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Just how deep does the hole “60 Minutes” is digging for itself go? Let’s just say they’ve already got both feet in the grave: Members of both parties have accused the venerable newsmagazine show of concocting a “hit piece” accusing the potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate of engaging in a “pay-for-play” scheme involving the grocery store chain Publix. CBS News issued a statement on Tuesday defending its Sunday night report. “When Florida state data revealed people of color were vaccinated at a much lower rate than their wealthier neighbors, ‘60 Minutes’ reported the facts surrounding the vaccine’s rollout, which is...

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.

It’s finally come to this, the last refuge for scoundrels in need of scapegoats. It’s the Jooooz who are responsible for all the problems over school reopening. Don’t let the ethnic “identity” of the accuser confuse you. (If the word ‘kapo’ means nothing to you, ask someone who knows about Hitler’s death camps.)

"We should not have government mandates based on what we don't know. We should make mandates based on what we do know," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, told "Your World" Tuesday. PAUL: Here's the thing about Dr. Fauci. When they can prove something is a real problem, let's consider a mandate. The last time he [Dr. Fauci] had the pushback with me, he said, "What about the variants? You may have had the infection or may have had the vaccine, but you may be susceptible to the variants." All of the studies so far show the vaccine works well against most...

...Or take his recent and ludicrous inaccuracies about Georgia’s new election law (four Pinocchios, said the Washington Post). He sounded like a man riffing on a few poorly understood lines that somebody fed him, making himself a prop for an agenda that he may not quite grasp. ...Mr. Biden might be in fine fettle for a man pushing 80 but that doesn’t mean he’s up to riding herd on the forces that followed him into the White House. Mr. Biden did not wrestle the nomination away from anybody (unlike Barack Obama or Mr. Trump). It landed on him. His career...

Tuvorius Mencer ONTARIO, Calif. - The Ontario Police Department has made an arrest and continues to search for a second suspect involved in a hate crime that happened at the Ontario Mills mall in San Bernardino County over the weekend.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Tech giant Google announced today that they are removing the entire state of Georgia from their Google Maps platform, effective immediately. This comes in response to the state’s recent voter law that many are calling racist. “We cannot allow these racist laws to stand,” said a spokesman from the Google Office of Diversity, Inclusion, Anti-Racism, Climate Change, Immigration Reform, and LGBTQ Affairs. “That’s why we must act quickly to get states like Georgia off the map, both literally and figuratively.” Starting today, the state of Georgia will be replaced with a blue body of water labeled "Sea of...

President Biden said that Georgia needs to “smarten up” to avoid businesses leaving the state over its new voting legislation. “It is reassuring to see that for-profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws that are just antithetical to who we are,” the president told reporters Tuesday. He said he supports however businesses decide to protest the law. “I think it’s a very tough decision for a corporation to make or group to make, I respect them when they make that judgment, I support whatever judgment they make. The best way to deal with...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Iranian cargo ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Tehran acknowledged Wednesday. Iran’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the attack — suspected to have been carried out by Israel — on the MV Saviz. The assault came as Iran and world powers sat down in Vienna on Tuesday for the first talks about the U.S. potentially rejoining Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal, showing that the challenges ahead don’t rest merely in those negotiations.

As many as 246 Michigan residents who were “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 later tested positive for the deadly bug — including three who have died, according to a new report. The group — whose cases were reported between Jan. 1 and March 31 — tested positive at least two weeks after receiving the last dose of the inoculation, a health official told the Detroit News. “Some of these individuals may ultimately be excluded from this list due to continuing to test positive from a recent infection prior to being fully vaccinated,” Lynn Sutfin, a spokeswoman for the state Department of...

Want the MLB To Respect Conservatives? Boycott the League Only when Major League Baseball fears the Right more than it fears the Left will we be able to enjoy a ballgame once again.Major League Baseball declared commonsense election reforms to be against its values last week. The sports league decided to move its summer All-Star game from Atlanta after Georgia’s legislature passed an election integrity bill. Joe Biden and his media allies claim the bill is “Jim Crow on steroids,” even though it merely requires voter ID for mail-in ballots and other sensible changes. This disinformation campaign persuaded the MLB...

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said the group is mourning its “brother” who died assaulting Capitol cops last week — saying the cop killer could have been a future “star” for the movement. In a statement Tuesday, the Nation of Islam confirmed that Noah Green, 25, was studying to become a full member — but blamed “potential mental illness” for him plowing a car into two Capitol cops and then jumping out with a knife on Friday. “I am sure, had he been blessed to come through the crisis that he was going through, he would have been a...

Senator Krysten Sinema (D, AZ), is the last major obstacle to killing the filibuster, tax hikes, the push for $15, and other Progressive agenda.Last Obstacle Standing Senator Joe Manchin (D, WV) allegedly conservative, has mostly caved in on Biden's agenda.Progressives now demand killing or gutting Senate filibuster rules. And if the filibuster falls, a Progressive minority will rule the roost.Pressure Mounts Please note Kyrsten Sinema Defends Filibuster as Pressure Mounts From Progressives.Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has emerged as the staunchest Democratic defender of the filibuster, brushing off fire from the outspoken progressive wing of her party as she tries to stake...

Ryan Samsel was leading the charge against Capitol Hill Police on January 6 protests. Samsel pushed the flimsy bike racks and stormed the US Capitol. Samsel reportedly injured a female police officer.' Since his arrest, Ryan Samsel has been held in Washington DC. On March 21, he was awakened by correctional officers, his hands zip-tied, then walked to an unoccupied cell and brutally beaten by the officers. Then Ryan Samsel lost an eye in the beating. DC Correctional Officers Brutally Beat Jan. 6 US Capitol Protester, Zip-Tie His Hands, Fracture His Skull, Blind Him in One Eye By Jim Hoft...

Why are politicians so good at crafting language to get themselves elected, and so bad at communicating simple policies to keep their constituents safe and alive? When President Joe Biden took office, he promised 100 million shots in arms within his first 100 days. Last week, the Biden administration reached its goal — 42 days early, no less — and raised the bar to 200 million. He deserves significant credit for turbo-charging the vaccine effort, as does the Trump administration for making safe, effective vaccines available so quickly. For once, a bipartisan success. But politicization of the virus and ineffective...

North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee has announced that he has quit the "anti-American" Democrats over their "extremist agenda" and joined the Republicans, who he hailed as the party of "opportunity, freedom, and hope." The mayor of the Nevada city slammed the Democratic Party during his exit, citing a "socialist" takeover.

During one of the most disgusting interviews in recent memory Oregon Democrat Gov. Kate Brown went on a bizarre and rambling tangent where she supported Antifa rioters who ravaged Portland for several months straight last year. In the interview with Democracy Now, a left-leaning podcast, Brown concentrated the blame on Trump, vowed to use local law enforcement to “eradicate” Trump “forces,” and then seemingly sympathizes with Michael Reinoehl, the ANTIFA terrorist who killed a Trump supporter in downtown Portland who later died in a shootout with the feds. “Shame on Donald Trump,” she said when asked about Trump warning rioters...

It was the best of sale sections, it was the worst of sale sections. If you need a vat of baked beans or an avocado scented candle, you're in luck. Most discount chains and big box stores have their respective stans; we all know about the Target enthusiasts who call it “tar-zhay” and the Kirkland heads who are on top of all of the fresh Costco drops. But you know what chain we should talk about more? Cost Plus World Market. Tucked away at the far end of your local mall, overflowing with wicker baskets and imported candy, CPWM is...

Amazon AMZN, -0.09% Chief Executive Jeff Bezos on Tuesday said the company supports an increase in the U.S. corporate tax rate, as it backs the Biden administration's focus on improving American infrastructure.

A 30-year-old North Texas woman was arrested and charged for the deaths of her two young daughters. McDonald told the dispatch officer she had smothered her two daughters: 1-year-old Lillian Mae McDonald and 6-year-old Archer Hammond. Irving police say Madison McDonald went to the police department’s headquarters Monday night and used the phone in the lobby to call 911.