Whistleblower Frances Haugen called for transparency about how Facebook entices users to keep scrolling, creating ample opportunity for advertisers to reach them. Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled ‘Protecting … Read More
President Biden signed the bill Thursday evening. The House and Senate on Thursday passed a short-term funding bill that staved off a government shutdown and ensured funding to resettle thousands of Afghan refugees. In a 65 to 35 vote the Senate approved funding that would … Read More
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Tex. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The GOP has dialed up attacks on Biden’s vaccine mandates. The president’s workplace vaccine requirements were immediately met with alarm in right-wing media. Some GOP lawmakers took matters further, calling for mass disobedience … Read More
National Institute of Health (NIH). The U.S. government contributed to gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, a recently released report alleged. Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and … Read More
Trump greets the crowd before he leaves at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on December 08, 2020 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images –Trump told the Wall Street Journal he “probably won’t” get a COVID-19 booster shot. –Trump previously denounced … Read More
For decades the communist left in America has tried to scare us all into accepting an authoritarian lifestyle, the kind which our founders rebelled against. During the countercultural ‘revolution’ of the 1960s, the big scare — the big lie, the hoax — was … Read More
The signing of the bill opens a new frontier in the battle over abortion restrictions as first-of-its-kind legal provisions intended to make the law harder to challenge are poised to be tested in the courts. Demonstrators gathered in front of … Read More
Hannity called the debacle ‘the worst self-inflicted foreign policy in American history,’ demanding ‘everyone involved’ be fired. Fox News host Sean Hannity demanded President Biden resign Monday for “lying” to the American people about his pledge to stay in Afghanistan until every citizen … Read More
FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo … Read More
Corrections/clarifications: This story originally mischaracterized the increase in armed protests. The number of armed protests increased from February to June; the proportion doubled. Armed protests are six times more likely to turn violent as protests where no guns are present, … Read More