Month: April 2021

‘3 or 4’ Senators Will Run for President in 2024: McConnell

Several current Republican senators will run for president in the next election cycle, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday. McConnell during a Fox News appearance responded to former President Donald Trump, a possible candidate who again criticized the longtime senator earlier in the day. “We need good leadership. Mitch McConnell has not…


Chinese Regime Seeks to Douse Speculation of Shrinking Population

BEIJING—China’s population grew last year, the statistics bureau said on April 29 in an apparent bid to quash reports that it had fallen, but authorities stopped short of saying from which year numbers had grown. On Tuesday, the Financial Times newspaper said China was set to report that its population fell below 1.4 billion last…


Rioter Fined $12 Million for Helping Set Minneapolis Police Station on Fire

A man was fined $12 million and will serve four years in prison for trying to set fire to the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct building last year in the midst of protests and riots. Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, 23, was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release, according to the United States Attorney’s Office District…


Biden’s American Families Plan Ends ‘End of Welfare’

WASHINGTON—Ahead of his first address to a joint session of Congress on April 28, President Joe Biden rolled out his third spending proposal, American Families Plan, which according to liberals would be a “great achievement” if passed by Congress. Opponents, however, criticize Biden’s massive spending plan, calling it the largest expansion of the welfare state…


Driver of Van Charged With 6 Counts of Homicide After Crash

Police charged the driver of a van with six counts of vehicular homicide after the vehicle crashed and burst into flames on Interstate 85 in Georgia, killing six passengers. In a statement, Gwinnett County police said that Monica Elizabeth Manire, 32, made a “reckless change of lanes” on Interstate 85 to Interstate 985, which caused the van…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (April 29)

We have details on President Biden’s latest spending bills and analysis on the economic impact. Move over Bitcoin, there’s another big dog in the crypto world reaching record highs. And it’s hogging all of the attention. Royal Dutch Shell’s first quarter earnings are out. It’s doing better than expected.


Biden Pretends to Follow Old Rules of Politics, and the Media Join In

Commentary The funniest headline of the year to date popped up in The Washington Post a few weeks ago. A joint effort by the Post’s Annie Linskey, Jeff Stein and Ashley Parker promised readers to explain: “How Joe Biden tamed the left—at least for now.” Ha ha. Who didn’t already know by April Fool’s day…


Arizona Democrat Criticizes Biden for Ignoring ‘Immediate Crisis at the Border’ in Speech

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) criticized President Joe Biden for ignoring the current surge of migrants at the nation’s southern border during his first speech before Congress on Wednesday night. “While I share President Biden’s urgency in fixing our broken immigration system, what I didn’t hear tonight was a plan to address the immediate crisis at…


Blue Dogs May Restrain Biden’s Radical Agenda

News Analysis In some quarters, President Joe Biden received excellent reviews for his April 28 speech to a CCP virus-limited joint session of Congress, but a key House Democrat group’s tepid reaction may show a rough road ahead. Democrats and Republicans in Congress generally reacted according to their party’s customary talking points, with the former…


Andrew Cuomo’s Antipathy to Older People Didn’t Begin With COVID

Commentary It’s worth a glimpse back to see how most news organizations covered Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2020. A classic in this journalism hall of shame was a Washington Post column, in which our governor was lionized as “the strongman who can admit he’s wrong. He speaks fluently about the facts. He worries about his…