A Philippine police officer was killed during a raid on an illegal cockfight after a rooster's blade sliced his femoral artery, an official said Tuesday.
The two presidents drove out 10,000 Cuban doctors and nurses. They defunded the region’s leading health agency. They wrongly pushed hydroxychloroquine as a cure.
Radley BalkoMy God, this story. Trump actively exported his COVID incompetence to Latin America, where he and Bolsonaro crippled the continent’s response, causing who knows how many unnecessary deaths. The man is just a calamity of corruption and ineptitude.
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The 20 U.S. cities and counties with the biggest police departments paid over $2 billion since 2015 for alleged misconduct and civil rights violations, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against 11 of 15 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security team who were accused in connection with the beating of protesters in Washington last year, a case that caused a diplomatic rift...
Radley BalkoJust remembering when an autocrat's thuggish security team savagely beat U.S. citizens as they protested on U.S. soil. The Trump administration later cited its decision not to prosecute the assailants in an effort to win favor with the autocrat.
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The potential exposure and quarantining of several top Fox News stars has raised alarm among network staffers who feel some of their colleagues don’t take the crisis seriously.
The famous Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz is credited with the concept – “the fog of war,” specifically the “fog of greater or lesser uncertainty” which he said defined warfare. Von Clausewitz had witnessed more than enough battle action to...
Radley BalkoAre we talking "go to prison for hiring a prostitute to blackmail your brother-in-law" successful, or "almost started a war in the Middle East so someone would bail out your colossally failed billion-dollar real estate investment" successful?
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In violation of the law, the FBI won’t deliver a legally required report on domestic terrorism before an election that many security veterans fear may spark some level of violence.
Strassel has four questions for the BIden camp which have not been answered, in particular who is "big guy," how information jives with Joe Biden's claim that he didn't talk business with Hunter.
A federal health agency halted a public-service coronavirus advertising campaign funded by $250 million in taxpayer money after it offered a special vaccine deal to an unusual set of essential workers: Santa Claus performers.
Radley BalkoThe Trump administration's backup plan is to miniaturize Dennis Quaid, inject him into COVID patients, and have him kill the virus himself.
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Along with Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of staff, another staff member and a Pence adviser have also tested positive, according to people briefed on the developments.
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Radley BalkoGood morning. Five — 5! — staffers of head of the COVID task force now have COVID, just weeks after a White House outbreak. The admin. tried to keep this from you as Trump and Pence violate task force guidelines with maskless rallies all over the US.
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The U.S. set a single-day record of 82,154 new cases on Friday, less than two weeks before Election Day. Two vaccine trials resumed after pausing for safety concerns.
Hidden financial records cast doubt on a number of his charitable commitments and show that most of his giving came from land deals that offset his income.
The real takeaway from the Stanford study has nothing to do with a candidate or political party. It’s another reminder that free markets and economic liberty drive prosperity, while heavy-handed government interventions drag progress down.