Covid-19

'Un-American': Biden takes a swipe at Trump over Woodward report

Reporter Bob Woodward is out with a new book that claims former President Donald Trump gave Russian President Vladimir Putin COVID-19 testing resources as Americans struggled to access testing.

According to the book, Putin told Trump he should keep it quiet because it could cause him political damage.

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Trump says he's 'not allowed' to talk about COVID vaccines 'because I'm a Republican'

Former President Donald Trump claimed he was "not allowed" to talk about the COVID-19 vaccine and Operation Warp Speed because he was a Republican candidate.

During an interview with Fox Nation this week, Trump told host Kellyanne Conway that he had the "greatest economy in history" until the pandemic.

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Trump claims COVID-19 started when 'dust flew in from China'

Former President Donald Trump blamed COVID-19 on "dust" that "flew in from China."

In an interview that aired on Sunday, Heritage Foundation-funded journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Trump about how well he handled the pandemic.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene yells at Andrew Cuomo for 'murdering people' at COVID-19 hearing

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) of "murdering people" during his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At a Thursday hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Greene reminded Cuomo that he had "attacked President Trump and his response" to the virus outbreak.

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Meta CEO Zuckerberg says U.S. pressure on Covid-19 posts was 'wrong'

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes U.S. government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain Covid-19 content in 2021 was "wrong," and said he would resist similar attempts in the future, according to a letter submitted to a US congressional committee.

In the letter, addressed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and released by Republicans on the committee, Zuckerberg addressed a number of controversies centered on content moderation on his platforms.

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John McCain's daughter pushes new conspiracy theory about Biden's health

Meghan McCain has a new conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden: he is faking his latest diagnosis of COVID-19.

McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and a former co-host of "The View," laid out why she believes this in the latest episode of her "Citizen McCain" podcast, according to The Daily Beast.

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Biden diagnosis feeds conspiracies for the right — and meltdown on the left

As President Joe Biden tries to convince Americans he's strong enough to run for a second term, news that the Democrat caught COVID-19 drew swift reaction from supporters worried he looked "fragile" even before the diagnosis, and from those on the right theorizing this could be a ploy to swap him for someone with better odds in the presidential race.

News that Biden tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of his event in Las Vegas reverberated on the internet, with many noting cases are rising nationwide.

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'Audible gasps' as Biden announces he must cancel speech after testing positive for Covid

President Joe Biden canceled a planned speech at UnidosUS' annual conference in Las Vegas, due to a positive test for COVID-19.

According to CNN, the audience let out "audible gasps" when this was revealed to conferencegoers.

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RFK Jr. earns millions from conservative and anti-vax companies: disclosure

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. brought in more than $10 million last year across various sources — from a health organization and law firm campaigning against vaccines to a right-wing college and a conservative book publisher — according to his latest public financial disclosure.

Kennedy, who is running for president as an independent, earned more than $400,000 each from conservative book publisher, Skyhorse Publishing, and JW Howard Attorneys, which litigated more than 40 cases against vaccine mandates, according to his public personal financial disclosure, which the Federal Election Commission released Monday afternoon and required of all presidential candidates.

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'A stinging rebuke': Jim Jordan under fire after Supreme Court quashes conspiracy theory

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) faced criticism Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the conspiracy theory that states were harmed by social media censorship over COVID-19 misinformation.

In a 6-3 decision, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that two states lacked legal standing to challenge the government's communication with social media companies.

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'I can't process it': Marjorie Taylor Greene takes Supreme Court ruling as personal blow

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she was personally harmed by the U.S. Supreme Court after President Joe Biden's administration won a case related to social media censorship.

In a Wednesday 6-3 ruling, the high court reversed a lower court's decision that limited the Biden administration's ability to communicate with social media companies. Two states brought the case, claiming they were harmed by the government's efforts to stop the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 and elections.

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Amy Coney Barrett slaps down conservative lower court in latest ruling

In a majority decision, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett slapped down the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a decision Wednesday.

Red states and conservatives sued President Joe Biden's administration for coordinating with social media companies to help tamp down misinformation about the pandemic in 2021.

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Trump hurled 'F-bombs' then cooed loving words​​ to aide during stress rollercoaster: book

Former President Donald Trump boomeranged between hurling F-bombs and cooing loving words in conversations with his top medical adviser during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci reportedly reveals in his new book.

Trump told Fauci he would win the 2020 election in a "f---ing landslide" no matter what "all these other f---ing people think." He added that Fauci had cost the U.S. economy “one trillion f---ing dollars," and that President Joe Biden was a "f---er" whose "a--" he was going to "kick," the Daily Beast's coverage on Fauci's new book reports.

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