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EXCLUSIVE: Bill and Hillary Clinton are seen departing the luxury Mandarin Oriental Hotel in NYC a day after the former first lady met with London Mayor Sadiq Khan

Bill and Hillary Clinton were seen departing the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan minutes apart from one another on Tuesday afternoon

Hillary kept her eyes down in a blue striped overcoat and a blue leather bag over her arm, while Bill rolled out wearing a grey suit and a broad grin

Hillary and her security detail appeared to head off in the direction of the Clintons' Chappaqua home, while Bill's drove downtown

Hillary met with London mayor Sadiq Khan at the Clinton Foundation's Manhattan office. The pair reportedly discussed Covid pandemic recovery

Bill and Hillary Clinton were seen stepping out of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City on Tuesday, a day after she met London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

The former president and first-lady-turned-presidential-candidate left the hotel separately but within minutes of each other in the early afternoon, departing with details of two Secret Service vehicles each.

Hillary left in the direction of their home upstate in Chappaqua, while Bill's detail headed downtown.

Hillary wore a blue overcoat with red, yellow, and white stripes, which had distinct round buttons down the middle and a matching belt.

She hung a blue leather bag on one arm, and in the other hand carried a red-cased smartphone.

She kept her eyes down while passing between porters and luggage carts in the orange glow of the hotel's marquee lights, suit-clad Secret Service agents in tow, before departing.

Bill strolled out with a grin on his face, black shoes shining beneath a grey suit, a blue-striped tie around his neck and a Ukrainian flag pinned to his lapel.

His security detail was close at hand, too, stoic and severe against Bill's beaming smile.

The five-star Mandarin Oriental Hotel is located on West 60th street, just off Columbus Circle in Manhattan, and a block from Central Park South.

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Patricia Dowd, 57, died of Covid-19 on Feb. 6, 2020.

She is believed to be the first pandemic death.

In the 27 months since, nearly 1 million people in the U.S. have succumbed to the coronavirus, a figure so large that it engulfs individual stories like Dowd’s into a national maw of grief with which the country is struggling to reckon.

It's as if the entire population of Delaware, Montana or Rhode Island, or all of Austin, vanished in just two years' time.

The toll is based on death certificates but most experts believe it is an undercount given how many diagnoses were likely missed in the spring of 2020, when the virus was poorly understood and testing was scarce.

At that time, 1 million deaths seemed like a doomsday prediction, a disastrous forecast created by statistical models that assumed everything would go wrong.

“I’ve never seen a model of the diseases that I’ve dealt with where the worst-case scenario actually came out,” Anthony Fauci said in March 2020. “So when you use numbers like 1 million, 1.5 million, 2 million, that is almost certainly off the chart. Now, it’s not impossible but very, very unlikely.”

Fauci, at the time, predicted between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths, a figure that drew ridicule in the Trump administration for being overly pessimistic.

“It's tragic. I'm pained by it, as a physician, a scientist and a public health official, to see that this country with all of our resources is going to wind up with more than a million deaths from this outbreak,” Fauci told POLITICO on Tuesday. “And many of those deaths could have been avoidable. There's no doubt about that.”

Fauci added that he hopes this sobering milestone would “call attention” to the risks for unvaccinated people and prompt them to reconsider.

“If you look at the difference in hospitalization and death, between vaccinated and unvaccinated, you know this number screams out to us why we should be getting more people vaccinated,” he said.

How Covid-19 kept coming back

Daily deaths, seven-day average

Covid-19 is a story of waves. Heading into the first winter, public health officials begged people to avoid seeing relatives on Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, fearing close, indoor gatherings would fuel a surge. They did. January, 2021 became the deadliest month on record. At one point, more than 3,300 people were dying every day in the U.S.

Then came enough of a reprieve for the Biden administration to predict independence from the virus, and for “hot vax summer” to become part of the lexicon.

But instead of freedom from Covid, America got the Delta wave, then Omicron and another winter with more than 2,500 deaths a day.

Covid’s deadly path through the U.S.

Deaths per 100,000 residents, by county

Covid-19 hit the Northeast hardest in the spring of 2020, overwhelming hospitals in New York and New Jersey. Then-President Donald Trump dispatched the USNS Comfort, a Navy hospital ship to New York Harbor to try and bring some relief to crowded wards. Morgues overflowed as the virus swept through nursing homes, leading to investigations that would stain then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legacy

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The federal investigation into Hunter Biden "appears to be coming to a head," according to a new report.

Prosecutors examining Biden's taxes and foreign consulting work met in recent weeks to discuss whether to move forward with the high-profile case, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The Justice Department is expected to make a final decision on whether to bring criminal or civil charges, or try to reach a settlement that could include a "significant fine," in the coming months, said the report, which noted that allies of the president prefer a settlement if prosecutors want to press charges against his 52-year-old son. Whatever the decision is, Attorney General Merrick Garland will have the final say.

HOLLYWOOD MEGALAWYER PAID OFF HUNTER BIDEN'S $2M DELINQUENT TAX BILL: REPORT

The Washington Examiner reached out to the Justice Department for comment on the report. A grand jury, located in Wilmington, Delaware, has been gathering in recent months. Republicans are eager to start their own investigations if they win control of one or both chambers of Congress in this year's midterm elections.

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Biden's financial affairs, including millions of dollars worth of dealings and money transfers tied to countries such as Ukraine, China, and Russia, have been under federal scrutiny since 2018. Biden, who revealed the existence of an inquiry into his tax affairs just after the 2020 election, claimed in April of last year to be "100% certain" he will be cleared of wrongdoing.

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ARoyal Palm Beach man who campaign finance records say did political consulting work for former Broward mayor and U.S. congressional candidate Dale Holness has been accused of committing a $212,500 COVID-19 relief fraud.

The charging documents in federal court say Omar Smith, 42, did this in 2020, using his company A Star For I.

That’s right in the middle of a two-year period during which an itemized campaign treasurer’s report says Holness’ campaigns paid Smith $61,800, most of it through A Star For I for “consulting.”

Smith is charged in Fort Lauderdale federal court with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud.

Smith isn’t the first person Holness knows who is charged with COVID-19 PPP relief fraud. Holness’ daughter, Damara Holness, is scheduled to wake up each morning until Sept. 24, 2023, in the federal prison in Marianna after pleading guilty to a $300,000 COVID relief funds fraud.

In a text message to the Miami Herald, Holness said, “Omar was a consultant for my previous county commission campaigns, as he was for many other candidates and other elected officials who ran for office.”

A Star For I and its COVID-19 PPP loan

The alleged scheme, as described in the charging documents, varies little from other COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan schemes: Someone applies for a loan claiming that a company has many more employees and a much larger monthly payroll than it actually has.

Prosecutors say Smith and an unnamed co-conspirator applied for a PPP loan of $212,500, claiming A Star For I had 30 employees and an average payroll of $85,000 a month. (That works out to the average employee making $2,833.33 per month or $34,000 per year.)

And, the charging documents say, the co-conspirator submitted an IRS form that fraudulently stated A Star For I paid $255,000 in wages over the first three months of 2019.

A Star For I got the $212,500 loan and, the charging documents said, Smith “transferred” $42,500 to his co-conspirator for the help.

From July 2020 to October 2020, the charging documents say, Smith “began issuing checks to persons in order to make it appear as if A Star For I had full-time employees and was complying with the conditions of the PPP loan.

“The persons receiving the checks did little, if any, work for A Star For I.”

A Star For I and Broward politics

State records say Smith registered A Star For I with the state in 2012, using the Royal Palm Beach residential address 367 Berenger Walk, the same address that would be used until the company was dissolved in September 2021.

A report of Holness’ campaign treasurer’s itemized expenditures posted on voterfocus.com shows payments to four entities at “367 Berenger Walk Dr.”: Smith personally; A Star For I; Flyer Smith; and, in what looks like a misprint, “USPS” ($4,500 for “consulting.” Every other “USPS” appearance is linked to a post office address for postage).

From 2019 through 2021, Holness’ campaign made a $4,400 “donation” to A Star For I; paid $8,700 for printing; and $37,900 for “consulting.” The campaign paid Flyer Smith $4,000 for printing and $1,850 for “tech services.” Smith was paid $850 as an IT consultant or IT specialist.

In documents filed with the state, Miramar City Commissioner Alexandra Davis’ campaign said it paid A Star For I $2,500 and $2,393 in February and March 2019, respectively, for “IT Services.”

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President Biden visiting Illinois Wednesday

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CHICAGO (CBS)– President Joe Biden heads to Chicago Wednesday morning.

The president will talk about what his administration is doing to tackle inflation.

This comes as less than a third of Americans say they approve of how he's handling it.

Another issue for Americans is gas prices. On Tuesday, the national average for regular gas hit an all-time high at $4.37 a gallon.

In Chicago, the average is $5.12.

Stocks have been down as well. President Biden is putting the blame on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, saying it's added more to the problems already caused by the pandemic.

The president plans to make a stop at a family farm in Kankakee Wednesday.

There, he'll talk about how Russia's invasion of Ukraine is affecting food supply.

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