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Donald Trump’s attorney fired off a letter to the CIA demanding “immediate legal action” against 43 ex-agency employees who signed an October 2020 letter saying the Hunter Biden abandoned laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” according to Just the News, which obtained a copy of the letter. Hunter’s laptop of course contained evidence of extensive international business dealings – including a relationship with a Chinese energy company that paid his company nearly five million dollars. In total the younger Biden took in $11 million from international dealings over the course of five years –...

The Democrats Use Churches to Deliver Votes for McAuliffeKamala Harris’ video messages may be in violation of the Johnson Amendment.The Democrats like to keep faith out of politics even as they impose politics on faith. They are happy to harness the power of religion for their own political purposes. Their usually strict views on the “separation of church and state” don’t stop them from campaigning in churches. The most recent example of this Democratic hypocrisy comes from Virginia, where the normally secularist Terry McAullife is using a “souls to the polls” strategy to drum up votes for his gubernatorial run.The...

Have an experimental drug that needs rapid authorization from the FDA in order to be sold to the masses? Looking to siphon billions of dollars from the U.S. taxpayer for your newfound pharmaceutical product? In today’s America, you can buy yourself a former FDA commissioner, and use the public-sector private-sector revolving door system of corruption to impose your will on the American public, and make a windfall for your executives and shareholders in the process. That appears to be the exact strategy utilized by Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the company that founded Moderna, which have rostered a series of...

Hunter Biden has two words for those who think his artwork is overpriced: “F--- ’em.” Eleven paintings by the President’s son are being shown by the George Bergès Gallery, which has estimated the work at a whopping $75,000 to $500,000. According to the Washington Post, White House officials helped draft a document to keep purchasers confidential — including from Hunter himself — to stave off efforts to curry favor with the administration. When asked during an appearance on the art-world-fave podcast, “Note Bene,” about his response to the hubbub and headlines over the prices and potential favor-seeking collectors, Biden quipped,...

A NEW CIVILIAN CLIMATE CORPS has become a central progressive demand for the Democrats’ budget reconciliation package, and party leaders seem poised to go along. Climate groups and elected officials alike see it as a combination of several top priorities: a tangible response to climate change, a broad-based jobs program aimed especially at young people and people of color, and a test case for Franklin Delano Roosevelt-style populism that President Biden is so eagerly trying to emulate. Like the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps, it would employ Americans on climate-focused public-works projects like reforestation. But not all CCCs are created equal....

Fully vaccinated Americans will “almost certainly” require a coronavirus booster shot within a year of getting their primary injection, Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week. “We know that the vaccine durability of the efficacy lasts at least six months, and likely considerably more, but I think we will almost certainly require a booster sometime within a year or so after getting the primary,” Fauci said

It's a "media intifada," notes Gary Weiss, an old colleague and one of the world's top business investigative reporters. He is referring of course to the ongoing war in Gaza, where journalists working for American news outlets have, he says, “become part of the Hamas war machine... it’s high time to dig through the carnage that many of my colleagues from major U.S. media outlets are leaving behind... Since late July, I’ve conducted an in-depth look at the credibility of the media coverage, plus interviews with military experts and some journalists covering the war...“We’re talking about journalism that functions as...

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that the state will explore its legal options after falling 89 residents short of retaining its 27-member congressional delegation, according to Census numbers released on Monday. New York will lose a seat as a result of the Census findings. “Do I think [the Census] was accurate to within 89? No,” the governor said at an event near Binghamton. “And we’re looking at legal options, because when you’re talking about 89, that could be a minor mistake in counting.” It would not be the first time New York has raised questions...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bid to erect 10 new skyscrapers around Penn Station — including one with the eyebrow-raising name of “PENN 15” — may have shriveled under the state budget deal reached by the governor and legislative leaders on Tuesday. “With a vacancy rate at over 17 percent in Midtown we need to think about creating jobs, not employee office space,” he said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to say fully vaccinated people can travel within the U.S. without getting tested for the coronavirus or going into quarantine afterward. Previously, the agency had cautioned against unnecessary travel even for vaccinated people, but noted that it would update its guidance as more people got vaccinated and evidence mounted about the protection the shots provide. According to the CDC, nearly 100 million people in the U.S. — or about 30% of the population — have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. A person is considered fully vaccinated...

Biden hires Joe Manchin’s wife…

Jackson Acquisition, a blank check company led by Jeb Bush targeting healthcare, filed on Thursday with the SEC to raise up to $300 million in an initial public offering. The Alpharetta, GA-based company plans to raise $300 million by offering 30 million units at $10. Each unit consists of one share of common stock and 1/3 of a warrant, exercisable at $11.50. At the proposed deal size, Jackson Acquisition will command a market value of $375 million. The company is led by Chairman Jeb Bush, who previously was the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is joined...

Kamala Harris' stepdaughter Ella Emhoff has appeared in her first designer fashion show, just three weeks after it was announced that she had signed with IMG Models. The 21-year-old — who is the daughter of Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, and his first wife, Kerstin — had turned the heads of fashion fans at President Joe Biden's inauguration on on January 20, where she wore an embellished Miu Miu coat. Now the Parsons School of Design fine art student has nabbed her first high-profile modeling gig, storming the runway for Proenza Schouler in three different stylish looks.

President Joe Biden will order the Justice Department to review a Trump administration rule that banned prosecutors from issuing settlement agreements that allowed defendants to pay outside special interest groups instead of their victims or the government. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions put an end to the Obama-era practice in a 2017 memo, according to Fox News.

China interfered with the 2020 election based on a report by DNI Ratcliff. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe issued a report stating China interfered in the 2020 election while CIA management pressured lower level analysts to discount this assessment....In the letter (pdf), Ratcliffe alleges that intelligence about China’s election interference was suppressed by management at the CIA, which pressured analysts to withdraw their support for the view. Citing a report by the Intelligence Community Analytic Ombudsman Barry Zulauf, the director of national intelligence said some analysts were reluctant to describe China’s actions as election interference because they disagreed...

FBI Director Christopher Wray has no plans to resign, a bureau official said, as President Donald Trump and his supporters step up demands for the release of sensitive files that they say will show “spying” on Trump’s 2016 campaign.Wray is here to stay, regradless of President Trump’s comments, FBI officials confirmed Wednesday morning.  Wray is serving a 10-year term that began in 2017 and doesn’t plan at this time to step down, according to the FBI official who spoke on condition of anonymity. However, Trump could fire him at any time and for any reason, as he did his predecessor,...

"Biden served on the board of Burisma Holdings, a major Ukrainian natural gas producer, from 2014 to 2019. He has been the subject of debunked right-wing conspiracy theories concerning his business dealings in Ukraine"

The Justice Department is dropping its investigations into controversial stock trades made by Sens. Kelly Loeffler, Dianne Feinstein and Jim Inhofe in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, their offices confirmed Tuesday. The decision comes after the FBI served Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) a search warrant and seized his cellphone earlier this month, as part of its broader investigation into his financial transactions.

Hillary Clinton is slated to appear at a virtual fundraiser on Zoom for Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, later this month. The "virtual conversation" with Clinton and Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez will be held on May 19, according to an invitation obtained by Politico. Tickets for the hour-long event are available for $50,000, $41,100, $15,600, $5,600 and a “limited” number for $2,800. Hosts have to pay $100,000. Money from the event will go toward the Biden Victory Fund. Last month, Biden's campaign and the Democratic National Committee finalized a joint fundraising agreement that granted the former...