Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Friday the FDA approved the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine for emergency use authorization. The move may mark the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Over the weekend hospitals across the country prepared for the vaccine rollout. Roughly 2.9 million doses are in […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Hong Kong democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 73, has been charged under the city’s national security law on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces, his Apple Daily newspaper reported on Friday, citing a police source. Lai, an ardent critic of Beijing, would be the highest profile person charged under the sweeping […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Two opposite party legislators are teaming up to defend women’s sports with the aptly named “Protect Women’s Sports Act,” which will deny federal funding to any school that allows “a person whose biological sex at birth is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] On Friday the Senate passed a $740 billion defense bill. The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, passed 84-13. Both houses of Congress passed the bill with a veto-proof majority. President Trump had threatened to veto the bill if it did not include provisions to remove Section 230 of […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Months after eliminating a popular challenge to its rule in Hong Kong, China is turning to an even higher-stakes target: self-governing Taiwan. The island has been bracing for conflict with China for decades, and in some respects, that battle has now begun. It’s not the final, titanic clash that Taiwan has long feared, […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] China said on Thursday it would revoke visa exemption treatment for U.S. diplomatic passport holders visiting Hong Kong and Macau after the United States imposed financial sanctions and a travel ban on more than a dozen Chinese officials. Beijing will also implement reciprocal sanctions against some U.S. officials, members of Congress, personnel at […]
Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Last week FISM News reported Texas Senator Ted Cruz was pushing for the Supreme Court to hear an emergency appeal challenging the PA election results issued by Pennsylvania Republicans. The appeal alleged that the expansion of absentee voting in the state was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has since denied […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he will leave the hospital on Wednesday after a short stay following his COVID-19 diagnosis over the weekend. Giuliani – a 76-year-old former New York City mayor who is leading Trump’s waning legal effort to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden – said he […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is banned from attending the Olympic Games as head of his country’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) as part of provisional sanctions imposed by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC banned two other officials from the NOC, including Lukashenko’s son, Viktor, who is the first vice president of the national […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said Congress should pass a U.S. coronavirus relief package without either the business liability protections that Republicans want or the aid to state and local governments that is a Democratic priority. “What I recommend is we set aside liability and set aside state and local, and […]
