Новости за 16.05.2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell alleged that the Obama administration did not provide the Trump administration with any information about the threat of a possible pandemic during a May 11 Team Trump Facebook Live discussionwith Lara Trump. “They claim pandemics only happen once every 100 years, but what if that is no longer true? We […]

President Donald Trump on Friday afternoon said the U.S. military is developing a “super-duper missile” that can go 17 times faster than any existing rocket, earning him ridicule from critics. “We have, I call it, the super-duper missile,” said Trump. “And I heard the other night—17 times faster than what they have right now, when […]

On Saturday, Politico reported that President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is floundering in its efforts to craft a re-election strategy that can work in the coronavirus pandemic — particularly his planned efforts to woo communities of color. “Almost a month ago, as the coronavirus exacted an outsized toll on vulnerable groups across America, President Donald […]

The United States recorded 1,680 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing its grim total to 87,493, according to the latest real-time tally Friday reported by Johns Hopkins University. The country — hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities — has now confirmed a total of 1,442,924 cases, the […]

You know someone’s in a real panic when they start running in circles, and that’s what Donald Trump has been doing for the past week. He started off last Sunday with an epic tweetstorm, 126 of them in all, the third-highest total for one day in his presidency, according to FactBa.se, which keeps track of […]

In an early-morning tweet, Donald Trump issued threats against a wide array of social media platforms saying they are engaging in “illegal” activities at the behest of the “Radical Left.” Linking to a clip of a speech given by conservative gadfly Michelle Malkin complaining about censorship, the president wrote, “The Radical Left is in total […]

Tributes emerged Saturday for German photographer Astrid Kirchherr, whose striking images of The Beatles in the early 1960s helped turn them into cultural icons, following the announcement of her death this week aged 81. Kirchherr passed away on Wednesday in Hamburg a few days before her 82nd birthday, Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn confirmed Friday. “Her […]

Appearing on MSNBC with guest host Joy Reid, former GOP campaign consultant Steve Schmidt tore into Donald Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has let to over 85,000 f dead, 35 million unemployed and the economy reeling. Noting how other presidents have handled major disruptions, Schmidt said the damaged economy above all […]

The state Supreme Court’s order comes one day after a state appeals court had allowed the expansion to stand while a legal case was appealed. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily put on hold an expansion of voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic. Siding with Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Supreme Court blocked a state […]

An Omaha, Nebraska-based private jet company whose principal owner donated generously to Donald Trump and Republicans ahead of the 2016 election received $20 million in taxpayer aid from the federal bailout package passed in March. Jet Linx Aviation, which caters to well-to-do CEOs and executives, was the second private plane company founded or owned by […]

By March 14, London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco, had seen enough. For weeks, she and her health officials had looked at data showing the evolving threat of COVID-19. In response, she’d issued a series of orders limiting the size of public gatherings, each one feeling more arbitrary than the last. She’d been persuaded […]

The conspiracy theory video “Plandemic” recently went viral. Despite being taken down by YouTube and Facebook, it continues to get uploaded and viewed millions of times. The video is an interview with conspiracy theorist Judy Mikovits, a disgraced former virology researcher who believes the COVID-19 pandemic is based on vast deception, with the purpose of […]

According to a report from NPR, Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to remove State Department Inspector General Steve Linick was linked by a Democratic lawmaker to a possible investigation being opened into actions by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The president served notice late Friday that he intends to replace Linick in a letter to House […]

Beaches in France and Italy were open Saturday for the first weekend since the easing of coronavirus lockdowns while football fans awaited the return of major league action with Germany’s Bundesliga set to kick off. Italy also announced it will reopen to holidaymakers from June 3 and scrap quarantine requirements for arrivals, welcome news for […]

Bill Barr is covering up for Donald Trump. Trump’s first national security adviser, General Michael Flynn, had a phone call with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, just after President Obama had imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump. Flynn “urged Mr. Kislyak in a phone […]

The Republican governor of Idaho has says he’s worried about actions by far-right organization in his state. “This week Idaho Freedom Action, the politicking arm of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, posted the names addresses and political affiliations of every Idahoan who requested a mail-in ballot for the upcoming primary,” CBS 2 reported Friday. Under special […]

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has directed millions in federal coronavirus relief funds earmarked by Congress for low-income students to wealthy private and religious schools, including nearly half a million dollars to an institute with a website devoted to proving it is not a cult. This article originally appeared at Salon. The New York Times first reported Friday that […]

A private jet company founded by a major Republican donor received nearly $27 million in federal grants from a $2 trillion economic relief package intended to offset the blunt of coronavirus pandemic. This article originally appeared at Salon. The company — Clay Lacy Aviation, which is headquartered in Van Nuys, Calif. — provides private charter […]

On Friday night, President Donald Trump fired Steve Linick, the State Department inspector general who delivered Rudy Giuliani documents to House impeachment investigators. Commenters on social media erupted at the news. Linick during the impeachment process requested an urgent meeting with lawmakers to show them the trove of documents Giuliani had given to State about […]

The coronavirus pandemic reached a grim milestone this week: worldwide, more than 300,000 people have died from COVID-19 — and over 86,200 of them died in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. With the United States’ death count continuing to soar, The Lancet, one of the most pretigious medical journals, delivered a blistering rebuke to the […]

Everyone who covers President Donald Trump with even the slighted bit of integrity will tell you he’s prone to lie and distort the facts with little compunction. But the media is still struggling to cope with this fact. And as we head into the crucial stretch of the 2020 campaign, reporters and the voting public […]

On Friday, Politico reported that Steve Linick, the inspector general of the State Department, has been fired. Linick, a former official of the Justice Department, was appointed to the inspector general position by President Barack Obama in 2013. According to Politico, “he played a minor role in the House of Representatives’ impeachment proceedings against President […]

On Friday, Politico reported that the federal investigation into Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) goes deeper than just the stock trades he made on coronavirus-impacted companies while receiving classified public health briefings. In fact, Burr is reportedly also under investigation for a number of investments transactions he made on companies that were impacted by his work […]

All forty members of the Alaska House of Representatives were told by one GOP lawmaker that coronavirus safety restrictions were like Nazi Germany, according to a new report published in the Anchorage Daily News on Friday. “A Nikiski Republican lawmaker opposed to pandemic safety measures at the Alaska Capitol compared them to Nazi Germany’s labeling […]

On Friday, The Daily Beast did an expose on TestNebraska, a private coronavirus testing initiative championed by actor Ashton Kutcher which received a $27,000 contract from the state of Nebraska to perform 540,000 diagnostic tests. “As of Sunday, TestNebraska had provided 2,358 tests, with 80 positive results, leading to a 3.4 percent positive rate for […]