Another week, another Andrew Cuomo scandal. It is now coming to light that Andrew Cuomo’s family got special treatment on COVID testing early in the pandemic, including his brother Chris Cuomo the CNN host. This was unfolding as Andrew Cuomo’s policies were killing the members of other families by putting COVID patients into nursing homes.
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Jack Phillips speaks at a press conference outside the Supreme Court after oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, December 5, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) They want to break him to send a message. But the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner is standing his ground. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J ack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece
A healthcare worker prepares to inject an AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine. Eloisa Lopez AstraZeneca issued updated Phase 3 trial data for its Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday after facing criticism earlier this week over a preliminary report. The company now says its vaccine is 76% effective in protecting against symptomatic cases of virus. A release
A senior state official has become the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the US Senate. Rachel Levine, the former Pennsylvania Health Secretary, has been approved as the Biden administration’s assistant secretary of health. The vote on Wednesday went 52-48 in her favour, as two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan
This week, a white man shot to death eight people in Atlanta-area spas, six of them Asian American. According to Atlanta police, the man said he was targeting brothels and blamed the women for his alleged sex addiction. The gunman stated that he had visited two of the spas before and had planned to drive
There’s an interesting pattern emerging from my investigative work into the family court system in Missouri: institutionalized discrimination against Americans with disabilities. (You can read about the investigation here.) The main plot is that court professionals and experts are alleged to be diagnosing one parent or the other with mental disorders in order to take
Prince Harry is on a roll. In the course of two days, two announcements have been made of new employment opportunities for the Duke of Sussex. A Silicon Valley startup has hired Harry as its chief impact officer. The second announcement comes from the Aspen Institute where he’ll be joining a six-month commission aimed at
The Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that it had accepted a request by the Department of Homeland Security to house illegal alien children as the crisis at the border continues. “Today, the Department of Defense approved a request for assistance from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to temporarily house unaccompanied migrant children at a
Pro-life signs outside the Supreme Court in June 2014. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Over in First Things, John Finnis made the case that abortion is unconstitutional. You should read it. He rests his case on the 14th Amendment, particularly its first section. He argues, persuasively in my view, that if the original public meaning of “persons” was
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that state governments can restrict people from openly carrying guns in public, effectively ending a person’s right to bear arms outside of their home. The court issued an en banc opinion in the case of Young vs. Hawaii over a lawsuit by a Hawaiian resident who argued
A massive cargo ship got wedged in the Suez Canal and halted all traffic in one of the busiest and most important shipping lanes in the world. The Ever Given is one of the largest shipping container ships in the world, capable of transporting 20,000 containers at one time, and it’s stuck about 94 miles
Earlier this month, CNN Prime Time host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo told his viewers couldn’t talk about his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D) nursing home deaths and sexual harassment scandals on ethical grounds because he’s family. But it’s difficult to see how that ban on Cuomo chatter could hold after a Wednesday bombshell report from
A border sheriff in Arizona says his county has hit a crisis point with the surge of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. “We went from a year ago manageable [and] calm to unmanageable chaos and crisis,” Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Wednesday. “Checkpoints are
Because of Joe Biden’s big mouth and weakness, several of our enemies spent last week saber-rattling and humiliating the US. North Korea conducted a missile test over the weekend, the first to occur since Joe Biden took office. According to Reuters, Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles over the weekend in a challenge to Joe Biden after
Andrew (left) and Chris Cuomo (Mike Segar/Reuters) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is at the center of yet another scandal involving his handling of COVID-19. Yet this one implicates his brother, CNN’s Chris Cuomo: The Times Union reports: ALBANY — High-level members of the state Department of Health were directed last year by Gov. Andrew
British author and screenwriter J.K. Rowling poses upon arrival to attend the UK premiere of the film ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ in London on November 13, 2018. TOLGA AKMEN | AFP | Getty Images WarnerMedia owns the rights to one of the most powerful franchises in the world, but a series of controversial
Actor George Segal, best known for starring in US sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87. Segal, who was Oscar-nominated for 1966 black comedy-drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, died on Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California. His wife Sonia Segal said: “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal
Amazon’s decision to hire one of President Joe Biden’s donors to head up Amazon Web Services (AWS) sunk the company into hot water. The AWS division became notorious after it nuked free speech social media site Parler in January. Open Secrets records showed that Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky — who’s expected to take over AWS
I hate to say “I told you so,” because nobody likes that guy. But tell you so, I did. Way back in June of 2020, as lockdowns were going strong and riots broke out all over the country, I wrote up a brief history of violent crime in America and predicted we’d soon see more
Noteworthy, but not surprising. Frank Luntz’s recent focus group of vaccine-skeptical Republicans also found the participants unswayed by Trump’s support for the vaccines. Their objections to vaccination weren’t ideological, it turned out. They were wary for more mundane reasons, like suspecting that the vaccines were “rushed” and misunderstanding how they worked. Having a doctor answer
I was reading an article in The Week written by Joel Mathis and I was left shaking my head. The article went into great detail about how successful Biden has been in his first two months and it claims this flurry of success shows the importance of experience and a lifetime of sucking off the
(Brian Snyder/Reuters) In response to It’s All about the Science and the Facts! (Assuming They Fit the Storyline) Rich, The study that David Leonhardt refers to in his column makes the somewhat surprising argument that political ideology did not seem to influence the tone of news coverage of the pandemic: The estimated probability that a
Last July, the team formerly known as the Washington Redskins bowed to woke pressure to jettison the “offensive” moniker and adopt a new name that would not violate the sensibilities of any select group. They landed on a name that was unlikely to make anyone upset. In fact, the new name was so bland it
Police in Illinois arrested the mother and stepfather of a severely disabled 15-year-old boy who died last November, allegedly as a result of health complications from physical neglect. What are the details? On Monday, 34-year-old Jennifer Keim was arrested on a first-degree murder charge, and on the following day, her husband, 32-year-old Justin Keim, was
A Facebook-funded organization may have actually swayed Arizona to then-candidate Joe Biden in the civic disaster known as the 2020 presidential election, according to a new report. Thousands of underfunded and unprepared counties across the nation turned to financial support from nonprofit groups. One such group was the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTLC),
The Department of Homeland Security said last week that illegal border crossings are on pace to reach their highest level in two decades. On top of that, both Fox and NBC reported that illegal aliens are being released into the U.S. without court dates for asylum request hearings, but on Monday, White House press secretary
Tragedy struck on March 18, when eight people were killed in a mass shooting in Atlanta, six of the victims being women who were of Asian descent. The Democrat Party mainstream media almost immediately turned the shooting into a racial issue. In a press conference following the mass shooting, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki does
Florida teachers, whose unions were against their members returning to school, hold a car parade protest in front of the Pasco County School district office in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., July 21, 2020. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten says she’s “not convinced” by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance calling
Jeep Grand Wagoneer Concept Fiat Chrysler DETROIT — America’s quintessential SUV brand Jeep wants to change its reputation from gas guzzlers to “green” electrified vehicles to lure new buyers and maintain its off-road leadership amid an influx of new competitors. Jeep is expected to be a key part of growth and electrification plans for Stellantis,
The jury has been selected in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former US police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. Opening statements are due to begin in Minneapolis next week in a case described as one of the most important in the nation’s history. Fourteen jury members will hear the trial proceedings – 12