(Headline USA) New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo disclosed Monday that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last year and under his publishing contract will make another $2 million on the memoir over the next two years.
The Democrat had, for months, declined to say...
(Associated Press) Attorneys for Rudolph Giuliani say a covert warrant prosecutors obtained for his Apple iCloud account in November 2019 and a raid last month by agents who seized his electronic devices show they are treating him more like a drug kingpin or terrorist rather than a personal lawyer to...
Maricopa County, Ariz. officials demanded that former president Donald Trump and state Republicans retract their allegations that the county deleted evidence ahead of an independent audit into the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump accused the county on Saturday of removing records containing important information about county voting.
“The entire...
Former president Donald Trump is expected to resume his signature rallies this June, according to an adviser.
The tentative plans include two appearances in June and one at the beginning of July and will be similar to the airport rallies that Trump’s campaign planned during the closing months of the...
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, wants the Biden administration to declassify all intelligence related to the U.S.’s funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s coronavirus research.
Nunes, who is expected to release a report on China and the coronavirus’s origins this week, said...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will decide whether states can ban abortions when a fetus is viable to survive outside the womb.
The court’s order sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the fall, with a presumably more...
(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is once again under fire for a Florida trip she took months ago.
The trip was partially paid for by a 501(c)4 group, which critics say presents legal questions.
Whitmer used funds from an inauguration-related nonprofit to pay for a $27,521 trip to...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) Shortly before Christmas in 2018, a woman named Darlene voluntarily turned in a 9mm pistol to the Baltimore Police Department.
It was just one of about 500 firearms the department collected that day as part of the city’s gun buyback program, which paid citizens somewhere...
(Associated Press) A Florida politician who emerged as a central figure in the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz pleaded guilty Monday to six federal charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors as part of a plea deal.
Joel Greenberg, a longtime associate of Gaetz, appeared in federal...
(Cameron English, American Council on Science and Health) 72 percent of Americans believe that federal public health institutions play a pivotal role in the nation's health care system, though fewer than 40 percent of people trust these agencies to fulfill that obligation. That's according to a new survey from the...
(Headline USA) The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday defended the decision to ease mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, stressing that increasing political pressure had nothing to do with the abrupt shift in guidelines.
“I’m delivering the science as the science is delivered to the...
UPDATE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a Gaza City building that housed some media organizations, including Associated Press, was destroyed --- but that all legitimate journalists were warned of the coming attack beforehand. From Fox News:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly called out the Associated Press...