Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted people who are opposed to the “lab leak” theory on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic as “self-interested,” continuing a line of accusations that has long been pushed back against by health officials. Paul in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday targeted Anthony Fauci, former director of the National…
Author: Stephen Neukam
Bomb threat disrupts NY court where Trump case is being heard
A bomb threat was called into a lower Manhattan court on Tuesday just before a judge was set to hear a $250 million lawsuit against former President Trump. The threat was investigated by police and the courthouse was closed and searched, with authorities finding that the threat was unfounded, according to court spokesman Lucian Chalfen,…
Rupert Murdoch, 92, announces engagement to Ann Lesley Smith
Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old media mogul, announced on Monday that he was getting married for the fifth time, he told the New York Post after proposing in the city over the weekend. Murdoch announced his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, 66, a former police chaplain in San Francisco, model, singer and radio talk show host….
CDC study warns of ‘dramatic increase’ in deadly fungus across US
Candida aurism, a rare and sometimes deadly fungal disease, is spreading through the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned this week, citing a “dramatic” increase in cases. The fungus, which affects primarily old people and those with weakened immune systems, rejects treatments from traditional antifungal medications and has a mortality rate…
Georgia officials seek to question Trump attorney in election probe
Prosecutors in Georgia who are probing the efforts of then-President Trump to overturn the state’s 2020 election results are asking to speak with a lawyer of his in their investigation. Christina Bobb, an attorney for Trump, has been asked to speak to prosecutors in the case, Bobb’s defense attorney confirmed to ABC News on Monday….
Cohen rips pro-Trump witness, says his testimony was not needed Monday
Michael Cohen, ex-personal attorney to Donald Trump, says his testimony was not needed on Monday as a rebuttal witness, after the Manhattan grand jury investigating the former president over the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels heard testimony from a pro-Trump lawyer. “I did not,” Cohen said when asked by MSNBC host Ari Melber whether he…
Jackson pens solo dissent as Supreme Court vacates abortion ruling
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a federal court ruling upholding the right for a minor to go to court to get permission to undergo an abortion, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson penning a solo dissent in the case. The ruling from the court on Monday vacated a lower court ruling that a state…
Hawley introducing legislation revoking China’s normal trade relations status
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is launching a legislative push to end the normalized trade relationship between the U.S. and China as tensions between the two countries flare. The bill from Hawley, which his office said is set to be introduced on Tuesday, would revoke normalized trade relation status from China within two years. The bill…
UBS agrees to buy banking rival Credit Suisse in emergency rescue
The floundering Credit Suisse bank is set to be acquired by its rival UBS, the largest bank in Switzerland, in an emergency purchase meant to stave off a wider crisis in the global banking system. The $3.2 billion takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS was arranged quickly, with officials looking to finalize the arrangement before…
Cohen: Trump will ‘absolutely’ take mugshot, be fingerprinted if arrested
Former President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen said on Sunday his former client will “absolutely” go through the formalities of being fingerprinted and photographed if he is arrested in connection to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into a hush money payment before the 2016 election. “Do I think that Donald will be fingerprinted, swabbed,…