By Marisa Schultz | Fox News Researcher on Russian politics wanted FBI to keep his identity secret. The primary source for Christopher Steele’s unverified dossier has been revealed as a United States resident who once co-wrote a research paper showing Russian President Vladimir Putin plagiarized his dissertation. A lawyer for Igor Danchenko, 42, confirmed to The New York Times that his client — a former Brookings Institution senior […]
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Dr. Fauci responds to ‘mischievous’ criticism after he was photographed with mask off at Nationals game
By Julia Musto | Fox News The infectious disease specialist says he was dehydrated. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that criticism of a photo in which he had his face mask partially down is “sort of mischievous.” In an interview on “America’s Newsroom,” Fauci told host John Roberts that he had been sitting next to […]
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Tax hikes contemplated to plug coronavirus-caused budget shortfalls
By Brittany De Lea FOXBusiness The coronavirus pandemic has put a significant strain on state and local budgets, causing some local leaders to consider raising taxes as a means to ensure critical services can continue. “State and local governments need, desperately need, financial support,” Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi said during a recent Economic Policy Institute teleconference. Zandi predicts the budget […]
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Apartment evictions are mounting in Houston, and could get worse
By The Wall Street Journal Over 11M Americans could be served with eviction papers over the next 4 months. It was 9:07 a.m. when Cammessia Mitchell started banging on a courtroom door in Southwest Houston. She thought she was early for her June eviction hearing. Minutes later, she learned that her landlord had already won the case. […]
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American Express profit plunges 85% as coronavirus zaps spending
By Jonathan Garber FOXBusiness American Express profit plummeted 85 percent in the three months through June as customers slashed spending while holed up in their homes during COVID-19 lockdowns. The New York-based financial services company earned $257 million, or 29 cents per share, as revenue fell 29 percent to $7.68 billion. Wall Street analysts surveyed by Refinitiv were expecting […]
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Tucker Carlson: Coronavirus response is being driven by politics
By Tucker Carlson | Fox News It is very likely that the coronavirus lockdowns themselves will affect the outcome of this year’s presidential election. The president announced Thursday that the Republican Party has canceled its traditional nominating convention in Florida next month. The reason: coronavirus. DONALD TRUMP: This afternoon, my political team came to me and laid out our plans for the convention in […]
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Most Chicago homicide victims over the past decade are Black, police data show
By Louis Casiano, Stephanie Pagones | Fox News The Trump administration is planning to deploy federal agents to the city. As gun violence in Chicago increased exponentially over the past decade, African Americans were overwhelmingly impacted. Local leaders continue to grapple with how to combat the spike while opposing plans by the Trump administration to deploy federal agents to the city. From Jan. 1, 2010 through July […]
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Protest mobs turn on liberal urban mayors, rejecting their support and demanding resignations
By Adam Shaw | Fox News ‘Tear Gas Ted has got to go,’ protesters chant. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Wednesday was booed, heckled and called a “fascist” by rioters in the city as he tried to attend a “listening session” about ongoing unrest — becoming the latest liberal mayor to be shunned by protesters with whom they […]
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China harboring military-linked biologist fugitive at San Francisco consulate, FBI says
By Gregg Re | Fox News The Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a biology researcher who falsely denied connections to the Chinese military to obtain a visa and gain access to the country, according to court documents filed by the FBI. The filing came as part of a document that cited a slew of other episodes in which Chinese nationals allegedly […]
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Trump to ‘surge’ federal agents to Chicago, other cities, amid spike in violent crime
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News The surge of agents to Chicago and other American cities is part of Operation Legend. President Trump is deploying 100 federal agents to Chicago to help combat rising rates of some crimes – a move that marks an expansion of the White House’s intervention into local law enforcement as Trump continues to position himself […]
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Lockdowns were ‘big mistake,’ crippled economy and haven’t ‘done much’ to curb COVID-19: Rand Paul
By Talia Kaplan | Fox News ‘I see nothing to be admired in New York’s lockdown,’ Paul says. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “Fox News Rundown” podcast on Wednesday that he thinks coronavirus lockdowns were “a big mistake,” adding that they led to a crippling of the economy and haven’t “done much to the virus.” Paul made the comments as several states […]
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Mail-in voting faces slew of issues nationwide, as emergency USPS memo sounds alarm
By Gregg Re | Fox News Mail carriers may need to leave packages behind at distribution centers, memo warns. Mail-in voting across the country has led to a series of anomalous results in recent weeks – including delayed, misplaced and missing ballots, a review by Fox News has found. As the issues surfaced, Fox News obtained a copy of a […]
