On Thursday, Rudy Giuliani and a number of President Trump’s other lawyers held a press conference on the topic of voter fraud – covered extensively on YWN. But on Thursday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson – one of Trump’s biggest allies in the media – repeatedly asked Sidney Powell, an attorney for President Donald Trump, for evidence of the widespread voter fraud evidence she claims to possess, but he says she never provided a single piece of evidence to his show. Instead, he claims the former prosecutor grew angry and demanded that his show stop contacting her when they pressed her for evidence.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a recent meeting that conditions would be more favorable for acting in the US’s “actual interests” when the Trump administration ends. “The problem of the [US] administration, which is in its final months, was that it was not very familiar with international politics. It was almost carrying out the dictates of the [US] extremists and of the Zionist regime,” Rouhani said in a speech broadcast on Iran’s IRINN TV. “Some of our youth believe that we were the ones who cut off relations with the Americans. This isn’t the case. They are the ones who cut off relations with Iran. We didn’t start this.” Rouhani also lamented the fact that the Trump administration has “interfered” with Iran’s relations with other countries.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested Thursday that the U.S. “pay people to stay home” to curb the spread of coronavirus. “To get the virus under control, we need to pay people to stay home,” she tweeted. Fellow Socialist “Squad” member Anti-Semite Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., had another suggestion: “We need to send every American a check until this crisis is over.” To get the virus under control, we need to pay people to stay home. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 19, 2020 We need to send every American a check until this crisis is over. — Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) November 19, 2020 (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Thursday aggressively made the case for the Trump campaign’s legal challenge of the 2020 election results, alleging in a fiery news conference that there was a “centralized” plan to carry out voter fraud around the country. While Giuliani did not present any direct evidence of a massive fraud scheme, Giuliani asserted that this is the “logical conclusion” reached as a result of incidents he said took place in several states. His descriptions largely entailed recitations of allegations put forth in several lawsuits that the Trump campaign has filed.

Senior Israeli government officials are preparing a list of key demands for the “day after,” in anticipation of renewed international negotiations with Iran, Yisrael Hayom reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Israeli officials insist that they have resigned themselves to the fact that the US and other countries will be resuming negotiations with Iran in the near future regardless of who is the next US president. The list has not been made public but the demands are expected to include measures to ensure Iran does not obtain vital materials for the nuclear fission process, a complete halt to Iran’s missile program, a considerable extension of the timetable of the agreement, and a commitment by Iran to cease all support for terror.

Ex-Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said Tuesday he has been reinstated to the U.K. opposition party after a three-week suspension — a decision that touched off fury from Jewish leaders angry about anti-Semitism in Labour that flourished during his tenure. Corbyn was suspended after he said the problem of anti-Semitism in the party had been “dramatically overstated” for political reasons. His comment followed a scathing report from the U.K. equalities watchdog, which found “significant failings” and a “lack of leadership” in how the left-of-center party handled allegations of anti-Semitism among its members.

The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency confirmed on Wednesday reports that Iran has begun pumping uranium gas into advanced centrifuges in an underground area of the Natanz nuclear facility, in a violation of the 2015 nuclear deal. The International Atomic Energy Agency stated in a document to member countries that Iran is feeding uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) gas feedstock into the advanced IR-2m uranium-enriching centrifuges at the Natanz plant, a Reuters report said Wednesday. “On 14 November 2020, the Agency verified that Iran began feeding UF₆ into the recently installed cascade of 174 IR-2m centrifuges at the Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) in Natanz,” the IAEA report stated.

A video taken on Wednesday, depicts a police officer hitting and kicking Charedi demonstrators during a protest that took place earlier on Mount Zion in Yerushalayim. A police spokesperson said that the video only showed a part of the actual incident and that the protesters had surrounded the police officer and threatened him prior to the footage seen in the video. However, additional footage from the protest that was released later, showed clearly, that the official response given by the police spokesperson was incorrect, and the officer in question acted violently towards the protesters even before the original footage was filmed. Photographer Yishai Yerushalmi, who filmed the violent actions of the officer, published the clip in its entirety on Wednesday evening.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday again asserted that he “won” the November 3 presidential election as he reiterated his allegations that there was voter fraud all over the US. “AND I WON THE ELECTION. VOTER FRAUD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!” Trump wrote in an all caps tweet in which he tagged a tweet of The New York Times along with a map of the United States which said he received 10.1 million more votes across the US than he received four years ago, including in areas with a majority of Hispanic voters. …AND I WON THE ELECTION. VOTER FRAUD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY! https://t.co/9coP3R44UQ — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2020 Continuing with his tweets, Trump alleged that this was a rigged election. “This was a rigged election.

New York City’s entire public school system will shutter on Thursday, Chancellor Richard A. Carranza wrote in an email to school principals, in a worrisome signal that a second wave of the coronavirus has arrived. Schools have been open for in-person instruction for just under eight weeks. The shutdown – which was prompted by the city reaching a 3 percent test positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average – is perhaps the most significant setback for New York’s recovery since the spring, when the city was a global epicenter of the outbreak. No word on how Yeshivas will respond to the news. Mayor DeBlasio tweeted the following: “New York City has reached the 3% testing positivity 7-day average threshold.