Author: Mike Brest
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Boulder shooting witnesses recount supermarket shooting: ‘He just came in and started shooting’
A gunman killed 10 people, including the law enforcement officer who was first on-scene, at a Colorado grocery store Monday, and those who were able to make it out of the King Soopers grocery store described a chaotic scene as people ran for their lives. “He just came in and started shooting,” a witness who…
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Rush Limbaugh, longtime conservative talk radio personality, has died
Rush Limbaugh, a conservative radio personality who was the bane of Democratic presidents and who built an audience of millions of listeners on the right, has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 70. Limbaugh died Wednesday morning at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, his wife, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, announced on his…
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Joe Biden inches ahead of President Trump in Pennsylvania, Georgia
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden inched ahead of President Trump early Friday morning in the count to determine who gets Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes and Georgia’s 16 electoral votes. The Associated Press reported at 6:50 a.m. MDT that Biden is now leading Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Biden overtook Trump in the number…
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Joe Biden inches ahead of President Trump in Georgia
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden inched ahead of President Trump in early Friday morning in the count to determine who gets Georgia’s 16 electoral votes. With the latest update, Biden has now tallied 2,449,371 votes compared to the president’s 2,448,454, which put the former vice president’s lead at a razor-thin 971 with 99% of the…
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ELECTION 2020 | Biden campaign fires back at Trump over premature claim of victory
Joe Biden’s campaign issued a stinging rebuke of President Trump claiming victory before the presidential election has a clear winner. Shortly before 2 a.m. MST on Wednesday, the former vice president’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, issued a lengthy statement, calling the president’s comments about there being election fraud “outrageous, unprecedented, and incorrect” as millions…
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Mike Pence and second lady test negative for COVID-19 after Trump infected
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, second lady Karen Pence, both tested negative for COVID-19. The vice president’s press secretary, Devin O’Malley, announced the couple’s negative test on Friday morning, hours after President Trump, First lady Melania Trump and presidential adviser Hope Hicks were revealed to have tested positive for COVID-19. “As has been…
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House Oversight to investigate postmaster general over accusations of pressuring employees for political donations
The House Oversight Committee will begin an investigation into allegations that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pressured his employees to make political contributions and then reimbursed those individuals, which is illegal. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the chairwoman of the committee, announced the investigation late Monday evening, according to the Washington Post. She called for DeJoy’s immediate suspension and…
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Steve Bannon, along with Castle Rock man and 2 others indicted over border wall
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been indicted for his alleged role in a scheme that raked in $25 million, along with a Castle Rock man who helped set up a GoFundMe page to benefit the president’s border wall. Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett,…
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Turning Point USA co-founder Bill Montgomery dies after contracting coronavirus
One of the founders of the youth conservative group Turning Point USA died at the age of 80 from complications of the coronavirus. Bill Montgomery died on Tuesday after being diagnosed with COVID-19, according to two of his friends: pro-Trump conservative strategist Caleb Hull, who posted about the death on social media, and Chicago-based citizen journalist Vic Maggio.…
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‘This is about violence’: Minnesota governor and Minneapolis mayor denounce protesters
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned the protesters who took to the streets of their state, saying they were no longer doing so in honor of George Floyd. Protesters took to the streets on Friday night, in defiance of Frey’s curfew, for the fourth consecutive night in response to Floyd’s death.…