The Constitution protects people from being prosecuted twice for the same offense. But those “double jeopardy” protections hold no sway in private workplaces like the New York Times, as now-former reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. discovered on Friday, when he resigned over a controversy that promises to reverberate through the paper’s virtual corridors.
In the summer of 2019, McNeil joined a group of students on a Times-sponsored educational excursion to Peru. In the wake of the trip, the Times received a number of complaints about the longtime science reporter’s conduct. Some of them cited allegedly racist remarks and behavior, including that McNeil had stereotyped African American youths. After an investigation, McNeil received a reprimand in September 2019.
WASHINGTON – Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, apologized Tuesday for her Twitter feuds with Republicans and pledged her role as an “impassioned advocate” would change if confirmed as White House budget chief.
“Over the last few years, it’s been part of my role to be an impassioned advocate,” Tanden, who leads a left-leaning think tank, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in her first confirmation hearing. “I know there have been some concerns about some of my past language and social media, and I regret that language and take responsibility for it.”
Actor Don Cheadle does not include himself among the list of celebrities warning about the dangers of cancel culture and believes that its dangers have been overblown.
Speaking with Fox News, the “Avengers: Endgame” star said that cancel culture is only real “if you listen to that noise.”
“I guess it’s real to the degree that you listen to that noise. I don’t know that people are purely canceled because … I don’t know that there are any pure irredeemable situations unless it’s been deemed, not that you have said something off, but that you are that way and that there is stuff in your past that is consistent with that thing that you said, that one-off thing that looked like a one-off moment,” he said.
TAIPEI, Taiwan — After a 12-day visit, a team on a World Health Organization mission to Wuhan appeared no closer to solving the mystery of how the novel coronavirus first spread to humans and sparked a pandemic.
Speaking at a news conference for the first time on Tuesday, leaders of the combined mission representing Chinese and international researchers said they found that the virus, officially called SARS-Cov-2, was spreading in the city of Wuhan in central China during December 2019 in parallel both inside and outside the Huanan Seafood Market, which they said indicates that the market was not the original source of the outbreak.
When Sharon McMahon scrolled through social media in the months leading up to last year’s presidential election, she found herself horrified by the amount of “straight misinformation” filling her feed.
“It was just shockingly wrong,” McMahon, a Minnesota mom of four, told CNN. “Like not even a little bit right.”
Armed with a passion for constitutional law, along with over a decade of government and law classroom teaching experience, McMahon decided she wanted to combat the mistruths with education.
Appearing on Fox & Friends on Monday, a Virginia sheriff blasted the Biden administration for its policy on illegal immigration, saying that President Biden has “effectively and functionally dismantled ICE, basically telling the agents to stand down.”
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy prompted Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins to comment on the issue, remarking, “Out on the campaign trail, Joe Biden said, ‘During the Obama-Biden administration, we deported too many people.’ … Well, he certainly has taken a big step in that direction.”
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A Los Angeles Times review of Andy Ngo’s bestselling book on Antifa violence compares the investigative journalist to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
In the piece titled, “Review: Andy Ngo’s new book still pretends [A]ntifa’s the real enemy,” author Alexander Nazaryan called Ngo’s new book on the radical anti-fascist movement “supremely dishonest.”
Just In — Confirmed multiple bombs exploded at the Allina Health Clinic in Buffalo, Minnesota and victims in the double digits with many in critical condition. 👀 pic.twitter.com/m0r0WiOG2j
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) — One person is in custody and multiple people are injured following a shooting at an Allina Health Clinic in Buffalo Tuesday morning.
According to Buffalo police, the shooting was reported shortly before 11 a.m. on 755 Crossroads Campus Drive. At 11:30 a.m., an Allina representative confirmed there was an active shooter at the clinic in Buffalo.
A picture taken nearby shows a Life Link helicopter at the scene.
Senator Lisa Murkowski has called on the Republican Party to look to the future and— using similar language as the under-fire GOP Rep. Liz Cheney—said that she has “not embraced the party of Donald Trump.”
The comments by the Alaska senator came as GOP lawmakers who voted for Trump’s impeachment said they did not regret their decision despite the political cost.
Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, has been censured by her state party in Wyoming for being one of the 10 GOP representatives who voted to impeach.
She defended her stance, telling Fox News the party should “not be embracing the former president.”
A man has been arrested in connection to the US Capitol riot after boasting to a local news outlet that he chugged wine stolen from a lawmaker’s liquor cabinet during the chaos.
Jason Riddle, 32, of Keene, New Hampshire, was arrested by FBI special agents in Boston on Monday, according to CBS Boston.
Riddle was charged Friday with illegally entering a restricted building, theft of government property, and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to a complaint.
Though she has kept her job as an executive assistant throughout the pandemic, Marie, who asked to be identified by her middle name to protect her privacy, says her budget has still been stretched thin.
The mother-of-two’s employer reduced her salary by 15%, she no longer picks up extra income as a part-time Uber driver due to safety concerns, and she had to pay for her son’s daycare to keep his spot despite the fact that he was at home with her at the beginning of the pandemic. She’s accrued around $4,000 in debt over the course of the pandemic and is currently two months late on daycare payments.
William J. Burns, who is President Joe Biden’s nominee for director of the CIA, is president of a think tank that has received up to $2 million from a Chinese businessman as well as from a think tank with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
As president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Burns also invited nearly a dozen congressional staffers to attend a junket to China, where they met with a communist party operative and a president of a Chinese front group.
Burns, who was paid $540,580 last year as president of Carnegie, will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a confirmation hearing likely to be held this month. He has been president of Carnegie since March 2015.
During Burns’ tenure at Carnegie, a businessman named Zhang Yichen joined the think tank’s board of trustees.
The head of a powerful federation of labor unions appeared uncomfortable during an interview when asked about President Joe Biden’s executive actions killing union jobs.
Richard Trumka, the president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), appeared uncomfortable when asked about job-killing executive actions already taken by President Joe Biden, during an interview with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan on Sunday. Trumka, who supported the president’s campaign, told Swan he agreed with the Laborers International Union of North America’s (LiUNA) assessment that Biden’s Jan. 20 executive order revoking the Keystone XL Pipeline’s federal permit would kill thousands of union jobs.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told The Post on Monday that she’s not going to apologize to Sen. Ted Cruz for accusing him of nearly having her “murdered” during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The New York Democrat, who represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, said at a press conference that she sticks by her words.
“That’s not the quote and I will not apologize for what I said,” Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, said at the Queens event.
