Новости за 05.08.2020

Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia was protested by some of her own employees on Tuesday. “WNBA players are wearing ‘Vote Warnock’ T-shirts to games this week to support Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is challenging Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) for her Senate seat,” ESPN reported Tuesday. “Last month Loeffler wrote a letter to […]

At Tuesday’s White House press briefing on coronavirus, President Donald Trump opened by discussing the fireworks factory explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, saying that it “looks like a terrible attack.” Pressed by reporters, Trump doubled down. “I met with some of our great generals,” he said. “They seem to think it was an attack. It was […]

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took the podium in the press briefing room for yet another updated on the coronavirus pandemic. The president’s speech, which mostly stuck to script, earned scorn from commenters on social media. All his stats sound like they’re coming from his “94% approval” poll numbers calculator. Who’s behind the data manipulations? […]

President Donald Trump may have put a Fox Business personality in charge of aliens during a Tuesday interview. “A lot of my friends are very concerned about what the federal government is doing when it comes to UFOs,” Lou Dobbs said. “Are you going to commit more resources to exploring UFOs and opening the documents […]

On Tuesday, in a police misconduct case, Mississippi federal judge Carlton Reeves reluctantly granted qualified immunity to the officer involved — but not before a blistering opinion dozens of pages long, slamming the legal status quo and demanding that the Supreme Court step in to stop giving police officers near-total immunity from lawsuits for misconduct […]

According to Politico, the anti-Trump conservatives of the Lincoln Project have set their sights on a new goal: peel white evangelicals away from the president. “On Wednesday, Vote Common Good will launch a new partnership with the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump GOP group founded by veteran Republican strategists, to mobilize faith voters to reject Trump […]

President Donald Trump grew up in a life of privilege in New York City and is positioning himself in the 2020 election based on caricatures of what conservative voters want, according to a New York Times report by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Maggie Haberman. Haberman began by noting Trump’s defense of the Confederate flag. “People love […]

The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday reported its quarterly earnings were hit hard as the pandemic emptied theme parks and cruise ships, while it hit a new milestone for streaming subscriptions. The entertainment colossus said it lost $4.7 billion on revenue that revenue of $11.8 billion — about half of the amount of money it […]