Day: May 6, 2020

Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. For the past month or so, I’ve been doing a lot of reporting on Joe Biden and Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who is accusing him of sexually assaulting her in 1993. Frankly, the story is a […]

LOS ANGELES — Christy Smith, a Democratic House candidate in suburban Los Angeles, had just finished a debate (over Zoom, of course) and was eager to point something out: First, President Trump had endorsed her Republican opponent, Mike Garcia. Then the president raised the specter of voting fraud, writing on […]

A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researcher who was “on the verge of making very significant” findings about COVID-19 was found shot to death over the weekend, a situation which authorities believe to be a murder-suicide. Bing Liu, 37, was found dead in Ross Township, north of Pittsburgh, according […]

WASHINGTON — A company created just six weeks ago by a pair of Republican operatives received hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from desperate state and local governments for coronavirus supplies, but is now facing a federal criminal investigation and a rising chorus of complaints from customers who say […]

WASHINGTON — The embattled small business lending program at the center of the Trump administration’s economic rescue is running into a new set of challenges, one that threatens to saddle borrowers with huge debt loads, as banks begin the tricky task of proving the loans they extended actually met the […]

Ted Cruz has introduced legislation that would stop Hollywood studios that are complicit in Chinese censorship from using Department of Defense assets. Cruz: US Government Will Not “Facilitate Chinese Censorship” The “Stopping Censorship, Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies Act,” or SCRIPT Act, would prevent the Department of Defense from providing access […]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have called for the release of a Dallas salon owner who was jailed for keeping her business open. “Feeding My Kids Is Not Selfish” Shelley Luther was sentenced to a week in jail for continuing to operate the salon after ripping up a […]

Professor Neil Ferguson – the man who is essentially the architect of the model for the worldwide lockdowns – just resigned from his UK government post after his married lover was busted sneaking out of quarantine to visit him in his home. The Daily Mail reports the shamed 51 year-old […]

Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s lead over President Trump is growing nationwide even though most voters are aware of a sexual assault allegation against him, according to a Monmouth University poll released Wednesday. It is the first major national survey to ask voters about the allegation by a former Senate aide […]