Latest Stories By Bill McCarthy

With small indoor gatherings driving a record surge of new coronavirus cases across the U.S., public health officials are worried about the holiday season accelerating a worsening situation. Thanksgiving comes at a difficult time in the pandemic. Hospitals across the U.S. are being overwhelmed by new COVID-19 patients as the country sets daily infection records, […]

A video of a person alleging attempted election fraud on the part of U.S. Postal Service workers in Michigan is taking off on social media, but state and local officials say the back-dated ballots described in the video would not be counted if they weren’t received by 8 p.m. on Election Day. The Nov. 5 […]

A former associate of Hunter Biden has televised his grievances about former Vice President Joe Biden, telling Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the elder Biden was more involved in his son’s overseas business dealings than he has let on. Tony Bobulinski claimed that emails, text messages and audio recordings he released show the Democratic […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., unveiled a bill Oct. 9 to establish a commission that could be tasked with determining if a president is no longer fit for office. The bill from Raskin, a former constitutional scholar, comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s Oct. 2 announcement of his positive […]

The White House’s struggle to get ahead of the coronavirus outbreak within its walls reflects a problem public health officials have felt for months as they’ve tried to help their communities fight the pandemic: The U.S. is not contact tracing as well as it could be. Contact tracing, the practice of informing people who have […]

On the debate stage for the first time with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, President Donald Trump stopped short of condemning white supremacists, telling the far-right Proud Boys group to “stand back and stand by.”  Chris Wallace: “Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to […]

From an outdoor stage erected in the middle of a baseball field parking lot, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sept. 17 pitched himself to voters as a leader equipped to really look out for American workers. Biden took the spotlight in his birth state of Pennsylvania during a socially distant drive-in town hall event […]

In early August, more than 460,000 tourists poured into a small South Dakota city for a motorcycle rally over 10 days.  Few wore masks or practiced social distancing as attendees gathered at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally for bike shows, races, performances and other events, according to the Associated Press. At one concert, the lead singer […]

President Donald Trump, the country’s most prominent critic of mail-in voting, suggested North Carolina voters ought to test out whether the election system would prevent them from voting twice. A reporter for WECT TV in Wilmington told Trump that 600,000 North Carolina voters could cast ballots by mail for the Nov. 3 election. “Yeah, I […]

Speakers at the Republican National Convention hailed President Donald Trump as an anti-war leader who has saved the U.S. from a string of “endless wars” in the Middle East. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, for example, celebrated Trump for “bringing our men and women home.” Eric Trump claimed that his father has achieved “peace in […]

In 2016, when first lady Michelle Obama spoke on the Democratic National Convention’s opening night, she didn’t mention then-candidate Donald Trump by name. That year, in front of a cheering crowd, Obama described the president’s role in setting an example and charting the future for America’s children. She said Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, understood […]

In an Aug. 12 monologue that prompted a correction from fellow Fox News host Bret Baier, Jeanine Pirro speculated, without evidence or explanation, that former Vice President Joe Biden wouldn’t be the Democratic nominee for president come Election Day. There’s no evidence that the final ballot won’t include Biden. The presumptive Democratic nominee for president made […]