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The world is on fire. The devastating wildfires in Maui have led to at least 99 deaths with many hundreds more people unaccounted for and injured. We have seen homes and livelihoods destroyed and hospitals overwhelmed with smoke and burn victims. These wildfires, fanned by winds from Hurricane Dora after years of drought, have undoubtedly been made worse by climate change. We need to wake up to the fact that climate change is driving a vicious cycle of extreme weather conditions that are killing people. Without a doubt, the climate crisis is also a health crisis. We must start reducing...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was originally published on October 24, 2020, and is the fourth in a series of articles exploring Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz’s business dealings with Chinese entities. Devon Archer testified before Congressional investigators on July 31, 2023, that Jonathan Li, BHR’s CEO, was a customer of Hunter and Joe Biden’s family business. RedState reported on October 23, 2020, that Hunter, Joe, and Li had met for coffee in Beijing during Joe Biden’s official trip in 2013, days before BHR was formed. Additional reporting and research in this series have been provided by RedState’s Scott Hounsell.)For the...

Former State Department envoy says conduct 'unbelievable' Iranian refugee and former Trump official Ellie Cohanim slammed John Kerry on Wednesday, calling the former secretary of state's backdoor meetings with Iran during Trump’s presidency "anti-American" and an attempt to undermine the administration’s foreign policy stances. During an appearance on "Fox and Friends," the former State Department special envoy called the Biden administration’s talks with Iran to reenter the nuclear deal "diplomatic malpractice" and urged them to stop making unilateral concessions and instead increase demands on the Iranian regime. "What exactly was it that John Kerry was telling them - just ignore...

In September 2015, the Obama-Biden administration approved the sale of a strategically sensitive Michigan manufacturer, Henniges Automotive, to a firm connected to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and a Chinese military contractor that was on an American watch list because of its close ties to the People’s Liberation Army. Hunter Biden’s equity fund, backed by the Communist Chinese government, and the Chinese contractor, Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC), needed special approval for the deal from the Committee of Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CIFIUS) because Henniges produced technology with potential military use. AVIC entities have been sanctioned by the United States on...

More than $9 million of Department of State money has been funneled through the Peace Corps to a nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter, documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation show. The Department of State funded a Peace Corps program created by Dr. Vanessa Kerry and officials from both agencies, records show. The Peace Corps then awarded the money without competition to a nonprofit Kerry created for the program. Initially, the Peace Corps awarded Kerry’s group — now called Seed Global Health — with a three-year contract worth $2 million of State...

The Iranian government is denying an Internet rumor that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s son was the best man at the wedding of Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter. The denial by the Iranian-controlled Fars News Agency comes hot on the heels of allegations over the weekend on the website of former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) that purported a "frightening" link between the negotiators of the nuclear deal. According to West’s website, Zarif’s son was the best man at the 2009 wedding of Kerry’s daughter Dr. Vanessa Kerry to Dr. Brian Nahed. Nahed is of Iranian descent but was born...

A high profile marriage of an Iranian American doctor to actress Gina Davis was already reported (Link). But news now reveals that John Kerry's son-in-law is also an Iranian-American doctor. The news comes out shortly after Kerry faced staunch opposition from right wing pro-Israeli Republicans to his nomination as Secretary of State. In 2009 Dr. Vanessa Bradford Kerry, John Kerry’s younger daughter by his first wife, married Dr. Brian (Behrooz) Vala Nahed, an Iranian-American physician.

Pressed by a senior House Democrat at today’s Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Iran deal, Secretary of State John Kerry would not commit the Obama administration to following the law if Congress shoots down the deal by a veto-proof majority. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) noted that the deal “might be, at most, morally binding on this administration.” “The IRGC may publicly oppose this deal because that’s the best thing the Iranian government can do to pursue us to support — here in Congress to support the deal or maybe they genuinely oppose it,” he noted. Sherman asked Kerry point-blank...

**SNIP** Zarif is the current minister of foreign affairs in the Rouhani administration and has held various significant diplomatic and cabinet posts since the 1990s. He was Kerry’s chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations. Secretary Kerry and Zarif first met over a decade ago at a dinner party hosted by George Soros at his Manhattan penthouse. What a surprise. I have to say, connecting the dots gets more and more frightening. But it gets even worse. Guess who was the best man at the 2009 wedding between Kerry’s daughter Vanessa and Behrouz Vala Nahed? Javad Zarif’s son.

Just when you thought the Mullah-butt-licking Obama regime couldn't be any more deeply infiltrated. Somehow the newspapers never had much to say about this, and when forced to -i.e. wedding announcements- the Iranian ancestry and birthplace of Vanessa Kerry's husband are -untypically- omitted. So as Obama and John Kerry set-out to strike a grand bargain with the Mullahs (and flush Israel down the drain), you would think this to be a pertinent fact, one that really ought to be public- or at least it would have been back before this country began to forget anything that ever mattered (and how the world works).  With deep Muslim infiltration of our...

In a greeting to the Iranian people on the occasion of the traditional New Year (Nowruz) holiday last week, Secretary of State John Kerry exposed a secret that journalists and academics have been agonizing over for the past six weeks: the fact that his daughter has married an Iranian-American who has extensive family ties to Iran. “I am proud of the Iranian-Americans in my own family, and grateful for how they have enriched my life,” Kerry said in the official statement.

GOING THE DISTANCE Following in her father's footsteps, Vanessa Kerry is training to run in the Boston Marathon. John Kerry's youngest daughter is studying in London on a Fulbright scholarship, but told friends in a recent e-mail that she's training for the April race. (Her father has said he competed in the late 1970s.) In the e-mail, Kerry said she's running as part of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's marathon team and invited friends to visit the Dana-Farber website and make a donation supporting cancer research. (Among those who've responded are famous friends: singer Carole King and Al Gore's middle daughter,...

DURHAM, N.H. -- Vanessa Kerry, the daughter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, spent the past two days campaigning in New Hampshire trying to rally support of young voters. Kerry paid a visit to the University of New Hampshire to discuss the importance of voting. "And I just want them to know this campaign, my father, we're listening and we're invested and we're fighting with them, alongside them and for them," she said.

Vanessa Kerry, daughter of Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry , D-Mass., plays pitch and catch with a baseball with her father on the tarmac of Pueblo Memorial Airport in Pueblo Colo., Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004

Franken Says Iowa May Decide Election By Joseph Taranto. Posted 10/19/2004 1:06:00 PM Iowa may be the deciding factor in the 2004 presidential election, said liberal author Al Franken on Saturday night. Franken, along with John Kerry’s daughter Vanessa, headlined a Democratic fundraiser in Iowa in which he declared that “it may be won right here in Iowa.” In between the typical Bush bashing, including calling him a “child president,” Franken said the election basically comes down to “who wants it more.” Vanessa Kerry also took questions and dodged a question about Michael Moore’s influence on the election by simply...

October 17, 2004 -- Add Mary Cheney's sister's name to a growing list of Cheney family members angry with Sen. John Kerry for bringing up Mary and her sexuality at last week's debate in Tempe, Ariz. Appearing on "Good Morning America" alongside first-daughter hopeful Vanessa Kerry, Liz Cheney — a married mother of four — said an apology from the Democratic nominee "would be appropriate." But Kerry's daughter defended her dad's comments and noted that Mary Cheney's sexual preference is a matter of record. "My father's point was the concept was celebrating a strong family," the younger Kerry said, adding...

Kerry speaks at a town hall meeting in Greensboro, NC. He shows us a clear Buddhist bow, and plenty of clenched fists and finger points. Vanessa Kerry attends the rally today. Is she laughing or throwing up? Kerry travels to Cincinnati in advance of an appearance tomorrow. Be sure to check out the caption for the next to last photo. Do you have the same reaction I did - what the #%@* do they mean, announced? Is Kerry now a spokesman for the Defense Department?   Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, gestures to the crowd during a...

I saved yesterday's photos for today, since there were so few. Kerry and Teresa attended church and Kerry's daughters were booed at the MTV Music Awards. Today, Kerry reenacts a Swift Boat pose and windsurfs.   U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-MA) (R) arrives with his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry at St. Mary's, Our Lady of the Isle church in Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 29, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young   U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (D-MA) arrives at St. Mary's, Our Lady of the Isle church in Nantucket, Massachusetts, August 29, 2004. REUTERS/Jim Young   Vanessa Kerry (L) and Alexandra...

Vanessa Kerry doesn’t try to hide her frustration with the recent criticism of her father’s war record. "I’m a little disgusted," she said yesterday, adding that she gets "really heated up" when she talks about the issue. Kerry, the younger of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry’s two daughters, spoke with the Tribune by telephone yesterday to highlight a Democratic community service project aimed at Missouri college students. But she also touched on a variety of political and personal issues. The 27-year-old medical student - who is on hiatus from Harvard University as she campaigns for her father - said much...

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said Saturday that his daughter Vanessa has won a Fulbright scholarship to study medicine in London. Vanessa Kerry is a 27-year-old Harvard medical student who frequently travels with her father's campaign. According to the Fulbright Web site, about 1,000 U.S. students are awarded the federally funded fellowships each year of about 4,500 who apply. Kerry told reporters traveling with him to a long weekend vacation in Idaho that Vanessa recently found out she was one of this year's winners.