The suit, filed in the US Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, calls for judicial intervention to ensure the integrity of the 2020 presidential election results. While the legal challenge focuses primarily on alleged breaches of election laws and norms by the four defendant states, it also references …
Read More »Texas sues four battleground states in effort to halt finalization of Biden win, cites ‘voting irregularities’
The Lone Star State has gone to the US Supreme Court to stop the four states from appointing presidential electors for the presumptive president-elect Democrat Joe Biden. The motion filed by Paxton on Tuesday would have the SCOTUS order those electors to be appointed by state legislatures, all of which …
Read More »States balk & authorities dissemble as CDC demands personal info on Covid-19 vaccine recipients
Several states have balked when confronted with the CDC’s Data Use and Sharing Agreement (DUA), which they are asked to sign in order to receive their allotment of any Covid-19 vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The agreement requires the state or territory to turn over the names, …
Read More »US reports 250,000 coronavirus deaths as states roll out mask orders & tighten restrictions – Johns Hopkins tally
Some 250,020 people died from the disease in the US, Johns Hopkins University, which tracks coronavirus infections and lethal outcomes around the globe, reported on Wednesday. The share of the US fatalities accounts for more than one-fifth of the total number of coronavirus deaths worldwide, which currently stands at over …
Read More »Trump says states where Biden recently declared victory to be legally challenged for ‘voter fraud’, adds there’s ‘plenty of proof’
“Just check out the media” for proof, Trump said Thursday on Twitter. “We will win! America first!” Trump said the allegations will involve both voter fraud and fraud committed by state election officials. Twitter immediately flagged Trump’s tweet as potentially misleading. Trump’s statement came after media outlets declared Biden the …
Read More »5 key states to determine next US president, as race comes down to Rust Belt and new Southern battlegrounds
The first three Rust Belt states were considered Democratic strongholds until Donald Trump’s 2016 upset. The morning after the Tuesday election, Pennsylvania with its 20 electoral votes is the prize most coveted by the president and challenger Joe Biden. Trump currently has a commanding lead of 12.6 points there. The …
Read More »Trump sweeps South & Middle America red states as Florida, Texas still not called
Trump has been announced winner in southern states including Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, Missouri and Tennessee, according to projections from the Associated Press and other outlets. The forecasts also listed wins for the president throughout the US hinterland, in states such as North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, …
Read More »United (Socialist) States of America? Trump-Biden showdown is a battle for the capitalist soul of the country
Perhaps not since the Great Debates of 1858, between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, which focused on the issue of slavery, has there been a political struggle of more epic consequence than the one raging right now in the US. That is not cheap hyperbole. The outcome of the 2020 …
Read More »US Justice Department & 11 states file antitrust lawsuit against Google, say giant pays ‘billions each year’ to sideline rivals
The US government has accused Google, a unit of the tech giant’s umbrella company Alphabet Inc., of paying “billions” each year to distributors, including mobile phone companies and web browser developers, to secure default status for its search engine. Earlier in October, a House Judiciary subcommittee concluded after a probe …
Read More »Top EU court rules member states can’t have unfettered access to phone & internet users’ data in blow to Big Brother tactics
The panel of 15 judges ruled that the indiscriminate and mass collection of telephone, internet and web communications traffic is not compatible with European law. The ECJ said governments could resort to such practices only if they face a “serious threat to national security.” However, even in the extreme circumstances …
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