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Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), said that the United States still does not have an FDA-approved vaccine for COVID as he exposed what was really approved by the government agency on “Fox News Primetime.” The FDA put out a fact-sheet on the Pfizer-BioNTech and Comirnaty vaccines. That’s plural, because one is not the other and the FDA even makes that distinction on their fact-sheet. On the fact-sheet, Pfizer says that the FDA approved the Comirnaty vaccine which was created by Pfizer for the company BioNTech. BioNTech has said that it will not be made available until 2023 or possibly 2024. Title...

Enlarge Image Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa resigned Sunday night.AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File Governor Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa resigned on Sunday night amid a sex harassment scandal rocking Albany. The trusted aide, who allegedly helped try to bury sexual harassment allegations against her boss, released a statement saying the last two years have been “mentally and emotionally trying.”

Recordings of conversations between ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden should be investigated. The Chairman of the Political Council of the Opposition Platform - For Life Party Viktor Medvedchuk said this in an interview with 112 Ukraine, ZIK, NewsOne and Inter TV channels. “Yes, we don’t need to interfere in the American situation; we don’t need to demand that Biden be held accountable for corrupt actions. We must bring to justice the guilty people here, in Ukraine. And the president of Ukraine must create conditions for this. He cannot demand, he cannot force someone, he...

Some things the Dems didn’t want to come out to the public, that’s why they hate President Trump. He is exposing them every day but the lame mainstream media refuse to report and label everything as a conspiracy theory. A few years back a huge scandal burst out but the Dems made a cover-up of everything as always. Steve Kroft reported that members of Congress can legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill and the main star of the show was Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial public offering of Visa in 2008,...

The trial may have ended Wednesday, but for some people, the hope lives on and the dream shall never die. Two of these groups are the House Democrat impeachment managers and CNN hosts -- and in an interview that aired Friday, the two had a meeting of the minds (such as they may be) in which the impeachment managers declared Trump really hadn't been acquitted, even though he had been just two days earlier. The seven members of the team sat down with Anderson Cooper on Friday and two arguments for the non-acquittalness of the acquittal: First, the trial hadn't...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California state senator who authored gun control legislation asked for campaign donations in exchange for introducing an undercover FBI agent to an arms trafficker, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. The allegations against Democratic State Sen. Leland Yee were outlined in an FBI affidavit in support of a criminal complaint. The affidavit accuses Yee of conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and to illegally import firearms.</p>

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- A recent college graduate is waiting to hear the words “I’m sorry” from two Spokane County Sheriff's deputies. Conner Guerrero said the deputies were sneaking around his house, forced him on his knees on his lawn, and handcuffed him in front of his neighbors. But deputies had the wrong house and the wrong guy. "Just trying to enjoy my evening.  All the sudden, I see a flashlight shining through my doors…” said Guerrero.  “I'm thinking this could be a dangerous situation for me.” Guerrero said he assumed the two men outside his house were burglars.“I come...

WASHINGTON—A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico. Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, the police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. Also killed was one of his bodyguards. His wife and a second bodyguard were wounded.

With his estimated wealth exceeding $200 million, Albert Arnold Gore has come a long way from the time he began a career in government politics. But it hasn’t all been a green path. He can thank some earlier events for paving over muddy ground, a time when his father, Al Gore Sr. met Occidental Petroleum’s CEO Armand Hammer at a cattle auction in the 1940s. When zinc was discovered on some of Gore’s land,

A license plate gives police a whole lot of information about you, and law enforcement is supposed to protect those details. However, one local sheriff admits he gave a driver's name and address away, and the reason he did it is downright bizarre.

RIVER BEND – Ongoing wrinkles in the relationship between some Craven County commissioners and the Craven County sheriff resurfaced at Monday night’s meeting and were magnified by a shortage in the inmate concessions account. Meeting in River Bend as part of Craven County’s 300th anniversary effort to take government to the people, Commissioner Scott Dacey brought to the board’s attention the shortage of between $9,000 and $10,000 in the account jail inmates deposit for purchases from the jail commissary. Commissioner Jeff Taylor highlighted problems in getting from the sheriff requested information on deputy high-speed pursuit training, vehicle use policy, and...

Yes America, there is a wealth gap. Seven of the top ten wealthiest members in Congress are Democrats. Democratic members of Congress tend to be wealthier than their Republican counterparts. And, the wealthy Democrats tend to inherit their money. Republicans tend to earn it.

In the thick of the debate over President Barack Obama’s health care reform bill, administration officials ignored warnings that one of its most controversial provisions was financially unsustainable and could leave taxpayers on the hook for billions of dollars. According to a report released Thursday by a working group of congressional investigators, officials inside the Department of Health and Human Services ignored numerous red flags about the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program (CLASS) — and in some cases the officials went to work figuring out how to hide them. Now, those same officials are scrambling to come up...

Did I read what Trump just told Hannity right? That he has Osama's college grades and papers? Now that would be a treasure trove, cuz I firmly believe that regardless of where Osama was born be attended college as a foreign student, lied all thru college and claimed various affiliations which he benefited from. Did I hear Trump right?

As far as liberal financiers go, you don’t get much more powerful than S. Donald Sussman. Since 1989, the hedge-fund billionaire has pumped millions into the coffers of Democratic politicians and their political pet projects. Sussman sits on the board of the Center for American Progress, the Democracy Alliance and the dovish Israel Policy Forum, and he’s been one of the top contributors to left-leaning 527 organizations during the 2010 election cycle. But while Sussman has long kept a behind-the-scenes profile, a recent ethics controversy in Maine has flung him into the center of a complicated dispute over state residency,...

Here's a story you haven't read in the Philadelphia Inquirer, children, or seen on the network news. A New Jersey Democrat worker has filed a federal lawsuit charging the 2008 campaigns of Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Congressman Rush Holt, whose 12th District includes Princeton University, with racial discrimination. Christopher Nastuk was a canvass director for the Lautenberg cambaign and his job was to find workers to go door-to-door to get out the vote. Among those hired by Nastuk were about a dozen blacks. This didn't sit well with his enlightened bosses, who fired them a few days later and replaced...

Okay, I have had enough of politicians pandering to each other with comments like, "HIs service to this country..." WHAT SERVICE? Unless they end up in prison, what politician has left office with less money than what he went into office with? These guys are well paid for their JOB and they have made sure they get one of the best pension plans in the world. Unlike the military, politicians do not risk their lives or health any more than any other citizen. Many people SERVE their country, but it isn't politicians in Washington DC.

JAKARTA — The sacked chief of Indonesia's anti-corruption commission was sentenced to 18 years' jail for murder on Thursday after a trial dismissed as a sham by his supporters. Former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Antasari Azhar, 56, had been facing the death penalty in a trial that has been televised live across the nation almost every week for four months. ... The case has gripped Indonesia since Azhar's arrest on May 4 last year for allegedly organising the murder of businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, his suspected rival for the affections of 22-year-old golf caddy Rhani Juliani. ... Conspiracy theories have...

Following a breath-taking electoral surge, Scott Brown took the seat formerly held by liberal patron saint Ted Kennedy, handily defeating Democrat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts senate election. Although the national press spun the contest as a referendum on Obamacare, another powder-keg issue lurked behind the headlines: Martha Coakley's prominent role in prosecuting a child abuse case and her contended culpability of the "primary male offender." It was back in 1984 when Violet Amirault, son Gerald, and daughter Cheryl, operators of the Fells Acre Day School in Malden, found themselves accused of child molestation. The charges were lurid as they...

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Lehman's liquidation filing , the US President will on Monday warn that there remains much to be done to ensure the problems of the last 12 months do not happen again. Speaking just 10 days before the start of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh – at which world leaders are set to discuss curtailing bankers' bonuses among a raft of potentially restrictive reforms – he will also put the amount of capital banks hold on their balance sheets back at the top of the agenda, acknowledging that the demise of Lehman and...