January, 2020

The media is using a variety of tactics to restrict your access to the truth from websites like mine, including NewsGuard, a self-appointed internet watchdog that sells a browser plugin to rate websites on nine criteria of credibility and transparency. Before I delve further into NewsGuard and its underlying agenda, it's important to look at who funds it...

The US government has asked Beijing for permission to send a team of experts from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to work with domestic health workers on the front lines of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak there. It has also asked Beijing for more data on confirmed cases in China, as health authorities around the world work to contain the spread of the illness.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told the head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday that the new coronavirus is a “devil” and that China is confident of winning the battle against it. Xi added that he believes the WHO and international community will give a “calm, objective and rational” assessment of the virus, state television reported.

A source with knowledge of McConnell’s comments confirmed to Fox Business that the Kentucky Republican told people in a private meeting Tuesday that the GOP did not have the votes to block impeachment witnesses. The Wall Street Journal first reported the comments.

The LA Times misunderstood what I said today. Before the trial I said I'd keep an open mind. Now that both sides made their cases, it’s clear the president’s actions were wrong. He withheld vital foreign assistance for personal political gain. That can’t be allowed to stand.

— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) January 28, 2020

The extent of the damage from the quake is unclear but no deaths or injuries have been reported. There are widespread reports of people feeling the tremor throughout Jamaica and Cuba, where schools and buildings were evacuated, and as far away as Miami.

• Hypersonic weapons are sought to compete with China, Russia
• At least four initial flight tests are planned for this year

likely searching for documents that could be related to the indicted former auto titan’s escape to Lebanon from Japan... The lawyer, Junichiro Hironaka, has denied any involvement in helping Ghosn flee and a person who answered the phone at his Tokyo office on Wednesday declined to comment on the report...

“We are concerned that certain sections of the public version of the report are misleading because they are contradicted by relevant and probative classified information redacted in four footnotes,” Grassley and Johnson wrote. “This classified information is significant not only because it contradicts key statements in a section of the report, but also because it provides insight essential for an accurate evaluation of the entire investigation.”...

A Ukrainian-born former associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani who wants to testify at the Senate impeachment trial was given tickets to the proceeding by Sen. Charles E. Schumer’s office, but will not be able to go after a federal judge denied his request to remove his ankle monitor. Lev Parnas, who is under indictment in the Southern District of New York on charges of campaign finance fraud, is under house arrest in Florida and wears a monitor...

South Dakota is one of at least six states with proposed legislation to outlaw the practice. Now that it has passed the state affairs committee, it will pass to the Republican-controlled House floor. The lawmakers originally wanted the penalty for doctors who violate the measure to be a class 4 felony, but it has been lowered to a class 1 misdemeanor.

Wow! New Jersey Data:

✅ 158,632 Requested Tickets (92,841 distinct signups)

✅ 73,482 Voters Identified

✅ 10.4% Didn't Vote in 2016

✅ 26.3% Democrats

Mind boggling. 🤯

— Brad Parscale - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@parscale) January 29, 2020

Speaking to The Sunday Times, he said the demonstrations, which have included chants for the royal family to return, show that the current regime may be coming to an end.

“The cracking from within of the system is getting more and more obvious,” he said. “When you look at the circumstances in Iran today, put yourselves in the shoes of the worst-off — how long can it possibly be sustained?”...