Trump vows to ‘vigorously pursue death penalty’ after Biden commutes sentences for 37 monsters
Trump’s promise reupped his campaign vow to seek the death penalty against violent offenders.
Murdered woman’s family slams Biden for commuting killer’s death sentence: ‘Shown no mercy’
The family of a South Carolina bank teller gunned down during a 2017 robbery is livid after President Biden commuted her killer’s death sentence just days before Christmas.
Questions Emerge About Data Used by China to Defend Against Doping Allegations
China and the World Anti-Doping Agency say that positive tests for a banned drug among elite Chinese swimmers were a result of unwitting contamination. But the science behind that assertion is not so clear.
Cocaine for moody rats and climate-focused drag show-on-ice top Rand Paul’s annual ‘Festivus’ list of outrageous government waste
The US government wasted more than $1 trillion on kooky frivolous projects this past year — including by using taxpayer money to turn rats into coke fiends, according to Sen. Rand Paul’s annual “Festivus Report.’’
Trump Will Confront a More Vulnerable but Determined Iran
“Coercive diplomacy” could leave Tehran to choose either a negotiated disassembly of its nuclear capability, or a forced one.
More Starbucks Store Workers Will Join Strike for Final Day
The walkout began Friday at stores in the Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago areas and will end on Tuesday.
Money for 9/11 Health Care Was Dropped from Year-End Spending Bill
A plan to ensure long-term funding to address health needs stemming from the terrorist attacks fell to the wayside after President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk objected to a bipartisan budget deal.
‘Squad’ Rep. Ayanna Pressley praises Biden for controversial commutations: ‘Death penalty is racist’
Pressley, 50, described the 82-year-old commander in chief’s decision to spare dozens of convicted murderers and rapists from death as a “historic and groundbreaking act of compassion that will save lives, address the deep racial disparities in our criminal legal system, and send a powerful message about redemption, decency, and humanity.”
NYC comptroller asks feds to decide whether Cuomo violated health rules during deadly COVID pandemic
A declared mayoral candidate, city Comptroller Brad Lander, is asking US health officials to determine whether ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial March 25, 2020 order requiring nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 positive patients discharged from hospitals violated federal policy and guidance.