Новости за 13.06.2020

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her official birthday on Saturday in subdued style, with a scaled down version of the traditional “Trooping the Colour” ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 94-year-old monarch watched a smaller military parade in the grounds of Windsor Castle, where she has been staying during the COVID-19 outbreak, in her […]

In a column for the Daily Beast, conservative commentator Matt Lewis said that Americans are finally seeing Donald Trump for “abusive deadbeat dad” that he is — and it will cost him the election. Lewis — who renounced the Republican Party after they spent three years of backing the president no matter what he does […]

The Federal Reserve has vowed to provide up to US$2.3 trillion in lending to support households, employers, financial markets and state and local governments struggling as a result of the coronavirus and corresponding stay-at-home orders. Let that number sink in: $2,300,000,000,000. I have a Ph.D. in economics, direct the Sound Money Project at the American […]

North Korea on Saturday issued another angry statement against Seoul, this time excoriating it for “nonsensical” statements on the stalled dialogue about Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons. South Korea has been the target of a wave of angry statements recently from the North, which has accused Seoul of allowing defectors to launch leaflets critical of leader Kim […]

The Grand Rex cinema in Paris said on Friday it had been forced to cancel a scheduled screening of the 1939 classic amid a renewed controversy over the film’s racist content, a move France’s culture minister described as “incomprehensible”. The iconic Paris cinema had programmed the Oscar-winning Civil War epic for June 23 as part […]

Imagine that you are a black citizen of this country. Every day, you wake up in your house or your apartment, and you must wonder, is this the day? Is this the day I’m going to be jogging down a neighborhood street, like Ahmaud Arbery, and be killed by armed civilians? Is this the day […]

Fifty years ago this month, modern football was born at the World Cup in Mexico, kicking and yelling, and live in vibrant color for a global audience. This weekend marks the anniversary of the quarter-finals of that tournament as a star-studded cast played a thrilling series of knock-out games which built to a dazzling final, […]

As part of his “New Rules” segment on HBO’s Real Time, host N Bill Maher slammed Republican lawmakers who have done nothing to rein in Donald Trump for over three years as he has run roughshod over national policies, political norms and common decency. Equating the president to someone who doles out rough sex, Maher […]

It’s long past time to stop excusing Donald Trump’s racist trolling as the accidental bumblings of an idiot who doesn’t know better. That’s not to claim Trump is a political genius — or even a person of average intelligence. But he has managed to direct the limited IQ points at his disposal towards the practice of racist trolling, […]

A new report from NBC News on Friday night about internal White House debates shone a revealing light on the abject leadership failures of President Donald Trump. The piece documents his dueling camps of advisers, both in the campaign and the administration, who are split over how Trump should react to the ongoing protests over […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A prominent women’s hospital here has separated some Native American women from their newly born babies, the result of a practice designed to stop the spread of COVID-19 that clinicians and health care ethicists described as racial profiling. Lovelace Women’s Hospital in Albuquerque implemented a secretive policy in recent months to conduct […]

Confederate monuments are coming down and statues of Christopher Columbus are being toppled as Americans grapple with the ghosts of the country’s racial history in the wake of George Floyd’s death. “It seems like maybe we’ve hit a tipping point in the retelling of the narrative of who we are as an American people,” said […]

Coronavirus-hit car rental company Hertz was granted permission Friday to sell $1 billion in shares, an extraordinary move after it declared bankruptcy in the United States and Canada. The unusual green light was given by a bankruptcy court in the US state of Delaware, which “held a hearing and approved the Motion,” according to documents […]

Lockdowns were imposed in parts of Beijing on Saturday to try and prevent the spread of a new coronavirus cluster, highlighting the challenges that lie ahead even for places where outbreaks are under control. It came as Brazil claimed the unenviable position of having the second-highest virus death toll worldwide behind the United States, with […]

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) suffered intense mockery online after his attorney acknowledged setbacks in their attempt to unmask a parody Twitter account posing as his cow. After the latest development in the case of Nunes fight @DevinCow in court, the Republican congressman was met with derision online. Here’s some of what people were saying: In […]

President Donald Trump reversed course for one of the first times in his presidency with a late-night announcement on Twitter on Friday. After 11 p.m. in New Jersey, where he is staying at his Bedminster resort, Trump announced he would change the date of his first post-coronavirus rally back a day, after widespread criticism. We […]

George Takei, the pioneering Asian American “Star Trek” actor and LGBTQ icon, said massive anti-racism protests this month show the US is “making progress” on diversity, but warned the pandemic is renewing deep-rooted prejudices. Speaking to AFP ahead of his address at the University of California Los Angeles’ virtual commencement Friday, Takei said the tens […]

On CNN Friday, late-night anchor Don Lemon tore into President Donald Trump for his remarks about Abraham Lincoln on Fox News. “63 percent of Americans disapprove of how this president is handling race relations. He just won’t hear them,” said Lemon. “You can hear him, right? You can hear him comparing himself to President Lincoln. […]

Federal prosecutors allege a man impersonated a federal agent during a Black Live Matter protest in Las Vegas. “A formidably armed man with a Nazi tattoo who tried to march alongside police at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas is facing a charge of impersonating a federal officer,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported […]

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump dislikes the idea of giving his acceptance speech for the GOP renomination to a crowd of people wearing masks. “The president has remarked to allies in recent days that thousands of people protesting police brutality in cities across the country have disregarded social distancing guidelines […]

On Friday, crowds of demonstrators gathered in Brandenburg, Kentucky — a small city west of Louisville — to protect a Confederate monument after local discussion of getting rid of it. Local reporter Jessie Cohen posted images of the pro-Confederate demonstrators, many of whom arrived with weapons. We just arrived in Bradenburg where the city is […]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday said a wave of anti-racism protests across Britain had been “hijacked by extremists”, as fears mounted about clashes between activists and far-right groups, and vandalism spread. Several statues were boarded up as a precaution, including one of World War II leader Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph war memorial in […]

In a new interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, President Donald Trump repeatedly shoved his foot in his mouth and stumbled as he tried and failed to cogently address the issue of racism in the United States. At one point during the discussion, Trump returned to a claim he has made many times, that his […]

On MSNBC Friday, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) elaborated on her previous remark that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin “gets an F” for his explanation of why the administration is blocking congressionally required disclosure of information on coronavirus stimulus funds. “So I guess the argument, as I understand it and I will make to you and you […]

During the George Floyd protests, President Donald Trump and his allies in the right-wing media — including Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson at Fox News — have been obsessed with the Antifa movement, claiming that its activists were a major source of violence at the protests. But when it comes to Antifa, hysteria often takes […]