Month: December 2020

FDA Panel Member Calls for Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Events

A member of a federal vaccine advisory panel said Thursday that the United States should be holding mass COVID-19 vaccination events to get more people vaccinated, amid concerns vaccinations aren’t happening quickly enough. While billions of dollars from the government helped produce vaccines in record time, the vaccination part “is equally hard and is equally…


White House National Security Council Remembers Chinese Whistleblower on Anniversary

The White House National Security Council (NSC) criticized the Chinese regime via Twitter on Dec. 30, saying the current pandemic would be vastly different if it had not censored whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang. “One year ago today, Dr. Li Wenliang warned his medical colleagues over social media about clusters of cases of unknown pneumonia in…


HIV-Positive Mom Celebrates 18 Years of Husband’s Unconditional Love: ‘I Trust God’

Having endured the trauma of child labor and dating older men to raise her siblings, a HIV-positive woman now wants others to know that unconditional love, acceptance, and family are dreams within reach for anyone living with the same crippling diagnosis as hers. Mandisa Dukashe and her husband, Siyabulela Dukashe, from Gauteng Province, South Africa,…


Dozens of Republicans Planning to Challenge the Electoral College Results

At least 25 Republicans plan on challenging electoral votes during next month’s joint session of Congress, according to a tally by The Epoch Times. Twenty-one representatives and representatives-elect, who will enter office several days before the session, plan on filing objections. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is the only member or member-elect of the upper chamber…


GOP Representative: 100 GOP Lawmakers May Vote to Not Accept Election Results

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said that about 100 Republican lawmakers might vote to object to Joe Biden’s Electoral College votes when the Joint Session of Congress convenes on Jan. 6. “I hope I’m wrong. I’m guessing it will be upwards of 100,” Kinzinger, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, said on “The Bulwark Podcast.”…


Law Firm Seeks Clients to Sue SoCal Edison Over Silverado Fire

A San Diego-law firm is trying to drum up clients to sue Southern California Edison (SCE) over damages resulting from the Silverado Fire in Orange and San Bernardino counties, claiming the utility company has admitted its own responsibility for the fire starting. But the law firm may be overplaying its hand, says SCE spokesperson Chris…


Paul Kengor: Abolition of Private Property Is at the Core of Communism

To define communism in a sentence it is best to use original words by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who wrote that communist doctrine can be summarized as the abolition of private property Paul Kengor, professor of political science at Grove City College, told The Epoch Times in an interview. “The theory of the Communists…


California’s Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program Opens

The first round of applications for California’s Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program opened on Dec. 30 and will close Jan. 8. The program is broken up into two windows. The first window of applications will be from Dec. 30 to Jan. 8. The second window is yet to be determined. Businesses with an annual…


Canadian Municipalities Stick With Online Voting Despite Concerns

News Analysis Many Canadian municipalities continue to favour online voting and computerized vote counting despite controversies around these technologies and expert warnings about cybersecurity risks and other issues. Twelve Canadian municipalities used some form of online voting in 2003, 44 in 2010, 97 in 2014, and 194 in 2018, according to a CBC report. In the…


Video: Live Q&A: 289000 ‘Excess Votes’ in Battleground States?; Sen Hawley Will Object Electoral Vote Count

Senator Josh Hawley became the first to declare that he will object to Joe Biden’s electoral college votes in Congress on Jan. 6. In this live Q&A with Crossroads host Joshua Philipp, we’ll discuss this story and others, and answer questions from the audience. These stories and more in this episode of Crossroads. Crossroads is…