Academy Award-winner Al Pacino has opened up about his near-death experience in 2020 battling COVID-19, saying he “didn’t have a pulse.” The “Scarface” actor revealed his battle with the virus on The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast, which was released Saturday. During the conversation, the 84-year-old actor explained feeling “unusually not good” and coming […]
Over $100 billion was lost to fraud within the program providing COVID-19 unemployment insurance aid, according to a report by the House Oversight Committee. The report says organized criminals were involved—and that states didn’t do much to stop them. NTD spoke to Pete Sepp, the president of the National Taxpayers Union, who said that system […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor content about COVID-19 and Hunter Biden. Zuckerberg has vowed to push back if it happens again. The Israeli military has rescued another hostage held by the Hamas terrorist organization. The father of eleven is back home after over 300 days in captivity. At […]
The Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that they had rescued a hostage from a tunnel in southern Gaza in a “complex operation.” 52-year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, an Arab citizen of Israel, has been transferred to an Israeli hospital and reunited with his family members some 326 days after being kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on […]
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was pressured by the federal government to censor COVID-19 content, and he now regrets bowing to those demands. In an Aug. 26 letter sent to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the tech billionaire wrote that senior officials from the Biden administration pressured his […]
A spike in COVID-19 infections appears in China. We look at why the health situation inside the nation is different from the West’s. A new bill is taking on China and looking to stop counterfeit goods and dangerous drugs from hitting U.S. shores. Beijing has released a list of 10 Taiwan officials it sees as […]
A school that injected a minor with a COVID-19 vaccine despite the boy’s parents telling school officials they did not want him to receive a COVID-19 vaccine is immune under federal law, the Vermont Supreme Court has ruled. The Federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) protects state and school officials who were […]
NEW YORK—Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been transferred from a New York City jail to a hospital to undergo treatment for a variety of health problems including COVID-19 and pneumonia in both lungs, his representatives said Thursday. Mr. Weinstein, who is awaiting trial in New York on rape and sexual assault charges, was moved […]
Sir Keir Starmer has said ministers will carefully consider the recommendations from the COVID-19 Inquiry. It includes creating “red teams” of experts that challenge the groupthink in government. Earlier, NTD discussed this and more with Dr. Tony Hinton.
President Joe Biden said on July 19 that he will resume campaigning next week after he tested positive for COVID-19 two days prior, forcing him to cancel all planned events. “I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda while making […]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should be held accountable for its “systematic cover-up” of the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused trillions of dollars of economic losses in the United States, a report finds. “It’s critical the United States take the leadership role in holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable for one of the most catastrophic […]
The blame is on the Chinese regime no matter how COVID-19 arose, said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). “Whether it was from a wet market, or the Wuhan lab, China’s to blame. Both those things were in China,” he said at a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing examining evidence on the origins of […]
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security held a full committee hearing on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Democrats and Republicans focused their questioning on the lab leak and natural transmission theories.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on June 3 recommended updating the formulation of the COVID-19 vaccines because of studies that indicate their effectiveness is worse against circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. “In prior years there appears to have been an inverse relationship between the time since vaccination and vaccine […]
One of the most influential U.S. officials during the COVID-19 pandemic is testifying to Congress on June 3, days after one of his former advisers admitted deleting emails. Dr. Anthony Fauci, 83, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to late 2022, is sitting down in front of […]
The House Armed Services Committee adopted an amendment in the annual defense policy bill on Wednesday that, if cleared through Congress, would force the Pentagon to rehire U.S. troops who were fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine. The measure was adopted late Wednesday evening by lawmakers on the panel, who marked up and advanced their […]
Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist imprisoned in China after posting videos offering a glimpse into the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, has been released, advocates said. Ms. Zhang was scheduled to be reunited with her family on May 13 after serving a four-year term, but her status was unclear for over a week, raising […]
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) shared with NTD his thoughts on how the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi would affect the Iranian regime and the implications of the District of Columbia allowing non-citizens to vote in its local elections. Mr. McCormick also discussed what he expects from senior scientific adviser Dr. David Morens, who will […]
