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Monday, April 5, 2021

Trump might have 'found' the votes he needed to win Georgia under state's new election law

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A 'wormnado' appeared on a New Jersey sidewalk and scientists are divided over what caused it

fox news - #1:A 'wormnado' appeared on a New Jersey sidewalk and scientists are divided over what caused it

Gaetz sex probe suddenly threatens a speedy Washington rise

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Georgia Faith Leaders Call for April 7 Boycott if Companies Don’t Step Up Fight Against Voter Restriction Laws; Stacey Abrams Says Hold Off

fox news - #1:Georgia Faith Leaders Call for April 7 Boycott if Companies Don’t Step Up Fight Against Voter Restriction Laws; Stacey Abrams Says Hold Off

Burger King customer mad about wait time opens fire in drive-thru, Tennessee cops say

fox news - #1:Burger King customer mad about wait time opens fire in drive-thru, Tennessee cops say

Surveillance footage from a Burger King on Winchester Road in Memphis appears to show a woman with a black handgun firing into the drive-thru window on Tuesday, the Memphis Police Department said.
“Upon arriving on the scene, officers were advised that a female customer got angry regarding the wait time to be served at the drive-thru window,” police said.
The woman was reportedly in the passenger seat of a mid-sized, four-door gray sedan before she got out of the car and walked up to the window. According to law enforcement officials, that’s when a “verbal altercation ensued.”
“Video surveillance shows the suspect retrieve a black handgun from the vehicle, extend her upper body through the drive-thru window, and fire several shots at the Burger King workers,” police said.
The workers escaped through a back door and no one was hurt.
Police said the woman returned to her car and left. A man was reportedly driving.
Anyone with information about the woman’s identity is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (901) 528-2274 to report an anonymous tip. Tips can also be reported online at crimestopmem.org or by using the mobile app when you search for “P3 Tips.”
Crime Stoppers of Memphis and Shelby County Inc. is offering a reward of up to $1,000 if an arrest is made.

Baltimore: How one of America's deadliest cities ended the war on drugs - with help from The Wire

fox news - #1:Baltimore: How one of America's deadliest cities ended the war on drugs - with help from The Wire

South Carolina man swindled $450,000 from Lowe’s buying pricey lawn mowers, feds say

fox news - #1:South Carolina man swindled $450,000 from Lowe’s buying pricey lawn mowers, feds say

Donald Trump Jr.'s New Neighbors in Florida Tried to Bar Him From Buying Property There

fox news - #1:Donald Trump Jr.'s New Neighbors in Florida Tried to Bar Him From Buying Property There

Former star QB Colt McCoy was involved in emails with University of Texas alumni defending controversial spirit song with racist ties

fox news - #1:Former star QB Colt McCoy was involved in emails with University of Texas alumni defending controversial spirit song with racist ties

7-Year-Old Boy Facing Rape Charges in Upstate New York

fox news - #1:7-Year-Old Boy Facing Rape Charges in Upstate New York

A 7-year-old boy from upstate New York is facing charges of rape.
WWNY reports that police arrested and charged the child with third-degree rape for an incident on Thanksgiving. He was subsequently released and will stand trial in family court. The boy is from Brasher Falls, New York, which is near the Canadian border.
The family’s attorney, Anthony Martone, told the news station, “Instinctually, it shouldn’t happen to a 7-year-old. I don’t think you could even realize what you’re doing at 7 years old, so I think it’s absurd to charge a 7-year-old with rape.” He continued, “They’d have to prove he actually physically committed this act, which to me, it almost seems to be an impossibility.”
Martone reportedly said it seems that the boy is being charged as a juvenile delinquent. Currently, there is a bill pending in the New York legislature that would raise the minimum age for being charged as a juvenile delinquent from 7 years old to 12.
The outlet reports that advocates are pushing for reform following this particular incident with the boy. Many details about the incident aren’t known at this time.
State Senator Patty Ritchie’s office told WWNY that the bill is being reviewed. The bill proposes using social services instead of charging children as juvenile delinquents and having them appear in family court.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Elon Musk-Prompted Bitcoin Price Surge Causes Liquidation of $387M in Shorts

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Canada to quarantine travelers, suspend flights south

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John Kerry Suggests Oil Workers Laid Off Due to Biden Policies Should Make Solar Panels

fox news - #1:John Kerry Suggests Oil Workers Laid Off Due to Biden Policies Should Make Solar Panels

White House climate czar John Kerry on Wednesday recommended that oil and gas workers should pivot to manufacturing solar panels if their jobs are eliminated as a consequence of the Biden administration’s environmental policies.
During a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday, Kerry, who is serving as the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, was asked what his message is to workers who are “seeing an end to their livelihoods” as a result of President Biden’s plan to move away from traditional fuels and towards renewable energy.
“The president of the United States has expressed in every comment he has made about climate the need to grow the new jobs that pay better, that are cleaner,” Kerry responded, emphasizing that Biden intends to “do what needs to be done to deal with this crisis.”
“What President Biden wants to do is make sure those folks have better choices, that they have alternatives, that they can be the people to go to work to make the solar panels,” Kerry said.
Kerry noted that jobs in clean energy, such solar power technician and wind turbine technician, were growing rapidly before the pandemic hit.
“The same people can do those jobs,” the former secretary of state said, adding that, “coal plants have been closing over the last 20 years.”
Kerry also lamented that workers in traditional fuel industries have been a “false narrative.”
“They’ve been fed the notion that somehow dealing with climate is coming at their expense. No, it’s not,” he said, adding that the tribulations of oil and gas workers are due to “other market forces already taking place.”
Biden signed several executive orders on climate change on Wednesday aimed at achieving the goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. Last week, the president reentered the Paris climate accord, from which the Trump administration withdrew the U.S. in 2017. Biden also canceled the permit on the Keystone pipeline, a project that would have created about 11,000 U.S. jobs this year, according to the Keystone XL website. Many of the workers are temporary, but 8,000 are union workers.
“Today is climate day at the White House, which means today is jobs day at the White House,” Biden said at a White House ceremony. “In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis and we can’t wait any longer. It is time to act.”
Also on Wednesday, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm testified at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and promised to focus on creating U.S. jobs in clean energy while moving away from fossil fuels.
She cited her time as Michigan governor, saying that “when we focused on providing incentives for job providers to locate in Michigan in clean energy, they came.”
However, she added, “I think it is important that as we develop fossil fuels that we also develop the technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

Armie Hammer's estranged wife Elizabeth Chambers makes first comment about cannibal allegations

fox news - #1:Armie Hammer's estranged wife Elizabeth Chambers makes first comment about cannibal allegations

Armie Hammer’s estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, has kept quiet on the controversy surrounding her soon-to-be-ex, but no more.
The TV personality, who filed for divorce from the actor in July, couldn’t help but comment on a post about the actor’s Call Me By Your Name director, Luca Guadagnino, and co-star, Timothée Chalamet, teaming up for a cannibal love story called Bones & All.
Responding to Just Jared’s Instagram post with the news, Chambers wrote, “No. Words.”
The horror film centers on a woman “on a cross-country trip as she searches for the father she’s never met in an attempt to understand why she has the urge to kill and eat the people that love her,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s based on the novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis.
Hammer, with whom Chambers shares two young children, has exited two projects — The Godfather TV series and the film Shotgun Wedding— since leaked social media messages, from anonymous account House of Effie, alleged nonconsensual and violent sexual encounters and emotional abuse by Hammer, who has denied the claims. The alleged conversations included talk of rape fantasies, his desire to inflict pain on his partners and one that claimed he was “100% a cannibal.”
It led to two other women, who said they dated him since his split with Chambers, to come forward. Courtney Vucekovich claimed Hammer was emotionally abusive and wanted to eat her flesh, resulting in her getting treatment for PTSD after they split. Paige Lorenze also made claims that he branded her, left her covered in bruises and wanted to remove and eat one of her ribs.
When Hammer dropped out of Shotgun Wedding, he issued a statement addressing the controversy, saying, "I'm not responding to these bulls*** claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for 4 months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic."
The only other comment Hammer has made was when he apologized after posting a video to his private Instagram account of a woman wearing lingerie in bed whom he referred to as “Miss Cayman.” In a statement to the Cayman Compass, he said, “I would like to clarify that the person in my video, which was stolen from my private Instagram, is not Miss Cayman. I am genuinely sorry for any confusion my foolish attempt at humor may have caused. My deep sympathies to Miss Cayman, who I don’t know, and to the entire organization, as I had no intentions of implying she was actually Miss Cayman.”
Hammer and Chambers were married in 2010 and are parents to Harper, 6, and Ford, 4. They announced their split in July and she remained in the Cayman Islands with their children. He wasn’t able to visit the kids again until the holidays.
Chambers hasn’t otherwise spoken publicly about the split but a friend close to the former TV correspondent told a tabloid that while she was aware of his infidelities, he has a “whole other side to him that she wasn't aware of.” The friend added, “Armie appears to be a monster.”

Republicans who cheered Trump's executive orders now grumble about 'record number' from Biden

fox news - #1:Republicans who cheered Trump's executive orders now grumble about 'record number' from Biden

Over the past week, a growing number of Republicans began sounding the alarm about the number and content of executive orders being issued by President Biden.
“The first week in office, what has Joe Biden done? He’s signed an executive order ending the Keystone pipeline, destroying 11,000 jobs,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a Tuesday interview on Fox News.
“The scale of Joe Biden’s executive orders and their impact on Americans is stark,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said last week.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., blasted Biden for issuing “more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time, ever. More than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone. Second, these aren’t just normal executive fiats, this is literally going down the wish list of the far left and checking all of them off.”
So far Biden has talked like a centrist but governed from the radical left pic.twitter.com/wVnARR4dta
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) January 22, 2021
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., has been especially vocal about her opposition to Biden’s executive orders.
Will someone please hide the pens from Joe at the White House?
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) January 26, 2021
Biden has in fact been on a record-setting pace for executive orders, signing more than 40 of them in his first week in office. Most, however, were written to overturn those of his predecessor, Donald Trump. They have included an end to the travel ban from some majority-Muslim countries, a reversal in Trump’s immigrant enforcement policies, the rejoining of the Paris climate accord, the cancellation of the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and an end to the policy of prohibiting transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.
After years of complaints that former President Barack Obama had used executive orders as an end run around a deadlocked Congress, Republicans were silent when Trump did the same thing. Not surprisingly, the pace of Trump’s executive orders increased after Democrats retook control of the House of Representatives, thereby blocking his prospects for passing legislation. By the time his term ended, Trump had signed 220 executive orders in a single term. Obama, by comparison, signed 276 over his two terms. From a historical perspective, both pale in comparison to the 3,721 issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 12 years in office, though the nature of the orders, and the debate over whether they were better left to Congress to legislate, has also changed over time. Roosevelt’s most consequential initiatives, including Social Security and most New Deal programs, were enacted by legislation.
With the U.S. Senate evenly divided as Biden took office and debate raging on whether Democrats should seek to end the Senate filibuster to enact his agenda, the president’s barrage of executive orders has predictably drawn praise from Democrats and condemnation from Republicans.

Saturday, January 30, 2021

Pamela Anderson secretly married bodyguard Dan Hayhurst: 'Everyone we know is happy for us'

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Dogecoin Makes History As It Overtakes Bitcoin In Tweet Volume

fox news - #1:Dogecoin Makes History As It Overtakes Bitcoin In Tweet Volume

Dodge warns that regulations are killing the V8 engine

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Johnson & Johnson says its COVID vaccine is a "gamer-changer"

fox news - #1:Johnson & Johnson says its COVID vaccine is a "gamer-changer"

Johnson & Johnson has released the results of its phase three COVID-19 vaccine trial and plans to seek emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration.
Results demonstrated 85% protection against severe coronavirus disease in adults of all ages and racial groups 28 days after vaccination. The overall effectiveness rate for preventing moderate to severe illness was 72% in the U.S. and 66% across all countries studied, the pharmaceutical giant said.
Benefits include that it only requires one dose — as opposed to Moderna and Pfizer's two-dose inoculations — and that it can be stored in a regular refrigerator.
"There's no question that this vaccine is going to be a game-changer," Dr. Mathai Mammen, global head of pharmaceutical research and development for Johnson & Johnson, told CBS News' Dr. Tara Narula. "The real-world effectiveness of this vaccine is apt to be very high."
The Phase 3 clinical trials included about 44,000 participants in the U.S., Latin America and South Africa. In all, 468 people contracted COVID-19 in the study, which looked at protection against both moderate and severe cases. No one who got the vaccine died of the disease.
"What we mean by severe COVID is feeling particularly sick at home. That's about 80% of the severe cases. Or in some cases, being sick enough to go seek medical attention," Mammen explained.
Results also showed protection against multiple emerging virus variants, including the strain recently discovered in South Africa — which has also been detected in the U.S.
Mammen said the numbers were encouraging.
"We had 85% efficacy against serious COVID disease. And that's meaningful because there's a variant in South Africa that's particularly problematic. So that makes me rest easier," he said.
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use mRNA to carry the code to make the coronavirus spike protein, which allows the virus to invade human cells. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses DNA and a modified, weakened version of a cold virus to gain entry into human cells. It then triggers an immune response and teaches the body to fight off the real coronavirus.
Asked why Johnson & Johnson's vaccine only needed one dose, Mammen explained they "went through an experimental process and picked the very best one that optimized for neutralizing antibodies, binding antibodies and T-cells."
"So we're able to get a lot more immune response than a typical single shot," he said.
Bali Pulendran, an immunologist at Stanford Medicine, believes a single-dose vaccine can only aid the Biden administration's plan to increase availability.
'I would much prefer only to have to go in to get my one shot rather than to have to go in a month or three weeks later to get my second shot," he said.
Pulendran said a prospective single-dose vaccine would have an "enormous public health impact."
"From a clinician's perspective, it's so much easier to administer a single dose vaccine," he said,

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s coach: Conor McGregor rematch never going to happen

fox news - #1:Khabib Nurmagomedov’s coach: Conor McGregor rematch never going to happen

While the rematch was unlikely to happen, any hopes of seeing Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor 2 crashed and burned when Dustin Poirier finished McGregor in the second round of the UFC 257 main event on Jan. 24.
Poirier became the first fighter to stop McGregor via strikes after compromising the Irishman's mobility with leg kicks. It was something Nurmagomedov's coach, Javier Mendez, saw coming moments into the UFC bout.
“When I saw Dustin start going for the leg kicks, I go, oh my god, Conor’s stance is not made for checking properly, leg kicks like that. Especially calf kicks. So, I thought that was going to be a major problem. And then when he hit Dustin with the good shot and Dustin took it, that’s when I kind of knew, oh boy, things are gonna change. And sure enough, they did. And it was a great game plan from Dustin to work the leg kicks, calf kicks. And it was a bad judgement on Conor’s part to not be prepared for that," Mendez recently told Submission Radio.
"I don’t understand how you cannot be prepared for something like that, when that’s what everyone’s going to. Khabib, I told him, I reminded him every day that Justin (Gaethje) is coming after your legs, Justin’s coming after your legs. Every day I was telling him that. And you would think that you would be reminded also because that’s a big weapon. Until fighters learn how to deal with it, it’s gonna be a big weapon, guys, big weapon," Mendez said.
Judging from McGregor's performance, Mendez believes "The Notorious" would have been easily defeated by Nurmagomedov in a rematch.
“He would’ve got smashed. Khabib’s gotten better. He would’ve gotten smashed. He would have gotten smashed. Straight up. Khabib’s better. He’s better than he was when they fought two years ago. Conor didn’t appear to be better. He’s regressed a little bit. Khabib’s gotten way better. He would have gotten smashed," said Mendez.
With McGregor's loss to Poirier, Mendez believes that door on a rematch with Nurmagomedov has permanently closed.
“You’re never gonna get that rematch. Just like you’re never going to get the Tony (Ferguson) and Khabib fight. That’s never gonna happen either. It’s not gonna happen. I mean, Khabib doesn’t need it. He seems fulfilled. And like I said, I think the only juicy part for him is what his father wanted, GSP. I’ve said it many times. And who knows, maybe that’s out of the question now. Maybe GSP doesn’t want it, maybe Khabib don’t want it now. I don’t know, cause I never talked to Khabib about what he wants, I’ve always listened to him," said Mendez.
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According to Mendez, a fight against Georges St-Pierre was the only fight that could have lured Nurmagomedov back into the Octagon. Even if McGregor had beaten Poirier, Mendez isn't sure if it would have mattered.
“I didn’t even know if he [Conor] would’ve done great that Khabib would even fight him, cause he’s gotta ask his mother’s permission first. You guys gotta remember, the key thing is, he’s gotta ask his mother for permission too. And I didn’t see GSP being offered. And I thought the only way he was gonna come out of it was if GSP was in that picture. But based what it happened, I don’t see why he would want to come out and fight anybody. Why? Fighting the best is not gonna motivate him. He’s not looking at the money aspect of it. But if they can put GSP, if they can put GSP on the table, maybe there’s a chance there," he said.
"And I’m not saying it will happen, because I don’t know, but I’m just saying GSP might be the only one. I’ve always thought it was GSP, because that’s what his father wanted, and I think if they can get that one worked out and he can get his mother’s permission, I think that one could work. But I don’t think anybody else is gonna work. Period”
“If he asked my opinion, I would say hold out for GSP, or retire. That’s what I would tell him. But he’s never asked me, so that conversation never took place," Mendez said.

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