EXCLUSIVE: AOC Spotted in Miami Beach as NYC Reports Record Covid Cases  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was spotted dining in Miami Beach, Fla. on Thursday, according to a tip received by National Review, on the same day that her native New York City reported a record number of Covid-19 cases.

Joe Biden's Year of Hoping Dangerously  —  It was a brutal start for the new President.  —  The best thing you can say about 2021 is that it will soon be over.  A year that started with an insurrection at the Capitol is ending with more than eight hundred thousand Americans dead in the covid pandemic …

Omicron has passed peak in South Africa, causing relatively few deaths and hospitalizations, authorities say  —  South Africa appears to have passed the peak of its omicron variant-driven fourth coronavirus wave, the country's cabinet announced Thursday, adding that there was only a …

Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election  —  As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it.

Putin Warns Biden of ‘Complete Rupture’ of U.S.-Russia Relationship Over Ukraine  —  President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia spoke with President Biden for 50 minutes about the escalating crisis with Ukraine, but his intentions remained unclear.  —  WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin …

Don't Look Up: Another lazy anti-Trump movie  —  If you thought the Biden era might at least deliver us from lazy anti-Trump comedy, Don't Look Up will reassure you that no one gets off that easy.  —  It's bad.  It's The 1975 featuring Greta Thunberg bad.

The Truth You Never Learned about Watergate  —  The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President  —  373 pages, hardcover $30.00, Kindle $14.99  —  Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press, New York, 2021  —  In 2019, I wrote here and here at American Thinker of the work …

U.S. ends case against Jeffrey Epstein's jail guards  —  U.S. prosecutors decided to end their criminal case against two Manhattan jail guards who admitted to falsifying records on the night the financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on their watch.  —  In a Thursday filing in Manhattan federal court …

Fox News' Worst Lies About Covid-19 From 2021  —  The cable network is actively harming its audience's health.  —  Alerts  —  Fox News spent the better part of 2021 telling its viewers blatant lies about the covid-19 pandemic.  The network has claimed covid-19 vaccines are dangerous …

She Tweeted That Alan Dershowitz Might Be Acting Crazy.  So Yale Fired Her.  —  The strange free-speech case of Bandy Lee.  —  “I think I'll order only a bowl of the New England clam chowder,” Bandy Lee said to me one afternoon several months ago, as we settled in at a restaurant overlooking the Boston Common.

A year after a seditious insurrection, why won't federal prosecutors treat it that way?  —  History is full of examples where other uprisings have resulted in charges of sedition conspiracy and insurrection, something that — despite ample video evidence and the admissions of those involved — hasn't happened here.

Florida doesn't plan to open COVID testing sites amid surge, Orange County official says  —  Orange County officials said Wednesday the state has balked at opening testing sites amid a tidal wave of demand and denied a request this week for four flashing signs to help provide information to people in miles-long lines.

Alaska GOP governor accepts Trump endorsement, Murkowski ultimatum  —  Alaska's GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday accepted the endorsement of former President Trump, which came on the condition the governor does not, in turn, endorse Alaskan Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski in her reelection bid.

D.C. had one of the lowest rates of coronavirus cases in the country.  That has changed.  —  New York City was America's first coronavirus epicenter.  Then rural communities became the hub, the virus jumping from one region to another as months passed.  —  The D.C. area was generally low …

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's top controversies  —  De Blasio has taken flak on issues ranging from crime and law enforcement to COVID pandemic  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for December 30  —  After serving eight years as the Democratic mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio closed …