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Outgoing Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday gave his last update on Operation Legend, a Trump administration initiative to drive down violent crime in major inner cities, saying that the program had led to over 6,000 arrests since its launch earlier this year. The operation was launched in Kansas City, Missouri, in July and has since been expanded to eight cities that saw rising crime rates this past year. It involves surging federal agents and resources to inner cities to assist local and state law enforcement... 
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The Justice Department, following a two-year investigation by the Civil Rights Division, is accusing Facebook in a lawsuit of discriminating against U.S. workers. The lawsuit alleged that Facebook favored foreigners with special visas to fill more than 2,600 high-paying jobs. The Justice Department announced the suit Thursday, Dec. 3, alleging that the social media giant refused to recruit, consider or hire qualified and available U.S. workers for the positions that Facebook reserved for temporary visa holders. Facebook...
ARLINGTON, Virginia – In a white paper released Friday, Dec. 4, The Amistad Project of the non-partisan Thomas More Society argued that the current Electoral College deadlines are both arbitrary and a direct impediment to states’ obligations to investigate disputed elections. The authoritative research paper breaks down the history of Electoral College deadlines and makes clear that this election’s Dec. 8 and Dec. 14 deadlines for the selection of electors, the assembly of the Electoral College and the tallying of its votes...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Michael Balsamo and Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration's coronavirus response. Separately, Biden picked a Harvard infectious disease expert, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And he announced a new advisory...
As of press time on Tuesday here are some highlights of last week’s post-election legal and legislative reports prompted by various groups, including the Trump campaign. Georgia: Gov. Brian Kemp called on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Dec. 5 to order a signature audit of votes after the release of video footage appeared to show poll workers in Fulton County processing ballots in the middle of the night. According to Trump campaign attorney Jackie Pick, who t...
Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania Monday, Nov. 30, introduced a resolution to dispute the results of the 2020 election. The text of the resolution, first previewed in a memo Nov. 27, showed that the executive and judicial branches of the Keystone State's government usurped the legislature's constitutional power to set the rules of the election. "Officials in the Executive and Judicial Branches of the Commonwealth infringed upon the General Assembly's authority under...
The federal judge overseeing attorney Sidney Powell's election lawsuit in Georgia issued a temporary restraining order late Sunday night, Nov. 29, declaring that election officials were barred from wiping or altering Dominion voting machines used in the November election. The emergency order was the third issued in so many hours over Powell's lawsuit seeking an emergency order to see "voting machines be seized and impounded immediately for forensic audit by plaintiffs'...
Cybersecurity expert and retired Army Col. Phil Waldron testified in front of members of the Arizona State legislature Monday, Nov. 30. Waldron presented an analysis of data that shows a vote spike on Election Day shortly after counting started. “Arizona was a little bit different. It had a pretty strong rise right up at the front, the first part of voting day, whereas the other states have a gradual increase in votes. But this injection spike at 8:06 p.m. … is 143,100 votes that were injected, that was in excess of what the...
November 28, 2020 Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Friday announced a resolution they will soon be introducing to dispute the results of the 2020 election. The text of the resolution, released in a memo on Nov. 27, states that the executive and judicial branches of the Keystone State's government usurped the legislature's constitutional power to set the rules of the election. The resolution "declares that the selection of presidential electors and other statewide...
BY PETR SVAB Updated: November 27, 2020 A lawsuit released by lawyers led by former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell makes 30 allegations of electoral fraud and other illegal and irregular activities and features pertaining to the 2020 general elections in Georgia (pdf). The allegations, most of which are based on witness and expert statements, relate to mail-in ballot fraud and insecurities, recount irregularities and deficiencies, and security hazards of the Dominion Voting...
Nov 27, 2020 1:53PM ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The Walt Disney Co. announced plans to lay off 4,000 more employees largely due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement by the company was made in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this week, saying 32,000 employees at the parks, experiences and products division will be terminated in the first half of fiscal year 2021, which began last month. In late September, the company had already announced...
A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday ordered state officials to not certify the results of the 2020 election until her court holds a hearing on an election contest on Friday. Commonwealth Judge Patricia McCullough ordered the state to not take any further steps to complete the certification of the presidential race, which the state announced on Tuesday. She also blocked the certification of all the other election results. "To the extent that there remains any further action to... Full story
Nov 24, 2020 2:56 PM The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden and his team that the Trump administration is ready to begin the transition process. The Hill obtained a copy of a letter sent from GSA Administrator Emily Murphy to Biden on Monday saying that he would have access to federal resources and services to facilitate a presidential transition. Trump tweeted that he had asked Murphy to begin the transition, although he has not yet...
After Sidney Powell and the Trump team broke ties this weekend, Powell said Saturday, Nov. 21, that her team will file a lawsuit of "biblical" proportions, alleging that some election officials were embroiled in a pay-to-play scheme with a prominent manufacturer of voting software. "We've got tons of evidence; it's so much, it's hard to pull it all together," Powell told Newsmax. She didn't provide or elaborate on the evidence. "Hopefully this week we will get it ready to...
President-elect Joe Biden tapped Obama administration veterans Monday, Nov. 23, for top national security positions, signaling a shift from the Trump administration's "America First" policies that disparaged international alliances, career diplomats and other veteran government officials. The six picks, including former Secretary of State John Kerry, mark a return to a more traditional approach to America's relations with the rest of the world and reflect Biden's campaign...
A second experimental COVID-19 vaccine – this one from Moderna Inc. – yielded strong early results Monday, Nov. 16, as the pandemic enters a new phase. Moderna said its vaccine appears to be 94.5% effective, according to preliminary data from an ongoing study. A week ago, competitor Pfizer Inc. announced its own vaccine looked 90% effective – news that puts both companies on track to seek permission within weeks for emergency use in the U.S. The results are “truly striking,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. governmen...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Zoom Video Communications Inc. recently that will require the company to implement a robust information security program to settle allegations that the video conferencing provider engaged in a series of deceptive and unfair practices that undermined the security of its users. Zoom has agreed to a requirement to establish and implement a comprehensive security program, a prohibition on privacy and security misrepresentations, and other detailed and s...
It wasn't the decisive walloping Democrats were hoping for. And, in a country that has grown used to media organizations projecting presidential winners on Election night or soon after, the lengthy counting process of large numbers of mail-in ballots this year created an unsettling days-long purgatory for both sides. But the Associated Press, CNN, NBC, Fox News and other media outlets projected Joe Biden to be the 46th president of the United States, Nov. 7, after it became cl...
Pfizer Inc. said that its COVID-19 vaccine may be 90% effective, Monday, Nov. 9, based on early and incomplete test results that brought a big burst of optimism to a world desperate for the means to finally bring the catastrophic outbreak under control. The announcement came less than a week after an election seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s handling of the scourge, which has killed more than 1.2 million people worldwide, including almost a quarter-million in the United States alone. “We’re in a posit...
Nov 09, 2020 1:28 PM Pfizer Inc. said Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine may be a remarkable 90% effective, based on early and incomplete test results that nevertheless brought a big burst of optimism to a world desperate for the means to finally bring the catastrophic outbreak under control. The announcement came less than a week after an election seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump's handling of the scourge, which has killed more than 1.2 million people worldwide,...
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, along with several news networks declared victory in the 2020 election on Nov. 7, a declaration disputed by President Donald Trump. Trump issued a statement minutes afterwards claiming that networks were helping Biden "falsely" pose as the winner and promising to fight the results in court. "We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they...
Stocks are closing higher Monday, Nov. 2, at the beginning of a potentially turbulent week for markets. The S&P 500 rose 1.2% after more companies reported stronger profits for the summer than Wall Street feared and as reports on manufacturing came in better than expected. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 422 points, or 1.6%, at 26,928, as of 2:46 p.m. EST, and the Nasdaq composite was down less than 0.1%. That followed gains across Europe and Asia following better-than...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration announced fiscal year 2020 summary loan data of the financial assistance provided through traditional loan program lending as well as aid provided via the CARES Act. Loans guaranteed through traditional SBA lending programs exceeded $28 billion; however, enactment of the CARES Act dramatically increased loan volume guaranteed by the agency: In fiscal year 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program provided an additional 5.2 million loans worth more than $525 billion; the a...
NEW YORK – American Universities failed to report $6.5 billion in foreign gifts and contracts, an investigation by the Department of Education found. Federal law requires schools to disclose substantial foreign gifts and contracts to the Department of Education twice a year. Many have for years failed to do so, while others severely underreported the income. The deluge of the financial disclosures poured in as the department opened investigations into 12 elite universities. Universities reported receiving a total of more than...
WASHINGTON – The FBI warns the public of the potential threat of individuals posing as minors on popular social media or social networks to lure victims in lieu of immediate, in person ruse with the intent to abduct. Due to COVID-19 related school closures, minors likely will be at greater risk for encountering offenders online as they seek to occupy their free time with increased social media use. Definition The FBI defines child abduction as the unexplained disappearance of a minor, especially very young minors (generally,...
