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WASHINGTON — Subpoenas into Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine appear imminent after Sen. Mitt Romney’s office on Friday said he would vote in favor of the probe next week, according to a report. The Homeland Security Committee is gearing up for an investigation into the Bidens which could throw a roadblock in front of former veep Joe Biden’s presidential bid just as it gathers momentum. After criticizing the panel for what he called a politically motivated investigation, Romney will now vote in favor of the subpoena when the committee votes on it next Wednesday, Politico reported on Friday.

Yesterday afternoon the New York Post published Ebony Bowden story’s “FBI reviewing claims Ilhan Omar married her brother.” The Daily Mail quickly followed up with Lauren Fruen’s “FBI is looking into claims Ilhan Omar married her brother and ‘will share their findings with ICE.'” Both of these stories are based on David Steinberg’s Blaze article “Finally. The Feds — including ICE — appear to be investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar.” I noted David’s article upon its publication last week in the post “David Steinberg reports: The Omar investigations.” Bowden’s New York Post article was highlighted by Xerta Shekh on Facebook for...

WASHINGTON — Mike Bloomberg’s failed White House bid cost the media mogul nearly $1 billion, according to a new FEC filing — double what was previously reported. The total cost of the Big Apple billionaire’s fully self-funded campaign was a stunning $935,360,675.56, the filing made public Friday shows.

The 37-year-old Indiana mayor — a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities, Rhodes Scholar, Afghanistan veteran and musician — sent social media ablaze Monday night when he delivered a touching message to the people of France in the wake of the Notre Dame blaze — in fluent French. English and French are just two of seven languages that Buttigieg speaks. “To the people of France, I would like to say that Notre Dame cathedral was like a gift to the human species,” the Democrat told a reporter from the French station BFM TV at a fundraiser in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. “We...

US President Donald Trump addressed the media at a conference on the outbreak of coronavirus at the White House, Washington DC on February 26. A video of a New York Post journalist surfaced online which showed her “mocking” an Indian reporter during the conference, and it has left netizens angry. In the viral clip, an Indian journalist can be seen raising a question about India-US relationships post Trump’s two-day visit to the country. While the Indian reporter was questioning Trump, the New York Post reporter, who was sitting behind him, was seen making faces at him. A Twitter user with...

Australia and New Zealand announced they would close their borders to non-citizens Thursday in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The prime ministers from both countries revealed the plans to shut down borders, citing that most cases of the novel coronavirus came from overseas. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the ban would go into effect Friday at 9 p.m. and stay in place indefinitely, while New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the closure would occur at midnight on Thursday, The Guardian reported. The bans in both countries would permit the partners or children of citizens or residents to...

A team of Australian researchers say they've found a cure for the novel coronavirus and hope to have patients enrolled in a nationwide trial by the end of the month. University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research director Professor David Paterson told news.com.au today they have seen two drugs used to treat other conditions can wipe out the virus in test tubes. He said one of the medications, given to some of the first people to test positive for COVID-19 in Australia, had already resulted in "disappearance of the virus" and complete recovery from the infection. Prof Paterson, who is...

Brisbane researchers say they are within reach of finding a cure for COVID-19 but need donations to accelerate the research. In lab testing, two drugs have stopped Coronavirus in its tracks and a clinical trial on humans is ready to begin. Renowned RBWH Infectious Diseases Physician Professor David Paterson who is overseeing the research said the drugs are “effective” but they are yet to determine whether “one is better than another”. He’s hoping these drugs are the panacea the world so desperately needs. “Potentially down the road, it’s even something a general practitioner could prescribe,” Paterson said. Safe for use...

In the field ambulance under the command of General Douglas MacArthur on the beach of Balikpapan in the last great battle of World War Two, my father saw his friends die fighting tyranny. I was able to commemorate this at many places in Indonesia, but lobbying to do the same in Australia saw me accused of harassment, arrested by the police and dragged through a family violence court by a "progressive" politician unrelated to me. All to protect a female politician from doing her job of listening to a constituent. I need help to fight this. Moral support. Discussion of...

The actor Tom Hanks posted an update from Australia where he is in isolation with his wife, Rita Wilson, after they tested positive for the coronavirus. "Hello folks. @ritawilson and I want to thank everyone here Down Under who are taking such good care of us," the two-time Oscar winner posted on Instagram. "We have Covid-19 and are in isolation so we do not spread it to anyone else. There are those for whom it could lead to a very serious illness. We are taking it one-day-at-a-time. He added, "There are things we can all do to get through this...

I despair of a decent life in The West. To people who smugly say or assume that Australia is The Lucky Country I have to shout: Men’s lives and decent living for everyone are being continuously ruined by an institutionalized man-hating feminism that has commandeered, poisoned and terrified all levels of government and the judiciary and a huge part of the police forces. What hope has a bloke (guy) got? How has it come to this? Is it worse in countries which have relied on precedent and traditions like Common Law than in America where the First Amendment etc etc...

A message encouraging people to wash their hands was written in the sky over Sydney, Australia on Thursday. Experts have said washing your hands is a key step in preventing the spread of the new coronavirus. It's not yet clear who was behind the skywriting.

Australian ex-pats in Italy say there’s no point coming home because it’s only a matter of time until Australia has a coronavirus crisis. Jodie Kearney lives in Rome with her husband and four children. She is no longer working because her employer, a private school, has closed. Now her husband has been forced to close the business. “We probably won’t have an income this month but plenty of bills,” she said. “It’s a desperate and scary situation.” Andrea Pastorelli is an administrator of the Australians in Italy Facebook group. In a post to his family and friends around the world,...

SYDNEY (AFP) - A fight over toilet paper in an Australian supermarket on Saturday (March 7), the latest violence sparked by coronavirus-induced panic buying in the country, has prompted police to call for calm. A video widely shared online shows three women pulling each other's hair and screaming as they struggle over a large pack of the highly sought-after commodity in the aisle of a grocery store in Sydney. (Please see full article, at the link)

Victorian health authorities are trying to contact about 70 patients of a Melbourne doctor who has developed coronavirus after returning from the US The doctor is the state’s 11th case of the novel coronavirus and the state health minister, Jenny Mikakos, says he attended work and treated patients after her was symptomatic. Coronavirus latest updates: race to trace dozens of patients of sick doctor in Australia Read more “I have to say I am flabbergasted that a doctor that has flulike symptoms has presented to work,” Mikakos said. ...

A 78-year-old Perth man has died from the coronavirus, becoming the first person in Australia to die from the disease. A Perth man has become the first person in Australia to die from the coronavirus. Western Australia’s Chief Health Officer Dr Andrew Robertson on Sunday confirmed the 78-year-old man, who has not been named, died at Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in the early hours of the morning. The man and his wife contracted COVID-19 onboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship. His wife is stable and remains in hospital.

A federal court ruling against a border control policy ordered by President Trump, 3 cases of the coronavirus in the United States and a peace deal with Afghanistan's Taliban is just hours away but first..... President Trump spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today and the Turkish government says the two agreed on: "additional steps without delay in order to avert a big humanitarian tragedy unfoling in the Idlib region" The White House spokesman said that Syria, Russia and Iran must halt their 'offensive' in the region an said that President Trump "condemned yesterday's attack that killed Turkish personnel"...

Long ago, four giant beings arrived in southeast Australia. Three strode out to other parts of the continent, but one crouched in place. His body transformed into a volcano called Budj Bim, and his teeth became the lava the volcano spat out. Now, scientists say this tale -- told by the Aboriginal Gunditjmara people of the area -- may have some basis in fact. About 37,000 years ago, Budj Bim and another nearby volcano formed through a rapid series of eruptions, new evidence reveals, suggesting the legend may be the oldest story still being told today... It's not clear how...

A cemetery in Australia has removed the offensive grave marker of Peter “Pete” Robert Bridge (April 1, 1986 - April 7, 2019) that featured a photo of Bridge making an obscene gesture. The problem is, Enfield Memorial Park in Adelaide apparently carted off the offensive stone without notifying Bridge’s family. According to Arthur Bridge, the deceased’s father, the cemetery did not contact the family before removing the memorial. When a friend advised the family the stone was removed on January 16, he immediately contacted cemetery staff and was told there had been complaints about the photograph. “We did try and...

Australia’s conservative coalition government will put jobs and the economy ahead of any U.N. demands for it to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said Sunday. Cormann said Australia’s government will work to set new long-term plans addressing greenhouse gas emissions ahead of yet another global climate summit in Glasgow year, however it won’t pursue any net-zero emissions policies that hurt workers in key economic areas.