“I very much appreciate the question. It actually might have been more of a statement than a question,” President Donald Trump said in response to a comment from an OAN reporter he called on during Saturday’s White House briefing from the coronavirus task force. It was the second time this week the president called on a personality from OAN, the small pro-Trump outlet with a penchant […]
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As states across the US raced to shut down businesses, limit mass gatherings, and enforce social distancing last week amid the Covid-19 outbreak, one Texas millennial was arrested after he sparked chaos in East Texas for lying on social media about contracting the deadly disease, reported CBS Austin. The Tyler County District Attorney’s Office said they received numerous complaints about a man claiming on social media that he […]
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin says that more Republicans than Democrats will die from coronavirus due to misinformation by President Trump and Fox News, according to the Washington Times. “There is a particular cruelty, irony that it is their core viewers, the Republican older viewers, who are the most at risk,” Rubin said during a Sunday morning discussion on MSNBC‘s “AM Joy.” Ms. Rubin credited the […]
Don Emmert/Getty Images The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that they will expel American journalists from three news outlets — the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal — who are stationed to work in the country. The press release, entitled “China Takes Countermeasures Against US Suppression of Chinese Media Organizations in the United States,” claims that “the US government has placed […]
AP reporter Steve Peoples had no luck trying to get tested for the Covid-19 virus after he presented to a primary care center and was subsequently bounced around to various other health facilities with no tests available anywhere. Peoples tweeted on Friday that he had been experiencing “mild symptoms” — a headache, mild fever and cough — but that when he arrived at his primary care […]
The Washington Post Must Answer For Its False Bolivia Coverage By Joe Emersberger, Fair.org March 10, 2020 The Washington Post Must Answer For Its False Bolivia Coverage2020-03-102020-03-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/wapo-bolivia-protest.jpg200px200px Above Photo: From Fair.org President Evo Morales won re-election in Bolivia’s presidential election last October 20, as pre-election polls predicted. He received 47% of the vote in an election with 88% turnout. He beat his nearest rival by just over 10 […]
A new Twitter feature will auto-send posts down the memory hole after 24 hours – letting users share “fleeting” thoughts without “anxiety,” the company says – even as many users are still begging for the long-sought edit button. The self-destruct feature, dubbed “Fleets,” will initially roll out in Brazil only. The platform’s product lead Kayvon Beykpour says this will allow users who “don’t feel comfortable” sharing […]
Mandel Ngan/AFP/ Getty Images President Donald Trump retweeted a post from Fox News’ Brit Hume, Wednesday, which predicted the president will unify Democrats against him. In response to a Washington Examiner article titled, “Calls for unity cannot hide stark cultural differences inside the Democratic Party,” Hume commented, “Good insight here. But there is one unifying factor that will be there in the fall: Donald J. Trump.” […]
Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s campaign is suing The Washington Post over two opinion pieces in June 2019, according to court documents released Tuesday. The lawsuit is the second libel claim in the last week from Donald J. Trump For President, Inc. — On Feb. 26, it sued the New York Times over an opinion piece about Russia. The two articles are written by progressive […]
Rep. Devin Nunes’s (R-Calif.) lawsuit spree continued on Monday with a complaint against The Washington Post demanding more than $250,000,000 in damages. The congressman’s defamation attorney of choice, Steven Biss, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Nunes said just over a week ago that this would happen. Nunes said that he didn’t know “what planet the Washington […]
US 13:13 GMT 29.02.2020Get short URL The younger son of former US Vice President Joe Biden has struggled for decades with drug and alcohol abuse. He has now resorted to art to handle the traumas of the past. Hunter Biden, a former lawyer and lobbyist, is now rediscovering himself as an artist. In a New York Times profile, the currently unemployed 50-year-old opens up on his […]
Society 21:10 GMT 25.02.2020(updated 21:25 GMT 25.02.2020) Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105999/68/1059996836_0:300:5760:3540_1200x675_80_0_0_8c5625c302753e20ac9bde5dabf2f9d1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202002251078404616-disney-ceo-bob-iger-steps-down-from-post-effective-immediately/ The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors announced Tuesday Robert Iger has stepped down from his position as Disney CEO and will be replaced with Bob Chapek, who most recently served as Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products. According to a press release by Business Wire, Iger will […]
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain have agreed to resume postal services to Qatar almost three years after they were stopped due to a political dispute, the United Nations said on Monday, Reuters reports. The announcement follows a meeting last month of representatives for the countries and the UN postal agency. “The decision to resume international postal exchanges is welcome news,” the UN Universal Postal Union said. […]
Authored by Debra Heine via AmGreatness.com, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) announced Friday night that he is suing the Washington Post, accusing the paper of publishing “demonstrably false” “garbage” about him. “I don’t know what planet the Washington Post is on but they’ll have an opportunity in federal court in the next couple weeks to explain who their sources are because I’m going to have to take them to court,” Nunes […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images According to an ambiguously-sourced report in The New York Post, NBC News political director and debate moderator Chuck Todd was once Minnesota Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar’s landlord. The Post’s Page Six column says that according to “sources,” Todd once rented Senator Klobuchar a home in Arlington, Virginia: Klobuchar and her husband, lawyer John Bessler, rented a 3-bedroom home owned by […]
Viral 17:30 GMT 19.02.2020Get short URL https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/images/107835/36/1078353608.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202002191078353592-give-peace-a-chance-footballer-gets-bitten-on-penis-while-attempting-to-stop-post-match-brawl/ Emmanuel Saling, of the Moselle football district said the disciplinary committee had to call an expert witness before deciding on punishment. He added that blame for altercation was more or less shared. A football player was handed a five-year ban for biting his opponent’s penis after tensions during the game resulted in a […]
In these times of political division, Americans on the far ends of the political spectrum often accuse each other of misinformation — but one GOP lawmaker wants CNN and the Washington Post to be officially declared “fake news.” Micah Van Huss, a Republican state lawmaker from Tennessee, has introduced a strongly worded amendment to a resolution in a bid to formally recognize the two left-leaning news […]
Public prosecutors in the Egyptian province of Matrouh have ordered the detention of 25 people, including employees of the postal service, following allegations of money laundering and transfers. Local media describe it as the largest money laundering case of its kind. Citing judicial sources, news outlets reported that five public employees and 20 other persons who have accounts with the state-owned Egypt Post have been detained […]
If Caterpillar is still the global industrial bellwether and leading manufacturing sector indicator it has been for the past century (and absent the Fed somehow printing buildings or excavating mines, it is), then the world is about to enter the worst manufacturing downturn since the financial crisis. According to CAT’s latest retail sales data, in January the company posted a 7% drop in machine sales, the […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending a former Kraken employee embroiled in a lawsuit over an anonymous review of the crypto exchange on Glassdoor. The EFF – a non-profit digital rights group – has taken up the cause of a John Doe defendant and is asking California’s Marin County Superior Court to quash a motion by Kraken to identify the individual who allegedly gave the exchange […]