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EXCERPT Despite the decision by the Grand Jury Best Buy Corporation sent out an email to employees defending the mob, criticizing the grand jury and offering time off to those employees who need to mourn the court’s decision.

An earthshattering report released by Senate investigators Wednesday outlining the Biden family’s long list of conflicts of interest at the upper echelons of government unearthed new allegations of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son making multiple payments to Eastern European prostitutes. According to the joint report out by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee with the Senate Treasury Committee, Hunter Biden made a number of payments to foreign nationals with “questionable backgrounds” consistent with “organized prostitution and/or human trafficking.” Records on file with the committee, the report says, “confirm that Hunter Biden sent thousands of dollars to individuals...

New York will erect a statue honoring the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in her native Brooklyn, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg selflessly pursued truth and justice in a world of division, giving voice to the voiceless and uplifting those who were pushed aside by forces of hate and indifference,” Cuomo said in a statement. (snip) “As a lawyer, jurist,and professor, she redefined gender equity and civil rights and ensured America lived up to her founding ideals -- she was a monumental figure of equality, and we can all agree that she deserves...

"The View" co-host Joy Behar defended her use of blackface at a Halloween party many years ago during a testy interview with Republican congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik on Friday. Klacik, who is running in Maryland's 7th District, had been asked about President Trump talking to reporter Bob Woodward on the seriousness of COVID-19 while he was trying to downplay it when he spoke on the issue publicly during the very early days of the global pandemic. "We didn’t handle the pandemic as a country great as a whole," Klacik said, adding, "If you look at cities like Baltimore, you have...

Jerry Harris, star of Cheer on Netflix and former Joe Biden presidential campaign surrogate, has been raided by the FBI for allegedly soliciting photos and sex from minors. FBI agents executed a search warrant at Harris’ home in Naperville, Illinois, on Monday afternoon. The investigation was launched after allegations made against 21-year-old Harris by 14-year-old twin brothers. USA Today spoke to the boys, who described a pattern of harassment, both online and at cheer competitions, that started when they were 13 and Harris was 19. It continued for more than a year. “Harris is accused of asking one of the...

COMPTON, Calif. (KABC) -- Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies are "fighting for their lives" after they were shot in the head in an apparent ambush at the Metro station in Compton, officials say. The incident happened Saturday at the Metro Blue Line station at Willowbrook Avenue and Compton Boulevard around 7 p.m. The location is a short distance from the Compton sheriff's station. The department tweeted: "One male deputy and one female deputy were ambushed as they sat in their patrol vehicle. Both sustained multiple gunshot wounds and are in critical condition. They are both currently undergoing surgery....

Defense attorneys' requests to move the trial out of Hennepin County and prosecutors' request to try all four men at once will be the focus. A Hennepin County district judge will hear arguments Friday morning on several key issues in the prosecution of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in George Floyd’s death. The 9 a.m. motions hearing is an important turning point that will address whether the trial should be moved out of the county, whether the defendants should be tried in one trial or separately, and how jurors will be selected, among other issues. Attorneys for each defendant...

EXCERPT Anchor Gayle King asked, “The president continues to hold massive rallies where people are not wearing masks, including the president himself. When you see that, what do you think? Is it frustrating to you as an expert on this?” Fauci replied, “Well, yes, it is. I’ve said that often.” He continued, “That situation — we want to set an example because we know that when you do four or five typical kind of public health measures, masks, physical distance, avoiding crowds, making sure you do most things outdoors versus indoors, those are the kind of things that turn around...

Despite her vocal opposition to building border walls to keep Americans safe from illegal immigration, Democrat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is having an eight-foot high, electrified fence built around her official residence to keep out unwanted visitors. The fence is just one part of a $1.1 million, taxpayer-funded security upgrade to the governor’s residence, The Detroit Free Press reports: In recent weeks, crews have been working to build what appears to be an eight-foot-tall fence around the governor's residence property. Last week, a sign on the site where crews were on the job warned, "Danger. High voltage. Unauthorized persons keep...

Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse called for the repeal of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution in an op-ed published Tuesday by The Wall Street Journal. Proposed in 1912 and ratified by 36 state legislatures on April 8, 1913, the amendment required U.S. senators to be elected by popular votes in each state. Prior to its enactment, Article I of the Constitution mandated that each state legislature vote to send two senators to Washington. Sasse’s op-ed, titled, “Make the Senate Great Again,” suggested several Senate reforms “aimed at promoting debate, not ending it.” “What would the Founding Fathers...

The police chief in Rochester, New York, announced his retirement Tuesday as his department faces scrutiny over the March death of Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died in police custody, Mayor Lovely Warren said in a city council meeting. Warren said the department's entire command staff also announced their retirement. (snip) Chief La'Ron Singletary, who worked at the department for 20 years, issued a statement about his retirement. "For the past two decades, I have served this community with honor, pride, and the highest integrity," the statement said, according to CBS affiliate WROC. "As a man of integrity,...

SEATTLE — A man being investigated for the fatal shooting of a right-wing activist who was part of a pro-Trump caravan in Portland, Ore., was killed on Thursday night when authorities moved to arrest him, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation. The officials said the suspect, Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was killed during the encounter in Lacey, Wash., southwest of Seattle, when a federal fugitive task force moved to apprehend him. An arrest warrant had been issued by the Portland police earlier Thursday, on the same day that Vice News published an interview with Mr. Reinoehl...

The Antifa security guard allegedly being eyed in the shooting death of a President Trump supporter during protests in Portland has broken his silence, telling VICE News, “I had no choice”. “You know, lots of lawyers suggest that I shouldn’t even be saying anything, but I feel it’s important that the world at least gets a little bit of what’s really going on,” Michael Forest Reinoehl said during an exclusive interview with the outlet scheduled to air at 11 p.m. Thursday. “I had no choice,” Reinoehl said. “I mean, I, I had a choice. I could have sat there and...

Rioters marched on the home of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler overnight Monday into Tuesday, looting nearby stores and setting furniture on fire in the street. At one point, they reportedly set fires inside the condominium building itself. The Oregonian reported: More than 200 people on Monday night marched to the Pearl District condominium tower where Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler lives to demand his resignation. The demonstration quickly turned destructive as some in the crowd lit a fire in the street, then placed a picnic table from a nearby business on top of the fire to feed the blaze. People shattered...

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Breitbart News exclusively this weekend that his committee’s chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has been running a thus-far-unreported investigation into the Trump administration’s response to violence in American cities. Asked if Schiff should hold hearings on the threats to the country on display in American cities and outside the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Washington, DC, Nunes revealed that Schiff has been plotting to hold hearings on this matter. The difference, however, is Schiff’s hearings are actually going to target President Donald Trump and his administration’s...

On Wednesday 17-year-old Illinois native Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested after shooting three antifa protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin killing two. The third victim was shot in the arm. Kyle was arrested and charged with murder. Video of the shootings went viral on the internet. Following the shootings and arrest liberals immediately began accusing Kyle Rittenhouse of being a white supremacist. Noted attorney Lin Wood posted several tweets on the incident. Lin Wood announced he will help defend Kyle Rittenhouse and asked for his attorneys to contact him. Lin Wood helped the Covington Catholic school children after they were smeared by the...

ROME — The Vatican released a joint document with the World Council of Churches (WCC) Thursday calling for greater attention to the environment in “a post-COVID-19 world.” “The human misery associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is taking place amid the broader context of the suffering of this planet,” notes the text, which bears the title “Serving a Wounded World in Interreligious Solidarity: A Christian Call to Reflection and Action During COVID-19.” The coronavirus health crisis can be seen as “a harbinger of future crises relating to climate change and the assault on biodiversity,” the document declares. “We urgently need an...

Last night was another historic night at the RNC 2020. The production was powerful, beautiful, smart and seamless. From pro-life speakers, to criminal justice reform to beautiful First Lady Melania Trump. What a wonderful night! Following Day 2 of the RNC 2020 many viewers called in to C-SPAN to share their thoughts. According to our unofficial count — 16 of 18 callers were going to vote Trump.

President Trump warned Friday that if there’s a significant delay in election results, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could become president. Speaking at the 2020 Council for National Policy meeting, the president referenced a “mad” theory — unsure if it is fact — that if there is no result in the Nov. 3 election by Inauguration Day in January, Mrs. Pelosi would become president.
 The claim Mr. Trump cited could potentially be that the speaker of the House is third in line to the presidency, and if there is no declared president or vice president by the new term, the speaker...

Anthony Fauci ANTHONY FAUCI, the country’s leading infectious diseases expert, underwent surgery to have a polyp removed from his vocal cord on Thursday morning. Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and has been helping to lead the federal government’s response to the ongoing pandemic, confirmed the news to CNN. He did not specify how long he would need to recover from the surgery. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, said on Twitter that Fauci texted him shortly after the surgery to let him "know he was doing ok." Gupta said Fauci "had general anesthesia"...