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China has shown off a new military drone that carries two grenade launchers. The weapon appeared during a recent combat exercise in southern China, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The rotary-wing aircraft is also capable of firing guided munitions and conducting various missions, including tactical reconnaissance and midair interceptions, it is reported.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has mocked the bombshell news that Donald and Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, declaring that the president and first lady "have paid the price" for coronavirus. The statement was released via The Global Times - China's state-run propaganda outlet - shortly after news broke about the Trumps' diagnoses.

NEW #Russia #Durham: McCabe declines to testify next week @senjudiciary citing "manifest danger” of Covid-19 among Committee members + “McCabe is eager to testify voluntarily...at a future date when it is safe” McCabe conditions : in-person, not Zoom @CBSNews @LindseyGrahamSC

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Decision comes even after the Senate was ordered to recess after three senators tested positive for COVID-19Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Saturday the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett will go forward as planned despite the president, first lady, numerous senators and White House staffers testing positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours. "According to the standing rules of the U.S. Senate, committees may convene regardless of whether or not the Senate is in session," Graham said in a statement. "The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will...

"President Trump and the first lady have paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19," Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin said in a tweet. "The news shows the severity of the US' pandemic situation," Hu said. "It will impose a negative impact on the image of Trump and the US, and may also negatively affect his re-election."

Two Boeing E-6B Mercury aircraft, also referred to as ‘Doomsday Planes’, went off both the US coasts for a brief span of time after the news of President Donald Trump contracting COVID-19 infection was confirmed. Experts observing this defence exercise view it as a “warning” for the nations marked as United States’ adversaries. Talk about the ‘October Surprise’ that keeps on giving. Not only was the incredible news of President Trump and FLOTUS being COVID positive launched in the wee, small hours of Friday morning, something else was launched as well. Two Boing 3-6B Mercury aircraft known as ‘Doomsday Planes’...

President Trump plans to name Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton to a court oversight agency which has the power to remove certain judges for misconduct. The White House on Friday announced Trump’s intention to name Tom Fitton to the D.C. Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. Tom Fitton is currently the president of conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. Recall, it was Judicial Watch that broke the story wide open about Hillary Clinton’s private email server in 2015. Judicial Watch is currently spearheading dozens of lawsuits in an effort to obtain Biden’s senate records, Strzok and Page communications, Hillary Clinton’s emails,...

The public response to President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis went a step beyond the malicious Friday morning, as strange accounts flooded the social media announcement with Satanic imagery and apparent curses. Trump had taken to Twitter on Thursday evening to directly inform the nation that he and first lady Melania Trump had both contracted the coronavirus and would be quarantining at the White House, effective immediately. “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19,” Trump wrote. It was only a few short minutes before the post was inevitably met by fringe left-wing aliases and public opponents of the president...

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is still running negative ads on Facebook despite several reports on Friday that it would stop negative ads about the president while he is fighting coronavirus. “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will restore our nation’s sanity, humanity, and global leadership,” a Biden supporter says in a Facebook video. “America will really be great again when Trump is purged from our lives.”

A Portland police officer drove a motorcycle into a protester who was blocking his path and dragged her for 20ft. A video that captured the incident shows an officer attempting to get away from a crowd of demonstrators by driving into the protester as she stood in his way. The video was published on social media within minutes. Video: LinkIn a statement released early Saturday morning, Portland police said the woman jumped onto the officer’s motorcycle after the officer pulled over two vehicles, a white van, and a blue sedan, blocking traffic near the intersection of Northeast 47th Avenue and...

I have a problem which I haven’t found the solution for. My cell phone number, which I’ve had for over 20 years, is being listed in some internet “phone book” sources as belonging to another party, a Hispanic name. Now, I am getting all sorts of calls for this individual, threats for collection actions, Spanish speaking solicitations, and just general junk calls. Also, apparently the person listed has a house in the not-so-nice area of town that the self-described real estate get-rich-quick course graduates are hot and heavy to flip, and I get numerous calls a weeks for soliciting offers...

The Vilifying of Gavin McInnes and The Proud BoysEnough of this nonsense. The Proud Boys are not white supremacists. That is a lie perpetrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center(1), main stream media, democrats, and un-hinged liberals. The FBI has not classified Proud Boys as a white nationalist hate group. (2) For years the political violence we have faced in this country has overwhelmingly come from the left.(3) For the last four months BLM and Antifa, actual domestic terrorists, have waged war against America in several major cities; arson, beatings, destruction, murder, mayhem and massive violence against police officers.(4) Close...

A number of documents have been published by the Biden campaign and the Democratic Party: Biden's energy plan, the Biden-Saunders unity manifesto and the party platform. A lot of the goals in these documents are generalities, promising everything to everyone, especially to groups that vote Democratic. One concrete goal is carbon-free electricity generation by 2035. This is a pointless goal on several fronts. Reducing U.S. CO2 emissions is a pointless exercise due to the fact that declining U.S. emissions are dwarfed by rapidly increasing emissions in China and India. U.S. emissions are declining due to increased use of natural gas,...

Earlier this year, we learned of the Chinese Communist Party’s intention to undertake its own, state-approved “translation” of the Bible. Evidently, the Christian Scriptures are not as amenable to CCP orthodoxy as the Politburo would like. According to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, the Party assembled a group of obedient and pliable “scholars” late last year and charged them with “making accurate and authoritative interpretations of classical doctrines to keep pace with the times.” In other words, the CCP plans to turn the Scriptures into another piece of regime propaganda by rewriting them beyond all recognition. We don’t yet have...

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) says "I am not busting my chops to become majority leader to do very little or nothing. We are going to get a whole lot done. Everything, everything is on the table." Moves already suggested by various members of the Democratic Party and the media include making Washington, DC and Puerto Rico states, ending the Senate filibuster, expanding the number of Supreme Court justices and adding enough progressive judges to ensure a Democratic majority. Schumer called these proposals "just a start. I have been thinking about the idea of making China a state. The...

Now that Amy Coney Barrett stands at the threshold of a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, a second round of Democrat Senate Judiciary Committee members posing as an inquisition seems inevitable. How dare this woman live as a committed Catholic right in our faces? Is she not aware that religion generally and Christianity in particular are on the wane among Millennials, Gen Z, and costal elites and that restoration of "God" to the Democrat party platform stirred more than a little controversy just four short years ago? And since it is the Constitution of the United States, not the...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s doctor on Saturday painted a rosy picture of the president’s health as he remains hospitalized for coronavirus treatment. But that assessment was immediately contradicted by a person familiar with Trump’s condition, who said the president was administered supplemental oxygen on Friday at the White House. As well, Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, said the president went through a “very concerning” period Friday and the next 48 hours will be critical in terms of his care.

Scores of Americans are developing conspiracy theories about what they see as suspicious timing after President Donald Trump announced Friday he and first lady Melania Trump — and other Republicans — have suddenly contracted the disease. First and foremost, there are the optics of the president getting sick: Conspirators note the irony that Trump has now come down with an illness he has, in the past, downplayed as not so serious — which is technically true, given that the earliest models predicting millions of deaths in the United States alone were grossly inaccurate. Then there is the matter of politics:...

The Department of Homeland Security will grant millions of dollars in funding to outside organizations focused on combating far-right extremism and white supremacy. The department's program, called Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention, agreed to provide $10 million in grants to organizations including Life After Hate, which was founded by reformed white supremacists and helps people trying to leave the far right, the School of Communication at American University to develop a strategy for combating disinformation circulated by the far right online, and others, according to the Wall Street Journal. A Homeland Security spokesman said the funding is meant to help...