Trump Administration Secures Deal to Supply COVID-19 Vaccine for Free to Nursing Homes
BY ZACHARY STIEBER President Donald Trump’s administration secured a deal with CVS and Walgreens to distribute and administer a COVID-19 vaccine for free to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, the administration announced on Friday. The deal relieves pressure on health departments and means residents and staff members at the facilities will be able to safely and efficiently get […]
Ballots Found in Trash Cans in California
BY ZACHARY STIEBER Over a dozen ballots were found in trash cans in California this week, said the local man who discovered them. Osvaldo Jiménez, 43, found the ballots among other discarded mail in separate receptacles on Virginia Avenue in Santa Monica on Oct. 8. Jiménez was walking his dog in the afternoon when he opened a trash […]
Los Angeles Ordered to Pay Nearly $150,000 to the NRA
BY ZACHARY STIEBER The city of Los Angeles was ordered this week to pay nearly $150,000 to the National Rifle Association (NRA). U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson, a Reagan appointee, issued the 36-page order following a legal challenge by the NRA against Los Angeles for an ordinance that required companies and individuals to disclose whether they had contracts with or […]
Senate Panel Authorizes Subpoenas for CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, Google
BY ZACHARY STIEBER A Senate chairman plans on sending subpoenas to the CEOs of three technology giants amid a push to alter the liability protections that currently shield the companies from lawsuits. Senate Commerce Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declined to accept invitations to testify before his committee, necessitating […]
Gabbard Highlights Bipartisan Bill Seeking to Ban Ballot Harvesting After Minnesota Allegations
BY ZACHARY STIEBER Former Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) joined with Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) to introduce a bill this month that would put pressure on states that let third-parties collect mail-in ballots from voters, a practice known as ballot harvesting. “Right now, there are still many states in our country that allow for something called […]
Democrats ‘Can’t Stop’ Barrett From Being Confirmed: Top Senate Democrat
BY ZACHARY STIEBER The number two Democrat in the Senate on Sunday said his party cannot stop Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett from being confirmed. “We can slow it down [by] perhaps a matter of hours, maybe days at the most, but we can’t stop the outcome,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on ABC’s “This Week.” Durbin was responding to a […]
Trump Meets With California Governor for Briefing on Wildfires
BY ZACHARY STIEBER President Donald Trump met with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials on Sept. 14 to receive a briefing on the wildfires raging in the state. The president later addressed the California National Guard before departing for a roundtable with supporters in Arizona. Newsom, a Democrat, said it was good to have the president and members of […]
Study: Hundreds of BLM Demonstrations Involved Violence
BY ZACHARY STIEBER Hundreds of Black Lives Matter demonstrations involved violence, according to a new study. Approximately 7 percent of demonstrations linked to the movement between May 24 and Aug. 22 in the United States involved violence, according to researchers with the U.S. Crisis Monitor, a joint project between the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) […]
California Prosecutor: ‘Need’ of Looters Should Be Considered When Mulling Charges
BY ZACHARY STIEBER Prosecutors in a California county are being told to take into account the “need” of people accused of looting when deciding whether to file charges. New guidelines tell prosecutors at the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office to consider: “Was this theft offense substantially motivated by the state of emergency, or simply a theft offense which […]
Sacramento DA: Planned Attack on Office Was Led by Antifa
BY ZACHARY STIEBER Intelligence indicates that the recent attack on the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office was planned and led by the Antifa extremist group. “There is no question that there was a planned attack on our office, and now that we have more intelligence, we understand that much of it was led by Antifa,” Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, […]
