Month: May 2020

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, exploded in outrage at the decision by the Department of Justice to drop its case against former Trump administration National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn on Thursday, vowing to hold a hearing “ASAP” to demand answers from Attorney General William Barr. Rep. Nadler addresses
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks during a campaign event in Detroit, Mich., March 9, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that she supports banning firearms in the state Capitol after armed protesters demonstrated against the state’s strict lockdown measures last week. “There are legislators who are wearing bulletproof vests to go to
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CNN continues to label her as a “Republican Strategist” on her CNN profile, still attempting to prop up that suspect label even in the face of this potential conflict of interest. CNN host Jake Tapper asked Navarro in April 2019 about her personal preference for a Democratic presidential candidate. Navarro stated she would vote for
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President Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 29, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) Donald Trump promised an ‘extraordinary public–private partnership’ that would beat the virus. It hasn’t materialized. The status of the COVID-19 fight is this: In the win column, the American people have made
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, Texas, May 4, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Texas governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced on Thursday that he would eliminate jail sentences for violators of lockdown orders. “Throwing Texans in jail whose [businesses] shut down through no fault of their own is wrong,”
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When I wrote yesterday about Frontier Airlines’ new plan to sell “More Room” seats, where the passenger would be assured of an empty seat next to them, suffice it to say that I was unimpressed with their “generosity.” As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one. Complaints were coming in from all over the
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A polling station in Brooklyn, New York, November 4, 2014 (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the New York Board of Elections’ decision to cancel the state’s Democratic primary election and ordered the state to hold the election next month as planned. The preliminary injunction from Manhattan Federal Court Judge Analisa Torres requires
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The Ohio House on Wednesday passed a bill stripping the state health director of some emergency powers and limiting stay-at-home orders to 14 days, requiring the approval of the legislature for an extension. Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican who’s been basking in the praise of Democrats for his heavy-handed approach to containing the coronavirus pandemic,
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Democrats accused of double standard on presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden; reaction and analysis on ‘The Five.’ #FoxNews #TheFive FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX
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Outside the U.S. District Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) How to think about the coming Chapter 11 epidemic. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n 19th-century English novels, bankruptcy is a tragedy that just happens to people, often with no real explanation, as though it were a natural disaster
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A new and disturbing video of the shooting of 25-year-old Georgia man named Ahmaud Arbery has emerged. It’s a gut-wrenching thing to watch. Perhaps there will be new evidence, but it’s difficult to envision any way a jury could see this incident as anything but a flat-out murder. For those who haven’t been following the
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Sounding as though he was reading the talking points his Democratic governor brother handed to him, CNN host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo raged at President Trump during Wednesday’s PrimeTime, and suggested, “[i]ncreasingly, life seems to be getting pretty cheap in America” and questioned if the Trump administration was still interested in saving lives. This from the
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Spring is in the air, and it is increasingly found in the confident step of the people of Sweden. With a death rate significantly lower than that of France, Spain, the U.K., Belgium, Italy, and other European Union countries, Swedes can enjoy the spring without panic or fears of reigniting a new epidemic as …
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Election volunteer Nancy Gavney verifies voter and witness signatures on absentee ballots at City Hall during the presidential primary election in Beloit, Wisc., April 7, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) Despite real disagreements over how to safely expand voting options in November, there could be more common ground than there seems. With Congress back in session, one
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2018 (Tom Williams/Pool via Reuters) Back in January, I wrote about the campaign by the draft advisory opinion of the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the U.S. Judicial Conference to undo longstanding practice by barring judges from belonging to the Federalist
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U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies before the House Education Committee on Capitol Hill, May 22, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) The accused will now have the presumption of innocence, and the right to have an attorney, cross-examine witnesses, and see the evidence against them. This week, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos formally announced new Title IX rules
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Is the cure worse than the disease? Many have dismissed the idea of ending coronavirus lockdowns, claiming that anti-lockdown protesters are heartless, placing the economy above human lives. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) has become notorious for stringent lockdowns, which she defends in the name of “science.” Yet the anxiety the coronavirus has caused — including
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According to NewsOne, Calvin James Munerlyn, a 43-year-old married father of nine, was working at a Family Dollar in Flint, Michigan, on Friday. During his shift, he asked a female customer to cover her face with a mask while inside the store. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Executive Order says that “everyone must wear a mask in all
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Former President Barack Obama delivers the 16th Nelson Mandela annual lecture, marking the centenary of the anti-apartheid leader’s birth, in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 17, 2018. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters) Former president Barack Obama accused Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) of giving “credence to a Russian disinformation campaign” by probing a possible
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As freedoms vanish across the country the ACLU has filed dozens of lawsuits, none protecting the Bill of Rights. #FoxNews #Tucker FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday
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President Donald Trump points at a reporter during the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 23, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump on Wednesday announced he would not disband the White House coronavirus task force, following confirmation on Tuesday that his administration was considering the option. “I thought we could wind it
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