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Former chief-of-staff Gen. John Kelly fact-checked President Donald Trump in a statement Thursday about the claim he fired the former Defense Department secretary. “Probably the only thing Barack Obama and I have in common is that we both had the honor of firing Jim Mattis, the world’s most overrated General,” tweeted Trump on Wednesday. “I […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday she is “absolutely not” planning to stand for reelection to a fifth term despite her overwhelming popularity. “No, absolutely not,” Merkel told reporters from public broadcaster ZDF, saying her decision was “very firm”. The 65-year-old chancellor enjoys unparallelled popularity in her home country, with 71 percent of people saying […]

Attorney General William Barr insisted there was “no correlation” between protesters being gassed out of Lafayette Park and President Donald Trump’s visit a short time later to a nearby historic church. The president walked across the cleared park Monday to pose for photos at St. John’s Episcopal Church after the U.S. Park Police and National […]

From the mythical minotaur to the mule, creatures created from merging two or more distinct organisms – hybrids – have played defining roles in human history and culture. However, not all hybrids are as fantastic as the minotaur or as dependable as the mule; in fact, some of them cause human diseases. We are evolutionary […]

Calling the recent op-ed in the New York Times authored by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) a “fascist screed,” columnist Jack Holmes writes that Cotton’s call to “send in the troops” to quell unrest resulting from protests against the killing of George Floyd is based on “false premises.” “You have every right to use your speech […]

The killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25 has sparked global criticism not only from America’s allies but also its many political adversaries, for whom American police brutality and racial injustice could be a valuable propaganda tool. “They want to suffocate us as they suffocated this […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared on Thursday that Canada is winning the fight against the new coronavirus, with the latest data showing new cases in decline. But he also warned that the battle is not over yet. “The data shows that we are continuing to make progress in the fight against this virus in many […]

An Oregon State football player was dismissed from the team over years-old offensive remarks without ever taking a snap. Tight end Rocco Carley was dismissed after a recording surfaced of him using racist language to describe Black people, and making bigoted remarks about gays and Muslims, reported the Statesman Journal. “I became aware of the […]

President Donald Trump’s sliding poll numbers have left him in a precarious position electorally, and now Bloomberg is reporting that the president is hauling his campaign team in for a meeting to figure out how to stop the bleeding. The meeting, which will include son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign manager Brad Parscale, comes as the […]

Although Gen. James Mattis was obviously quite frustrated when he resigned from his position as secretary of defense in December 2018, he has been reluctant to criticize President Donald Trump — until now. With the United States being rocked by huge nonviolent “Justice for George Floyd” demonstrations as well as by civil unrest while the […]

George Floyd had tested positive for COVID-19 before his death, according to a full autopsy released Wednesday. Floyd’s family gave the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office permission to release the full 20-page report to supplement summary findings, which showed that Floyd had a heart attack as he was restrained by authorities. The coroner ruled the death a […]

People have turned to historical experience with influenza pandemics to try to make sense of COVID-19, and for good reason. Influenza and coronavirus share basic similarities in the way they’re transmitted via respiratory droplets and the surfaces they land on. Descriptions of H1N1 influenza patients in 1918-19 echo the respiratory failure of COVID-19 sufferers a […]

“Running this puts @nytimes’ Black staff in danger.” The New York Times‘s Wednesday publication of Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling for the U.S. military to respond to ongoing protests across the nation with an “overwhelming show of force” sparked outcry from the newspaper’s own staffers and a “sickout” protest Thursday. Among the staff critics was 2020 Pulitzer Prizer winner Nikole […]

The governor of Texas is calling for the resignation of Bexar County Republican Party Chair Cynthia Brehm after she posted a conspiracy theory on her Facebook page about the death of George Floyd, the Statesman reports. Brehm, who has claimed that the coronavirus pandemic is a Democratic hoax, suggested in her post that Floyd’s death […]

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Thursday praised former Defense Secretary James Mattis for speaking out against President Donald Trump, and then suggested she may not back his 2020 reelection campaign. As reported by Politico’s Andrew Desiderio, Murkowski described Mattis’s statement denouncing the president as “true, honest, necessary and overdue.” “Perhaps we’re getting to the point […]

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) called for the Judiciary Committee to look into why Attorney General Bill Barr issued a demand for law enforcement to gas, beat, and shoot protesters in Lafayette Square so that President Donald Trump could do a photo-op in front of St. John’s Church. Speaking in the committee hearing Thursday, Harris demanded […]

President Donald Trump’s Dept. of Justice is telling the U.S. Supreme Court it should allow religious and faith-based adoption agencies discriminate against LGBTQ families. Solicitor General Noel Francisco has filed a strongly-worded 35 page amicus brief in a case claiming that Catholic Social Services is being denied their First Amendment rights after signing a contract […]

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) blasted senators on the Judiciary Committee on Thursday for what he said was “grandstanding for the cameras” at a hearing to review former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. “It’s bullshit the way people grandstand for cameras in here,” Sasse told the committee. “The reality is if we didn’t have cameras […]

According to a new report from CBS News, the man who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery allegedly stood over his body and uttered a racial epithet. “Agent Richard Dial testified that the driver of the second pickup truck, Roddie Bryan, said Travis McMichael then stood over Arbery’s body and said a racial epithet before police […]

Bishop Mariann Budde, who earlier this week criticized President Donald Trump for using the St. John’s Church as a photo-op location without asking permission, was unable to access her church this week to hold a planned vigil. Mother Jones reports that Budde had wanted to use the church to hold a vigil in solidarity with […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) held the Judiciary Committee hearing on the latest Republican conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama illegally used the FISA court to spy on then-candidate Donald Trump. During his testimony Wednesday, Graham got Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to admit that in Aug. 2017 “there was no there there” about Russian […]

A black Texas man was viciously attacked in a racially motivated road rage incident. DeVonta Brown stopped to buy coffee at a McDonald’s drive-through in McKinney on his way to work Monday when the driver of a truck drove the wrong way to cut him off, and Brown said he screamed racial slurs at him […]

A California sheriff’s deputy who was working the scene of a protest is under investigation for wearing a patch with symbols depicting what the Orange County Sheriff’s Office describes as “extremist groups.” Image that surfaced online this Wednesday show a deputy wearing a patch with the symbols of the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters, which […]

The secretary of the U.S. Army was forced to come out and remind soldiers that even if they’re called up supplement police forces in cities around the U.S. that they still must abide by their oath to uphold the Constitution. In a Twitter statement Thursday, Ryan McCarthy posted a video of himself speaking to troops […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday lashed out at Gen. James Mattis, President Donald Trump’s former Defense secretary. Writing an op-ed in The Atlantic on Wednesday, Mattis highlighted the president’s tendency toward fascism and authoritarianism. It prompted Graham to tell the general he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. “To General Mattis, I think you’re […]