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Renée Cross, senior director of the Hobby School of Public Affairs, said Democrats overreached in painting the Fort Bend district as a bellwether and cast doubt on whether the result serves as an accurate forecast of the November 2020 results. “I think the Democrats to a certain extent shot themselves in the foot with that because the expectations were so high,” she said. “If you look at voting history for the last 10 years, to think they were just going to flip this seat in a special election in January after we had so many elections the last few months,...

The headlines going around this evening, all to the effect that “McConnell doesn’t have the votes!”, are misleading when you read down into the stories themselves. Republicans sound much calmer and more resolute about ramming through an acquittal verdict without witnesses than they did 24 hours ago, in the first flush of the NYT’s story on Sunday night about Bolton’s book. McConnell doesn’t have the votes yet but as of Tuesday night Collins and Romney remain the only two Republicans willing to say it’s highly likely they’ll vote to call witnesses. Murkowski is interested in hearing from Bolton but...

The Congressional Budge Office announced today that the deficit will exceed $1 trillion this year and will continue to widen each year over the coming decade: The U.S. government’s budget deficit is projected to reach $1.02 trillion in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, as the federal government continues to spend much more than it collects in tax revenue.A combination of the 2017 tax cuts and a surge in new spending has pushed the deficit wider. This year would mark the first time since 2012 that the deficit breached $1 trillion, a...

VANCOUVER—For Susan Sorrenti, the introduction of a new coronavirus to Canada is a stark reminder of the deadly virus outbreak that could have been prevented in Ontario, but instead threatened her life. After all, of the health care staff who handled SARS patients on the other side of the country, only one got the virus. When a pneumonia patient was transferred to the hospital where Sorrenti worked as an intensive care nurse in 2003, she recalled being assured that the patient did not have the mysterious new SARS virus. Unprotected by a respirator mask and suit, she was among the...

It may just be a coincidence. But the deadly coronavirus outbreak now sweeping the world began 30km from China’s most advanced viral research laboratories – the Wuhan Institute. The Washington Times quoted former Israeli intelligence officer Dany Shoham as claiming The Wuhan Institute of Virology is part of a secret biological weapons program. “Certain laboratories in the institute have probably been engaged, in terms of research and development, in Chinese (biological weapons), at least collaterally, yet not as a principal facility,” he asserted without corroborating evidence. Mr Shoham says he was a Mossad lieutenant colonel specialist in biological and chemical...

WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE on Tuesday issued statements welcoming the Trump administration's peace plan. "The Kingdom reiterates its support for all efforts aimed at reaching a just and comprehensive resolution to the Palestinian cause," said the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "The kingdom appreciates the efforts of President Trump's administration to develop a comprehensive peace plan between the Palestinian and the Israeli sides, and encourages the start of direct peace negotiations between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, under the auspices of the United States," the statement reads. It also called to resolve any disagreements with...

Sydney (AFP) - Australia plans to evacuate its citizens from the epicentre of the deadly virus outbreak in China and quarantine them on an island normally used to detain asylum seekers, according to proposals unveiled Wednesday. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said "vulnerable" Australians -- including children and the elderly -- and short-term visitors to Wuhan and surrounding Hubei province would be prioritised in extraction efforts. Officials said about 600 Australians were known to be in the area, which has been locked down in an effort to contain the spread of the virus. Morrison said Australia was working with New Zealand...

Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez spoke out Tuesday evening for the first time since her reinstatement, blasting the decision to suspend her for a series of tweets relating to rape allegations against Kobe Bryant. Sonmez said in a statement shared on Twitter hours after her reinstatement that Post executive editor Marty Baron’s handling of the incident left her unconvinced of management’s commitment to the truth. “I believe that Washington Post readers and employees, including myself, deserve to hear directly from Marty Baron on the newspaper’s handling of this matter,” Sonmez said in. “Washington Post journalists endeavor to live up to...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” House Impeachment Manager and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) stated that he wants to call former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly as a witness in the Senate’s impeachment trial. Because Kelly has indicated he has knowledge of what former National Security Adviser John Bolton would testify to. Nadler said Democrats will want to call Bolton, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and “some of the other witnesses who we have heard had firsthand information. … And maybe, now, John Kelly.” Host Ari Melber then asked, “John Kelly,...

The headlines going around this evening, all to the effect that “McConnell doesn’t have the votes!”, are misleading when you read down into the stories themselves. Republicans sound much calmer and more resolute about ramming through an acquittal verdict without witnesses than they did 24 hours ago, in the first flush of the NYT’s story on Sunday night about Bolton’s book. McConnell doesn’t have the votes yet but as of Tuesday night Collins and Romney remain the only two Republicans willing to say it’s highly likely they’ll vote to call witnesses. Murkowski is interested in hearing from Bolton but won’t...

NPR is demanding answers from the State Department over its decision to remove one of the outlet's reporters from a press group traveling with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on a trip to Europe and Central Asia this week. In a letter to the State Department on Tuesday, NPR president and CEO John Lansing and SVP of news Nancy Barnes called for the department to explain its “justification” for removing NPR diplomatic correspondent Michele Kelemen from the press group. They also asked the department to provide any documents concerning the decision, including any correspondence focused on the reporter, and for...

ydrogen could play a key role in cultivating a "green and sustainable" source of energy to power portable fuel cells of the future, researchers say. Hydrogen is believed to be a feasible alternative to fossil fuels because of its affordability and environmental friendliness. It is found throughout the environment, but producing it involves efficiently separating it from the compounds it is contained it. There are currently a number of ways this can be done, but methods can be slow and expensive. However, a team of scientists has now said hydrogen fuel could be generated "on-demand" thanks to a separation process...

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham weighs in on Trump's defense team's opening arguemnents in the Senate impeachment trial. #FoxNews

A new organization dedicated to sharing abortion survivors’ stories wants pro-life advocates to make their voices heard to FOX Sports ahead of the 2020 Super Bowl.  Faces of Choice leaders said they have been trying for more than six months to purchase ad time during the Super Bowl, but FOX has repeatedly ignored them. Their powerful new ad premiered at the March for Life last week, and it featured the stories of more than a dozen people who survived abortions. Lyric Gillett, the 28-year-old founder of Faces of Choice and producer of the ad, said they have a shortened version ready...

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A new internal poll conducted for the Jeff Sessions for Senate campaign by On Message shows the candidate slipping by one percentage point, while Rep. Bradley Byrne gained to overtake former Auburn Coach Tommy Tuberville. The new poll of 700 likely Republican Voters shows Sessions with 43% compared to 44% in a previous poll from December. It also shows Rep. Byrne at 22% a surge of 7 points. In the previous poll, Byrne was at 14%. While the race seems neck and neck between Byrne and Tuberville, who is at 21%, the surge for Byrne is significant for the prospect...

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Republican Gary Gates Tuesday appeared headed to a smashing victory over Democrat Eliz Markowitz in a special runoff election for a vacant state House seat in the Houston suburbs where Democrats hoped an upset win would kick start efforts to win control of the Texas House in 2020. In the early vote, Gates, with 10,707, votes, was leading Markowitz, with 7,461 votes, 59% to 41%. If he prevails when all the votes are counted, Gates will serve the unexpired term of state Rep. John Zerwas, R-Richmond, who announced in mid-summer that he was stepping down from representing House District 28...

The Republican National Committee launched a new ad on Tuesday in response to CNN personalities Don Lemon, Rick Wilson, and Wajahat Ali mocking President Trump's supporters as uneducated and illiterate. . . . "He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so, that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience. You know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump."

How the current impeachment “trial” turns out is anybody’s guess but hardly the only unknown in theongoing coup against President Trump. As many believe, if nobody in the FBI or DOJ winds up doing prison time, the Deep State wins and future presidents will face similar coup attempts. Some clues on what might or might not happen to FBI bosses emerged Sunday in “Government on Trial,” a Fox News documentary on the FBI siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992. That operation targeted the family of Randy Weaver, whom the establishment media relentlessly smeared as a “white separatist” and “white...