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FPI / March 5, 2020 The United State was successful in preventing a Chinese official from being named director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A Singaporean official defeated a candidate from China in a leadership contest for the UN’s intellectual property body, which was swept into a rift between Washington and Beijing over […]

FPI / March 5, 2020 California could turn out to be a major key if Republicans are to re-gain control of the House of Representatives in the 2020 election. To win back the House, Republicans need a net gain of 18 seats in the November elections. Returns from Super Tuesday showed GOP candidates leading in […]

FPI / March 5, 2020 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced a torrent of criticism for comments on an abortion case that is before the Supreme Court in which the New York Democrat threatened Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. During a speech on Wednesday, Schumer warned Gorsuch and Kavanaugh: “Now, we stand here today […]

FPI / March 5, 2020 During a campaign stop in Oakland on March 3, Joe Biden was confronted by an Air Force veteran who blasted the former vice president for his support of the war in Iraq. Biden had just spoken to a crowd at the Buttercup Diner when Michael Thurman, a member of the […]

FPI / March 5, 2020 As part of heightened awareness on the borders in the U.S.’s fight against the coronavirus, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said they have since January caught 328 Chinese who had attempted to cross the Mexico border into the United States. The Chinese citizens were “apprehended” and sent back across […]

FPI / March 4, 2020 The 1980 “Miracle on Ice,” in which the U.S. hockey team defeated a heavily favored Soviet squad, really “wasn’t a miracle at all,” according to a Sacramento Bee columnist. Why? Because, on the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest upsets in sports history, some of the 1980 U.S. team […]

FPI / March 4, 2020 Geostrategy-Direct.com A large number of states in the U.S. have contracts with two Chinese firms — Lenovo and Lexmark — which are required to report data and information they receive to the communist government in Beijing, security analysts say. The use of Chinese equipment makes the states and other entities […]

FPI / March 4, 2020 What many saw as one of Joe Biden’s latest gaffes wasn’t really a gaffe at all, radio host Rush Limbaugh noted. Biden was trying to recite the preamble to the Declaration of Independence at a campaign event in Houston on Monday. He launched into a quote saying, “We hold these […]

FPI / March 4, 2020 The Democratic Party establishment enabled Joe Biden to resurrect his presidential campaign on Super Tuesday while “selfish” Elizabeth Warren badly damaged Bernie Sanders’ chances, President Donald Trump assessed. “The Democrat establishment came together and crushed Bernie Sanders, AGAIN!” Trump tweeted. “Even the fact that Elizabeth Warren stayed in the race […]

FPI / March 4, 2020 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have apprehended an illegal immigrant who was charged with child rape in New York City, but had been released due to the city’s sanctuary policies. ICE agents on Monday detained Miguel Federico Ajqui-Ajtzalam, a 20-year-old illegal from Guatemala, according to an ICE press release. […]

FPI / March 4, 2020 The Colorado Republican Party called on a Democratic city councilwoman in Denver to resign after she cheered a tweet which advocated for spreading the coronavirus at President Donald Trump’s rallies. Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca last week responded to a tweet that said, “For the record, if I do get the coronavirus […]

FPI / March 3, 2020 Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and coronavirus task force representatives from the CDC and NIH all said during a Monday press conference that the risk of the virus to Americans “remains low.” That is a far cry from the dire warnings issued last month […]

FPI / March 3, 2020 By Donald Kirk In a time of crisis, near-panic, over a disease to which the best medical minds have yet to find a sure cure, total cooperation is essential. The World Health Organization, scientists around the world, anyone who knows anything is duty-bound to try and help. Which brings us […]

FPI / March 3, 2020 In obtaining the fourth and final wiretap warrant to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page, the FBI ignored anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele’s own admission in court that at least part of his dossier was based on mere gossip, a report said. Steele, in a sworn declaration on April […]

FPI / March 3, 2020 The coronavirus is taking a heavy toll on high ranking government officials in Iran. As recently as last week, government officials in Teheran had downplaying the effects of the virus in the Islamic Republic. An activist group said that Wikipedia’s Farsi-language website appeared to be disrupted in Iran after a […]