Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing a criminal referral for allegedly making "criminally false statements" about a July 2020 report that downplayed the number of COVID-related nursing home deaths.On Wednesday, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic referred Cuomo to the Department of Justice, arguing that he lied about his involvement in the New York State Department of Health's report. However, the subcommittee's formal referral does not compel the DOJ to move forward with further investigation.'The Department of Justice should consider Mr. Cuomo's prior allegedly wrongful conduct.'According to a draft of the subcommittee's criminal referral, the report undercounted the number of deaths by 46%. Cuomo repeatedly claimed he did not recall seeing the report before its public release, Blaze News previously reported. However, evidence uncovered by the subcommittee allegedly revealed that Cuomo personally made edits to the document.The referral, signed by Representative Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), accused the former governor of making a "conscious, calculated effort" to skirt responsibility for the nursing home death scandal."Mr. Cuomo provided false statements to the select subcommittee in what appears to be a conscious, calculated effort to insulate himself from accountability," Wenstrup wrote in the referral letter. "The Department of Justice should consider Mr. Cuomo's prior allegedly wrongful conduct when evaluating whether to charge him for the false statements described."A June 2020 email from Cuomo's former assistant allegedly revealed that he had made edits to the report before its release. He requested that it include language emphasizing how "community spread among employees or possibly visitation by family and friends were relevant factors" in the deaths. His edits were included in the final version of the report.Additionally, congressional documents allegedly uncovered that Cuomo's aides requested "two copies" of the report be sent to his residence before its release.Cuomo fired back at the criminal referral by filing his own against the subcommittee. The former governor's criminal referral reads, "This interrogation far exceeded the Subcommittee's jurisdiction and appears to have been an improper effort to advantage the interests of private litigants against Governor Cuomo, warranting investigation by the Department of Justice."Richard Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo, stated, "This taxpayer-funded farce is an illegal use of Congress's investigative authority.""The governor said he didn't recall because he didn't recall. The committee lied in their referral just as they have been lying to the public and the press," Azzopardi stated.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While both the Trump and Harris campaigns have been focusing their efforts in the swing states, they’ve also put some serious time into Texas, which unfortunately is no longer reliably red. In fact, it’s been trending blue for a while now — and Democrats want to capitalize on this. Afterall, when and where did Queen Bey show up to campaign for Kamala Harris? In the Lone Star State. At the end of election season. While Beyoncé showing up in Houston, Texas, for political purposes might be a unique occurrence, her message certainly wasn’t. “Beyoncé — wow, she said something so unique, so different than any other celebrity has said for why they're voting for Kamala Harris. I've never heard this kind of profound and moral and compassionate take on why people just have to vote for Kamala Harris,” says Allie Beth Stuckey sarcastically before playing a clip of Beyoncé’s speech. “I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother — a mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of our children live in, a world where we have the freedom to control our bodies,” the singer said to a cheering crowd. The math isn’t mathing. “In one breath, she is saying we need a country that is great for our children and grandchildren” so “we should have the right to kill children,” Allie says, pointing out the glaring hypocrisy. Beyoncé went on to perpetuate the lie that “there’s going to be a Trump abortion ban” when the reality is Kamala Harris is the only candidate who has promised to “do something at the federal level” regarding abortion. “Trump has said he's not going to do anything at the federal level about abortion. ... He's saying it's left up to the states,” whereas Harris has said she’s going to “federalize Roe,” which “allows abortion through all nine months,” says Allie. Federalizing Roe means that “a doctor signs off saying, ‘Yeah, this is for the woman's health,”’ granting approval for a woman to proceed with an abortion regardless of the state she lives in. “But health is not physical health,” explains Allie. “Health can also mean mental health,” “emotional health,” or “family situation,” so “it's virtually for any reason through all nine months. ... Federalizing that standard would mean that no state can have any restriction on abortion.” To hear more of Allie’s commentary, watch the episode above. Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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As a Halloween treat for ChatGPT users (and a trick for the likes of Google and Bing), OpenAI has turned its AI chatbot into an internet search engine. As the company explains in a blog post, ChatGPT is now better than ever at searching the web and capable of providing fast and timely answers to your questions with links to relevant sources. The search feature is built into the ChatGPT interface. OpenAI added a web search icon below the text box, and while ChatGPT will decide whether or not to search based on the prompt, you can also manually choose to search with the new icon. Search will be available on ChatGPT.com as well as on the desktop and mobile apps. ChatGPT Plus users, Team users, and SearchGPT waitlist users all have access to the feature starting on October 31. Enterprise and Edu users will get access in the next few weeks, and OpenAI will roll out access to ChatGPT Free users in the coming months. Sources displayed prominently in ChatGPT search. Image source: OpenAI OpenAI wants to legitimately challenge Google with a full-featured product, one that combines the power of AI with the ease and speed of a traditional search engine. To that end, OpenAI has partnered with a number of news and data providers to give users up-to-date information about weather, stocks, sports, news, and maps. While Google is making it increasingly difficult to find the original source of the information that it provides, OpenAI prominently displays its citations. “ChatGPT search promises to better highlight and attribute information from trustworthy news sources, benefiting audiences while expanding the reach of publishers like ourselves who produce premium journalism," said Pam Wasserstein, President of Vox Media. OpenAI says that ChatGPT search is powered by "a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o, post-trained using novel synthetic data generation techniques, including distilling outputs from OpenAI o1-preview." The company plans to continue improving the feature, specifically focusing on shopping and travel. OpenAI also wants to bring search to Advanced Voice and canvas. Don't Miss: Orion, the big GPT-5 upgrade for ChatGPT, might roll out in December The post OpenAI’s ChatGPT search engine is now live to take on Google appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $90 Lenovo Chromebook, $360 Apple Watch Series 10, $100 off Ninja blenders, more Today’s deals: Rare Nintendo Switch sale, $729 black Apple Watch Ultra 2, 32% off LG G4 OLED TV, more Today’s deals: $150 off eufy Robot Vacuum Omni C20, $30 Fire TV Stick 4K Max, $99 Beats headphones, more Today’s deals: $367 Apple Watch Series 10, $66 14-piece cookware set, $99 230-piece Craftsman tool set, more

A Pennsylvania state judge said Thursday that he will not immediately move forward with a lawsuit that seeks to stop Elon Musk's $1 million voter giveaway before the U.S. presidential election.