Month: April 2021

Number of Detained Unaccompanied Minors Tops 20,000

More than 20,000 children, mostly from Central America, are currently being held in facilities operated by Health and Human Services (HHS) at a taxpayer cost of at least $60 million per week. Most of the children crossed the border illegally within the last two months. In March, almost 19,000 unaccompanied minors—a record number—were apprehended by…


J&J Scientists Refute Idea That COVID-19 Vaccine’s Design Linked to Clots

CHICAGO—Scientists at Johnson & Johnson on Friday refuted an assertion in a major medical journal that the design of their COVID-19 vaccine, which is similar AstraZeneca’s, may explain why both have been linked to very rare brain blood clots in some vaccine recipients. The United States earlier this week paused distribution of the J&J vaccine…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (April 16)

A suspect has been identified in the Indianapolis mass shooting, President Joe Biden and Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga talk at the White House about countering threats from the Chinese communist regime and North Korea, and human smugglers are advertising their services on Facebook.


White House Says Biden Will Increase Refugee Cap After Left-Wing Backlash

President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday issued a directive to keep the Trump administration’s cap on refugee limits, but hours later White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a statement saying Biden would “set a final, increased refugee cap for the remainder of this fiscal year by May 15.” Psaki made the statement after several left-wing lawmakers…


Sudden Death of Former Shanghai Mayor Draws Attention to Infighting Within Chinese Leadership

News Analysis With the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) getting closer, the death of Yang Xiong, former mayor of Shanghai, has drawn people’s attention to the power struggle within the CCP, especially between Xi Jinping and former leader Jiang Zemin. The 20th National Congress will be held in the autumn of…


‘Oath Keepers’ Member Pleads Guilty to Breaching US Capitol

Federal prosecutors obtained their first guilty plea in relation to the Capitol breach on Jan. 6. Jon Schaffer, 53, of Indiana and a member of the Oath Keepers, pleaded guilty to “unlawfully entering the U.S. Capitol to obstruct Congress’ certification of the U.S. presidential election results,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ.) The Oath…


Ontario Extends Stay-at-Home Order, Adds Restrictions, Increases Police Powers to Enforce Restrictions

Ontario will extend its stay-at-home order and introduce additional restriction measures, with police granted additional powers to enforce the restrictions, Premier Doug Ford said on April 16. “We’re losing the battle between the variants and vaccines,” Ford said. “The pace of vaccine supply has not kept up with the spread of the new COVID variants.”…


Biden: Congress ‘Must’ Pass Gun-Control Bills After Indianapolis FedEx Shooting

President Joe Biden on Friday condemned a deadly shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis and again called for the passage of gun-control laws in Congress. The president called the shooting, which left eight people dead, the “latest in a string of tragedies” involving guns, and ordered flags to be flown half-staff at the White…


Police Identify Suspect in Indianapolis FedEx Mass Shooting

INDIANAPOLIS—FBI agents last year interviewed the gunman who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, the bureau said Friday, as investigators searched the home of the 19-year-old former FedEx employee. Coroners began the slow process of identifying the victims as family members spent hours agonizing over word of their loved ones. The…


Police Identify Gunman in FedEx Shooting

INDIANAPOLIS—The FBI says that last year it questioned the man who fatally shot eight people at a FedEx plant in Indianapolis. The shooter was identified as Brandon Scott Hole, 19, of Indiana. Paul Keenan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Indianapolis field office, said Friday that agents questioned Hole after his mother called…