Will Cuomo Be Held Accountable For Allegedly Sending Grandmas To Die In Nursing Homes?
Ailan Evans The Department of Justice dropped its investigation last week into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his March 2020 order forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients that resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly residents. Cuomo currently faces several other probes, including a criminal investigation by the FBI and the U.S. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jordan, Issa Demand Transparency From IRS Over ‘Partisan’ Leak Of Tax Records
Ailan Evans Republican Reps. Jim Jordan and Darrell Issa sent letters to Treasury Department officials Tuesday demanding answers about the IRS’s ongoing investigation into the leak of wealthy individuals’ tax information. The letters, first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, were sent to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner Charles Rettig and Inspector General for […]
Big Tech’s Anti-Terrorism Task Force Adds Far-Right Militias To List Of Extremist Groups It Tracks
by Ailan Evans The tech industry’s anti-terrorism alliance announced Monday it would begin tracking content from far-right organization in a shared counter-terrorism database used by major tech companies. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), a non-profit organization founded by Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, will add manifestos, posts and links from far-right militias […]
Biden DOJ Won’t Investigate Cuomo, Whitmer Over Nursing Home Deaths
by Ailan Evans The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined Friday to open investigations into Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and two other governors over decisions to force nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients. A letter sent Friday from the DOJ to Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise stated that the agency would not be opening investigations into the […]
Jim Jordan Announces Plans To Make It Easier To Break Up Big Tech
Ailan Evans House Republicans unveiled an agenda Wednesday aimed at curbing the influence of Big Tech companies. Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee led by Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan announced their agenda Wednesday to strengthen antitrust regulation of Big Tech, proposing expedited procedures for antitrust lawsuits, increased transparency of content moderation decisions, and Section 230 liability […]
Free Speech Social Media App Hacked On Launch Day
Ailan Evans The social media platform GETTR, advertised as a site for free speech, was hacked on its launch day Sunday. GETTR, a censorship-free platform described by its CEO and former Trump advisor Jason Miller as “The Marketplace of Ideas,” faced difficulties on its launch day as the site was briefly hacked and users posted explicit content, […]
Jeff Bezos Steps Down As CEO Of Amazon
Ailan Evans Amazon founder Jeff Bezos officially handed over the position of CEO to successor Andy Jassy on Monday, transitioning to the role of executive chair. Bezos, whose stake in Amazon is worth roughly $180 billion according to the Associated Press, announced in a blog post his plans to step down from the chief executive officer position […]
House Democrats Propose Defunding Immigration Enforcement Agencies Amid Border Crisis
Ailan Evans House Democrats proposed a new spending bill that would cut funding to immigration enforcement agencies and rescind funds allocated to the border wall. The bill, which makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), allocates $14.1 billion in net funding to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), $927 million less than the previous […]
Rising Crime Forces Liberals To Reckon With Their Stance On The Police
Ailan Evans As skyrocketing crime and violence across the country threaten public safety, many liberal communities are rethinking their views on law enforcement. “We may be liberal but this has gone too far,” Washington Square Park resident Steven Hill told the New York Post. “There have always been drugs in the park, mostly pot, […]
Rare Heart Inflammation Following COVID-19 Vaccination Sparks Emergency CDC Meeting
Ailan Evans The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will discuss reports of a rare heart inflammation following doses of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in an emergency meeting, it announced Thursday. The emergency meeting, set to take place on June 18, will include updates on mRNA COVID-19 vaccine safety with a specific focus on rare reports […]
