Protesters endured the near-freezing weather on Wednesday night to show their support of a defiant New York City bar that was shuttered by lockdown orders that banned indoor dining at bars and restaurants.

Texas waitress who profusely apologized to a customer for slow service because she was swamped serving tables got two surprises: the customer left her a $2,000 tip and the restaurant where she worked told her they couldn’t process the tip.

Big Tech companies Facebook and Twitter are developing plans to further automate identification of posts that violate rules against what they deem is "hate speech."

Authorities say a sixth-grade student shot himself in the head during a Zoom distance learning conference, according to KCRA-TV.

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A federal appeals court in Georgia has approved an expedited review of pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell’s request for a forensic review of voting machines in three counties.

The Los Angeles lifestyle boutique Kitson, defying the prevailing pervasive leftism of the city, decided to mock Democrats and leftist celebrities with a vast display across their front windows with mock quotes and “People of the Year” posters.

Dave Morris characterized Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s latest lockdown orders as “tyranny” while claiming that the federal aid program meant to help small businesses stay afloat through the pandemic was wasted on “special interests and campaign donors.”

TAMPA, Fla. – A volunteer nearly had her arm torn off by a tiger Thursday morning at Big Cat Rescue, a Tampa animal sanctuary owned by Carole Baskin, WTSP-TV reported.

A teacher from a village school in India, praised for improving the education of girls, has won this year's Global Teacher Prize.

But Ranjitsinh Disale has already given away half of the $1m (£750,000) - sharing it with runners-up in the competition.

BERLIN (Reuters) - German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War Two which they believe was thrown overboard from a scuttled submarine.

Another shiny monolith reminiscent of the one featured in “2001: A Space Odyssey” has appeared, this one on top of Pine Mountain in California.

One might think the governor would be the highest paid state government employee, but that is not always the case. In California,

Adolf Hitler Uunona was elected last week as councillor for the Ompundja constituency.

In an interview with German newspaper Bild, he insisted he had "nothing to do" with Nazi ideology.

As The Washington Free Beacon reports, Darling-Hammond has “praised the Chinese Communist Party’s education system for its ‘magical work.'”

Muhammed Nitoto of popular Instagram account Chronicles of Daddy has documented why he will always take his young daughters into ladies' bathrooms when faced with the decision to use public women's or men's rooms.

President Donald Trump threatened to veto an annual defense bill on Tuesday unless Congress “terminates” Section 230 of the U.S. Code, opening the floodgates for Big Tech giants like Facebook and Twitter to be held legally liable for the way they police content.

Georgia officials are investigating a Republican attorney in Florida after he allegedly attempted to register to vote in Georgia ahead of the Senate runoffs and instructed other voters how to do the same.

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More than 2,800 Covid-19 deaths were reported Wednesday in the United States -- the most the country has ever reported in a single day -- as health care officials say their staff and facilities are struggling to support burgeoning numbers of patients

Conspiracy theories about the coronavirus vaccine on Facebook will be removed
Facebook says it introduced it due to the imminent release of a vaccine
Company says this will happen globally but warns it will not be enforced overnight

Government data shows there were 1,230 coronavirus patients needing NHS treatment every day in England
But only 938 of these were from 'the community', meaning they definitely caught the virus in day-to-day life

Discovery made in woods in Abergele less than a mile away from Gwrych Castle
Body found near Lady Emily's Tower in North Wales on Saturday at about 11am
Police said there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding man's death

The mayor of Austin, Texas, flew in a private jet to Mexico where he filmed himself telling citizens to “stay home.”

The first shipments of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine will be delivered on Dec. 15, according to an Operation Warp Speed document.

A organization founded by failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, as well as several other groups, is being investigated by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for allegedly looking to “aggressively” register “ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters” in the weeks leading up to the state’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections.

A newly discovered batch of 55 uncounted ballots in an upstate New York congressional race could swing the race from a Republican pick-up to a Democratic hold.

First-time claims for unemployment benefits totaled 712,000 last week, compared with 787,000 a week earlier and the Dow Jones estimate of 780,000, the Labor Department reported.

BERLIN (AP) — Just days after a large phallus sculpture mysteriously disappeared from a Bavarian mountainside, a similar wooden carving has appeared in its place, German news agency dpa reported Thursday.

Hawaii authorities arrested a COVID-19-positive couple after they boarded a flight with their 4-year-old child.

Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some degree, rediscovered concepts such as fairness and perspective, AWOL the last four years.

President Donald Trump said it was time to “take back America” Tuesday as he announced plans to veto the National Defense Authorization Act if safeguards remained in place to protect entities such as Google, Facebook and Twitter from lawsuits.

Aside from the viral epidemic, 2020 will be remembered for a crime epidemic that broke the back of the criminal justice system, which has successfully reduced crime since the mid-1990s. Meanwhile, criminals continue to be kept out of jail and prison in order to keep

Republican Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks said Wednesday that he is planning to challenge the Electoral College votes next month when Congress meets to certify the election for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has officially come out in support of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden’s radical transgender agenda.

FBI data showed that a record number of Americans went to gun stores over Thanksgiving weekend with the intent to purchase a firearm.

On Nov. 25, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn in its case against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his strict coronavirus lockdown orders.

Georgia has to be heartily sick of Hollywood stars.

Border Patrol agents rescued 25 people attempting to illegally enter the United States in 10 separate incidents over Thanksgiving weekend in southern Arizona, Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday.

2020 has been an awful year for law enforcement professionals.

The prime minister of East Turkistan’s government-in-exile expressed concern about what a possible Biden administration might mean for the Uighur people in the northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang.

Although some want to consider him the president of Christmas past, President Donald Trump spoke Tuesday of being the president of Christmas future.

A small-town Democratic mayor and former police chief was charged with drug possession after a brief pursuit on Monday, authorities said.

Is The French Laundry a front behind some kind of GOP-run sting operation?