Steve Ricchetti, described as one of President Joe Biden’s “most trusted advisers,” has three children working for the current administration and a lobbyist brother, the Washington Post revealed on Friday. Press secretary Jen Psaki’s sister, wife of chief of staff Ron Klain, and daughter of deputy chief of staff Bruce …
Read More »Trial of Germany’s CureVac vaccine shows only 47% effect against Covid-19, falling short of great expectations
Preliminary results from second and third-phase trials on 40,000 subjects in 10 countries of Europe and Latin America show that CureVac’s jab “did not meet pre-specified statistical success criteria,” the company announced on Wednesday. “In the unprecedented context of at least 13 variants circulating within the study population subset assessed …
Read More »Moscow orders ‘mandatory’ vaccination against Covid-19 for some workers serving the public as cases soar in Europe’s largest city
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Read More »French far-left leader has flour thrown in his face during rally against far right just days after President Macron slap (VIDEO)
The Socialist Party (SP) and the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party led demonstrations along with unions and environmental groups in around 140 cities across the country on Saturday. “The freedom camp must again show its potential for mobilization in the fight against the far right and racism,” LFI MP …
Read More »Trump calls bitcoin ‘scam’, denounces it for ‘competing against the dollar’
During an interview on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney asked Trump for his thoughts on the popular cryptocurrency and whether he would invest in it. “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam,” Trump declared, adding, “I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar.” “I want the …
Read More »China rails against ‘provocation’ as American senators fly into Taiwan on a military plane & promise to donate 750,000 vaccines
On Sunday, three US senators briefly visited Taiwan in a military aircraft in a move which angered China. Although they did not leave the airport and stayed just three hours, they met with President Tsai Ing-wen and carried the announcement that Washington would donate 750,000 Covid vaccines to the island. …
Read More »Israeli PM Netanyahu condemns ‘incitement from any side’ amid backlash against coalition set to remove him from power
“I condemn all kinds of incitement and violence from any side,” Netanyahu said at a meeting of his party, Likud, as quoted by Haaretz newspaper. The PM added that incitement should be distinguished from free speech. Netanyahu’s comment came a day after the head of Israel’s domestic security service Shin …
Read More »Selective enforcement: Biden’s ICE told they can drop cases against illegal migrants amid 1.3 MILLION backlog
“Prosecutorial discretion is an indispensable feature of any functioning legal system. The exercise of prosecutorial discretion, where appropriate, can preserve limited government resources, achieve just and fair outcomes in individual cases, and advance the department’s mission of administering and enforcing the immigration laws of the United States in a smart …
Read More »With every other argument against the 2nd Amendment failing, a professor has finally found the killer blow: yep, it’s ‘RACIST’
Anderson, an African-American studies professor at Emory University in Atlanta, is promoting her new book, which provides critical race theorists the dual benefits of vilifying the founding fathers and telling us that the gun rights enshrined in our Constitution were not about individual liberty but – you guessed it – …
Read More »US sanctions against Moscow are a ‘persistent risk’ but national reserves can withstand everything, says Russian Central Bank head
This is according to Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of Russia’s central bank. “That’s why our monetary policy, as well as fiscal policy and whole macroeconomic policy, is quite conservative,” she told American broadcaster CNBC, noting that Russia has reserves big enough “to withstand all financial scenarios or geopolitical scenarios.” Russia …
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