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Online retail giant Amazon reached out to President Joe Biden soon after his inauguration on Wednesday, offering to "leverage" its operations to assist in his efforts to ramp up distribution of COVID-19 vaccines nationwide.What are the details?David Clark, the chief executive of Amazon's worldwide consumer business, issued a letter to Biden, congratulating the new president before declaring, "As you...

Joe Exotic lashed out at former President Donald Trump after he issued numerous pardons, but didn't include the famous "Tiger King." Joseph Maldonado-Passage tweeted an angry missive denouncing Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., on Inauguration Day as the presidency was passed on to President Joe Biden. "I was too innocent and too GAY to deserve a Pardon from...

"Unity" was the prevailing theme of President Joe Biden's inaugural address to the American people after taking his oath of office and becoming the 46th president of the United States. The president's inaugural remarks were relatively brief compared to recent presidents, lasting just over 20 minutes. In his speech, Biden attempted to define his new administration as a reconciliatory...

In a Tuesday memo, the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Oregon revealed that a former first-grade teacher from Oregon admitted to sexually abusing and trafficking a 15-year-old girl he met on social media. What are the details? According to the memo, federal prosecutors said that 38-year-old William Hamann pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of sex trafficking...

On Inauguration Day, only hours before President Joe Biden took the oath of office, a group of 17 House Republican freshmen sent a letter to him congratulating him and saying they look forward to working with him on several key bipartisan issues including coronavirus relief and infrastructure.Ten of the Republican lawmakers who signed the letter had objected to the...

After the deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, numerous Democrats have called for the resignations of Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), claiming the Republican lawmakers are partly responsible for the violence because of their efforts to oppose the certification of President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. For example, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said...

Given CNN's nakedly biased coverage of now-former President Donald Trump over his four years in office, you knew the talking heads at the cable network Trump loved to call "fake news" were sharpening their verbal knives even as they popped champagne corks Wednesday as Trump and now-former first lady Melania Trump left the White House.What happened?As CNN live video...

U.S. House Republican Conference Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has drawn her first 2022 primary challenger after voting last week to impeach President Donald Trump.Wyoming Republican state Sen. Anthony Bouchard filed a statement of candidacy on Wednesday for Wyoming's lone congressional seat, initiating a primary challenge against Cheney for the next midterm elections. "Wyoming was President Trump's best state...

New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has bad news for his people: It will be literally years before the state's job market recovers from the hit it took during the COVID-19 pandemic. The massive loss of jobs the Empire State experienced came largely as a result of COVID-19 lockdown policies instituted at the hands of the left-wing executive. What did Cuomo...

China showed its disdain for the Trump administration — which adopted a tough stance against the communist country over the last four years — by imposing sanctions on more than two dozen former Trump officials just minutes after they left office Wednesday.What are the details?Beijing issued a statement shortly after President Joe Biden had been sworn into office announcing...