(Jon Nazca/Reuters) The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to subpoena the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify on liability protections that guard the tech companies from being sued over content posted by users. The subpoena requests testimony from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and Google’s Sundar Pichai, all of whom
Month: October 2020
People sit in a Mediterranean seafood restaurant at Hudson Yards as restaurants resume indoor dining in Manhattan, New York, September 30, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Half of New York City’s bars and restaurants are in danger of permanently closing in the next six months as a result of financial fallout from the coronavirus, according to an
Campaign Manager Brad Parscale speaks to reporters before President Trump rally, Toledo, Ohio January 9, 2020 by Kristinn Taylor Former Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale is stepping away from his business and the Trump campaign to focus on his family. Parscale released a statement following his arrest and hospitalization over the weekend. Parscale’s wife later
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks in Pittsburgh, Penn., September 30, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Joe Biden’s transition team named a high-ranking former Facebook official as its general counsel on Wednesday, drawing criticism from the progressive wing of the Democratic party. The Biden team charged Jessica Hertz, who spent two years as a Facebook executive navigating
Reading some of the reactions on Twitter from left-wing celebrities during the presidential debate Tuesday night, one could almost predict their tone and choice of words. And there was little doubt which candidate would draw their ire. It’s true, folks: President Donald Trump doesn’t have many fans among the Hollywood elite — and those elite
It was one of the most consequential policy debates of our time. Do we send our kids out to school in middle of an epidemic that poses no meaningful risk to children and younger people? The teachers’ unions fought tooth and nail to get many states to keep their schools closed. They even held mock
It was an anti-Fox News whine-fest on Wednesday night’s Late Night where CNN host Brian Stelter showed up to hawk his new Fox-hating book, Hoax and complain about moderator Chris Wallace letting President Trump derail Tuesday’s debate. The bitter CNN host, who consistently gets buried by his Fox rivals in ratings, also held a pity
Film directors, producers, and actors have joined forces with movie theater corporations to beg Congress for a bailout. In a letter sent to both the Senate and the House, the movie industry said that without a bailout, “theaters may not survive the impact of the pandemic.” Most theaters outside of Los Angeles and New York
Last weekend, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency in anticipation of a planned demonstration by the Proud Boys in his city. As part of the preparations for possible violence, dozens of Portland Police Department officers were deputized by federal agents. The plan seemed to work out fairly well all the way around,
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks next to his campaign train while making a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pa., September 30, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Today is the first day of October. If you think 2020 has been rough, you’ve just got to make it through three more months. We can do
(Natural News) Get ready for the depopulation kill shots that cause severe neurological damage and lobotomize anyone stupid enough to take them. Even mainstream media outlet CNBC.com is now reporting that vaccine trials conducted by Moderna and Pfizer are producing extreme side effects in trial subjects. “High fever, body aches, headaches and exhaustion are some
(Natural News) In the rush to create a vaccine for covid-19, scientists will need at least 500,000 dead sharks over the next six months. The sharks will be slaughtered to provide vaccine makers with an oil called squalene. The squalene is a byproduct produced in the liver of sharks. Smaller amounts of squalene can be
President Donald Trump exits the Oval Office from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., September 30, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump signed a stopgap spending bill early Thursday morning that will allocate funding for the federal government until December 11. The bill, known as a continuing resolution, was drafted following negotiations
State Rep. Bernadine Kennedy Kent of Ohio is a black woman and a Democrat, but she is breaking with her party to endorse President Trump for reelelction in 2020. Kent has called Joe Biden’s rhetoric divisive and she also claims that she is proud to be an American. Expect the media to come after her
The Washington Monument viewed from the Lincoln Memorial ( lucky-photographer/Getty Images) David Bozell’s group operates the most engaged conservative page in Facebook’s history. He has some thoughts on the reasons for its success. By likes, comments, shares, and reactions, Facebook-owned Crowdtangle cites Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro, David Harris Jr., Franklin Graham, and Blue Lives Matter
The Left has big plans for this election, and we could be just four weeks away from the fundamental transformation of America. They’ve been building a network of street activists since 2008, and the plan is to unleash them on November 3. Tonight, in part three of this series, Glenn Beck reveals everything: how the
Former Trump 2020 senior adviser Brad Parscale has issued a statement saying that he is “stepping away” from President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign to focus on his family, following an episode over the weekend where he was detained by police and allegedly threatened his own life. What are the details? On Sunday night, WPLG-TV reported
Well, the establishment seems to think that the first 2020 Presidential Debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump was so insufferable in terms of outbursts and opponents interrupting each other during their rebuttal times, that they are contemplating rule changes to the debate format. Of course, the obvious implication is that
The House China Task Force issued a report that calls for securing American supply chains by moving vital industries back to the U.S. The Task Force is calling for Congress to enact key provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would lessen our supply chain dependency on China. Republicans have been looking to vastly
The debate was a remarkable example of the fact that Donald Trump, the most self-serving man in America, doesn’t know how to do himself any favors. For the first ten or twelve minutes of the debate, he was walking away with it — Trumpy, sure, but in control and surprisingly reasonable-sounding. If he had …
We haven’t seen any new stories about widespread sexual abuse and pedophilia accusations against “relief workers” from various United Nations agencies in a while now. Perhaps that’s because the entire planet’s media has been a bit obsessed with other things of late. But according to a recent report from the BBC, that doesn’t mean that
The debate was a remarkable example of the fact that Donald Trump, the most self-serving man in America, doesn’t know how to do himself any favors. For the first ten or twelve minutes of the debate, he was walking away with it — Trumpy, sure, but in control and surprisingly reasonable-sounding. If he had …
For months now violent leftists, antifa terrorists and Black Lives Matter have been torching businesses, terrorizing communities, shooting cops, looting stores and rioting in cities across America. But at last night’s debate Chris Wallace demanded that President Trump denounce white supremacist violence in our streets. And Joe Biden added that Trump needed to condemn the
California governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in San Diego, Calif., October 9, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) California governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a law on Wednesday that mandates the establishment of a state task force to develop possible reparations to the descendants of slaves. The new law makes California the first state
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participates in the first 2020 presidential campaign debate with President Donald Trump in Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) When invited at the first presidential debate to confirm whether he hoped to expand the Supreme Court in order to pack it with Democrats, Joe Biden explained that he would
Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman for allegedly driving six children around upstate New York to rip down Trump campaign signs and those of other Republicans. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said that the deputies arrested 45-year-old Deana Algarin from Schenectady for allegedly using the minors to do her bidding. The sheriff’s office said that they
An 82-year-old woman was saved from a harrowing attack by a male intruder when her friend and bat-wielding neighbor beat him down with her martial arts skills. The stunning incident unfolded in Fontana, California, a suburban city east of Los Angeles. Elizabeth McCray told KTLA-TV that she was attacked by a man who broke into
In the latest incandescent installment of the NewsBusters Podcast, executive editor Tim Graham and night-shift maestro Nick Fondacaro assess the first presidential debate. The interruptions were constant, and it was a mess. But the president made some excellent points about extremism in the Democratic Party and all the “deep state” intervention from the FBI and
On Wednesday, the Senate held a hearing on Crossfire Hurricane and the corruption in the highest levels of the FBI which led to the Russia collusion investigation into the president based on a fake dossier and a falsified FISA warrant. Through it all, former FBI Director James Comey was a slippery son of a gun