Late Monday night, Kim Kardashian West made a series of posts to her Instagram Stories addressing the recent Taylor Swift controversy. After encouraging her 163.5 million followers about the dangerous of the novel coronavirus, saying, “Social distancing is definitely the way to go, and what will definitely make the difference here to get us over this curve,” she publicly commented on the recent leak of a […]
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COVID-19 has infected 328,275 people across the world and caused 14,366 deaths, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins. Europe has turned into the next China, with cases and deaths on an exponential curve in Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the UK. In France, the fast-spreading virus has killed 562 and led to more than 14,400 confirmed cases on Sunday. The French hospital system is […]
French medics are seeking the prosecution of top officials over their allegedly negligent response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the evidence is an interview with an ex-health minister, who called government action a masquerade. Three French medics filed a legal complaint this week against Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and former minister of solidarity and health, Agnes Buzyn. The two senior officials, the complaint alleges, failed to […]
A Spartanburg County, South Carolina man was arrested and charged with breach of peace and forgery after lying about having the coronavirus, Sheriff Chuck Wright told reporters in a presser this week. The man, Jeffrey Long, told his call center employers at the Sitel Corporation that he had been tested for coronavirus at the VA hospital and the results were positive, and forged a note from […]
If you’re looking for a distraction from the unrelenting stress of the coronavirus pandemic, check out the leaked video that settles a longstanding public feud between pop superstars Kanye West and Taylor Swift. For those of you not cool enough to know about all of this, the dispute apparently centers around the premise that there’s a nice way to say that a woman “owes me sex.” […]
After today’s White House coronavirus press conference, Rachel Maddow said if the president is going to keep lying about this important subject, “all of us should stop broadcasting it.” Maddow brought up an exchange from that briefing about a malaria drug that the president talked up while Dr. Anthony Fauci was taking a far more cautious tone about it. “The president loves saying things like, you […]
A man in Texas was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor after admittedly lying about having tested positive for contracting the novel Coronavirus in a post on Facebook. According to the Tyler County Sheriff’s Office, 23-year-old Michael Lane Brandin turned himself in after causing a small panic because his post also claimed that he was told the deadly contagion had evolved to spread even more easily than […]
President Donald Trump raised a lot of eyebrows Monday when he was asked what it was like to be tested for the coronavirus, and gave a response that many found sketchier than gas station sushi. Trump took questions during a briefing on the pandemic, and at one point was asked, “What was it like taking the test?” “Not — not something I want to do every […]
Given the Iranian regime’s recent history of brazenly lying to the public despite its obvious culpability, we were certainly intrigued when a local lawmaker in Qom told reporters that at least 50 people had died from the coronavirus in his city alone. Iranian authorities denied these reports, claiming the lawmaker had no way to prove whether certain individuals had died of the virus, or some other […]
With General Flynn battling the system (and his previous legal team), and Roger Stone’s case jumping from re-trial to a now-withdrawn reccomendation of up to nine years in jail, it will come as no surprise that, according to The New York Times, former deputy F.B.I. director Andrew McCabe will not face charges in an investigation into whether he lied to investigators about a media leak. As a reminder, the investigation […]
The Justice Department has told lawyers for former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe that they will not charge him with a crime, according to his spokesperson. “At long last, justice has been done in this matter,” his lawyers said in a statement. Justice Department officials told them in a letter and in a phone call that they would not pursue charges against him, the statement said. […]
Despite the “thaw” in relations with the US over the past few year (a thaw that former Trump chief of staff John Kelly recently claimed was simply an example Kim Jong Un “playing” the US), the flow of information out of the Hermit Kingdom is often pretty unreliable and inconsistent. Which is why rumors about cases of likely infection in the country have been met with […]