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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to congratulate Joe Biden is sparking an immediate backlash from conservatives on social media. McConnell on Tuesday called Biden the president-elect and said the  Electoral College  "has spoken." His comments came during a speech on the Senate floor. "Many of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result," McConnell admitted. Still, many on Twitter lashed out against the comments from the Kentucky Republican. "'Yes, Democrats are the opponents,'" one Twitter  user  approvingly quoted a linked article. "'However, the far more urgent MAGA ENEMY is Mitch McConnell.'" Another  wrote : "My running list of turncoat RINO's [Republican In Name Only] keeps getting longer by the day." And one supporter of President Donald Trump  tweeted : "You have made all the MSM [mainstream medi

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a presser Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Georgia officials are launching an investigation into a county they say didn’t follow proper procedures when matching signatures on Election Day. In a  press conference  on Monday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced his office will be conducting a probe on voter signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb County. We will also be working with an accredited university on a third-party signature match statewide audit study. Together, we will restore faith.  #GaPol   #SecureVoteGa — GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GaSecofState)  December 14, 2020 Raffensperger said he’s partnering with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in an attempt to restore confidence in the state’s election processes. “Starting immediately, we are pulling all of our resources together with GBI to conduct a signature match audit in Cobb County,” he announ

Joe Biden, center, his son Hunter Biden and his sister Valerie Biden Owens are pictured in 2016.  (Visar Kryeziu/AP Photo) The mainstream media is being exposed for attempting to kill the New York Post’s article on Hunter Biden. Following the release of the article, mainstream news outlets began pumping out stories alleging the documents used in the article were apart of a Russian disinformation campaign or just not credible. The majority of the media’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings attempted to dismiss the allegations. At the same time, Big Tech media companies like Twitter and Facebook tried to limit the breadth of the stories reach online. Twitter went as far as to suspend the New York Post’s account, which is one of America’s most read newspapers. This week, the nation learned that, in fact, there is an active investigation underway into Hunter Biden’s taxes. While little is known about the case, the subject matter of the investigation, which has been going on

South Carolina Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling holds up a cell phone while discussing contraband cell phones outside of Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C., Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Stirling and other law enforcement authorities gathered to discuss a federal indictment of 40 alleged members and associates of a South Carolina gang on racketeering charges ranging from drug and firearm charges to those related to a murder, a kidnapping and two drive-by shootings. (AP Photo/Michelle Liu) Federal prosecutors in South Carolina sounded the alarm on a criminal enterprise inside the state’s prisons. During a recent press conference, authorities said they  indicted 40 people  in South Carolina’s largest racketeering conspiracy case in history. According to the 101-page indictment, multiple prison gang members allegedly ran an organized drug empire that reached outside the prison walls by using contraband cell phones to carry out the illicit activity. Courtesy

FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn (Pete Marovich/Getty Images) Recent polls showing that about 60% of Americans are willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine are concerning because the shots are an important step to get the nation to a state of herd immunity, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn said Thursday. "It is really important (that) people carefully consider their decision," Hahn told  NBC "Today"  anchor Savannah Guthrie. "We need to get to herd immunity, and that requires a substantial percentage of Americans to be vaccinated. That's why we've been transparent. It is why we want this public discussion of the data. It's why we've been very careful about the review of the data." His comments came before an outside advisory committee is to meet late Thursday morning to review the Pfizer vaccine and make its recommendations to the FDA. Hahn said he would not prejudge what the committee, a "non-binding committee of scien

The Senate has restored the full slate of Federal Election Commission members. (JAY WESTCOTT/ AP PHOTO) The Senate has restored the full slate of Federal Election Commission members. The upper chamber recently voted to confirm the three new commissioners to the FEC, granting the standard six members on the agency. The FEC is responsible for regulating and enforcing federal campaign finance law. This is especially essential in the 2020 election, which is reportedly the most expensive election year in U.S. history with a whopping $14 billion price tag. Among those confirmed is Shana Broussard who will be the first African American to have a seat on the commission. She was confirmed in a 92 to four vote and will now be one of the three Democrats sitting on the board. The other two picks, Sean Cooksey and Allen Dickerson, are both Republicans. Cooksey formerly served as general counsel to GOP Sen. Josh Hawley and was confirmed in a 50 to 46 vote, while Dickerson was a legal director of the

A polling worker holds 2020 presidential primary ballots that were dropped at a post office and brought to a government center to be processed and counted in Hartford, Connecticut. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Documents necessary to establish the chain of custody for more than 83% of the estimated 600,000 Georgia absentee ballots placed in drop boxes by voters and subsequently delivered to local election officials still have not been produced by state or county officials. The Georgia Star News  noted that the Georgia Election Code Emergency Rule mandates that every county is responsible for documenting the transfer of absentee ballots picked up at drop boxes. The digital newspaper had sent out an Open Records Request for the ballot transfer forms to 77 of Georgia’s 159 counties. Bartow, Cobb, Clarke, and Cook counties provided the transfer forms. And the Star News noted a preliminary review of the forms provided by Cobb County indicated there were problems documenting the chain of cust

FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2020 file photo, Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, testifies during a Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Hearing on the federal government response to COVID-19 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP, File) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 9:39 AM PT – Thursday, December 10, 2020 FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn said he will not pre-judge what an advisory panel may say during Thursday’s meeting regarding emergency approval of a COVID-19 vaccine. In a recent  interview , Dr. Hahn said the plan is to take the panel’s recommendation into account before the FDA makes its own decision. He noted the panel’s meeting is more than a formality, stating it’s important to maintain the transparency around the decision process. The FDA commissioner added, it’s important that people carefully weigh whether or not to get the shot. He pointed out that enough Americans need vaccinations to achieve herd i

President Donald Trump (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) President Donald Trump earlier this week called Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to warn him not to rally Republicans against the lawsuit filed by Texas over the 2020 presidential election, the  Atlanta Journal-Constitution  reports. In a “cordial” 15-minute phone call on Tuesday, according to the newspaper’s sources, Trump told Carr that he’s “heard great things” about the attorney general, but said he’d heard Carr was trying to rally other Republicans against the lawsuit, which Carr denied. The call occurred after Trump talked to the state’s two Republican senators, but before the senators issued a joint statement saying that they “fully support” the lawsuit. The Journal-Constitution notes that earlier on Tuesday, before the phone call, Carr’s office had referred to the Texas lawsuit as “constitutionally, legally and factually wrong.” Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs dismissed the lawsuit as spreading “false and

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging Iran to address concerns raised about its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and return to "full implementation" of its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers. The U.N. chief expressed regret in a report to the Security Council obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press that the Trump administration withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions against Tehran, and at Iran's 2019 decision to violate limits in the deal including on centrifuges and enriching uranium. Guterres said in the report on implementation of a council resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear agreement that for the last five years the nuclear deal "has been largely viewed by the international community as a testament to the efficacy of multilateralism, diplomacy and dialogue, and a success in nuclear nonproliferation." But President Donald Trump has waged war on the nuclear agreement, denounci

FILE – In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks at a news conference on COVID-19 at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File) The state of Ohio is placing an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment. In an interview Tuesday, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine (R) said he’s banning capital punishment until lawmakers find a more practical alternative to lethal injection. DeWine said he still supports the death penalty, but has come to question its value due to increasingly long delays between crime and punishment. Other members of the GOP have questioned it because of the cost and the state’s inability to find lethal drugs. The governor said he doubts executions will resume this year or the next considering how the majority of lawmakers aren’t prioritizing the search for another method of execution. “I don’t see a movement in the legislature,” he stated. “You know, I don’t know anyone who has prioritized this as something that the legislature

Akufo-Addo secures 51.6 percent of the vote, election commission says, as more than 60 incidents of violence took place. Soldiers stand as supporters of the opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), protest outside Ghana's electoral commission ahead of official results in Accra on Wednesday [Francis Kokoroko/Reuters] 9 Dec 2020 Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo won re-election with 51.59 percent of the vote, results from the election commission showed on Wednesday, as deadly violence gripped the West African country. The results follow a contentious poll that both candidates had said they were leading based on their camps’ tallies. Five people were killed in election violence since Monday, police said, marring what observers said was a well-organised vote. KEEP READING Coronavirus: Ghana war veteran, 95, walks 23km to raise funds Ghana ruling party nominates President Akufo-Addo for re-election Old rivals square up again in Ghana’s tight presidential election Ghana