On the Fox Business Network’s Evening Edit, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell took aim Tuesday at the chaos-ridden New York Times as having made a “mockery of journalism,” expressed support for law enforcement officers amid nationwide unrest, and denounced the liberal media double standard. Host Liz MacDonald introduced the issue of The…
Why America isn’t ready for online voting
Some West Virginians voting in Tuesday’s primary will be allowed to tap on their phones or laptops instead of heading to the polls. Some in Delaware will get to do the same next month. And the trend may spread into November, as the coronavirus pandemic inspires a search for voting methods that don’t expose people…
Poll: 80 percent of Americans think the country is out of control
Eight out of 10 voters, an overwhelming majority, say things are out of control in the country, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday. The poll revealed a partisan divide with 92 percent of Democrats believing the country is out of control compared to 66 percent of Republicans. Only 15 percent of…
Antifa-Backing Cuomo Declares Protests Are Not Required to Be Peaceful
As NewsBusters has extensively documented, CNN host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo has an affinity for the left-wing terrorist group Antifa; claiming they had a “good cause” and “morality” on their side. So, it came as no surprise when, on Tuesday’s Cuomo PrimeTime, he emphatically argued that protests were under no obligation to be peaceful. Cuomo kicked…
Maher Compares Trump to Murderous Nigerian Dictator, Admits Liberals ‘Lionize’ Anyone Who Appears to Be the ‘Anti-Trump’
Left-wing comedian Bill Maher closed Friday’s Real Time with a monologue that might have upset liberals. After all, it called into question the wisdom of the lockdowns that they have championed. However, the HBO host later made up for it by comparing President Trump to a murderous Nigerian dictator. After describing Trump as someone who “puts…
States brace for disasters as pandemic collides with hurricane season
Officials from Florida to Missouri are hurriedly rewriting their disaster plans, worried that crowding large groups of evacuees in shelters could spread coronavirus during what’s expected to be a busy hurricane and tornado season. Firefighters in Colorado are working social distancing into their strategy for tackling long-duration wildfires. And New York City is spending $55…
“It would be meltdown’: Why Boris Johnson can’t let Dominic Cummings go
LONDON — Never mind whether Boris Johnson should get rid of Dominic Cummings, the real question is whether he can. To the U.K. prime minister, his top aide — whose lockdown journey from London to Durham has dominated headlines for days — is more than just an effective political adviser. He is the linchpin of…
The Forgotten Story of How 13 Black Men Broke the Navy’s Toughest Color Barrier
Sam Barnes racked his brain one chilly morning in January 1944, wondering what he might have done wrong. Barnes, a popular African American petty officer working at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois, had been in the Navy for 15 months and had never been disciplined. Why, he wondered, was he being ordered to…
Trump adviser compares China’s handling of coronavirus to Chernobyl
China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is akin to the Soviet Union’s response to Chernobyl, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien said Sunday. "The cover-up that they did of the virus is going to go down in history along with Chernobyl," O’Brien told Chuck Todd on NBC’s "Meet the Press," referring to the…
GOP enters legal fray over Florida vote-by-mail
TALLAHASSEE — Republicans are seeking to join a high-stakes voting rights battle in Florida, claiming that Democrat-aligned groups are using the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to strike down voting laws. The Republican National Committee, the Republican Party of Florida and the National Republican Congressional Committee on Thursday asked a federal judge for permission to…
Progressive lawmakers push to slash defense budget during pandemic
A bloc of progressive House lawmakers wants to slash the Pentagon’s budget in defense policy legislation, arguing extra money that would go toward military hardware would be better spent fighting the coronavirus. Twenty nine House Democrats insisted in a letter to leaders of the House Armed Services Committee that the National Defense Authorization Act should…
Politics could dictate who gets a coronavirus vaccine
The promise of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year creates a difficult political and public health question: Who gets the vaccine first? Health care workers would be among the first to receive any vaccine so they can continue to work the pandemic’s front lines. But deciding which groups come next — the…
Hospitals at center of fight over liability protections in coronavirus relief bill
Hospitals are warning they will be slow to restart elective procedures like knee surgeries and colonoscopies without assurances from Congress they won’t get sued by patients and their own workers if they are infected by the coronavirus during those visits. Powerful industry lobbies like the American Hospital Association pressing for relief in the next rescue…
‘Abusive, dictatorial, tyrannical’: Republicans ramp up attacks on lockdowns
Rep. Andy Harris is fed up with being locked down. “They promised 2 million dead at the beginning of this,” Harris fumed to constituents during a recent teletown hall, later adding, “The media has a vested interest in making things sound worse so that you tune in the next day.” The conservative Maryland Republican also…
Republican frustrations mount with FBI chief
Senate Republicans are beginning to sour on Christopher Wray. They’re not ready to push for the FBI director’s firing as some of President Donald Trump’s most fervent allies have demanded, but they’re looking for speedier action on Trump’s desires to “clean up” the Justice Department. “I’m not calling on [Trump] to make a change, but…
Democrats demand intel on coronavirus origins
Top Democratic lawmakers say the Trump administration should share with Congress the allegedly “enormous” evidence showing that the coronavirus sprang from a Chinese lab. Otherwise, they warn, the administration should quit hyping questionable information. The demands come as President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo push the theory that Covid-19 somehow emerged from…
Next round of small business relief may come with fewer strings attached
Congress rushed to get hundreds of billions of dollars out the door to help small businesses amid a collapsing economy. Now lawmakers are preparing to fix the glitches in the next round. Banks have agreed to lend out more than $500 billion of the $670 billion allocated in the first phases of the small business…
Backlash to the backlash: Governors, medical officials wary of rush to reopen
America’s governors indicated Sunday they are continuing to walk a fine line in dealing with a global pandemic and economic desperation, as well as pushing back against a backlash over the measures designed to curb the spread of Covid-19. Governors from both parties discussed a range of difficult choices that would have been almost unimaginable…
Tiny airports rake in big cash after botched stimulus formula
A tiny airport in Devils Lake, N.D., scored enough money under the federal stimulus law to cover its expenses for 50 years. But one of the country’s busiest airports, JFK International in New York, got barely enough aid to make it through three months of operations. Congress and the Federal Aviation Administration wrote the legislation…
Documents show FBI debated how to handle investigation of Michael Flynn
Newly released documents about the origins of the criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn show that FBI officials feared that the new Trump White House might view the bureau as “playing games” if it sought to interview him without disclosing exactly what it was up to. The four pages of records provided…