by Jim Heath | Feb 17, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines
In a tense conference call with reporters today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took aim at perceived foes and accused Donald Trump and two Rupert Murdoch-owned news outlets of conspiring against him. Cuomo, who will run for his fourth term in 2022, has been under growing...
by Jim Heath | Feb 17, 2021 | cryptocurrency, Economy, Headlines
Bitcoin’s incredible rally shows little sign of abating yet after the token jumped past $52,000 for the first time. Bloomberg: The largest cryptocurrency rose as much as 7.7% in New York today to about $52,332 after a fivefold surge in the past year, according to a...
by Jim Heath | Feb 17, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
One-term president Donald Trump issued a caustic and highly personal statement against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, effectively declaring war on the Kentucky Republican for failing to back his attempts to undermine the 2020 election. “Mitch is a...
by Jim Heath | Feb 17, 2021 | Entertainment, Headlines, Obit
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative media icon who for decades used his perch as the king of talk-radio to shape the politics of both the Republican Party and nation, died today after a battle with cancer. He was 70 years old. Limbaugh’s wife Kathryn made the...
by Jim Heath | Feb 17, 2021 | Headlines, Trump
It was not the biggest or the best implosion ever. An auction for the right to detonate the dynamite to begin the implosion of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., fizzled. Front-row seats to view this morning’s spectacle were sold on the cheap....
by Jim Heath | Feb 13, 2021 | Headlines, Impeachment, Trump
The United States Senate voted 57-43 to acquit Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, as Republicans in a Senate still bruised from the most violent attack on the Capitol in two centuries banded together to reject the charge that he incited the Jan. 6 attack....
