Monthly Archives: November 2020

Wohl Attorneys Call Racist Robocalls Protected Speech

Law & Crime reports: Nearly a month has passed since a federal judge found that civil rights groups would prove that hard-right pranksters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman engaged in “electoral terror” in robocalls that he found reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, lawyers for the duo want the same judge to sanction a civil rights group for filing …

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REPORT: North Korea Executed COVID Rule-Breaker

NPR reports: North Korea is taking increasingly harsh measures to stop the coronavirus from entering the country, including executing an official in August who violated anti-virus rules, South Korean intelligence officials told lawmakers on Friday. In a closed-door briefing to a parliamentary intelligence committee on Friday, the officials told lawmakers that the executed North Korean had brought goods through customs …

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Brad Parscale To Break Silence With Fox News Interview

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale announced on Friday he will break months of silence to partake in a 30-minute Fox News interview with Martha MacCallum. Back in September, Parscale announced he was stepping away from his post at the Trump campaign citing “overwhelming stress,” which followed him being tackled by police at his Fort Lauderdale …

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Trump Admin To Roll Back Rules On Killing Birds

The Washington Post reports: The Trump administration published an analysis Friday concluding that its rule easing companies’ liability for killing birds would not cause significant environmental harm, clearing the way for it to finalize a major rollback before the president’s term ends on Jan. 20. The administration, which is racing to lock in a series of regulatory changes before President-elect …

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Tokyo Plans Test Events For Postponed Olympics

The Associated Press reports: The postponed Tokyo Olympics are getting a kickstart. Local organizers on Friday announced a series of 18 test events set to begin in March and run into May. The Tokyo Olympics are set to open on July 23, 2021, after being postponed eight months ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement in an online news …

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Disney Increases Coming Employee Layoffs To 32,000

The Street reports: Walt Disney plans to lay off a total of 32,000 employees in the first half of 2021, a further reduction in its workforce as the Covid-19 pandemic and severe drop-off in visitors to its theme parks continues to slam its business. The layoffs, revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Wednesday, are 4,000 more than …

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Hospitalizations And ICU Admissions At Record High

Gothamist reports: The number of people in the United States hospitalized for COVID-19 on Thursday topped 90,000, marking a record high for the 17th day in a row and a grim sign of what lies ahead as infections continue to soar. Around 125,000 new coronavirus cases were reported across the country. However, the full picture of infections and deaths was …

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NO MERIT: Appeals Court Boots Trump’s PA Lawsuit

Buzzfeed News reports: A federal appeals court on Friday handed another loss to the Trump campaign’s effort to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Pennsylvania, with a judge — one of Trump’s nominees — writing that the campaign’s “claims have no merit.” In a 3-0 decision, the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit rejected the campaign’s effort to …

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Trump Claims Biden Has To Prove He Got 80M Votes

The Independent reports: Donald Trump appears to have already backtrack on his pledge to leave the White House if Joe Biden wins in the Electoral College in December. On Thursday, Mr Trump said he would leave the White House if Mr Biden beats him in the Electoral College. On Friday, he backtracked on the pledge and appended a number of …

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Covidiot Arrested After Pummeling BC Walmart Staffer

Global News reports: An employee at a Walmart in Dawson Creek, B.C., was assaulted after asking a customer to wear a mask in the store, RCMP say. Police said they responded to the store following reports of an assault on Wednesday at around 7 p.m. Following a review of surveillance video, RCMP arrested a 30-year-old man and said they are …

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Trump Flips Out At Reporter: “I’m The President Of The United States, Don’t You Talk To Me That Way” [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: “Just so you understand, this election was a fraud,” Trump said. “So no, I can’t say that at all. I think it’s a possibility… they’re trying to, look, between you people…” As Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason started to talk over Trump in an attempt to ask his question again, Trump snapped. “Don’t talk to me that …

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Infighting Erupts Over Trump’s Youth Vote Decline

Politico reports: Nobody involved in Donald Trump’s reelection thought the president would win the youth vote in 2020. But they didn’t think it would be this bad. Now the finger pointing has begun. When the data came pouring in after Election Day, campaign aides and Trump allies alike were struck by the president’s poor performance with the 18-to-29-year-old crowd — …

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Denmark Orders Reburials For “Zombie Mink” [VIDEO]

Reuters reports: Denmark’s government said on Friday it wants to dig up mink that were culled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after some resurfaced from mass graves. Denmark ordered all farmed mink to be culled early this month after finding that 12 people had been infected by a mutated strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, which passed …

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Trump Lies About Joe Biden’s Thanksgiving Address

First, a reminder on Biden’s address: The day before Thanksgiving offered a jarring contrast between President-elect Joe Biden and President Trump, who has yet to concede he lost the election. Biden on Wednesday delivered a Thanksgiving address in Wilmington, Del., calling on Americans to unite in protecting their communities as they celebrate the holiday this year amid the raging coronavirus …

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New Trial For Oxford Vax As UK Considers Approval

The Associated Press reports: The British government said Friday it has formally asked the country’s medicines regulator to assess whether a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University should be authorized for use. The step comes amid questions about preliminary results from trials of the jab, after the company and the university acknowledged that the most encouraging part of …

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Taiwan’s Reps Brawl With Pig Parts Over US Pork Rule

The Washington Post reports: Taiwan has seen lawmakers throw punches, chairs, eggs and even water balloons during periodic and spectacular bouts of parliamentary violence. But when pigs fly — that’s something unheard of, even by Taiwan’s standards. Members of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) on Friday threw pig hearts, intestines, lungs and other innards, leaving the chamber’s crimson carpet streaked with …

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Organizers Cancel NYC’s SantaCon Bar Crawl [VIDEO]

The New York Daily News reports: A lot of drunken Santa Clauses won’t be coming to town this year. SantaCon, the notoriously debauched yuletide-themed Manhattan bar crawl that each year fills city streets, subways and bars with stumbling and stewed St. Nicks, will not go forward this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers confirmed to the Daily News Thursday. …

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Pope Francis Blasts Protests Against COVID Lockdowns

Pope Francis writes in a New York Times op-ed: With some exceptions, governments have made great efforts to put the well-being of their people first, acting decisively to protect health and to save lives. The exceptions have been some governments that shrugged off the painful evidence of mounting deaths, with inevitable, grievous consequences. But most governments acted responsibly, imposing strict …

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Trump Says He “Certainly Will” Leave The White House If The Electoral College Certifies Biden As The Winner

The Guardian reports: Speaking to reporters on the Thanksgiving holiday, Trump said if Biden – who is due to be sworn in on 20 January – was certified the election winner by the electoral college, he would depart the White House. Trump’s comments, made to reporters at the White House after speaking to troops during the traditional Thanksgiving Day address …

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Trump Rages At Twitter After #DiaperDon Trends At #1

The Evening Standard reports: Donald Trump has claimed that a law protecting Twitter from liability over its users’ post must be scrapped due to “national security” fears as he was mocked online with the hashtag #diaperdon. The outgoing US President called for Section 230, which protects website publishers from liability for third-party content under US law, to be “immediately terminated” …

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