Новости за 20.08.2020

Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden is poised to make the most important speech of his long political career on Thursday as he accepts the party’s nomination to take on Republican Donald Trump in a November election taking place under the grim shadow of an unprecedented health and economic crisis. “We can’t go back to […]

One of the recently indicted members of the “We Build the Wall” crowdfunding campaign allegedly used money from donors to buy a ship that was seen last month participating in a “boater parade” in honor of President Donald Trump. As flagged by New York Times reporter Evan Hill, the United States Attorney’s Office for the […]

Former top Trump White House aide Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday morning by U.S. Postal Service agents, and will be indicted on two charges of criminal fraud. The maximum penalties, MSNBC reports, is 20 years for each charge. Bannon, a right wing white nationalist is a so-called “populist conservative” who served President Donald Trump as […]

President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. publicly endorsed the organization now the target of a fraud investigation. It was reported Thursday that former Trump campaign and White House advisor Steve Bannon was indicted and arrested after his group We Build The Wall was outed for lying to donors and using the money to fund […]

Writing for The Guardian this Thursday, Richard Wolffe says that for the last four years, President Trump hasn’t had an “appropriate adversary.” But on Wednesday, “the animating force behind Trump’s animus reappeared on screen to declare the beginning of the end of the Trump era – or democracy as we know it.” Wolffe is referring […]

As fall approaches rapidly, many are wondering if the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021. I am a physician-scientist and infectious diseases specialist at the University of Virginia, where I care for patients and conduct research into COVID-19. I am occasionally asked how I can be sure that researchers […]

Conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin attacked the Republican Party for being the party that welcomes “bigots and wackos” in her Thursday column. This month, the GOP has earned two new candidates among their ranks that are avid supporters in the “satanic cannibalism” conspiracy theorists group QAnon. “It is a favorite game in politics to […]

Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said on Thursday that former Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon could spend up to 20 years in jail if the government’s case against him holds up. Following Bannon’s arrest, Napolitano spoke about the allegations that Bannon defrauded donors through a charity that raised $25 million to build a border […]

Just over 1.1 million people filed new claims for jobless benefits in the week ended August 15, the US Labor Department said Thursday, defying expectations for a more moderate rise. That was an increase of 135,000 from the week prior and brought new claims back above the one million mark, only the third time new […]

Attorney General Bill Barr two months ago fired former Southern District of New York prosecutor Geoffrey Berman, who only agreed to step down after he was assured that deputy Audrey Strauss would take over his job in an acting role. On Thursday morning, it was Strauss who announced that charges had been filed against former […]

President Donald Trump has lost another case against Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance, who is seeking the president’s financial documents as part of a grand jury case looking into possible bank and tax fraud. Trump has lost his case against Cy Vance in federal district court, trying to block the subpoena. More details to come. […]

On CNN Thursday, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig walked through the federal fraud charges against former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. “So this is essentially a massive embezzlement that is being alleged here, and a fraud,” said Honig. “First of all, is in the way that the defendants, including Steve Bannon, who is one of the […]

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany faced a grilling from Fox News on Thursday about President Donald Trump’s praise of a group of potentially violent conspiracy theorists. Fox News host Sandra Smith asked McEnany about Trump’s claim that QAnon are “people who love our country” that “like me very much.” Smith explained that a recent […]

According to a report from Politico’s Melanie Zanona, GOP activists and consultants are growing worried that the emerging leaders of the Republican Party, should Donald Trump be defeated in November, will be hardcore Trumpists who will turn off voters even more and keep the party in the minority for the foreseeable future. With polling showing […]

In his most recent press conference, President Donald Trump was given the explicit opportunity to disavow the QAnon conspiracy theory, and refused. Even after being told by a reporter that QAnon supporters believe he is undertaking a secret operation to save the world from a ring of Satanic flesh-eating pedophiles, Trump said, “Is that supposed […]

Former Trump White House political strategist Steve Bannon has been charged with criminal fraud for his role in a crowd-funded campaign to build President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Thursday that Bannon and several other leaders of the ‘We […]

An explosive new report published in Vanity Fair claims that many staffers at Fox News feel they’re “trapped” in a “cult” surrounding President Donald Trump — and even Fox host Sean Hannity worries about the president’s mental state. The report, which was written by CNN’s Brian Stelter, documents how Trump frequently talks with Hannity, who […]

After President Donald Trump’s call to boycott Goodyear tires over their policy limiting the wearing of political apparel by employees at work, officials in Akron, Ohio, where the company is based, were quick to hit back, according to KHOU 11. Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan replied directly to the president, condemning his statement and using a […]

A man who helped his elder brother carry out a suicide bomb attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in the English city of Manchester three years ago which killed 22 people was jailed for at least 55 years on Thursday. Hashem Abedi, 23, was found guilty in March of murder for encouraging and helping his brother Salman to blow […]

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Our biomedical engineering lab has developed a way to potentially neutralize viruses lingering in the air using aerosols of FDA-approved food coloring dyes. Aerosols are tiny bits of solid or liquid matter suspended in air. Our idea was inspired by photodynamic […]

As Americans across the nation protest police violence, people have begun to call for cuts or changes in public spending on police. But neither these nor other proposed reforms address a key problem with solving crimes. My recent review of 50 years of national crime data confirms that, as police report, they don’t solve most […]

The Fox News morning show Fox & Friends visited a diner in New Jersey on Thursday where people who refused to wear masks slammed the Democratic National Convention. Prior to Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s Thursday night address, Fox News host Pete Hegseth made his first trip back to a diner since the COVID-19 pandemic began. […]

More than a quarter of New Delhi’s 20 million residents may have caught the novel coronavirus without showing symptoms, a study released Thursday indicated, raising fresh doubts about India’s official case numbers. Extrapolated, the antibody study on 15,000 residents means 5.8 million people in the bustling capital could have caught the virus — more than […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has helped President Donald Trump put dozens of young, ideological right-wing judges on the district and circuit courts, as well as two on the Supreme Court. The goal is to ensure Trumpism outlasts Trump, and that Democrats cannot pass their agenda even if voters elect them to do so. […]

Writing at Bloomberg, Jonathan Bernstein explained that Donald Trump’s call for a boycott of the Ohio-based Goodyear tire company over a perceived slight is both a sign of desperation and a problem for his campaign as he tries to shore up support in a much-needed battleground state. As the columnist notes, this is yet another […]