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On Tuesday night, only two shows in all of television edged Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson—NBC’s The Voice and game six of the World Series. FNC’s Tucker Carlson Tonight drew a total audience of 7.562 million viewers—the show’s biggest ratings draw outside of the presidential debates in all of 2020. -snip- On Tuesday, Carlson interviewed Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter and James Biden—a draw that put Tucker Carlson Tonight ahead of NBC’s highly promoted premiere of This is Us.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) told voters in Tucson, Arizona, that she and Joe Biden were fighting for a “long-overdue reckoning on racial injustice in America.” Harris was speaking at a “drive-in rally,” the first of two stops for her in the Grand Canyon State. Democrats have long hoped to swing the state into the “blue” column. Both Harris and Biden have emphasized the idea that the United States is haunted by “systemic racism.” She spoke in the aftermath of a second night of violence and looting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following the shooting of an armed black man, Walter Wallace Jr.,...

Aren't you concerned? He looked at me, and he laughed a little bit, and said 'PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY.'"

For all their talk of “neutral platforms,” the Big Shots at Big Tech — Twitter, Facebook and Google — are running a protection racket. They figure they can dictate what Americans get to see and read, and what other media companies must do to reach the public via those platforms. It’s a clear threat to a healthy democracy — and Congress has noticed. On Wednesday, the Senate launched a hearing to investigate “Big Tech’s bad behavior.” Center-stage: Twitter’s strong-arm tactics to censor The Post ever since we began reporting on Hunter Biden’s e-mails. First, it froze our account and banned...

Connecticut added Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and California to its COVID-19 travel advisory Tuesday, making 40 states and two territories now on the list — plus two others that would qualify if not for agreements in place with governors there. There are now only seven states whose recent COVID-19 numbers fall below Connecticut travel advisory thresholds: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. Visitors from states listed on the advisory must fill out a travel form upon arriving in Connecticut, then either present proof of a negative coronavirus test or quarantine for 14 days. States are automatically added when...

The rally was the first of several planned campaign stops Noem is making Thursday in Maine and neighboring New Hampshire. South Dakota state troopers who travel with the governor immediately sprung into action to ensure the governor’s safety. “Two South Dakota Highway Patrol troopers, who were serving as the governor’s security detail Wednesday in Maine, encountered a person brandishing a weapon in an area where the governor and others were located,” Tony Mangan, spokesman for the Highway Patrol, said in a statement. Neither Noem nor the troopers protecting her were harmed in the incident.

So much for the market’s best day of the year. Oct. 28, on average the S&P 500’s best-performing day over the past 70 years, was instead one of 2020’s worst as COVID-19 concerns continued to flare up in the U.S. and Europe. Cities such as Chicago and Newark are renewing restrictions on businesses and public gatherings amid not just record-high new caseloads in America, but rising hospitalizations and deaths as well. In Germany, restaurants and theaters will be shut down for four weeks, and other European countries are stepping up their own measures to fend off a second wave.

An Air Force jet was scrambled above Donald Trump's rally in Arizona on Wednesday after an unannounced plane flew overhead. 'Oh, look at that! Look, look, look!' the president yelled, pointing to the sky. The F-16 attempted to make contact, and the aircraft initially ignored the jets. The fighter plane then released flares, and the intruding aircraft then established radio communications and was escorted out the area.

A group of seven Republican senators are demanding that the College Board explain its role in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda campaign aimed at the United States’ primary education system.In an Oct. 26 letter (pdf) to College Board CEO David Coleman, the senators asked the New York-based education company to explain the nature of its partnership with Hanban, the Chinese government agency that oversees the Confucius Institutes (CI) around the world, including 75 in the United States. In August, State Secretary Mike Pompeo designated the Confucius Institute’s U.S. headquarters as a foreign mission, describing the program as “an...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, during a Senate hearing, said they received no reports or evidence suggesting that reports about Hunter Biden’s alleged emails and overseas business dealings were part of a Russian disinformation plot, as claimed by Democrat Joe Biden and his allies in recent weeks. When questioned by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) on the censorship of the New York Post’s reporting on the matter, “Do either one of you have any evidence that the New York Post story is part of ‘Russian disinformation,’ or that those emails aren’t authentic? Do any of you have...

A new ECU Poll of South Carolina, conducted October 24-25, shows Senator Lindsey Graham ahead of challenger Jaime Harrison among likely voters, 49% to 46%, with 5% undecided.

about a whole lot more than Donald Trump, or Joe Biden. The election has been classed as a contest between old decency and raw, rumbustious America First rhetoric. The characters of both men have been instilled in their campaigns. One, contradictory, argumentative and bristling with brash confidence. The other, plodding pragmatic and relentlessly reliable. Trump, the maverick outsider last time out, now has to stand on a record which can be scrutinised no matter how many rinses it gets in the spin-cycle. Biden too has a long shadow going back over decades. He has been in the environs of Democratic...

THE only chink of light in 2020 could be the imminent defeat of Donald Trump in next week’s US Presidential election, but his profound influence on politics and society will be much harder to dislodge than the man himself. After just one term in office, Trump has already appointed three Supreme Court justices, tipping the court to a six-three conservative majority – the most conservative it has been in 70 years. His latest appointment, 48-year-old Amy Coney Barrett, is the least experienced nominee to the court in 30 years. Barrett, a law professor before Trump nominated her to 7th Circuit...

The United States announces that it killed seven senior leaders of Al-Qaeda in Syria in an air strike last week as they were meeting near Idlib, US Central Command announced on Monday. Central Command spokeswoman, Major Beth Riordan, said the strike was conducted on 22 October. The leaders were not identified. “The removal of these AQ-S leaders will disrupt the terrorist organization’s ability to further plot and carryout global attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians,” Riordan said. “With our allies and partners, we will continue to target al Qaida and other terrorist organisations.” she added. According to...

I didn't see this event listed yesterday. President Trump will be in Rochester, Minnesota on Friday evening. Jason Lewis for Senate, Michelle Fischbach for MN-07 and Tyler Kistner for MN-02 must be thrilled!Event Details: Fri, October 30, 2020 05:00 pm (CDT) Doors Open: 02:00 pm Rochester International Airport 7600 Helgerson Dr. SW Rochester, MN, 55902Link

Call me the 1617 Project. Yep, that’s the year my first ancestor born on these then-wild and woolly shores saw the light of day in the touch and go environment of the Jamestown Colony. You’re not supposed to say things like this—but I am proud of Temperance Bailey Cocke. At the age of six, Temperance cheated death by hiding out at Jordan’s Journey, a settlement upriver from James Fort, while Powhatan engaged in a historic massacre. As a result, voila--here I am. Can’t thank you enough, Temperance, you brave gal, you! On behalf of Temperance and other intrepid colonial souls,...

In the final presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden promised that, if elected, he will create “a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people.” While most of the pundits focused on how such a massive amnesty would impact America, there is also much disagreement surrounding the question of how many illegal aliens actually reside in the country. So where did Biden get his “11 million [illegal aliens]” figure? And is it accurate? To answer those questions, we must first consider how experts calculate estimates for how many illegal aliens currently reside in the United States. The answer...

He ran for President at a time of record unemployment and economic despair, with democracy itself in apparent retreat around the globe. He overcame tremendous personal hardship and promised to heal a battered nation. His friends thought of him as a unifier; his enemies called him a socialist. If this sounds to you like Joe Biden, you’d be right. If this sounds like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, you’d also be right.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has successfully verified all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski, the Daily Caller has learned. Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson will not call Bobulinski to testify before the November 3 elections, as the committee is working to review all the information provided to the committee by Bobulinski. The information has to be verified, as it is subject to the same false information to Congress laws that verbal or written testimony does. However, a Johnson spokesperson told the Caller that all the material provided by Bobulinski that has...

During that rally there was a "display" of military aircraft.