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New York City health commissioner Oxiris Barbot dismissed a request during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic to provide the police force with a large stockpile of masks, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. In a phone conversation in late March, NYPD chief of department Terence Monahan asked Barbot for a supply of 500,000 …

The Biden campaign on Wednesday brushed off the former vice president’s presence on a list of Obama administration officials who apparently sought to “unmask” former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, saying Biden was unaware of Flynn’s identity when the requests for information were made. Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell declassified a memo this week listing …

A Broward County police officer who was fired after he hid behind his car at the start of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will be reinstated with full back pay and return to his rank, the Broward Sheriff’s Office union said on Wednesday. The officer, Sergeant Brian Miller, was fired for …

Former congressman Trey Gowdy admitted during a Monday appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight that he had been wrong in “relying on the word of the FBI and the DOJ” during hearings on the Trump-Russia probe, saying he realized his mistake after reviewing the documents related to the opening of the investigation. Carlson played Gowdy a …

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is reviewing additional video footage of Ahmaud Arbery recorded several minutes before he was killed, the Atlanta Journal-Contstitution reported on Saturday. The footage from a home security camera about a block from where Arbery was shot to death shows a man who appears to be Arbery entering the garage of a …

In the last lecture, we looked at those arguments that won the debate for free speech. Historically, those arguments were nested in different philosophical contexts, and they were often tailored to audiences hostile in varying degrees to free speech. So let me summarize, in contemporary language, the elements of those arguments that are still with …

Several Senate Democrats are proposing a new coronavirus relief bill to supplement the initial direct cash payments provided to Americans as part of the phase-three CARES Act. Under the bill, introduced by Senators Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), and Ed Markey (D., Mass.), all Americans earning less than $120,000 per year would …

Government stimulus is not a solution because it does not and cannot expand the economy. The stimulus checks are out, and it seems that more are on their way. Every time there is a recession or even an economic slowdown, there always seems to be a cry from the political class that, “We need to …

Representative Michael McCaul, who has harshly criticized China in his position as the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disclosed that his family owns stock in a Chinese tech company he described as a threat to national security. An April 20 periodic transaction report showed that McCaul disclosed a February purchase of between $50,000 …

An edgy new board game wants you to kick game night up a few notches — with meth. A “Breaking Bad”-themed Monopoly game which was quietly released last week will likely have classic board game and TV fans alike asking, “Who asked for this?” The cult hit TV series ran on AMC from 2008 to 2013, …