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The People vs. Trump: Ex-President Should Be Tried for Negligent Homicide For 250,000 COVID Deaths

Keith GirardFebruary 26, 2021

The Trump administration was criminally negligent for coronavirus mismanagement. (Photo: Getty) Donald Trump's mismanagement and dissembling over the COVID-19 crisis makes a compelling case to charge the ex-president with negligent homicide. T...

CRIMECULTURE

If COVID-19 Is a War, Here Are 12 War Criminals Who Cost Thousands of Lives

Keith GirardJanuary 22, 2021

Donald Trump's final days in office are mired in election scandal and coronavirus mismanagement. (Photo: Getty) The COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating throughout the Southern and Midwestern states where Republican governors rushed to reop...

CULTUREPOLITICS

Trump Final Days: Botched Vaxx Rollout, Election Scandal Mar Presidency

Keith GirardJanuary 4, 2021

Donald Trump is ending his presidency marred by a new election scandal and continued mismanagement of the COVID-19 crisis. ...

CRIMEENTERTAINMENTPOLITICS

Tucker Carlson’s Fetid Claims About Vaccine Are Polarizing, Racist and Sick

Keith GirardDecember 21, 2020

Tucker Carlson's rant about vaccines was patently racist. (Photo: ScreenCap) Tucker Carlson is known for spewing sewage in his clever, nightly diatribes, but his effort to raise suspicions about COVID vaccine distribution was his most fetid yet. ...

MEDIA

Donald Trump faces growing scrutiny over his ties to Russia and debilitating attacks from supporters on his credibility. (Photo: Getty)

Trump Agonistes: The Rise and Fall of Donald Trump in Three Acts

Keith GirardOctober 26, 2020

Who is Donald Trump? Where does the man end and the myth begin? Were they ever separate, or always the same?...

CULTUREPOLITICS

Trump COVID Crisis: Prognosis; Next 72-Hours Could Determine Life or Death

Keith GirardOctober 2, 2020

Donald Trump’s COVID-19 symptoms have been called “mild” by the White House, but the next 48 to 72 hours will determine the president’s fate and the prognosis is not good....

HEALTHPOLITICS

Robert Pattinson was forced to suspend production on his latest movie, The Batman, after contracting COVID. (Photo: ScreenCap)

Can Entertainment Survive COVID? 12 Celebs Talk Hopes, Lockdown Frustrations

WinchesterSeptember 17, 2020

Seven months in on the new COVID world, we still have no clear-cut plan for the future. ...

ENTERTAINMENTMusic

Broadway fixture Donnie Kehr has set up a grant program for unemployed Broadway workers (Photo: Nina Wurtzel)

Donnie Kehr, Path Fund Extend Hand to Broadway Hard Hit By COVID-19

WinchesterAugust 24, 2020

Broadway journeyman actor Donnie Kehr (Jersey Boys; AIDA; The Who’s TOMMY; Billy Elliot) and company have come up with a new plan to support the estimated 99 percent of Broadway-employees....

BROADWAYTheater

Baseball’s Boys of Summer Bravely Play Ball During Pandemic, Just like 1918

Matt KindelmannJuly 24, 2020

Baseball reminds me of a time when the only thing I worried about was making sure my newspapers were delivered before dinnertime....

CULTURESPORTS

Trump an American Czar Nicholas, Isolated, Imperious in Face of Crisis

Keith GirardJune 1, 2020

Donald Trump’s presidency began on a low point and has been sinking deeper ever since, freighted by lies, half-baked policy decisions and gross incompetence. ...

COMMENTARYPOLITICS

Donald Trump oversteps authority by declaring churches 'essential services.' (Photo: ScreenCap)

Trump Opens Churches as Dozens of Pastors Die Defying COVID-19 Lockdown

Keith GirardMay 22, 2020

Donald Trump oversteps authority by declaring churches 'essential services.' (Photo: ScreenCap) Donald Trump, again, attempting to usurp state powers, declared today (May 22) that he had the authority to reopen churches as "essential services," ...

ADMINISTRATIONCULTURE

Prince Charles Urges Backbreaking Toil on Jobless Brits During Pandemic

Keith GirardMay 20, 2020

Prince Charles has taken a moment from his cloistered royal life to urge backbreaking toil for Brits who have been left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic. Not that he ever had a real job....

CELEBRITIES

Vera Wang, Sensational at 70, Gives COVID-19 Lockdown Exercise, Diet Tips

Keith GirardMay 20, 2020

Vera Wang is in lockdown like the rest of America, but the 70-year-old fashion designer isn’t just sitting around playing couch potato… well for the most part....

CELEBRITIESFashion

Trump on Collision Course With Own Health Experts Over Wild COVID-19 Claims

Keith GirardMay 5, 2020

Donald Trump, desperate to shift blame for the COVID-19 pandemic, has claimed it was created in a Wuhan, China lab, but his own top health advisor shot down the claim in an eye-opening interview....

CULTUREPOLITICS

New York Ready to Push Back Against Barr Intrusion on State COVID-19 Curbs

Keith GirardMay 1, 2020

Attorney General William Barr his issued a tantamount declaration of war against the states, but New York’s attorney general is pushing back against the intrusion on state sovereignty....

CULTUREPOLITICS