By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News From 71-year-old federal fraudsters to Colombian drug lords, there has been a mad dash of high-profile prisoners petitioning the courts for a compassionate or restricted release in the wake of COVID-19. That means, while others are locked up in cramped over-crowded cells, they get to go home. Criminal justice advocates have rallied around […]
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‘The View’ ignores Tara Reade’s Biden allegations after championing Kavanaugh accusers
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News “The View” hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Meghan McCain have been sounding off regularly on President Trump’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and the race between Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Yet none of them have weighed in on a disturbing sexual assault allegation facing Biden […]
Here’s why you can’t find frozen fries, while U.S. farmers are sitting on tons of potatoes
By Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) – Shopper Lexie Mayewski is having a hard time finding frozen french fries in Washington, D.C.-area supermarkets in the wake of coronavirus-fueled stockpiling. On the other side of the country, Washington state farmer Mike Pink is weighing whether to plow under 30,000 tons of potatoes worth millions of dollars that would […]
Buildings closed by coronavirus face another risk: Legionnaires’ disease
By John Shiffman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Commercial buildings shuttered for weeks to stem the spread of the coronavirus could fuel another grisly lung infection: Legionnaires’ disease. Public health experts are urging landlords across the globe to carefully re-open buildings to prevent outbreaks of the severe, sometimes lethal, form of pneumonia. The sudden and sweeping closures […]
Lawsuit claims 10 big banks rigged market for ‘odd-lot’ U.S. corporate bonds
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ten of the world’s largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, have been sued for allegedly conspiring over nearly 14 years to rig prices in the $9.6 trillion U.S. corporate bond market, costing ordinary investors billions of dollars. The proposed class action filed on Tuesday in […]
Millions of Americans join unemployment line as coronavirus savages economy
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A stunning 26.5 million Americans have sought unemployment benefits since mid-March, confirming that all the jobs gained during the longest employment boom in U.S. history have been wiped out as the novel coronavirus savages the economy. The deepening economic slump amid nationwide lockdowns to control the spread of COVID-19, […]
AOC disrespects working people – this Tweet tells us where we stand with the left
By Daniel Turner | Fox News It’s hard, not impossible or superhuman, but hard to separate politicians from their politics. We see this in the “never Trumpers,” that group of right-of-center thinkers whose dislike for the president is so great they are incapable of supporting him on their core beliefs like the benefit of deregulation and tax cuts to […]
Usama bin Laden wanted to kill Obama so ‘totally unprepared’ Biden would be president, declassified docs show
By Gregg Re | Fox News Usama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the “totally unprepared” Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States “into a crisis,” according to documents seized from bin Laden’s Pakistan compound when he was killed in May 2011. The secretive documents, first reported in 2012 by […]
Former CIA operative: China uses Dems as ‘useful idiots’ to spread propaganda, Biden ‘in the tank’ for Beijing
By Julia Musto | Fox News Former CIA operative Bryan Dean Wright reacted Thursday to a new report that China helped to spread misinformation about coronavirus, calling out Democrats – including former Vice President Joe Biden – for placing too much trust in Beijing’s narratives. During the early stages of the outbreak in the United States, Chinese agents reportedly sent text messages to Americans warning the government would soon […]
Dem lawmakers eye ‘opportunity’ for historic expansion of government amid coronavirus crisis
By Adam Shaw | Fox News Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said during the 2008 financial crisis that lawmakers should “never let a crisis go to waste,” and many Democratic lawmakers appear to be heeding that advice — using the coronavirus pandemic as a jumping-off point to renew calls for a historic expansion of government. Emanuel repeated his mantra again last […]
Explainer: Trump’s virus-linked immigration crackdown in line with long-term goals
By Mica Rosenberg, Ted Hesson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said he will sign an executive order temporarily barring some immigrants from seeking permanent residency in the United States, saying it will protect Americans seeking to regain jobs lost due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the Trump administration has already taken drastic steps to […]
Protests against coronavirus lockdown orders spread in North Carolina, Missouri: ‘My rights are essential’
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Angry demonstrators took to the streets in North Carolina and Missouri on Tuesday to voice their discontent at their states’ stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. The protests in Raleigh, N.C. and Jefferson City, Mo., are the latest in a series of protests across the country against state lockdown orders – fueled […]