Новости за 04.05.2020

On Friday, a security guard at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Michigan was fatally shot after telling a customer to wear a protective face mask. In response to bereaved Parkland father Fred Guttenberg demanding President Donald Trump take responsibility for having cheered on the armed lockdown protesters in Michigan, and to consider whether that […]

States around the country are beginning to reopen bars, beaches, restaurants, salons and other establishments where people tend to congregate in large numbers. While most states are promising that there must be social distancing and masks, the reality is that the United States hasn’t done enough to stop the steady climb of COVID-19 death. Washington […]

Protests continue against stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Saturday, a large crowd gathered at the Massachuttes state capitol in Boston to protest the shutdown order by Gov. Charlie Baker (R-MA) and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Matt Stout, state house reporter for the Boston Globe, documented the protest from inside the capitol. […]

Nicolas Cage will star in a scripted television series about flamboyant “Tiger King” zookeeper Joe Exotic, his publicist told AFP Monday. The Oscar-winning US actor will also executive produce the show based on a magazine article about Exotic, who recently shot to fame as the subject of a wildly popular docuseries. The surreal story of […]

According to a report from CNN, a security guard at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Michigan, was shot and killed this Friday after telling a woman to wear a mask inside the store, which is required by the state. Calvin Munerlyn, 43, died at a local hospital after he was shot in the head. […]

Scott Lively, a Trump-loving former GOP gubernatorial candidate, is telling Christians it is their “duty” to build an underground railroad and prepare to wage a violent revolution in response to what he foresees as the impending persecution of Christ-followers. As Right Wing Watch’s Kyle Mantyla reports, Lively used his online “Breaking News Bible Study” (video below) […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) questioned Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) motivations for rushing members back to Washington, D.C. in the middle of a pandemic when his top priorities are passing judges. Speaking to New York Daily News reporter Michael McAuliff, Schumer blasted McConnell for focusing on President Donald Trump’s nominees over the desperate need […]

A Michigan man was caught on video wiping his nose on a worker at a dollar store after she asked him to wear a mask. Click on Detroit obtained surveillance video of the incident, which occurred in a Dollar Tree store in Holly on Saturday at approximately 1:30 p.m. “Here, I’ll use this as a […]

Presidential historian Jon Meacham noted that so many presidents of both parties have managed to bring people together over tragedy. Whether it was Roosevelt during the Great Depression and World War II or George W. Bush during 9/11 or Barack Obama after the many mass shootings. For generations, presidents have been able to celebrate and […]

“This is a really big deal. This kind of courage is what we need right now, in every workplace and walk of life.” Amazon vice president Tim Bray won praise from labor rights advocates on Monday after resigning from the company over its treatment of whistleblowers during the Covid-19 pandemic, publishing a “scathing” letter on his personal blog […]

On Monday, RealClearNews White House reporter Philip Wegmann revealed that the White House is prohibiting Dr. Anthony Fauci and every other member of the coronavirus task force from testifying to Congress for the next month — unless Chief of Staff Mark Meadows signs off on it. SCOOP: White House bars Fauci, members of the task […]

A political action committee has launched to counter false and misleading statements about the coronavirus pandemic from US President Donald Trump with a wide-ranging, tech-infused social media campaign. Defeat Disinfo, which started last week, plans to use “a sophisticated set of tools that allows us to spot misinformation just as it’s beginning to go viral […]

SANTEE, Calif. — A man was spotted wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood in a Vons in the San Diego County city of Santee on Saturday, igniting outrage from the mayor, the head of the Anti-Defamation League in San Diego and others. A corporate spokeswoman said grocery clerks repeatedly asked the shopper to remove the […]

Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin is on a roll for a Monday. In her second column for the day, she ripped President Donald Trump for trying to dodge responsibility for his pathetically lame excuse for leadership on the coronavirus crisis. Writing in the Washington Post, she cited the recent report estimating that the rate of COVID-19 […]

Resilience, communication skills, openness and impulse control top the list of six qualities that presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says are common to good leaders. In her book “Leadership: In Turbulent Times,” Goodwin surveyed the lives and leadership styles of four American presidents – Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson […]

As the coronavirus continues to rage, the federal government is reportedly considering rolling back infection control requirements in U.S. nursing homes, according to a report from USA Today. “A rule proposed last year by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would modify the amount of time an infection preventionist must devote to a facility […]

I suppose we should give the president a round of applause. Donald Trump has done something no Democrat (and no liberal) could have done—demonstrate to a voting majority the anti-American animus of the “conservative” project over the last 40 years. This article was originally published at The Editorial Board The question shouldn’t be whether government is big […]

Internal CDC document projects U.S. coronavirus deaths could reach 3,000 per day by June 1—nearly double the current daily death toll. As President Donald Trump publicly encourages states to reopen their economies against the advice of public health experts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is privately projecting that U.S. Covid-19 deaths could reach […]

On Sunday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, appeared on CNN and declared that the protests against stay-at-home orders that plagued her state capital, as well as numerous others, “depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country,” pointing to the regular appearance of swastikas, nooses, Nazi slogans and the American swastika, […]

A video has surfaced of a woman who refused to wear a mask in a public market while picking fights with passers-by. According to The Straits Times, the Singaporean woman was arrested Monday evening local time after she assaulted one of the people she was harassing. She was also charged with causing a public nuisance […]

In an op-ed for The New York Times this Monday, former CIA agent Douglas London sounded the alarm against the appointment in February of Richard Grenell, a political operative and “Donald Trump loyalist,” as acting director of national intelligence. According to London, Trump’s pick has many current and former intelligence professionals “deeply concerned.” “I am among them, […]

The US Supreme Court resumed hearing cases Monday after a pause occasioned by the coronavirus, but in a small revolution for the tradition-bound institution the justices participated from home, with live audio broadcast on radio and television. The move to greater transparency has been demanded for years in legal circles and was long ago adopted […]

President Donald Trump is insisting that any new coronavirus stimulus must include payroll tax cuts for workers — but experts say that wouldn’t help Americans who need it most. The $2 trillion CARES Act gave employers a temporary respite from payroll taxes until the end of the year, including Social Security and some railroad retirement […]

Presidential lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has largely fallen out of the public eye since his starring role in President Donald Trump’s impeachment. But Giuliani hasn’t gone silent. Instead, he’s in his home, doing a call-in radio show and a podcast — “Common Sense” — during which he has repeatedly gone […]

Michael Jordan has defended his infamous reluctance to be drawn into taking political sides during his NBA career, saying he never viewed himself as an activist. In comments made on the latest episode of the hit documentary series “The Last Dance” on ESPN, Jordan addressed his oft-quoted quip that he had steered clear of politics […]