Новости за 30.05.2020

The Republican governor of Arizona has won a legal victory to keep secret information on COVID-19 outbreaks in the state’s nursing homes. “A judge late Friday afternoon ruled that Gov. Doug Ducey’s administration may keep secret information about the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes, saying the state’s privacy laws trump Arizona’s Public Records law,” […]

The mayor of New York City was blasted by the city’s comptroller for the NYPD’s violent response to anti-police violence protesters. Comptroller Scott Stringer blasted Mayor Bill de Blasio after video emerged of NYPD officers beating protesters with batons. “What the hell is going on?” Stringer asked. “You can’t criticize the Minneapolis Police in the […]

On Friday’s edition of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Ben Crump, the attorney for the family of George Floyd, expressed his outrage at how local officials are handling the case — and demanded harsher prosecution of the officers responsible. “The family does not trust the Minneapolis Police Department or anybody affiliated with the Minneapolis Police Department, […]

Protesters in cities across America took to the streets on Friday to protest police brutality following the killing of George Floyd while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. In Atlanta, protesters defaced CNN’s logo and broke windows at the company’s headquarters. Things escalated further as police began firing bean bag rounds from atop […]

On Friday, the Ohio Capital Journal reported that House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes received a call from an unidentified man threatening to kill her father unless she resigned from the legislature. “The suspect claimed he had her father, Democratic state Senator Vernon Sykes, captive. He told her not to contact the police,” reported Jake Zuckerman. […]

Protesters of police violence received a harsh reception from the New York Police Department on Friday evening. The protesters had marched to the Barclays Center, where they were met with a large police presence. Heavy police presence posted outside of Barclays Center. If you’re protesting, please stay safe. – Legal Aid Society’s Contact Number: 212-577-3300– […]

On Friday, writing for The Washington Post, conservative columnist Max Boot tore into President Donald Trump’s legacy on race. “We know how a normal president responds when a white police officer ignites furious protests by killing a black man. It is the way President Barack Obama responded in 2014 after a grand jury refused to […]

On Friday, CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang reported that the White House has now issued lockdown orders. The development comes as protests against the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota have spread to Washington, D.C. and crowds are growing angrier. Earlier in the evening, a protester scaled the wall of a federal building […]

On May 14, thirty-one residents of an East Oakland neighborhood joined a videoconference call to meet with their neighborhood services coordinator to hear updates about upcoming community events and resources available to residents; the meetings, which took place regularly in person prior to the pandemic, recently transitioned to virtual videoconferencing app Zoom. Then, five minutes into the call, the number […]

When the White House announced President Donald Trump would hold a press conference in the Rose Garden on Friday, many political reporters held on to their seats. Trump’s performances are often unpredictable whirlwind displays, filled with lies, distractions, and attacks. Already this week, Trump had tweeted a video in which a supporter of his said: […]

On Friday, protests around the country continued against the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As CNN covered shots of protests in Washington, D.C., one demonstrator could clearly be seen scaling a Secret Service building, before taking out a can of spray paint and writing “F**K TRUMP” on the edifice. Watch below: Some […]

On Friday, a new batch of documents recording the interviews former special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors held with aides to President Donald Trump was released, as part of a Freedom of Information Act request by BuzzFeed News. One of the revelations in the interviews with Rick Gates, who served as an aide to former Trump […]

On CNN Friday, following President Donald Trump’s abrupt exit from a press conference following a racially charged tweet, chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta broke down President Donald Trump’s history of stoking racial tensions during moments of crisis. “He is trying to clean up this tweet that he posted last night,” said Acosta. “First, just […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden talked about the importance of a president’s words and accountability during times of crisis during a Friday appearance on MSNBC. Biden was interviewed by Craig Melvin, who noted the protests tearing apart cities and asked where he would start if elected president. “I start by talking about what we must […]

“Secretaries DeVos and Mnuchin have inflicted needless financial pain on student borrowers and their families.” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the federal departments they run were hit with a class-action lawsuit Friday for illegal seizures of thousands of student borrowers’ tax refunds during the coronavirus pandemic, which has left over 40 […]

Newly-declassified transcripts of intercepted telephone calls between Mike Flynn and then-Russia Ambassador Sergei Kislyak prove Trump’s soon-to-be National Security Advisor lied to federal investigators, and his original two guilty pleas were correct. Friday afternoon newly-sworn in Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe sent declassified transcripts of Flynn’s calls to Congress. Portions of those transcripts have […]

The coronavirus pandemic could widen inequalities in the United States, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Friday, as government data showed consumer spending plunging by a record amount. The world’s largest economy is in dire shape with more than 40 million layoffs since lockdowns were imposed in mid-March to stop the spread of COVID-19. And […]

On Friday, The New York Times reported on a gathering of Republicans in Conway, South Carolina that appeared to be an “active rejection” of social distancing measures and other public health guidelines. “The outdoor gathering here on Thursday was a send-off event for Cleo Steele, a longtime Republican Party operative in Horry County, who is […]

President Donald Trump said Friday he would strip several of Hong Kong’s special privileges with the United States and bar some Chinese students from US universities in anger over Beijing’s bid to exert control in the financial hub. In a day of concerted action, the United States and Britain also raised alarm at the UN […]

Liberal economist Paul Krugman, in his New York Times column, has been stressing that the better a job the United States does with social distancing policies now, the better off the U.S. economy will be in the long run. In his Thursday column, Krugman warns that a premature reopening could hurt the U.S. both economically and […]

Billionaire Elon Musk was the target of jokes on Twitter after his company SpaceX suffered a rocket explosion. “SpaceX just experienced the biggest explosion yet at its Texas site, where it’s testing prototypes for a Mars rocket,” Marina Koren of The Atlantic reported. “A resident who lives nearby—just 2 miles away—said it felt like an […]