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WASHINGTON (AP) — Calls mounted Thursday for an investigation into the ouster of a senior government scientist who says he's being punished for opposing widespread use of an unproven drug President Donald Trump touted as a remedy for COVID-19. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, says he was summarily removed from his job earlier this week and reassigned to a lesser role because he resisted political pressure to allow widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug favored by Trump. On Thursday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., joined in calling for...

Christine Blasey Ford takes a break in her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lawyers seated are Debra Katz and Michael Bromwich. (Saul Loeb/ Pool Image via AP) It’s almost like The New York Times is nothing but a partisan gossip rag.Yesterday, a story was put out by Maggie Haberman that made a rather convenient claim that just so happened to reinforce every media narrative. Namely, that an FDA official named Rick Bright was fired for selflessly sounding the alarm on the supposed vast dangers of hydroxychloroquine. Breaking News: A doctor who...

A 50-year-old Yauco man who allegedly raped at least 12 girls between the ages of 4 and 15 after drugging them inside his barrio Rio Prieto home was charged Thursday with separate counts of rape, child exploitation and child pornography. Ponce Judge Angela Irizarry set bail at $12.5 million, which the man could not post. He was taken to Las Cucharas penitentiary in Ponce pending an Aug. 14 preliminary hearing. Police said for the past four months, Jose Robles Perez, a convicted rapist, had been posing as a gynecologist and offering fertility treatment to residents of the rural Yauco community...