close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 26 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. San Francisco’s Democratic district attorney announced Friday that his convicted murderer father received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in a New York prison. "Amazing news," Chesa Boudin tweeted Friday afternoon. "My incarcerated father just got his first vaccine shot! I hope that once I get my vaccine, and the prison reopens for visitors, I will be able to see him again for the first time in over a year." Boudin’s dad, David Gilbert, 76, was convicted of felony murder in connection with the infamous Brinks’ heist in 1981, which left two police officers and a guard dead. His mother, Kathy Boudin, was also convicted and paroled in 2003. Gilbert was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison for his role in the robbery, in which members of the Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army stole $1.6 … [Read more...] about New York prison gives coronavirus vaccine to Democratic San Francisco DA’s convicted murderer father
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CPAC speaker Alex Berenson: What to know about former NY Times reporter, COVID-19 lockdown critic
close Video What do conservatives want to hear the most from Trump at CPAC? Former Oklahoma GOP House Speaker T.W. Shannon and former Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein weigh in. Author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson is among the featured speakers to give a talk at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference ( CPAC ) in Orlando, Fla . Berenson, 48, made national headlines last year for his criticism of the strict lockdown policies that came in response to the COVID-19 pandemic . More recently, he has focused his criticism on Big Tech’s censorship and cancel culture – which he has compared to the blacklisting of "Communist sympathizers in Hollywood in the 1950s." Former NYT reporter Alex Berenson. (FOX) "The left seems frantic to stop any debate – about how to handle COVID, global warming , whether ‘trans’ women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports ," Berenson wrote in an op-ed earlier … [Read more...] about CPAC speaker Alex Berenson: What to know about former NY Times reporter, COVID-19 lockdown critic
States should reform emergency laws
States should reevaluate their laws that grant governors emergency powers. As a result of COVID-19, nearly every state has been under a declared emergency for nearly a year. These laws may have served states well in the early days of the pandemic, enabling governors to take immediate action to protect public safety. But they should not be used for such a prolonged period, because they tip the balance of power towards the executive branch and undermine legal protections of our constitutional rights. Most states’ emergency laws provide governors with extraordinary powers that would not be permitted during normal times. Many governors may issue new edicts, rewrite state laws and suspend the constitutional rights of individuals. All it takes is a stroke of a pen — most need not confer with any other elected officials or government body before putting orders in place. And in some states, violating an emergency order is a criminal offense. While these are broad and autocratic powers, … [Read more...] about States should reform emergency laws
Amazon hired 900 workers in about a month to ramp up new Aurora fulfillment center
Amazon can finally check this off its list: Open fulfillment center in Colorado. The company’s first fulfillment center in the state, which opened this month, has shipped its first package, which ironically was to McAllen, Texas, a state with at least seven Amazon fulfillment centers. The new Aurora location ramped up fast. Since August , it has hired 900 employees and is near its 1,000-workforce goal to handle the peak holiday season, according to Ashley Robinson, an Amazon spokeswoman. Supplied by Amazon The new Amazon fulfillment center in Aurora only handles large items, like this order for Rock Band 4 that was the first item shipped from the new Colorado facility. Supplied by Amazon Amazon employees packed the first customer order in mid-September, which was a Rock Band 4 game and sent to a customer in McAllen, Texas. Supplied by Amazon Amazon opened its first Colorado fulfillment center in Sept. 2017. By Sept. 29, it had hired 900 workers out … [Read more...] about Amazon hired 900 workers in about a month to ramp up new Aurora fulfillment center
Alex Berenson: Cancel culture beyond Orwellian — this is why I won’t give in to it
close Video Concha: The New York Times is 'lionizing cancel culture' Fox News contributor Joe Concha reacts to The New York Times being accused of celebrating cancel culture for spotlighting a video of a teenaged girl using a racial slur, in which, led to her being forced to withdraw from college. Even George Orwell couldn’t have imagined it: in the country where free speech first became a constitutional right, left-wing journalists and frightened media companies are desperately censoring people with views they consider unpleasant. So far this month, New York Times columnists have called for a federal "reality czar" and asked cable companies to keep viewers from seeing Fox News as easily as CNN or MSNBC. A Times reporter was forced to resign for using a racial slur – though both he and the paper’s top editor, who is African American, said he had used it without malign intent. Video The Times then refused to run a column about the … [Read more...] about Alex Berenson: Cancel culture beyond Orwellian — this is why I won’t give in to it