Beirut: A massive explosion that levelled the port area in Beirut appears to have been caused by 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a warehouse. At least 100 people were killed and 4,000 injured.   Video of the event shows …

Viral News: Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington are still trying to hash out a second coronavirus bailout bill, even as Americans are starting to go hungry and face eviction from their homes.   The Democrats propose a $3 trillion bill that …

Viral News: On the theory that what you can’t see doesn’t exist, President Trump continues to push the fiction that the US has more cases of the coronavirus than any other country because we test more. He tweeted, “If we tested …

Naming Names: One of Jeffrey Epstein’s former teenage sex slaves said in a deposition that at the behest of Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, she went to bed with Prince Andrew, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz, former New Mexico Gov. Bill …

Major Fraud: President Trump, who continues to claim without evidence that the November election will be rife with mail fraud, suggested via Twitter that maybe the election should be postponed.   Trump tweeted, “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is …

Viral News: As the pandemic gains speed again, Coronavirus deaths in the United States topped 150,000 yesterday. Another 1,456 Americans died of the virus in the past 24 hours.   A NY Times survey of 270 colleges and universities has linked 630 cases of …

The Fiction Review: President Trump in a briefing yesterday claimed that most of the US is “corona free” while renewing his claim that the discredited drug hydroxychloroquine  is a cure for the disease caused by the coronavirus.  His claims clash with all evidence …

Battle in the Streets:  The sometimes violent protests in Portland, Oregon continued over the weekend with protesters hurling objects, attacking barriers, and in return getting teargassed, clubbed, and pepper-balled by vaguely identified federal officers in full combat gear carrying assault rifles.  Last …

Battle in the Streets:  The sometimes violent protests in Portland, Oregon continued over the weekend with protesters hurling objects, attacking barriers, and in return getting teargassed, clubbed, and pepper-balled by vaguely identified federal officers in full combat gear carrying assault rifles. …

With coronavirus cases and deaths mounting in Florida, President Trump called off the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville that he had already moved from Charlotte, North Carolina because of that state’s health restrictions.