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Los Angeles County officials announced Friday a new lockdown that bans most public and private gatherings amid a global surge of coronavirus cases. Reacting to the new stay-at-home order, KTTV-TV reporter Bill Melugin reminded area residents that LA officials used some of the money they received from the CARES Act, which was meant to help struggling businesses and residents, on...

The old adage "Every vote counts" was punctuated in the tightly-contested election in Iowa's 2nd District. Republican congressional challenger Mariannette Miller-Meeks is set to win the election by a mere six votes. In a heated race where 394,400 votes were cast, Miller-Meeks squeaked out a victory against Democrat Tina Hart by the razor-thin margin of six votes. Miller-Meeks had...

A Staten Island restaurant has declared itself an "autonomous zone" that is free from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's business-killing coronavirus restrictions.Beginning Nov. 20, Mac's Public House, owned by Danny Presti and Keith McAlarney, said they would not abide by restrictions enacted by Cuomo or New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Their defiant stance came just days before new restrictions...

Japan recently released somber statistics regarding the number of suicides in the country, which found more suicides in one month than the total coronavirus deaths during the entire COVID-19 pandemic. In Japan, suicides in October surged to 2,153, according to a report from the National Police Agency. This is a 39.9% increase compared to the same period in 2019....

President Donald Trump is reportedly already considering his options for the 2024 presidential contest, and is actively discussing the specifics of re-launching his campaign with his closest confidants.According to the Daily Beast, Trump has even floated the possibility of launching his challenge against Biden on Inauguration Day.From the Daily Beast:The conversations have explored, among other things, how Trump could...

The list of nominees for Time magazine's "Person of the Year" award were announced on Wednesday, and the pool of contenders is predictably extremely left-leaning and has no shortage of Democratic politicians. Despite issuing a directive forcing nursing homes in New York to accept coronavirus-positive patients, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a candidate for the "Person of the Year," according...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a lawsuit late Saturday that challenged the legality of a new state law that allowed voters to obtain an absentee ballot for any reason.What's the background?As TheBlaze reported, Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough issued an injunction last Wednesday after Republicans made an emergency request to stop the certification of Pennsylvania's election results.The central claim...

Political commentator Candace Owens challenged a "false" rating from a third-party Facebook fact-checker and she won. Earlier this month, Owens announced that she was taking legal action against the fact-checkers used by social media platforms. Owens brought the case because she became tired of being censored on Twitter and Facebook by third-party fact-checkers, as well as seeing fellow conservatives being...

First it was Thanksgiving, now it's Christmas.According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, if the trajectory of coronavirus cases continues to surge, then Americans should skip their Christmas celebrations this year.What is Fauci saying?"If the surge takes a turn of continuing...

A founding member of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has slammed Joe Biden, and accused the former vice president of capitalizing on the defund the police movement, according to the Daily Wire. Dr. Melina Abdullah, the lead organizer of BLMGNF's Los Angeles chapter that opened in 2013, alleged that Biden "capitalized on our efforts to defund the police,...