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(Headline USA) Top Trump administration officials visited Texas five days before Election Day to announce they have nearly completed 400 miles of U.S.-Mexico border wall, showing progress on perhaps the president's best-known campaign promise four years ago. The government built hundreds of miles of fencing as high as 30 feet in...

(Julie Havlak, Carolina Journal) Johnnie Carswell won’t be a tool for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s shutdowns. He had words for Dr. Mandy Cohen, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, too. Cohen last week wrote 36 counties asking officials “to consider additional local actions to improve compliance.” Suggestions included shuttering...

The Central District Court of California ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release 250 criminal illegal aliens because of the coronavirus, according to a press release. Judge Terry Hatter said in his decision that ICE could either release the criminal illegal aliens or deport them, Fox News reported. It's unclear why...

(Headline USA) The U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 33.1% annual rate in the July-September quarter — by far the largest quarterly gain on record — rebounding from an epic plunge in the spring, when the eruption of the coronavirus closed businesses and threw tens of millions out of work. The...

(Headline USA) The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March. Applications for unemployment aid fell 40,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday. They fell in 30 states, including big drops in California, Florida and Texas. Claims rose in Arizona, Illinois, and Michigan. The...

(Headline USA) A former Trump administration official who penned a scathing anti-Trump op-ed in the New York Times and book under the pen name “Anonymous” revealed himself Wednesday as a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security. The official, Miles Taylor, came forward six days before Election Day...

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court will allow mail-in ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to nine days after Election Day, enabling candidates and parties who may be behind after counting to "find" ballots to make up any shortfalls against their opponents. The justices, by a 5-3 vote...

(Headline USA) On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai trumpeted the tech monopoly's partnership with the Associated Press to reassure members of the Senate Commerce Committee that it would be rigorously vetting information in its upcoming Election Day coverage. Democrat conspiracy theorists have claimed President Donald Trump may alternately refuse to...

The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google on Wednesday sought to appease Republican senators amid calls for a possible repeal or revision of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The statute provides protections for online platforms that rely upon the aggregation of user-generated content, defining the role of the...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, hammered three leading tech companies, calling them the "single greatest threat to free speech in America." He added that the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were also "the greatest threat we have to free and fair elections" after recent efforts to censor damaging revelations about...

(Headline USA) "Surging" COVID-19 cases in Chicago prompted Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday to ban indoor dining and bar services and limit the number of people gathering in one place. However, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she isn’t sure Pritzker’s new restrictions are targeting the right people and worries...

(Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations) A search of Justice Department databases reveals that Hunter Biden failed to register as a foreign agent while promoting the interests of foreign business partners in Washington, including brokering meetings with his father and other government officials, and RealClear Investigations has learned that at least one Senate...