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On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued that the FDA, which already has a $6 billion budget, didn’t fail to handle the formula shortage because they don’t have enough money, they failed due to “incompetence” within the bureaucracy. McConnell stated [relevant remarks begin around 5:40] that the Biden administration’s response has been “Almost total incompetence. They misjudged this from the beginning. It’s not a matter of money. The FDA has a $6 billion budget. They could certainly take care of the so-called appropriation in the House that they just...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) criticized the Biden administration for lifting some restrictions on Cuba by saying that the day that the policy changes were announced, the Cuban regime put “sweeping, draconian consequences” for free speech into law and that the Biden administration’s move is “a unilateral concession that ultimately was responded to by having a penal code that includes the death penalty for free speech activities.”

On Thursday, during MSNBC’s “All In,” former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted “high-level” prosecutions of people close to former President Donald Trump. When asked about the Department of Justice, Holder said, “After the revelations from the January 6 Committee and the great job that journalists have done in revealing a whole variety of things, I think you get a sense of the direction of this, and I think you are going to end up with high-level prosecutions of people close to Donald Trump. I think people at the Justice Department are going to be examined, certainly, people involved in the...

The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) blamed White supremacy for last week's shooting at a Dallas Korean hair salon, but the suspect charged with carrying out the attack is Black. Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, made the claim at a Thursday press conference outside the Capitol that saw House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in attendance. "On Monday, three people in a Korean-owned hair salon in Dallas were gunned by yet another White supremacy replacement theorist," Beatty said to the assembled crowd. In addition to botching the date of the shooting, Beatty got a key detail wrong about the "White...

Americans’ retirement and investment portfolios would suffer under another president, and the economy wouldn’t be as strong as it is now, President Donald Trump said in remarks to reporters after the Labor Department’s jobs report for June. Since November 2016, when Republican Trump claimed a surprise Electoral College win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.75% has risen roughly 45%, the S&P 500 SPX, -0.58% has gained 47% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.26% is up nearly 100%, he said on Thursday. “These are not numbers other presidents would have,” he said, observing that others might...

According to a recent NBC poll, the Walt Disney Company’s net favorability rating has dropped a massive 53 points to a dismal +3 in only a year. According to the survey, only 33% of people polled had a favorable impression of Disney, while 30% had a very poor opinion of the firm, according to NBC. By comparison, Florida Governor DeSantis has a positive rating of 28% and a negative rating of 26%. But comparing Walt Disney, a well-known brand around the world, to a state politician is really an apples to oranges comparison since an entertainment company like Disney should...

WASHINGTON, Monday. May 19. At the time of the preparation of this dispatch, no official dispatch had been received regarding Commodore GOLDSBOROUGH'S expedition up the James River, but the following statement, gleaned from the Evening Star and other sources, it is believed embrace the material facts: Commodore GOLDSBOROUGH was accompanied by the steam frigate Susquehanna, and the gunboats Dacotah, Maritanza and Wachusett, and the tug Zouave, the latter mounted with a single gun. He found the first rebel battery at Day's Point deserted. The rebel flag was still flying over the battery at Hardy's Point, fifteen miles above Newport's News...

"The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century," said Russia's new ruler Vladimir Putin in his 2005 state of the nation address. "As for the Russian people," Putin went on, "it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory." From Putin's standpoint, the statement was then and remains today understandable. Consider. When Putin entered his country's secret service, Berlin was 110 miles deep inside a Soviet-occupied East Germany. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria were member states of the Warsaw Pact....

<p>Behind the fall of David Sabatini, 'one of the greatest scientists' of his generation.</p><p>In 2018, David Sabatini was a world-renowned molecular biologist. He was a tenured professor at MIT. He ran a major lab at the Whitehead Institute, overseeing a team of 39 researchers, postdocs and technicians. Their job was to disentangle the mystery of the mTOR signaling pathway, a protein Sabatini had discovered while still in medical school, at Johns Hopkins. The mTOR signaling pathway plays a critical role in tumor development. Figuring out how it works would go a long way toward saving countless lives.</p>

In a normal political year, being chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) would be a political plum, but in 2022 it is more like being the captain of the Titanic. And the “passengers” (Democrats in the House seeking re-election) are starting to grumble that the captain is commandeering his own lifeboat. That’s roughly the situation facing Sean Patrick Maloney, chairman of the DCCC, which allocates party funds to incumbents seeking re-election. Polling voters on their support for a generic Democrat running against a Republican yields horrific results for Dems. Punchbowl News: DCCC internal polling “finds that in battleground...

What Americans see as an abject catastrophe, the Biden Administration cheers on as stunning and planned progress. If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions, what would it have done differently than what Joe Biden has done? So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing ideologue? When pressed about inflation and fuel price hikes, Biden either blames someone or something else, gets mad at the questioner, or claims Donald Trump did it. His administration apparently believes...

Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York and the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee organized a hearing on May 18 with the provocative title "Revoking Your Rights: The Ongoing Crisis in Abortion Care Access." They and their abortion-advocate expert witnesses warned of a dystopian post-Roe v. Wade landscape. One witness even called it "the coming of the New Jane Crow" for women of color. But the hot video clips burning up social media were Republican questions for the abortion doctors. This might explain why you couldn't find any mention of this hearing on ABC, CBS or NBC morning and evening...

More than 12,000 migrant children reentered U.S. border custody as unaccompanied minors in fiscal year 2021 after being expelled to Mexico, typically with their parents, under Title 42 pandemic restrictions, unpublished government statistics obtained by CBS News show. Over a 12-month span beginning in October 2020, U.S. Border Patrol agents processed 12,212 unaccompanied migrant minors who had been previously expelled under Title 42, according to internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.Border Patrol reported processing 144,834 unaccompanied children in fiscal year 2021, a historic number that prompted the Biden administration to...

Misery loves company. And unfortunately for America, the merchants of misery will be in charge for a long time. My daughter’s college graduation last weekend was the first convocation held at the university since 2019. Although everyone was grateful for a return to normalcy, the pandemic still clouded the ceremonies; professors recounted the ways in which the students’ lives had been upended, commending them for soldiering on despite the unprecedented disruption. Their praise only acted as a cruel reminder of the time, friendships, and experiences needlessly and irretrievably lost. Campus, of course, never really returned to anything close to normal....

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, recently made a stunning admission: he’ll be voting Republican for the first time ever. "I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically – overwhelmingly. Like I'm not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear," the Tesla CEO told the All-In Podcast. "Now this election, I will." In a follow-up tweet, Musk elaborated more on his decision. “In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party,” tweeted the billionaire. “But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 4Cain and Abel 4 Adam[a] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[b] She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth[c] a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor...

A 2020 report by a think tank funded by liberal billionaire George Soros raised questions about whether it had any hand in the creation of President Joe Biden’s “Ministry of Truth.” The Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board “may have originated from an under-the-radar think tank report that called on the department to change its focus,” Just the News reported. The 2020 report, published by the establishment Atlantic Council, called on the DHS to begin “prioritizing ‘nonmilitary threats,’ such as white supremacism and disinformation,” according to Just the News’ article. The report was headlined, “Future of DHS Project: Key...

Witness testimony and videos obtained by The New York Times show how Russian paratroopers executed at least eight Ukrainian men in a Kyiv suburb on March 4, a potential war crime.

A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and eight others wounded in a mass shooting in downtown Chicago late Thursday night. Police said it happened just after 10:40 p.m. outside a McDonald's. One of its windows was shattered during the shooting. Police confirmed to CBS Chicago that a suspect was in custody and a handgun was recovered at the scene. Authorities didn't immediately release the names and ages of the victims or the conditions of the wounded.

President Joe Biden plans to meet with the head of South Korean automaker Hyundai on Sunday to praise its decision to invest billions to build a new factory in Georgia, during a trip to Asia where he will champion direct foreign investment in the U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Biden would thank the CEO for Hyundai's planned investment in Georgia – in a move that coincides with his own push to keep job creation going while showing an effort to tackle inflation. The timing could also play to the benefit of Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who is...