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Feds spent nearly $100B on pandemic readiness, health security in decade leading up to coronavirus crisis

By Tyler Olson | Fox News Over the past decade, the U.S. government spent nearly $100 billion on preparation for major health crises including pandemics, according to a 2018 paper on such funding — though the coronavirus outbreak still had Washington and states across the country scrambling to muster supplies and respond when it hit. Numbers from a paper in the academic journal “Health Security” released in […]

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NBC admits Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn

By Gregg Re | Fox News NBC News’ Chuck Todd aired a deceptively edited clip of Attorney General Bill Barr discussing the Michael Flynn case during his “Meet the Press” broadcast on Sunday, prompting the network to concede the mistake hours later — but there is still no word on whether Todd will apologize on-air. Asked by CBS News’ Catherine […]

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DOJ releases long-awaited Mueller scope memo, revealing the probe went beyond previously known mandate

By Gregg Re | Fox News The Justice Department on Wednesday released a mostly unredacted version of then-Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s August 2017 “scope memo” outlining the authority of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller — and the document reveals for the first time that Mueller’s authority went significantly beyond what was known previously. Rosenstein, who later left the Justice […]

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Fox News town hall: Trump predicts coronavirus vaccine by year’s end, vows ‘plague’ will pass

By Gregg Re | Fox News As some states loosen lockdown restrictions in a bid to set the nation’s battered economy on the road to recovery, President Trump endorsed a state-by-state approach while predicting at a Fox News virtual town hall on Sunday that a coronavirus vaccine could be available by December. “I think we’ll have a vaccine by the end […]

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US gets dragged into fight as Australia-China war of words escalates

By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News The animosity brewing between Australia and China over coronavirus reached a fever pitch this week. But tensions between the trading partners have been simmering for more than a year over alleged plots to plant spies in the government as well as control over strategic islands in the South Pacific that could have consequences for the United States. The latest […]

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Pelosi snaps at reporter over Biden allegation, doubles down on support: ‘I don’t need a lecture’

By Marisa Schultz | Fox News House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., doubled down on her support for Joe Biden on Thursday in the face of a sexual assault allegation against him and had a contentious response to a reporter who asked whether she was treating Biden differently than Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. During her Capitol press conference, […]

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Neighbor, colleague reportedly back Biden accuser Tara Reade’s claims

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News Two more people who knew Tara Reade in the ’90s reportedly came forward on Monday to back the former Senate staffer’s claims of sexual misconduct against Joe Biden. Lynda LaCasse, a former next-door neighbor of Reade’s and a self-described supporter of Biden spoke on the record with Rich McHugh of Business Insider about past conversations they […]

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Potential Biden running mates not asked about sex assault allegation

By Brian Flood | Fox News Two prominent, female Democratic vice-presidential front-runners appeared on three national political shows Sunday morning and neither were asked about explosive allegations against their potential running mate Joe Biden. A now-infamous clip from a 1993 episode of CNN’s “Larry King Live” resurfaced on Friday, appearing to include the mother of Tara Reade — who has accused […]

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Former Clinton adviser calls on Biden to withdraw over assault allegations

By Marisa Schultz | Fox News Peter Dauo, a political activist and one-time fierce Hillary Clinton backer, urged former Vice President Joe Biden to end his presidential bid over new developments in the sexual assault allegation against him. Dauo, who worked for Clinton during her first presidential bid and was a prominent defender of her in the 2016 cycle, took to Twitter Saturday […]

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Biden accuser Tara Reade ‘lost total respect’ for CNN’s Anderson Cooper for not asking former VP about assault claim

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News The woman who has accused Joe Biden of a sexual assault in the early 1990s says she’s disappointed that CNN anchor Anderson Cooper failed to ask the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee about the allegation when he had the chance — not once, but twice. Tara Reade, a former staffer for then-Sen. Biden, told her story about the former vice […]