Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has invited Pennsylvania Republican Senator-elect Dave McCormick to the Senate orientation despite Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) holding out on a concession. On Thursday, the Associated Press projected that McCormick would win the race over Casey, but Democrats have refused to concede as ballots are still being processed. McCormick leads Casey by more than 35,000 votes, with 99% of the ballots counted. Schumer initially did not send invitations for Senate orientation to McCormick or Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego, but after pressure from colleagues, Schumer changed his mind, POLITICO reported. “Ruben Gallego and David McCormick have been invited to attend orientation,” a spokesman for Schumer said on Tuesday. Multiple outlets have yet to declare a winner in the Pennsylvania race, and Casey, a three-term senator, is still telling voters he is waiting for more ballots to be counted. “Our Commonwealth ran a free and fair election, and we are still waiting on the final results,” he wrote on Monday. “Our election officials will continue counting ballots and ensure that Pennsylvanians’ voices are heard.” Multiple senators, however, urged Schumer to extend the invitations to McCormick and Gallego. Outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) posted on X on Sunday, “In 2018 my race wasn’t called for 6 days. I jumped on a redeye to DC to make senate orientation-I learned so much & made lasting relationships that week. Dave McCormick & Ruben Gallego will be Senators for PA & AZ. They should be invited to orientation & start learning the job.” Some Republican senators said they would “personally escort McCormick into the building” if Schumer didn’t extend an invitation. “It’s an absolute outrage that Schumer is trying to exclude @DaveMcCormickPA from new-senator orientation,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) posted on X on Sunday. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Schumer was also pushed by moderate Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (AK) and Susan Collins (ME) to send an invitation to McCormick, The Hill reported. With McCormick’s win, Republicans will hold 53 seats in the new Senate, giving President-elect Donald Trump a comfortable Republican majority as he begins his second term on January 20. Republicans are also projected to keep their control of the House.

A judge will decide the future of President-elect Donald Trump’s New York criminal convictions on Tuesday as he considers throwing out the entire case. Trump’s legal team has argued that Judge Juan Merchan should dismiss the case and his 34 convictions on falsifying business records charges because of presidential immunity doctrine. The president-elect’s legal team has said that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg rushed the case for political reasons and did not consider presidential immunity when he brought the case to trial.  The case stems from Trump being accused of improperly masking reimbursements to repay his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence on an alleged extramarital affair by classifying them as legal expenses. A Manhattan jury convicted Trump in May on the charges. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and said that Bragg was engaging in politically motivated “election interference.” The appeal from Trump’s legal team to dismiss the case refers to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Trump v. United States, which said presidents cannot be prosecuted for exercising core constitutional powers and are entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts.  Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s lawyers, said that Bragg used testimony and evidence that should have been inadmissible during the trial. He said that Bragg “violated the Presidential immunity doctrine by using similar official-acts evidence in the grand jury proceedings that gave rise to the politically motivated charges in this case.”  MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “The Presidential immunity doctrine recognized in Trump pertains to all ‘criminal proceedings,’ including grand jury proceedings when a prosecutor ‘seeks to charge’ a former President using evidence of official acts,” Blanche wrote in a filing earlier this year. If Merchan does not throw out the case or set a new trial, Trump is expected to be sentenced on November 26. The judge said in September that he moved sentencing until after the election to “dispel any suggestion that the Court will have issued any decision or imposed sentence either to give an advantage to, or to create a disadvantage for, any political party and or any candidate for any office.” Trump has also attempted to move the case away from Merchan to a federal court but has so far been rebuffed. In a statement to USA Today on the case, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said that Trump had been given “an overwhelming mandate to Make America Great Again.” “It is now abundantly clear that Americans want an immediate end to the weaponization of our justice system, so we can, as President Trump said in his historic victory speech, unify our country and work together for the betterment of our nation,” Cheung said.

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First and foremost, Foreigner is a rock and roll band. So why would someone put together a list of the most rocking songs by a band that is, essentially, a rock and roll band? Well, the fact is Foreigner did have great success with many ballads. Songs like “I Want to Know What Love Is” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You” were fantastic hit singles, but they weren’t rockers. So, we thought it would be fun to put together a list of Foreigner songs that just rocked out hard. It’s as simple as that… so here you go! # The post 10 Most Rocking Foreigner Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Books cover reveal Revealing Esperance by Adam Oyebanji A tense sci-fi thriller forthcoming from DAW Books. By Reactor | Published on November 12, 2024 Photo courtesy of Adam Oyebanji Comment 0 Share New Share Photo courtesy of Adam Oyebanji We’re thrilled to share the cover of Adam Oyebanji’s Esperance, a tense sci-fi thriller available May 20, 2025 from DAW Books. A whip-smart thriller in the vein of Blake Crouch, Andy Weir, and Neal Stephenson, Esperance plumbs the depths of a seemingly impossible crime rooted in racism, intergenerational trauma, and an inhuman concept of justice.Detective Ethan Krol is on the twentieth floor of a Chicago apartment building. A father and son have been found dead—their lungs full of sea water hundreds of miles from the ocean.Abidemi Eniola has arrived in Bristol, England. She claims to be Nigerian, but her accent is wrong and she can do remarkable things with technology, things that Abi’s new friend, Hollie Rogers, has never seen before. Abi is in possession of a number of heirlooms that need to be returned to their rightful owners and Hollie is more than happy to go along for the ride.But neither Abidemi Eniola nor her heirlooms are quite what they seem. Abidemi is a target of Ethan Krol’s investigations and Hollie’s life is about to become far more uncomfortable than she bargained for. In a clash of cultures, and histories and different ideas about right and wrong, Hollie’s safety is very much at risk. Someone’s justice will have to give way, and the consequences will be deadly. Cover art & design by Adam Auerbach Buy the Book Esperance Adam Oyebanji Buy Book Esperance Adam Oyebanji Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget Of Scottish and Nigerian descent, Adam Oyebanji is an escapee from Birmingham University and Harvard Law School. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA with a wife, child, and two embarrassingly large dogs. When he’s not out among the stars, Adam works in the field of counter-terrorist financing: helping banks choke off the money supply that builds weapons of mass destruction, narcotics empires, and human trafficking networks. The post Revealing <i>Esperance</i> by Adam Oyebanji appeared first on Reactor.