close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for February 24 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A group of Republican senators is asking Amazon.com Inc. to explain why it recently removed a book about transgender issues that had been on sale on the platform for about three years. In a letter to Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos dated Wednesday, Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana and Josh Hawley of Missouri said a book by conservative scholar Ryan T. Anderson, "When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment," was no longer available on Amazon or on its Kindle and Audible platforms. Amazon, they wrote, has been "unable to provide a sufficient explanation" as to how the book "supposedly violated a vague, undefined ‘offensive content’ standard." An Amazon spokeswoman didn’t have a comment regarding the letter. In a statement earlier Wednesday, the company said it reserved the right not to sell certain content based on its content guidelines for books. AMAZON ACCUSED OF 'ABSURD AND UNACCPETABLE' CENSORSHIP AFTER BOOK QUESTIONING TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT VANISHES "All retailers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer and we do not take selection decisions lightly," the statement said. In their letter, the senators wrote that Amazon’s move "openly signaled to conservative Americans that their views are not welcome on its platforms." They requested the company provide documentation explaining its decision, including whether the book violated an Amazon policy. A spokesman for Encounter Books, a nonprofit based in New York City which publishes "When Harry Became Sally," said Wednesday that it had been informed by its distributor that the book was removed for violating Amazon’s content guidelines. Under the category "Offensive Content," Amazon’s content guidelines include a sentence that reads: "We ...
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Vaccine Website Faces Test As Thousands Of New Appointments Become Available
BOSTON (CBS) – Fifty thousand new appointments go online Thursday morning for the state’s mass COVID-19 vaccination sites and there’s hope the website where people can sign up won’t crash this time. Gov. Charlie Baker said tech experts have been working all week to make sure the website is ready for the surge of traffic when the appointments go live at 8 a.m. He hopes a new digital waiting room will improve the experience. READ MORE: Baker To Testify Before Oversight Panel Examining Bumpy Vaccine Rollout The vaccine website crashed last Thursday when one million residents 65 and older and those with two medical conditions became eligible to make appointments on February 18. READ MORE: Coronavirus In Massachusetts: Today's Developments Baker will testify Thursday morning before the legislature’s coronavirus oversight committee looking into the state’s bumpy vaccine rollout. You can watch it live on CBSN Boston at 11 a.m. MORE NEWS: Families Mourn Workers Killed In Boston Construction Accident To book your appointment at any of the sites visit Mass.Gov/CovidVaccine to find out when you’re eligible or call the hotline at 211. ...
The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by The AIDS Institute – Ahead: One-shot vax, easing restrictions, fiscal help
Presented by The AIDS Institute Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Today is Thursday! We get you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the co-creators. Readers can find us on Twitter @asimendinger and @alweaver22. Please recommend the Morning Report to friends and let us know what you think. CLICK HERE to subscribe! Total U.S. coronavirus deaths each morning this week: Monday, 498,901; Tuesday, 500,310; Wednesday, 502,660; Thursday, 505,890. Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is effective at preventing moderate and severe cases of COVID-19, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday, paving the way for the shot to potentially be approved for emergency use this week and for shots to be administered to Americans next week. According to the FDA’s analysis, the single-dose vaccine is 66 percent effective, well within the agency's standards, and safe to use. The vaccination is also more than 85 percent effective at preventing severe COVID-19 cases and completely prevents hospitalizations and deaths ( The Hill ). Wednesday’s news was a major boost for the U.S.’s efforts to ramp up vaccinations across the country as it will hand it a third shot to use to inoculate Americans against the virus that has ravaged the country over the past year. President Biden Joe Biden Klain on Manchin's objection to Neera Tanden: He 'doesn't answer to us at the White House' Senators given no timeline on removal of National Guard, Capitol fence Overnight Defense: New Senate Armed Services chairman talks Pentagon policy nominee, Afghanistan, more | Biden reads report on Khashoggi killing | Austin stresses vaccine safety in new video MORE ’s COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients Jeff Zients Overnight Health Care: Johnson & Johnson vaccine safe, effective in FDA analysis | 3-4 ...
Rose McGowan backs Cuomo accuser Lindsey Boylan, calls for investigation into ‘monstrous’ claims
close Video Cuomo faces new backlash after sex-harassment claims FOX News correspondent Bryan Llenas joins 'The Story' with the latest on bombshell allegations Actress-turned-activist Rose McGowan is speaking out in support of Lindsey Boylan, the former deputy secretary and special adviser to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who accused him of sexual harassment. Boylan on Wednesday penned a Medium post detailing an incident in which Cuomo allegedly suggested the pair play "strip poker" as they flew together following an event, among other instances of alleged "inappropriate behavior" and harassment during her tenure at the governor’s office. Cuomo’s press secretary, Caitlin Girouard, denied Boylan’s allegations Wednesday. In an interview with Fox News, McGowan said she believes Boylan's claims. "I completely stand by Lindsey Boylan. Its truth leaks from every word on the screen that she wrote," McGowan told us. "She, none of us, should endure what she endured. If they're doing it to her, what are they doing to constituents? What is he going to do to what he considers the little people? It's monstrous." CUOMO AIDE DENIES LINDSEY BOYLAN CLAIM GOVERNOR ASKED HER TO PLAY 'STRIP POKER' DURING 2017 FLIGHT Rose McGowan is standing by Lindsey Boylan, the former deputy secretary and special adviser to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/new-york" target="_blank">New York</a> Gov. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/andrew-cuomo" target="_blank">Andrew Cuomo</a> who accused him of sexual harassment. (Getty Images, File) In her piece published Wednesday , Boylan detailed several specific instances in which Cuomo allegedly engaged in inappropriate behavior. She wrote that she "complained to friends that the Governor would go out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs." Cuomo purportedly encouraged Boylan to look up ...
Rudy Giuliani’s disgusting ‘funny story’ about Michelle Wie
Amy Bass ( @bassab1 ) is professor of sport studies at Manhattanville College and the author of " One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together " and " Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete ," among other titles. The views expressed here are solely hers. Read more opinion on CNN. (CNN) It took Rudy Giuliani running his mouth again to bring golf champion Michelle Wie West back from maternity leave for a moment. Amy Bass Wie West, the five-time LPGA Tour winner, who recently contemplated early retirement before finding out she was having a girl (Makenna Kamalei Yoona West arrived on June 19 and, said West, "changed everything" ), held nothing back in her response to the lewd story Giuliani related on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast last week. In 2014, according to the former New York City mayor (and former personal lawyer to Donald Trump), he was playing a round with the late Rush Limbaugh at a charity event in Florida, and Limbaugh complained about the number of photographers on the course. They weren't there to shoot them, Giuliani pointed out. Wie West was readying to putt. "Now Michelle Wie is gorgeous," Giuliani told Bannon. "She's six feet. And she has a strange putting stance. She bends all the way over. And her panties show. And the press was going crazy." "Is that OK to tell that joke? I'm not sure," he continued. Read More No, Rudy, it's not okay, but it also isn't all that different from what hordes of other simple-minded and retrograde men have said about female athletes like Wie West—who graduated from Stanford University, by the way. Wie West's response came swiftly , calling Giuliani's story "highly inappropriate" and "unsettling." Instead of focusing on what was under her skirt, she tweeted, Giuliani and his ilk should have "remembered that I shot 64 and beat every male golfer in the field ...
