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Legacy media, DC journos come around to investigating Dem scandals years after conservatives sounded alarm

Legacy media and longtime politics reporters are increasingly reporting on scandals that rocked the Democratic Party ahead of the November election, shining additional light on political issues that Republicans had long spotlighted and railed against.
«A full 4½ years after The Post’s bombshell series on Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling schemes, The New York Times has deigned to take an interest in the former First Son’s corruption,» the New York Post’s editorial board wrote in a piece last week slamming the New York Times for reporting on Biden corruption allegations years after other outlets had already uncovered reported details.
«We’d say the Times’ willingness to at long last cover this comes better late than never, but it only published the story now that it doesn’t remotely matter anymore,» the editorial board continued.
The New York Times declared in an article published on Friday that former first son Hunter Biden «sought support from the State Department» to aid his former employer, Ukrainian energy company Burisma, while his father served as vice president. Hunter Biden allegedly leveraging his last name and father’s political status in the U.S. has long been criticized by conservatives, who have alleged that Hunter and his father engaged in influence-peddling through Burisma.
BIDEN’S CLAIM TO HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF HUNTER’S BUSINESS DEALINGS IS BECOMING HARDER TO MAINTAIN
President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images | Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg)
Hunter Biden was paid millions of dollars while serving on the board of Burisma after joining the company as legal counsel in the spring of 2014 before being elevated to the Board of Directors later that year.
The Bidens were accused by Republicans of having «coerced» the Burisma CEO into paying them millions of dollars in exchange for their help in getting the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company fired during the Obama administration.
The 46th president denied any involvement in his son’s business dealings.
Biden issued his son a sweeping 10-year pardon before exiting the Oval Office in January that protects Hunter Biden from offenses he «has committed or may have committed» from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024. Alleged Biden family influence-peddling has echoed from the halls of Congress to social media channels on X, but legacy outlets and left-wing media outlets often didn’t give a platform to the allegations.
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Hunter Biden was found guilty on all counts by a Delaware jury. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Jonathan Turley, Fox News’ contributor and Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, published an op-ed for Fox News Digital on Sunday remarking on the NYT’s piece that was published years after other outlets and experts investigated alleged Biden family influence-peddling.
«For years, some of us have written about the Biden family’s multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation and the Justice Department’s refusal to charge Hunter Biden with being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, years later, The New York Times has found evidence suggesting that the former president’s son was acting as a foreign agent as early as the Obama administration, when his father was vice president,» Turley wrote.
Media veterans and legacy outlets have leaned into reporting on and investigating a handful of other scandals and political news that conservatives had long sounded the alarm on, including that the coronavirus likely originated out of a lab in China, as well as on President Biden’s mental decline in the lead-up to the election last year.
PUBLIC WAS MISLED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY ABOUT COVID ORIGINS, NY TIMES COLUMNIST ARGUES
The New York Times ran a column last month claiming the scientific community «badly misled» the public in an effort to suppress the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, even after the paper’s own science writer called the theory «racist.»

Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
«We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives,» the March 16 piece published by NYT columnist and Princeton sociology professor Zeynep Tufekci, argued that the scientific community long suspected COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, but purposefully «hid or understated crucial facts,» to mislead the public about the lab’s «terrifyingly lax» safety precautions.
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«We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story,» Tufekci wrote.
The Trump administration’s CIA reported earlier this year that the lab leak was the likely origin of the COVID-19 virus, which had previously been passed off by media outlets and scientists as a likely conspiracy theory.
The New York Times defended that it had reported on the lab leak theory multiple times across the years, including in 2021, when approached for comment by Fox News Digital on the recent articles on both Hunter Biden and the lab leak theory.
«The New York Times has intensely pursued every theory and lead on the origins of Covid-19, documented the political debate, funding, influence, and shifts in thinking among the scientific community, and reported on China’s censorship campaign that has stifled the search for truth. The Times has helped readers navigate the coronavirus pandemic through independent, verified reporting, and any insinuation that we have not thoroughly pursued leads is false,» a NYT spokesperson said.

President Joe Biden salutes while arriving during an event at the White House on Nov. 27, 2023. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
And a newly released book by longtime D.C. reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, «Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,» investigates Biden’s mental decline in the lead-up to the general election, calling him a «shell of himself.»
«All of them,» Parnes told Vanity Fair of who in Biden’s inner circle is most to blame for covering up his mental decline when he was in office. «It’s pretty remarkable how they kept him very closed off. He was a shell of himself. When he entered the White House, he was so, so different from the man who I covered as vice president, a guy who would hold court in the Naval Observatory with reporters until the wee hours.»
«We’d been watching Biden’s decline for a long period of time and, honestly, thought he had lost his fastball some when he was running in 2020. And it was still so shocking to see the leader of the free world so bereft of coherent thought,» Allen added of Biden’s mental decline.

Biden’s debate performance was seen as an abject failure, with traditional allies soon joining conservatives in their concern over the president’s health. (Getty Images)
Biden’s mental acuity had been under conservatives’ microscope since before the 2020 election, with concerns heightening in February 2024 when Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was investigating Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents as vice president, announced he would not recommend criminal charges against Biden for possessing classified materials after his vice presidency, calling Biden «a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.»
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The report renewed scrutiny over Biden’s mental fitness, which rose to a fever pitch in June 2024 after the president’s first and only presidential debate against Trump. Biden’s debate performance was seen as an abject failure, with traditional allies soon joining conservatives in their concern over the president’s health in the context of encouraging Biden to pass the mantle to a younger generation of U.S. leaders.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Uniondale, New York on Sept. 18, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
Biden dropped out of the race in July, and shortly thereafter endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s presidential candidate. Harris ultimately failed to rally enough support to defeat Trump at the polls in November.
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Jake Tapper, a CNN anchor and longtime Trump critic, has also touted his upcoming book, «Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,» which is also anticipated to detail Biden’s mental decline and the alleged cover-up by members of the Democratic Party.
Fox News Digital reached out to Biden’s post-presidential office but did not immediately receive a reply.
Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller, Gabriel Hays, and David Spector contributed to this report.
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El Parlamento de Venezuela avanzó en la aprobación de una ley minera que favorece a Estados Unidos

El Parlamento de Venezuela aprobó este lunes el proyecto de una ley de minas que busca aumentar las garantías jurídicas para generar confianza y atraer inversión nacional e internacional.
El proyecto es iniciativa de la presidenta Delcy Rodríguez, que asumió el poder tras la captura de Maduro en una operación militar estadounidense el 3 de enero.
Rodríguez, que gobierna bajo presión del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, a quien entregó control del petróleo, también impulsó una reforma a la ley de Hidrocarburos, base de este proyecto de minería.
La ley deberá discutirse por segunda vez para ser definitivamente sancionada, luego de que EE.UU. emitiera una licencia que autoriza determinadas actividades relacionadas con la explotación de oro venezolano a cargo de empresas estadounidenses.
El proyecto de ley, que consta de 19 capítulos y 126 artículos, está conformado por «criterios técnicos» con una estructura acorde a «nuevas necesidades«, según dijo el diputado Orlando Camacho del Movimiento Somos Venezuela, quien presentó el proyecto de forma genérica ante la plenaria.
Asimismo, prosiguió, se busca que esta ley «pueda ayudar a aumentar todas las garantías jurídicas» para generar confianza y atraer inversión nacional e internacional.
La norma permitirá que se acuda «a mecanismos de mediación y arbitraje independientes para la resolución de controversias», siempre que se agoten «todas las instancias jurídicas nacionales», subrayó Camacho.
Además, busca fortalecer el rol el Ministerio Minero, cuyas funciones, dijo el diputado, se precisan en la ley para «regular, dirigir y organizar» toda la actividad del sector, que consiste en la «exploración, explotación, producción, arranque y acarreo de todos los minerales».
La propuesta se discutirá artículo por artículo en un segundo debate, después de ser sometida a consulta pública con sectores de la sociedad civil.
La norma establece la creación de un fondo social minero que establece «ingresos y funciones» para que se pueda «desarrollar y proteger la seguridad social» de los trabajadores de minería.
También fija la creación de la «superintendencia nacional de actividad minera» para fiscalizar y buscar beneficios que favorezcan la inversión nacional y extranjera.
Durante la sesión, transmitida por el canal del Parlamento en YouTube, el diputado opositor Luis Florido se quejó de la entrega del proyecto «a minutos de comenzar una sesión» y reclamó que las leyes se «presenten con tiempo».
Por su parte, el diputado Carlos Dickson Barbera, del partido opositor Un Nuevo Tiempo, decidió salvar el voto para «poder consultar a los asesores pertinentes» y hacer un «análisis respectivo» de la ley.
El viernes, el Departamento del Tesoro emitió una licencia que autoriza determinadas actividades relacionadas con la explotación y comercialización de oro venezolano por parte de empresas estadounidenses, un sector que hasta ahora estaba sujeto a sanciones.
La licencia general 51 permite a empresas estadounidenses comprar, transportar y revender oro de origen venezolano, incluso en operaciones que involucren al Gobierno de Venezuela o a la Compañía General de Minería de Venezuela (Minerven).
La autorización también abarca servicios logísticos, seguros y transporte vinculados al comercio de ese metal.
La emisión de esta licencia se dio días después de la reunión en Caracas entre la presidenta encargada de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, y el secretario de Interior de Estados Unidos, Doug Burgum.
Durante ese encuentro, Rodríguez pidió dar celeridad a una reforma de la Ley de Minas, con el objetivo de ampliar el marco legal para desarrollar el sector con inversión nacional y extranjera.
A finales de enero pasado, el Parlamento aprobó por unanimidad la reforma de la Ley Orgánica de Hidrocarburos impulsada por Delcy Rodríguez para incentivar la inversión privada y extranjera en el sector petrolero.
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El fuerte descargo de la abogada argentina acusada de racismo en Brasil: “Me sexualizaron y se burlaron de mí”

Mientras aguarda la resolución de la Justicia brasileña, Agostina Páez, la abogada argentina detenida por racismo, hizo un fuerte descargo con motivo del Día de la Mujer y cuestionó las críticas que recibió.
“En estos meses conocí una cara muy dura del mundo. Viví y sigo viviendo situaciones profundamente violentas. Desde el segundo uno de todo lo que pasó sufrí violencia. Muchos hablan, pero apenas conocen el 1% de la historia. Sin embargo, mi cara y mi nombre se mostraron una y otra vez por el mundo, mientras nunca se vio de la misma forma a quienes me trataron mal, me sexualizaron y se burlaron de mí”, comenzó el extenso comunicado que compartió en sus redes.
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En el mismo posteo aseguró sufrir violencia en el proceso judicial. “Quienes deberían actuar con imparcialidad ni siquiera tienen en cuenta el contexto de violencia que sufrí como mujer extranjera, ignoran pruebas y todo se limita a lo que unos cuantos cuentan”, resaltó.
También mencionó que a los cuatro días de haber sido acusada, la policía lanzó una campaña antirracismo “sin tener contexto, ni estar condenada, llevándose de unos segundos de video”. “Y no, no soy racista”, aseguró.
El descargo de Agostina Páez en el Día de la Mujer. (Foto: Instagram agostinapaez)
A la par, denunció que recibió “mensajes llenos de odio” y hasta amenazas de muerte, violación y maltrato. Sin embargo, dentro de la grave situación que está atravesando, aseguró, rescató una enseñanza. “También aprendí algo: la fuerza de una mujer. Porque a pesar de que intentan quebrarme, humillarme, atacarme y silenciarme, sigo aquí. Hay días en los que siento que no puedo más, que no aguanto más, que me quiero morir. Pero junto fuerzas y decido seguir de pie, afrontar lo que me toca”.
“Hay muchas batallas que atravesamos en silencio. Pero no dejemos que nos quiten la fuerza, ni la valentía de seguir de pie. Confío en Dios que es testigo y que pondrá las cosas en su lugar”, insistió la joven abogada y añadió: “El Día de la Mujer no se celebra, se conmemora porque nace de la lucha de mujeres que enfrentaron violencia, desigualdad y silencio”.
Leé también: La abogada argentina detenida por racismo en Brasil denunció que la amenazan por redes: “Vas a morir”
Además, Páez hizo especial foco en la acusación de racismo. “Ser racista es discriminar, despreciar, excluir o tratar a una persona como menos por el color de su piel. Una reacción emocional, con un gesto en medio de una discusión y frente a agravios no me convierte en racista, porque nunca hubo esa intención”, afirmó.
Asimismo, criticó que nunca se tomó en cuenta la agresión que ella sufrió por parte del empleado del bar. “Entiendo que era más llamativo un titular que dice: ‘abogada argentina realiza gestos racistas a un trabajador de un bar’, pero ese recorte omite el contexto de ‘luego de que él realizara gestos sexuales mientras le gritaba cosas’”.
La abogada argentina cuestionó a quienes criticaron su accionar y lo relacionaron con su profesión. (Foto: Instagram agostinapaez)
“Por eso, cuando una mujer es agredida, insultada o humillada, muchas veces la reacción emocional también nace desde ese lugar de defensa frente a una situación de sentirse acorralada frente a un posible abusador. Mucho más en un contexto de estar en otro país, sintiéndome perseguida por hombres. Eso no significa justificar nada ni negar que el racismo exista o que sea grave”, reconoció.
En su descargo, Agostina también se disculpó con las personas que “sinceramente se hayan sentido ofendidas por el video o por la imagen que se instaló” sobre ella. “Ese nunca fue mi propósito”, remarcó y aclaró: “Pedir perdón no significa asumir una intención racista, porque no la hubo”.
Sobre el final del comunicado, la abogada santiagueña también cuestionó a quienes pusieron foco en su profesión: “¿Desde cuando yo tengo que ser un modelo universal de moral, con una conducta ideal, para el resto de la sociedad? ¿Por qué por tener un título se me quiere colocar en un estándar más alto que el resto y con la responsabilidad de ‘ser ejemplo’?“.
“¿Se olvidan que detrás de un título hay una persona? ¿Por qué tengo que cumplir expectativas morales? Ninguna profesión convierte a una persona en una referente moral obligatoria. La responsabilidad profesional se limita al ejercicio de la función que tienes que cumplir, en mi caso, defender derechos. No soy un manual de conducta, es mi vida, y no tengo por qué, ni quiero, ser ejemplo de conducta ideal de nadie. Soy humana y es mi vida, me puedo equivocar y aprender miles de millones de veces», concluyó.
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Virginia Dems send Spanberger bill that could let some repeat offenders out without secured bond, expert warns

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A top national figure in the bail industry warned of the dangers behind a Virginia bill heading to Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s desk that would remove bond requirements for previously convicted felons.
Virginia state Del. Katrina Callsen, D-Charlottesville, drafted HB 357, which critics say makes it easier for criminals to get out of jail on an unsecured bond. The bill passed both chambers in Richmond along party lines.
In comments to Fox News Digital on Monday, National Association of Bail Agents President Michelle Esquenazi said she was familiar with the Virginia legislation and that it will only serve to erode public safety.
«We believe any time recidivist offenders are released due to unsecured bail policies, it puts communities in direct danger,» Esquenazi said. «Many are unaware of how secured bonds insulate public safety throughout the United States of America.»
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Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former Rep. Abigail Spanberger arrives at a canvass launch event in Lake Ridge, Virginia, on Nov. 2, 2025. The image also shows an empty jail cell in a composite photo. (Win McNamee/Getty Images; Michael Matthey/picture alliance via Getty Images)
«This bill is in direct contrast to the needs of all communities in Virginia, whether they are Republican, Democrat, or Independent.»
Esquenazi said criminals don’t choose victims based on political ideology and that policymakers have failed to understand that bringing criminals to justice should be nonpartisan.
While Callsen did not respond to requests for comment, similar legislation in recent years has often come about as a wish for offenders to receive «second chances» — a dynamic Fox News Digital asked Esquenazi about.
«The secured bail industry is an industry of second chances,» she said.
«However, if you’re going to continue to commit crime, policymakers have to understand and take into account that committing crime is not a mandate. It’s a career choice.»
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The Virginia Capitol in Richmond, Va., is shown on March 4, 2010. Virginia lawmakers handled hundreds of bills on Feb. 13, 2024, as a key legislative deadline neared. (Steve Helber/AP)
Policies like HB 357 serve to give recidivists more than just second but third and subsequent chances because a second chance is «only a title,» which the policies themselves far exceed, she said.
Justice Forward Virginia, a progressive criminal justice reform group focused on advancing related legislation, listed the bill in its section of 2026 priorities. The group did not respond to a request for comment.
Callsen’s bill removes language from Code of Virginia § 19.2-123 governing «Release of accused on unsecured bail or promise to appear» that currently states any person arrested for a felony or who is on bond for an unrelated arrest or on parole may only be released upon securing a secured bond.
Instead, it retains only language providing preestablished conditions of release for that offender.
Other critics took to X, including Club For Growth’s Andrew Follett, who posted a passage from Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn about a civilian being punished more for being caught with a concealed knife than a felon for whom it would be «mere misbehavior; tradition» — and commented that «Democrats have a crush on criminals — it isn’t more complicated than that.»
«Under leftist ideology, society is responsible for crime, not individuals,» Follett said.
«Or, [Virginia House] Speaker Don Scott is preparing for his next arrest,» quipped another X user.
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Scott, D-Portsmouth, served more than 7 years of a 10-year 1994 sentence for federal crack cocaine-related charges — and was one of thousands of convicts who had their rights to vote and serve in office restored by GOP Gov. Robert F. McDonnell in 2013.
After former President Biden pardoned him in 2025, Scott said that his «journey from being arrested as a law student to standing here today as the first Black Speaker of the House of Delegates in Virginia’s 405-year history is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and transformative power of second chances,» according to Hampton Roads’ ABC affiliate.
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