Puerto Rico has long been stuck in limbo between becoming the 51st state and remaining an unincorporated U.S. territory. But now, with Democrats in control of Congress and the White House, the issue of Puerto Rican statehood is back on the table. But it’s a tough argument to make that the Caribbean island should become
Month: February 2021
On Monday, Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that they will open special COVID vaccination sites for illegal immigrants. The Daily Wire reported — DHS also asserted that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection “will not conduct enforcement operations at or near vaccine distribution sites or clinics.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks before a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2019. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters) Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny will serve two-and-a-half years in jail, a court ruled on Tuesday, two weeks after he returned to Moscow in the wake of a nerve agent poisioning. Navalny was airlifted to Germany in
LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 09: Director Ryan Coogler attends the ‘Black Panther’ BFI preview screening held at BFI Southbank on February 9, 2018 in London, England. Jeff Spicer | Getty Images Disney is adding another TV show to its already stacked slate of Marvel content in development for Disney+. On Monday, the company announced that
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has labelled far-right Marjorie Taylor Greene’s embrace of conspiracy theories as “loony lies” and a “cancer” for their party. Mr McConnell, the top Republican in the US Senate, has intensified pressure on the far-right Georgia congresswoman after, among other moves, she amplified QAnon conspiracy theories which focus on the debunked
Strange. Suddenly Saturday Night Live doesn’t care about skewering American presidents anymore. The sketch series, whose entire brand for the past four years has been built on bashing the last president, made no quips about the brand new Biden administration during its winter season opener. “In their first episode of 2021 and the first under
Stacey Abrams has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her activism around voting rights by Norwegian lawmaker Lars Haltbrekken. As many Georgians will tell you, her work in this area has decreased confidence in our election process. Just look at the nationwide doubts following the 2020 election. Abrams has maintained a narrative that
I’m trying not to be conspiratorial about the beating Cuomo’s taken in the media lately, coincidentally at the very moment Joe Biden has supplanted him as the Democratic leader of America’s pandemic response. For almost a year that role was filled by Cuomo, starting with New York’s hellacious outbreak last March — made more hellacious
President Joe Biden will receive his daily briefing on Tuesday and sign executive orders to advance his open borders immigration agenda. President Biden’s Itinerary for 2/1/21 – note: this page will be updated during the day if events warrant The schedule is comprised of information available from the public schedule released by the White House
1. The New Yorker: The Coronavirus Vaccine Presents a Dilemma for Pregnant Women A few days before the procedure, Amanda received an e-mail from hospital administrators saying that the vaccine would be distributed that week. She felt she had been forced to make an impossible choice: taking a vaccine that has not been tested on
Actor Dustin Diamond, who as a child played Samuel “Screech” Powers on the hit show, “Saved by the Bell,” has passed away after recently being diagnosed with cancer. He was 44. What are the details? Diamond was hospitalized last month after reportedly feeling pain all over his body, and was diagnosed with stage 4 lung
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell backed Sen. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as supporters of former President Donald Trump continued their campaign to expel her from GOP leadership for voting in favor of his second impeachment. “Liz Cheney is a leader with deep convictions and the courage to act on them,” McConnell said in a statement
On Sunday, The New York Times dropped a disturbing report featuring the accounts of 21 men who accused anti-Trump Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver of sending them “unsolicited and sexually provocative messages,” with one saying he was 14 years old when he was first contacted. And despite promoting the group, and Weaver’s admission, CBS and
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo holds daily media announcement and briefing at 633 3rd Avenue, Manhattan.(Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Science is asking questions and accepting the answers. Superstition is when belief drives people to do silly things without evidence. Which method works better for authoritarians and bullies? The latter, of
A lawsuit from across the northern U.S. border over the Biden administration’s halting of an oil pipeline could hang on a Supreme Court ruling against the Trump administration related to the southern border. In his first day in office, President Joe Biden canceled construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, an action projected to wipe
Joe Biden has been president for barely two weeks and has already signed over 40 executive orders. Back in October, he said that he couldn’t govern that way because doing that would make someone a dictator. Now he is fine with it. Media analyst Joe Concha just called Biden out for this. TRENDING: Biden White
Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) speaks as bipartisan members of the Senate and House gather to announce a framework for fresh coronavirus relief legislation at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Signs of life in the legislative branch are always welcome, and the move by ten Republican
The first major snowstorm of 2021 is underway, with power outages hitting New Jersey, a state of emergency declared across 44 counties in New York state, and the largest recorded snowfall at Chicago O’Hare Airport since 2015. As of midday Monday, about 1,500 customers in New Jersey were without power, Gov. Phil Murphy said on
A number of police officers have been suspended after body-camera footage showed a chemical “irritant” being sprayed in the face of a distraught and handcuffed nine-year-old girl. Officials in Rochester, New York, would not confirm how many officers had been sanctioned, but said the suspensions would last at least until an internal investigation is completed.
After using Monday’s press briefing to lobby and advocate for the Biden administration to ditch working with Senate Republicans on a bipartisan COVID relief bill, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) showed off their efforts during their evening newscasts. They also used the opportunity to attack the GOP’s relief bill as unserious and an
The United States invented solar panel technology and dominated its manufacture for decades. But we don’t anymore. China surpassed the United States several years ago and now manufactures somewhere between 50 to 73% of all the world’s solar panels. The actual percentage fluctuates and can be difficult to pin down. For the sake of argument,
White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced last week that the Biden administration will use an interpreter during its daily press briefings because it is an accessible and inclusive administration or something. She even referred to that day’s interpreter by name. What Psaki didn’t say is that the administration is required by law to do
Lisa Monaco, who has been nominated to serve as deputy attorney general, helped prosecute a black man who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for selling $20 worth of drugs in a drug sting, court records show. Monaco disclosed in her responses to the Senate that she was an assistant U.S. attorney on a
How can the U.S. get more vaccine shots off shelves and into arms? “By harnessing the power of simple economics,” say economists Jeffrey Clemens and Joshua Gottlieb. In an op-ed in The Hill, they note: For a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine course, Medicare now pays providers $45, too stingy for this crucial service. The crisis calls
The Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt will not face criminal charges, according to a report of the recommendation made by investigators. The recommendation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the investigation. Babbitt was among those killed during an hourslong siege on Jan. 6 at the
The city of Long Beach, California, recently imposed an ordinance forcing some grocery stores to pay an additional $4 per hour in “hero pay,” arguing that the employees deserve it for working during the coronavirus pandemic and that it would result in better retention of such essential workers. But national grocery chain Kroger says it
Daily Beast media reporter Maxwell Tani is reporting that anonymous White House reporters are tattling on Jen Psaki’s press team, that they have already probed reporters to find out what questions they plan on asking Psaki during the daily briefings. Some of these reporters don’t like an idea forming that they’re coordinating their questions and
On November 9, as the first week of election disputes started to wind down, Big Pharma giant Pfizer Inc. announced that its COVID vaccine had been tested and shown to be 90 percent effective. The timing was…fortuitous; cue the crazies. Donald Trump, Jr. took to Twitter with the kind of vague suggestiveness that usually only
Conservatives are labeled constantly as racist both in the radical liberal media and within the black community. Some of the accusations are justified, but many aren’t supported by facts. But because conservatives are incompetent in messaging, especially when it comes to the black community, oft-repeated radical liberal lies have become the truth. These perceptions will
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called freshman GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) a “cancer for the Republican Party.” “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” McConnell said in