Новости за 10.09.2020

(BLOOMBERG) – Odds of another round of fiscal stimulus for the U.S. economy dropped on Thursday as senators headed out of Washington for the weekend following a partisan split over a slimmed-down package proposed by Republicans. The Senate voted 52-47 to advance to the floor a bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, short…

(YAHOO) – The Department of Justice says it has charged dozens of people who tried to steal more than $175 million in federal aid meant to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a press conference on Thursday, the Justice Department announced it has now charged 57 people with Paycheck Protection Program-related fraud since…

By Chuck Ross Daily Caller News Foundation The Trump administration on Thursday announced sanctions against a Ukrainian lawmaker who met last year with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and has pushed for a corruption investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden. The Treasury Department accused Andriy Derkach of waging a pro-Kremlin…

(ZEROHEDGE) – One doctor in Austin literally got a taste of his own medicine after going to his own practice to get a Covid antibody test. Assuming he would get one for free because he worked for the company, his insurance instead wound up getting a bill from Physicians Premier ER for $10,984. His insurance…

(AMERICAN THINKER) – A curious but fortunate characteristic of virus epidemics is their limited life spans. No one knows why, but guesses include herd immunity and mutations of the virus. In the U.S., the virus got underway in March. For the week ending March 14, the total number of deaths nationwide was 52. During the…

Former Vice President Joe Biden was among many Democratic leaders who urged Americans not to panic about the coronavirus in February and March,  claiming President Trump was "hyping" concern. Biden now is seizing on the controversy over Trump's remark to Bob Woodward on Feb. 7 that he "played down" the severity of the virus to…

(SUMMIT NEWS) – A video out of Spain shows citizens preventing police from arresting a woman for not wearing a face mask. The clip shows officers attempting to pull the older woman away from the crowd, but they manage to wrestle her away from the cops. "In Spain, police tried to arrest a woman for…

(ZEROHEDGE) – Two months after AstraZeneca touted trial data which suggested its SARS-COV-2 vaccine candidate would be safe for hman consumption, AZ, one of the global leaders in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine, dropped a bombshell on the market earlier this week: its vaccine candidate had produced an "adverse reaction" in one trial subject,…

(SUMMIT NEWS) – Authorities in Quebec City, Canada have announced they will isolate "uncooperative" citizens in a coronavirus facility, the location of which remains a secret. During a press conference, Dr. Jacques Girard, who heads the Quebec City public health authority, drew attention to a case where patrons at a bar were ordered to wait…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Former FBI agent Peter Strzok admitted that he got a key element about the genesis of the Trump-Russia investigation wrong following a question from the Washington Examiner despite the fired bureau agent’s central role in opening Crossfire Hurricane. Strzok incorrectly claimed in his new book, Compromised, that Australian diplomat Alexander Downer was…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- The number of new applications for unemployment benefits last week hovered at 884,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Forecasters had projected 850,000 new jobless claims. As the coronavirus hit the United States and the economy locked down to slow its spread, layoffs and thus jobless claims skyrocketed in March, with 6.9 million…

(FOX NEWS) -- Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has been urged by 100 prominent Orthodox Jewish rabbis across the U.S. to cut ties between the company's AmazonSmile charitable initiative and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in a letter obtained exclusively by Fox News. AmazonSmile, launched in 2013, allows customers to select a charity…

(CNBC) -- U.S. mall owners Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners are close to finalizing an $800 million deal to rescue the embattled department store chain J.C. Penney from bankruptcy, avoiding a total liquidation and saving about 70,000 jobs and 650 stores, Joshua Sussberg of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis said Wednesday. Simon…

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[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Carl M. Cannon Real Clear Politics Among the political classes in Washington and the nation’s state capitals, when and how to open public schools has become yet another contentious issue with partisan battle lines and dueling talking points. This is not the case…

Accusing Democratic leaders of looking "the other way on lawlessness and disorder," several House Republicans have called on Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to address the rioting in U.S. cities. The violence largely is in Democratic-led cities, the lawmakers emphasized. "Democrats have allowed cities to be overrun with violence and destruction. In Portland, Oregon, left-wing…

The Justice Department's Operation Legend has helped cut Chicago's murder rate in half, said U.S. Attorney General William Barr in a Wednesday press conference in the Windy City. The federal law-enforcement action has resulted in 500 arrests and the charging of  124 people with federal criminal charges, officials said, according to Fox News. "The results…

A coalition of progressive groups supporting the Democratic Party are planning to "threaten their way to the White House, warns the Washington Free Beacon's editorial board. The SEIU, AFT, Color of Change, Indivisible, MoveOn, Demos and others are organizing for "mass public unrest," according to the Daily Beast. "Occupy s---, hold space, and shut things…

Late one night about a year ago, I received a call from the mysterious Charles Johnson. Mother Jones calls Johnson, "Twitter's most infamous right-wing troll." Whatever. Johnson knows stuff, much of it true. He asked me whether I had read David Garrow's massive 2017 Obama biography, "Rising Star." When I said I had, he asked…

Last week in this space, I illustrated how liberalism has been nothing more than the soft-socialist wedge radical leftists have used over the last several decades to incrementally advance a megalithic socialist state. Further, that our 50 years of employing tolerance, fair play, guarded rhetoric and capitulating to liberal demands has given rise to the…

Critical Race Theory has pervaded every institution in the federal government, journalist Chris Rufo recently argued on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." He said that President Trump should end the widespread practice of indoctrinating federal employees in race theories. This theory asserts that legal institutions are inherently racist and a socially constructed concept used by "white people"…