This week lawyers for the U.S. government began a legal challenge to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the U.K. to face charges of violating the Espionage Act. Assange is wanted in the U.S. on 18 criminal charges after WikiLeaks published thousands of secret U.S. military and diplomatic documents concerning the Afghanistan and Iraq wars…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Food and Drug Administration on Friday paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA cleared kid-size doses—just a third of the amount given to teens and adults—for emergency use, and up to 28 million more American children could be eligible for vaccinations as early as…Continue Reading
The establishment media are parroting former President Barack Obama’s comments on the controversy surrounding Virginia’s embattled Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), which he dismissed as “fake outrage” and “trumped-up culture wars.” “We don’t have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage, the right-wing media’s pedals to juice their ratings,”…Continue Reading
Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe (D) is experiencing a wave of mockery on social media over a viral photo showing five individuals claiming to be supporters of his Republican challenger Glenn Youngkin, holding tiki torches outside of a campaign bus — an obvious nod to Charlottesville and white supremacy — as many surmise it is nothing…Continue Reading
A plan is being circulated by President Joe Biden’s administration to provide border crossers, subjected to former President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, with $450,000 reparations-style payouts that would exceed payments provided to American victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and American families of United States service members who die in combat. This week,…Continue Reading
Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple on Friday said “we have an overwhelming amount of evidence” against Andrew Cuomo one day after the disgraced former New York Governor was hit with a misdemeanor sex-crime complaint. This story is developing. Check Breitbart News for updates. Continue Reading
Neighbours and NATO allies Greece and Turkey are at odds over a series of issues, including territorial disputes and Cyprus.The Greek prime minister has said he is concerned that Western powers’ response towards Turkish actions is encouraging it to behave in an unacceptable manner. Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s comments came on Friday after a meeting with outgoing…Continue Reading
The United Nations Security Council resolution expresses concern over the breakdown of the ceasefire between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front.The United Nations Security Council has extended the UN peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara for a year, expressing concern at the breakdown of the 1991 ceasefire between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front…Continue Reading
Microsoft rose 2.2% to hit a market value of $2.49 trillion and Apple fell 1.8% after reporting fourth-quarter revenue.By Katrina Lewis and Ryan Vlastelica and Thyagaraju AdinarayanBloombergThe slump in Apple Inc.’s shares on Friday propelled Microsoft Corp. to the position of the world’s largest listed company by market capitalization. Apple fell 1.8% after reporting fourth-quarter revenue that came…Continue Reading
Food and Drug Administration grants emergency authorisation for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in children.The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency authorisation for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to be given to children between the ages of five and 11 years. It is the first coronavirus vaccine approved in the United States for young…Continue Reading