Новости за 24.12.2020

(REUTERS) -- PALM BEACH, Florida -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, associate Roger Stone and Charles Kushner, a real estate developer and the father of Trump's son-in-law. Manafort was convicted as part of the special counsel probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump had…

Michigan’s Democratic attorney general has announced she might seek retribution against election attorneys, including high-profile former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell, for filing lawsuits to challenge the state's election results. The Detroit News reported that Attorney General Dana Nessel, a critic of President Donald Trump prior to the election, vowed on Tuesday to sanction election challengers…

While the federal government likely will not mandate that citizens be immunized for COVID-19, private companies are poised to take advantage of the development of "digital immunity passports" that will discriminate against people who are not vaccinated, reports Axios. "Your employer has a clear interest in knowing whether you've been vaccinated, as do the immigration…

A prominent California doctor says he was fired after questioning his county's coronavirus stay-at-home orders. Dr. Michael Deboisblanc -- the trauma medical director for John Muir Health before he wrote to health officials in Contra Costa County, California -- explained in an interview Wednesday he was advocating for parents who want their children to go…

Shortly after the United States embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, was shelled by a barrage of rockets Sunday, friendly forces made a damning discovery. Now, thanks to the apparent ineptitude of the terrorists firing the rockets, we now seemingly have conclusive proof that the people firing deadly rockets into a civilian area are backed by a…

By April Kiessling They say trauma brings back early childhood memories – especially bad ones, should you be unfortunate enough to have them. I certainly had my share and thought they were safely banished. But the turmoil of this election, with its repeated galvanic shocks, and its apocalyptic threats brings it rushing back. And suddenly…

It isn't often that a media offering depicts a poignant example of how and why things are the way they truly are in real life, but I recently happened upon one that I'd like to discuss here. "Manhunt: Deadly Games" is a limited series that premiered on Netflix this year and which depicts a fictionalized…

Imagine discovering water leaking onto the floor from a leak underneath the kitchen sink. Imagine addressing the problem by simply mopping up the spillage and walking away. Problem solved? Obviously not. A solution to a problem succeeds only if it attacks the problem at its source. In this case, a leaky pipeline will result in…

A common fear expressed by many over the past few years, and increasingly since the 2020 general election, is concern for the future of children or grandchildren and the world in which they will have to live. You see it on social media, in comment sections and discussions around the dinner table. For those of…

Note: Dr. Orient is executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, AAPS. The trucks are rolling, bringing pallets of COVID-19 vaccine to distribution centers. If you are in the 1A allocation group, you'll be among the first to get the vaccine. Should you take some precautions? A nurse apparently fainted on live…