The high cost of COVID $timulus, NPR CEO’s censorship and other commentary

Attorney General Merrick Garland boasted of recovering over $1.4 billion in COVID relief funds yet “that’s only a fraction” of the stimulus money “swiped by scam artists,” says Reason’s J.D. Read More

Trump relies on a doctor who is a member of his golf club to vouch for his health

(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) BEDMINSTER, N.J. — As former president Donald Trump escalated his attacks on President Biden’s health and mental fitness last fall, Trump released the ... Read More

Biden answers Trump's 'are you better off' question with brutal review of COVID response

Before joining Raw Story ... and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet and the American Prospect. He has a Master's Degree in ... Read More

Fact check: Trump falsely claims US crime stats are only going up. Most went down last year, including massive drop in murder

Still, given the declines in 2023 in national numbers on everything from murder to rape to aggravated assault to robbery to arson, there is no basis for Trump’s claim ... of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More

Many of Trump's claims about the border immigration and crime don't stack up

But in 2020, Trump was helped greatly by the economic slowdown created by COVID ... the world are being emptied and criminals are being sent into the U.S. There is no basis for this claim that ... Read More

Why Hamas is responsible for the deaths of World Central Kitchen aid workers

What’s “enough,” Joe? The IDF has kept civilian deaths in Gaza to unprecedented ... The terrorist group wants more innocents dead, to turn the world against Israel. As for the “horrified ... Read More

How US life expectancy rates changed as COVID deaths wane, drug overdoses persist

The COVID-19 pandemic and fatal drug overdoses are causing a large death toll in the U.S. COVID deaths took about 186,552 lives in 2022. In comparison, fatal overdoses consumed 107,941 lives. Read More

RFK Jr. claims Biden is greater threat to democracy than Trump, bashes effort to limit COVID misinformation

Instagram had temporarily banned Kennedy for spreading false COVID-19 vaccine claims in 2021 ... Capitol attack and Trump's comments at a Fox News town hall last year saying he would be ... Read More

Trump claims he has $500 million in cash — despite not being able to secure $454 million bond

Trump claims ... conspiring to inflate the value of their assets. Trump was found to have gained over $350 million through fraud, which, combined with interest, resulted in a total owed of $454 ... Read More

Ocugen’s stock climbs as biotech company beats back investor claims on COVID vaccine

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit tossed out the claims ... for COVID and flu. Ocugen shares have gained 133% to date in 2024, while the S&P 500 SPX is up 9.9%. Trump Media CEO ... Read More