Month: October 2020

An email from the now scandalous laptop once owned by Hunter Biden outlines a corruption scheme that gave the Biden family a $5 million no-interest, unsecured, and fully forgivable loan from a Chinese state-owned enterprise. That email was sent to

At a campaign rally on Wednesday night in Gaston, NC, President Donald Trump announced his support of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina‘s 100-year battle for federal recognition — and pledged to lobby Congress after the election to ensure that

It could all just be a matter of dirty politics — rumor and innuendo run amuck — but the race for US Senate in North Carolina has been drawing national headlines. The Democrat nominee running for United States Senate from

A retired FBI agent formerly assigned to the Newark field office tells The Chronicle that nude photos of underaged women were found on the laptop once owned by Hunter Biden, in addition to an archive of Facetime video chats, text

A source familiar with the FBI’s investigation into Hunter Biden‘s business dealings tells The Chronicle that Bevan Cooney, his former business partner, is cooperating with investigators and has already provided two separate field offices with access to more than 26,000

The Chronicle has confirmed that Joshua Wilson, one of the FBI’s top child porn investigators, has subpoenaed Hunter Biden‘s now scandalous laptop — known to contain a trove of emails that implicate Joe Biden in wide ranging bribery and pay-for-access

Stuck deep in a fiscal crisis that could force a 20% budget cut to restructure the City of Niagara Falls, Mayor Robert Restaino is unwilling to fund the construction of new canals and public spaces near Niagara Falls State Park.

BY BILL HAMMOND New York’s coronavirus infection rates have surged to their highest levels since May, pushing 10 counties – including Brooklyn, Rockland and Orange – above a threshold that the Cuomo administration uses to justify travel restrictions on other

BY E.J. McMAHON Well, that didn’t take long. Late Thursday, as hailed in this space, Mayor de Blasio finally made a decisive move—or at least seemed to make a move—in the direction of actually saving some money on labor costs by getting tough with a

BY MICHEAL ROSEN Last week, the long-simmering software dispute between Google and Oracle boiled over, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in the tech giants’ copyright fight. The story began in federal court in San Francisco in 2010, when Oracle sued Google for infringing

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS I’m always up for a good story about the now-defunct Soviet Union, and I sure like this one from the new book More: A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age by Philip

BY ALAN D. VIARD In previous posts (here and here), I discussed the IRS’s lawless decision to deny rebate payments to certain groups that the agency loosely refers to as “incarcerated” — convicts serving their sentences, defendants institutionalized because they were found

BY MARC A. THIESSEN Wednesday’s vice-presidential debate was like traveling back in time to an era when political debates were tough, respectful and substantive. And Vice President Pence put on a clinic for how to rope-a-dope your opponent. He anticipated almost every

BY ANGELA RACHIDI While the academic and political case for paid leave advanced considerably in recent years, questions remain regarding how a national paid leave program would affect low-wage workers. Research shows that many existing paid leave programs in the

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 65-year-old Donald M. Lewinski of West Seneca has been arraigned before West Seneca Town Justice Shannon E. Filbert on one count of Criminally Negligent Homicide, a Class “E” felony. It is

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 19-year-old Sevehn J. Venable, also known as “Tuka,” of Buffalo was arraigned yesterday before Erie County Court Judge Sheila A. DiTullio on an indictment charging him with the following: One count

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 24-year-old Kennedy M. Weltjen of Springville pleaded guilty today before Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan to one count of Sexual Misconduct, a Class “A” misdemeanor. The defendant admitted to engaging

BY TOM FITTON Too many jurisdictions are lax and sloppy with their voter rolls – and in violation of federal law. This week we’ve filed suit in Colorado. We sued on behalf of Judicial Watch and three residents of Colorado