A Black Lives Matter leader vowed there'll be "riots," "fire" and "bloodshed" if Mayor-elect Eric Adams follows through with his promise to bring back plainclothes anti-crime cops to battle New York's surge in violent crimes.

It seems no great event or upheaval in our national life can pass now without the media lying to our faces about it. They lied about the Trump campaign colluding with Russia in 2016. They lied about the Mueller probe and Brett Kavanaugh and former national security adviser Mike Flynn.

With classes called off for the semester at a number of Hong Kong universities, students have been using their free time to fortify their campuses. As pro-democracy protests roll on into their sixth month in Hong Kong, large-scale demonstrations have been staged throughout the city this week though the focal point has shifted out to the suburbs where students have been denying police access to their university campuses.