The Democratic Party House leader appeared to claim that UK PM Boris Johnson – and not the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency – had the power to approve new drugs, and that US President Trump could overrule the federal Food and Drug Administration. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has the power to approve new drugs before they pass […]
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Between fiery exchanges and partisan monologues, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, testified on Capitol Hill on Friday that he wasn’t told until after a decision was made that hospitals would be directed to bypass his agency, sending COVID-19 data straight to another database in Washington. Redfield answered a string of questions on the subject from Rep. Maxine Waters […]
Anti-racism uprisings: HK youth’s lessons on the West By: Andre Vltchek for VT Three years ago, I visited Old Supreme Court Building in Hong Kong, also known as The Court of Final Appeal, together with my friend, an Afghan-British lawyer, who was on a personal mission of ‘re-discovering Asia.’ Coming from a prominent, highly educated family in Afghanistan, my friend was extremely well aware that both […]
On the morning of May 8, 1970, around a thousand mostly young people gathered at the junction of Wall Street and Broad Street to honor four students who had been shot on the campus at Kent State University four days earlier by the Ohio National Guard during a demonstration against Richard Nixon’s escalation of the Vietnam War. I was in Lower Manhattan that day and watched […]
Fox News host Sean Hannity blasted the judge in the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, accusing Emmet Sullivan of being ignorant and clearly holding a “political bias” after Sullivan appointed a retired judge to argue against the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against Flynn. On Wednesday, after the DOJ filed a motion to dismiss charges against Flynn despite his twice pleading guilty […]