prove in this election, there was fraud in Georgia’s election, we can prove it with data.
The voting will of the people of Georgia is not reflected in what was certified by the Secretary of State.

Stop the Steals Wrote:At 9:11 p.m. local time, Trump received 29,391 votes as Biden simultaneously received 17,218. However, in the next reported time update, Trump’s votes became 17,218 while Biden’s changed to 29,391.
In this single event, 12,173 votes were switched, the data scientists believe.
“I want to make that very, very clear that at no point in an incremental process, should you decrement it,” Lobue said.
State-certified election results show Trump lost Georgia by 12,670 votes. The Trump campaign is still challenging the results in various courts.

Mitch McConnell's Kentucky home vandalized with graffiti: 'Where's my money'
The vandalism referenced McConnell's refusal to approve $2,000 stimulus checks

Fox News Wrote:Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Louisville home was vandalized overnight, with the graffiti indicating a possible political motivation, according to reports.
McConnell’s Highlands home in Kentucky was discovered Saturday morning marked with angry messages, including "where’s my money," "Mitch kills poor" and expletives. The graffiti could be seen in photos posted online.
The messages appear to reference McConnell’s refusal to provide a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks after the House passed a measure earlier in the week.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Wrote:I’ve spent my career fighting for the First Amendment and defending peaceful protest.
I appreciate every Kentuckian who has engaged in the democratic process whether they agree with me or not.
This is different. Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society.
My wife and I have never been intimidated by this toxic playbook. We just hope our neighbors in Louisville aren’t too inconvenienced by this radical tantrum.

What did you expect from people getting desperate to get some help? McConnell just told them they weren't getting it or just a little $600 paycheck in best case scenario.
By the way, Nancy Pelosi is going through the same situation.

Keep in mind that Mitch McConnell's wife is Chinese. Her father leads a large transport enterprise.

Guess who's its largest client? It's China!

Who provides their ships with sailors? China does!

GOP senators, led by Cruz, to object to Electoral College certification, demand emergency audit
The lawmakers call for an electoral commission to be established to audit results.

Fox News Wrote:A group of GOP senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will object to the Jan. 6 certification of the presidential election results next week unless there is an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an electoral commission.
Cruz and the other senators claim the Nov. 3 election "featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud and illegal conduct."
Joining Cruz are Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin; James Lankford, R-Oklahoma; Steve Daines, R-Montana; John Kennedy, R-La.; Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, and Mike Braun, R-Indiana; as well as Sens.-elect Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyoming; Roger Marshall, R-Kansas; Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, and Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama.
Their effort is separate from one announced by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who said this week that he will object to what he claims was the failure of some states -- most notably Pennsylvania -- to follow their own election laws.
The lawmakers say there is a precedent of Democrats objecting to election results in 1969, 2001, 2005 and 2019. "And, in both 1969 and 2005, a Democratic Senator joined with a Democratic House Member in forcing votes in both houses on whether to accept the presidential electors being challenged," they said.

It was about time they joined the team that's gonna work against such a terrible electoral fraud.

Trump, others linked to Soleimani killing ‘will not be safe on Earth,’ Iran official warns
Sunday will mark the anniversary of the death of Iran's Gen. Qasem Soleimani

in a military strike that President Trump reportedly ordered

Fox News Wrote:President Trump and anyone else linked to the U.S. strike one year ago that killed a notorious Iranian general "will not be safe on Earth," a top official in Tehran warned Friday, according to a report.
Speaking in Tehran on Friday, Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s judiciary chief, said not even Trump was "immune from justice" for his role in the strike in Baghdad that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, a major general in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Times of Israel reported.

Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi Wrote:They will witness severe revenge.
What has come so far has only been glimpses.
"Do not presume that someone, as the president of America, who appeared as a murderer or ordered a murder, may be immune from justice being carried out. Never, those who had a role in this assassination and crime will not be safe on Earth.

I really hope they're not talking seriously but the ayatollah is a crazy man. He's the man that handpicks the officials in Iran.

Fox News Wrote:A New York Democrat's bill that would allow the governor or his surrogates to detain individuals who pose a threat to public health "by a single order ... in a medical facility or other appropriate facility" sparked fierce backlash online.
New York State Assemblyman N. Nick Perry is sponsoring Bill A416, which will be taken up by the Assembly's Health Committee on Wednesday.
Many critics of the bill tied it to austere measures taken by local and state officials with regards to the coronavirus pandemic, although earlier versions of the bill were introduced as far back as the 2015-2016 legislative session.

Conservative Podcast Host Allie Beth Stuckey Wrote:So disturbing. NY bill allows for the *removal and detention* of anyone who 'may be a danger to public health.'
Yes, that’s purposely undefined.
Yes, it will be used, at least one day, to forcibly remove you or your children from your home for whatever reason the state sees fit.

Fox News Wrote:The bill requires the governor "or his or her delegee" to apply for a court order authorizing a detention within three business days.

Fox News Wrote:A fifth woman has reported being punched by a stranger at the same Brooklyn subway station, cops said Sunday.
A man was busted in connection with four of the East Williamsburg attacks last week, then released from custody by Friday, The Post reported. The fifth alleged attack at the station occurred Saturday, although it is unclear if it is tied to the others.

Fox News Wrote:Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., said she intends to vote on the House floor on Sunday, despite announcing six days ago that she tested positive for coronavirus, as Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hunts for every vote she can get in her push to reprise her role as House speaker.
Moore announced on Dec. 28 that she had tested positive for coronavirus, though she did not specify which day she tested positive. She has not yet said if she has tested negative for COVID-19. Fox News' inquiry to Moore's office was not immediately returned.
Meanwhile, three other members of Congress will be allowed to vote on Sunday via "special arrangements" because they are still in their quarantine windows despite testing negative for the virus, Politico's Heather Caygle and Melanie Zanona reported.

BBC Wrote:Dan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.
He was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.
Mr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary "for family reasons".
He told Swedish media that he had "given up a lot of trips during this pandemic" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.
"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family," he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.

Japan Times Wrote:A 29-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly breaking into the Tokyo residence of Emperor Naruhito, where he reportedly spent two hours before being discovered, local media said Sunday.
The man, who has not been named, entered the usually heavily guarded Akasaka residential complex for imperial family members through the adjacent guesthouse on Saturday night, Fuji News Network (FNN) said.
He was caught by the imperial guard near the residence of Princess Yuriko, the great-aunt of Emperor Naruhito, about two hours after he broke in, the broadcaster said, quoting police officials.
FNN said the man had gained access via the entrance gate of the guesthouse, which was not guarded at the time.
The break-in was also reported by TBS news, which said the suspect had told police: “I wanted to meet members of the imperial family.”

Epoch Times Wrote:Pennsylvania election data shows that over 432,000 votes were removed from President Donald Trump during the November election, data scientists say.
According to an analysis by the Data Integrity Group, obtained exclusively by The Epoch Times, votes for Trump—from both Election Day and mail-in ballots—were removed from the totals in at least 15 counties.
Time-series election data shows Trump’s votes decrementing in various counties at numerous time points instead of increasing as would be expected under normal circumstances.
At least 432,116 votes—213,707 election day votes and 218,409 absentee votes—were removed in total.

Epoch Times Wrote:Republican state senators in Georgia started a push on Monday to delay the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes. At least a dozen have signed a letter directed to Vice President Mike Pence asking him to officially delay the count—and the number is still growing.
“There’s about 16 or 18 of us now that signed this letter to the Vice President … asking him to delay the electoral vote for 10 to 12 days,” Sen. Brandon Beach told The Epoch Times.
“We were going to get it to him tomorrow morning,” Beach said, adding that more Senators might still sign on.
Ballots and voting machines need to be forensically audited, especially in Fulton county, said Beach. The biggest concerns he has relate to the State Farm Arena’s vote-tabulation center in Atlanta. It appears that a state election monitor was absent for a part of the counting process and that Republican poll watchers were led to believe the counting was over when it in fact wasn’t.

Epoch Times Wrote:British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered a national lockdown through mid-February in an effort to combat a variant of the coronavirus that is continuing to rapidly spread in the region. 
Under the rules, which are set to come into effect as soon as possible, primary and secondary schools, and colleges will be closed for face-to-face learning except for the children of key workers. University students will not be returning until at least mid-February.
Non-essential businesses such as hair salons and restaurants will be closed, although eateries can operate delivery services. As of Monday, England reported more than 26,600 COVID-19 patients in hospitals, which is a 30% jump from a week ago.
The measures in Scotland, which start Tuesday and remain in effect until at least the end of this month, will ask residents to make trips outside of their homes only for essential purposes and to limit the size of outdoor gatherings to two people from separate households, not including children. Schools will also remain closed for in-person learning for most students.

Epoch Times Wrote:Chinese leader Xi Jinping has commanded the regime’s military to focus on “preparing for war,” as Beijing looks to make a splash in 2021—the year marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In the first order of the year, Xi instructed the forces to ratchet up military training. As chairman of the regime’s Central Military Commission (CMC), Xi is head of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the CCP’s armed forces.
He ordered the PLA to “focus on preparing for war, deepen the transformation of military training, build a new type of military training system, and comprehensively improve the level of combat training and ability to win,” according to Chinese state media Xinhua.
The order follows the CCP’s escalation of military confrontations in several areas last year, including on the India-China border, the Taiwan Strait, and the South China Sea.
Xi also emphasized the role of technology in military training and combat, describing science and technology as a “core idea in combat effectiveness.”

Epoch Times Wrote:Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon is being sued by his own staff prosecutors for defying state law by unilaterally deciding to ignore sentence enhancement rules under the Three Strikes Law, to stop seeking the death penalty, and to end cash bail.
Left-wing billionaire George Soros donated more than $2 million to Gascon’s campaign as part of a years-long effort to install soft-on-crime prosecutors in major population centers. Soros and political action committees funded by him have also provided financial support to radical prosecutors including Chicago District Attorney Kim Foxx, St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, and Baltimore City state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby.
The Cuban-born Gascon, a Democrat, announced “immediate, decisive reforms to transform America’s largest criminal justice jurisdiction,” when he was sworn in on Dec. 7, 2020. Formerly the district attorney of San Francisco, he asserted that the criminal justice system is systemically racist and vowed to free convicted criminals en masse.