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In a lengthy resignation letter posted on Friday evening, Schmidt took credit for the group’s “decisive role” in President Donald Trump’s 2020 electoral defeat and said he was leaving because the organization’s board is made up of “four middle-aged white men” and needs a female member for the sake of …

Gerald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior for the ruling Republique En Marche party, slammed Le Pen as having gone “a little soft” on the issue of Islam in France as the pair debated on Thursday on the France 2 channel. “You’re not tough enough here,” Darmanin told Le Pen. “If …

The scientists are waiting for authorization to launch a study comparing every Covid-19 vaccine that has been given the green light by the Swedish Medical Products Agency. They say that while those jabs were tested against a placebo, they haven’t been tested against each other to see how their attributes …

Theatrical protests and hashtags such as #CuomoKilledGrandma have proliferated ever since New Yorkers learned their governor was behind the homicidal nursing home policy that ordered New York’s elder care facilities to fling open their doors to ultra-contagious Covid-19 patients returning from hospital. Cuomo proceeded to blame everyone but himself for …

Tough-as-nails Priti Patel has not only stirred up a wasps’ nest, she’s kicked it over, stomped on it and challenged the vicious insects to a fight. Now all we have to do is sit back and watch.  Because, this time, her target is the Black Lives Matter movement. Asked in …

As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago, his account of living in a communist labor camp, “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”  We have seen this cruelty first-hand through the historical documentation of communist gulags and Nazi concentration camps, and the way that …

Ducklo’s suspension was announced on Friday by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who said he apologized and sent a personal note expressing “profound regret” over the “heated conversation” about his personal life. He has been suspended without pay for a week and will “no longer be assigned to work …

One of the deepest-held beliefs – ‘prejudices’ might be a better word – about the European Union is that it makes its member states stronger. It is in the name of this alleged greater strength that national sovereignty is sacrificed, on the basis that – as Emmanuel Macron claimed again …

Speaking to London-based radio station LBC on Friday, Patel told host Nick Ferrari that she wouldn’t “take the knee” for the Black Lives Matter movement, as so many professional athletes, entertainers, and even politicians are wont to do. “No I would not, I would not have at the time either. …

“We are now getting reports of people getting re-infected with the new variant of the virus, and there have been some initial reports from South Africa suggesting that people who have had prior infection could get infected again,” she told a WHO news briefing. Swaminathan did not specify the number …