Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Donald Trump has fired Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, who brought forward the whistleblower complaint in light of President Donald Trump’s Ukraine call to congress. The news comes late Friday night, in a letter obtained by CNN, which states Atkinson’s is set to be booted in 30 days from his post. NEWS: The President is removing Intelligence Community Inspector General […]
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Shortly after the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic reached 1,500 on Friday, President Donald Trump took to the podium at a White House press briefing and complained that certain state’s governors are not “appreciative” enough of the federal government’s help—so much so that he said he’d told Vice President Mike Pence, the leader of the coronavirus task force, to skip calling governors of some […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo has been making the media rounds in addition to his daily press conferences to keep the public informed about New York’s coronavirus response. One of the lighter (and weirder) stops has been on his brother Chris Cuomo’s CNN show. And just like last time, the interview was a mix of serious coronavirus news and two brothers teasing each other on the air. The […]
NHS England is cancelling all routine surgery from April 15 for a period of at least three months, and discharging all inpatients as a matter of great urgency, to help deal with the Covid-19 outbreak. The latest measures revealed by health bosses on Tuesday would see hospital patients who are ‘medically fit’ sent home to free up staff and beds as the UK attempts to stem […]
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, “The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money.” – Margaret Thatcher For months myself and very few others have been warning about the problems in Europe. That the real problem isn’t in the U.S., though it’s certainly a mess, it is in Europe. It’s why I focused so hard on Brexit. Would the […]
Around the time the Fed stunned markets with its 5pm Sunday emergency bazooka intervention, Goldman was holding an emergency conference call in which some 1,500 clients and companies dialed-in, making the comparisons to “Lehman Sunday” especially apropos. For those wondering what Goldman said, here is the bottom line via TME: 50% of Americans will contract the virus (150m people) as it’s very communicable. This is on […]
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 […]
Last week, Republican members of Congress heard a sober warning in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill: There’s a good chance most people in the United States will be exposed to the novel coronavirus within two years, according to one former official. The assessment, from a former White House public health official who now works in the pharmaceutical industry, did not suggest that most people will […]
If one of your hedge fund’s star portfolio managers catches the coronavirus during a fundraising visit or some other work-related outing (whether to Scores or a classier strip club), that’s one thing. But if one of the gremlins in the back office exposes the entire floor to an economy-crushing virus, well, let’s just say that employee’s relationship with his coworkers – especially the money-makers (or losers) […]
If you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get The Royalist in your inbox every Sunday. The Queen extended an olive branch to Prince Harry by inviting him to Windsor Castle for a four hour ‘fireside’ chat in which she wished her grandson well, and told him he would always be welcome […]
The saga of doomsday couple Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell—from the missing kids to the dead spouses—has been one strange twist after another. But even those who have been following along may be shocked by a series of newly emerged text messages. The messages, obtained by East Idaho News, start with Vallow informing her then-husband Charles’ grown children that their father had “passed away” the day […]
Lori Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, might have caught a big break in their college admissions bribery case. The two were first implicated when the scandal broke last year, alongside Felicity Huffman, and have been accused of bribing the University of Southern California with $500,000 to secure their daughters’ admission. (They pleaded not guilty.) But the couple’s defense claims that notes from the scam’s orchestrator […]
President Donald Trump went after his political enemies when asked about intelligence reports saying Russia is trying to influence the presidential election again to aid him and Senator Bernie Sanders. In his Tuesday press conference from New Delhi, Trump refused to directly say whether he agrees with U.S. intelligence on the matter, nor did he offer a repudiation to Vladimir Putin. Instead, he focused on how […]
David Becker/Getty Images U.S. officials reportedly informed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that Russia is trying to help his campaign. According to the Washington Post, which cited “people familiar with the matter,” officials also informed President Donald Trump — who, like Sanders, was told this week that Russia is attempting to help his campaign — and “lawmakers on Capitol Hill.” In response to […]
Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ‘madam’ told a former acquaintance that she and the now-dead pedophile had “everything on videotape,” according to The Telegraph. The acquaintance, socialite and distant relative to the royals Christina Oxenberg, said that Maxwell also told her that Epstein bought a private helicopter because commercial pilots were “eyes and ears” he did not need. She revealed she had spoken to the FBI about what […]
Conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday addressed the controversy over his homophobic attacks on Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, revealing on-air that President Donald Trump called him and advised him to “never apologize” for the remarks. Last week, Limbaugh—who, earlier this month, was awarded the Medal of Freedom by Trump—sparked backlash when he suggested “Mr. Man Donald Trump” would “have fun” with the former South […]