Новости за 21.05.2020

President Donald Trump fumbled his explanation for whether he had tested positive for the coronavirus. The president told reporters Thursday that he had “tested very positively” for the potentially deadly virus, but then tried to clear up that he was not infected with COVID-19. “I tested very positively in another sense,” Trump told reporters. “So […]

A woman was caught on camera this week angrily berating employees at a grocery store for wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning of the video, which has gone viral on the popular subreddit /r/publicfreakout, the woman starts off by yelling at employees that it’s “against the law” to force her to […]

President Donald Trump appeared to trip over his words Thursday when speaking to the press about his coronavirus status. “I tested very positively in another sense. So, this morning, yeah, I tested positively toward negative, right? No, I tested perfectly this morning. Meaning I tested negative,” Trump fumbled. “But that’s the way it’s taken, positively […]

It was the day after April rent was officially due — April 6 — and Kevin Maddox was officially late. The week before, he had lost both of his jobs within a few days of each other. Both were at food-service warehouses. “My job is to get the food to the restaurants, and if no […]

Some ideologues and self-proclaimed budget hawks on the far right have been insisting that another coronavirus relief bill would increase the United States’ federal deficit too much. But Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, according to The Hill’s Naomi Jagoda, has said there is a “strong likelihood” that another relief bill will be needed. During an event […]

Attorney General William Barr has been drawing a great deal of criticism for the Barr-era U.S. Department of Justice’s recent motion to drop the federal case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016. And almost […]

“If he retains stock in companies that are investing in the development of a vaccine,” said government watchdog CREW, “we can’t be confident of the integrity of any process in which he is involved.” The chief adviser overseeing President Donald Trump’s task force charged with spearheading the U.S. government’s Covid-19 vaccine and treatment effort has […]

Speaking to the press in her weekly briefing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blamed President Donald Trump’s slow response for the deaths of 50,000 Americans, without even saying his name. She cited a Columbia report which recently revealed that if the president had shut down the United States just a week earlier, half of the people […]

In an email that was posted online, the mayor of a small town in Dallas, Texas, said that women shouldn’t be leading prayers in city council meetings because it’s forbidden by the bible. According to WFAA, Wylie Mayor Eric Hogue referred to passages from the New Testament in an email to another member of the Wylie […]

A Michigan barber compared the state’s lockdown orders to the Holocaust after police handed out citations for a statehouse stunt. Barbers gave out free haircuts to demonstrators Wednesday outside the state Capitol as part of an ongoing protest against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive orders closing or limiting business activity during the coronavirus pandemic, reported MLive. […]

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) is facing a tough reelection where he’s struggling to gain traction. That might be the reason Gardner is begging his colleagues not to take a Memorial Day break, so he can still appear to be working in Washington amid the crisis. Politico reported that the leadership is trying to work with […]

President Donald Trump was inundated with ridicule on Thursday after he seemed not to know what the term “per capita” means. During a televised cabinet meeting, Trump defended his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic by arguing that America’s infection and death totals weren’t as bad as some other countries when looked at on a […]

The co-owner of a South Jersey gym at the center of an ongoing controversy about reopening used a megaphone labeled with a sticker from a noted white supremacist organization. His lawyer, however, told NJ Advance Media that Atilils Gym owner Ian A. Smith was just handed the megaphone and that he has no association with […]

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) appeared on “The View” Thursday to sound the alarm about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who, he said, is behaving in the same way former President Herbert Hoover did just before the Great Depression. McConnell, who has spent the past few weeks focusing on getting President Donald Trump’s appointees a […]

A woman from Wisconsin is feeling annoyed at President Donald Trump after she contracted the novel coronavirus while taking hydroxychloroquine, which the president has promoted as a prophylactic against the drug. In an interview with local news station WISN, a Wisconsin resident who is asking only to be identified as Kim says that she believed […]

‘We’re Going to Have to Take Action’ After several campaign-style trips over the past few weeks President Donald Trump notably refused to wear a mask, even despite company policy from one N95 mask manufacturing facility (photo). On Thursday Trump is scheduled to visit a Ford auto plant in Ypsilanti, and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is out […]

Leaders of China, France, Germany, and the World Health Organization want any coronavirus vaccine to be deemed a “global public good,” but President Donald Trump has another idea: vaccinate America first. Behind the principle of “global public good” lie two distinct issues: intellectual property rights and distribution of the first doses of a vaccine. The […]

Several new studies and models suggest that if Donald Trump had simply declared a state of national emergency, largely shutting down the country, a few weeks earlier than he did, tens of thousands of people who are dead right now would still be alive. He certainly had the information available to him. We now know […]

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday refused to say whether President Donald Trump will wear a face mask when he visits a Ford ventilator factory later in the day. “He didn’t wear a mask last week when he toured a medical supply company in Pennsylvania,” Fox Business host Stuart Varney told Pence. “Do you have […]

The coronavirus pandemic is raging through counties that voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Counties with a high prevalence of COVID-19 cases for the past four weeks were more likely to have backed Trump over Hillary Clinton in the last presidential election, reported the Brookings Institute. The virus has been spreading southward […]

Over the years, left-wing author Noam Chomsky has had much to say about income inequality and class struggles in the United States. And during a recent interview with Canada’s National Observer, the 91-year-old Chomsky stressed that the coronavirus pandemic is underscoring the United States’ class divisions in a brutal way. Interviewed by the Observer’s Linda […]

Voters in the city of Santa Ana, California, have apparently recalled Councilwoman Cecilia Iglesias and replaced her with Nelida Mendoza, who is a community college official. Iglesias, who is a Republican and an immigrant from El Salvador, is a Trump supporter who many accused of favoring the President’s policies of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border. According […]

During the coronavirus crisis, many far-right Trumpistas and Tea Party Republicans have managed to politicize mask wearing — equating face masks with liberals, progressives, Democrats and Never Trump conservatives. Not wearing a mask, in some Trumpian and Tea Party circles, has come to be viewed as a defiance of liberalism and an assertion of MAGA […]

Conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin said Thursday that President Donald Trump has become a menace to himself and to the rest of the country. Writing Thursday morning, Rubin explained that Trump is now flying in the face of experts at his own Food and Drug Administration, which is desperately trying to keep people safe […]

A new report finds that as many as 60 million people could be reduced to living on less than $2 a day as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This article was originally published at Salon “The pandemic and shutdown of advanced economies could push as many as 60 million people into extreme poverty – erasing much of […]