Новости за 20.08.2020

President Donald Trump is accusing the Twitter and its executive of being biased against Republicans, especially him, despite no evidence and the fact that for years he has been allowed to violate the social media platform’s terms of service with impunity. “It’s never a real Twitter Trending,” Trump said, on Twitter, referring to the top […]

JPMorgan Chase, the largest financial institution in the United States, is reportedly in talks with the U.S. Postal Service about a proposal to set up ATMs in post offices in several states across the country—a plan critics warned is an effort to eliminate the possibility of a public postal banking system. Capitol Forum reported Wednesday that the […]

Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff for the Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump, warned on Thursday that the president will not go quietly in November even if he is soundly defeated at the ballot box. During an interview on CNN, Taylor said that he expected the president to continue fighting to […]

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Thursday said that former President Barack Obama said something during his speech at the virtual Democratic National Convention that was seemingly tailor-made to enrage President Donald Trump. Specifically, Haberman zeroed in on Obama’s assertion that Trump has proven repeatedly that he is not equipped to handle the job […]

Liberal pundits often say that Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history. From this perspective, he’s a relic and a reactionary, a living reminder of all the skeletons in America’s closet. A Democratic victory in November thus feels inevitable, especially given Trump’s objectively awful handling of the pandemic. But history only moves the […]

In a column in USA Today that was both wistful and fearful, the former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party said she is finding the Democratic National Convention uplifting in ways that appeal to her and suggested the Republican National Convention next week to nominate Donald Trump will be a “circus of hate.” According […]

Donald Trump has been called Vladimir Putin’s puppet, but he is more than that. He is Putin’s willing and eager apprentice.As Election Day approaches, Trump is rapidly escalating his assaults on American democracy, freedom, the rule of law and the country’s political and social institutions, as well as the American people themselves. In all, Donald Trump […]

Democrats won legal rulings Wednesday blocking Green Party nominees for U.S. Senate, railroad commissioner and the 21st Congressional District from appearing on the November ballot. State and national Democrats are waging a legal offensive to kick Green Party candidates off the ballot in some of Texas’ highest-profile races this fall — and they are seeing […]

President Donald Trump’s attempts to fear monger about crime and violence in American cities are not going to rescue his flailing re-election campaign, predicted CNN political analyst Paul Begala. During a panel discussion about the 2020 election, CNN host Alisyn Camerota pointed out that Fox News has been blitzing its viewers with images of violence […]

Popular Google services including Gmail and Drive were down for many users around the world on Thursday, with the US technology giant telling affected people they were “aware of a service disruption.” Frustrated customers in countries including Australia, Japan, France and the United States complained online of the outage and tracking website DownDetector reported Google […]

Don’t be fooled by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s tactical retreat. The crisis isn’t over. Ten facts frame the story of how Trump is using the pandemic and the Postal Service to undermine the integrity of the presidential election. #1: The Postal Service Isn’t a Business The US Constitution empowered Congress “to establish post offices and […]

“Our economic system has been rigged to give bailouts to billionaires and kick dirt in the face of everyone else. But we can build a thriving economy by investing in families and fixing what’s broken.” Speaking during the third night of the Democratic National Convention from a Massachusetts kindergarten facility that’s been shuttered for months […]

Responding to a late-night attack from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) who appeared on Fox News on Wednesday to comment on the Democratic National Convention, Steve Schmidt fired back at John McCain’s running mate in 2008 for whining that he sabotaged her national run. Speaking with Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, Palin took a […]

PHILADELPHIA — As the coronavirus restrictions were lifted this summer, many young people flocked to reopened restaurants and bars, or planned backyard barbecues with friends they hadn’t seen in months.But not Christina Young. The 29-year-old is healthy, but her 20-month-old son, Jackson, has cystic fibrosis, a progressive lung disease that can turn a cold into […]

PHILADELPHIA — He walks hurriedly down the sidewalk, his tattered navy bag swaying back and forth, stuffed with letters, magazines, and small packages.“You’re still the mailman!” says a man in his 60s, nursing a cup of coffee by the bustling Upper Darby, Pa., street.“Yessir!” he replies. It’s Monday, the carrier’s first day back on the […]

State officials and federal agencies warn there’s a new phone scam circulating: Some callers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers try to pry credit card or bank account information from unsuspecting victims. The grifters apparently are taking advantage of a genuine public health intervention that’s crucial to stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus: contact tracing. […]

Thousands of people fled their homes in northern California on Wednesday as hundreds of fast-moving wildfires spread across the region, burning houses and leading to the death of a helicopter pilot. In Vacaville — a city of about 100,000 people located between the state capital Sacramento and San Francisco — residents were urged to evacuate […]

Kamala Harris accepted her historic vice presidential nomination Wednesday after being introduced by three of her closest female relatives, a symbol of the central role women have played in her trailblazing life and could have in November’s election. Known as “Momala” to her two step-children, the 55-year-old US senator and daughter of immigrants has embraced […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted Greta Thunberg and other leading Fridays for Future activists in Berlin on Thursday for talks on the EU’s climate goals, with the campaigners expected to condemn “political inaction”. Merkel said Swedish 17-year-old Thunberg and her co-campaigners Luisa Neubauer from Germany and Belgium’s Anuna De Wever and Adelaide Charlier had requested […]

Germany and France recorded their worst daily infection rates in months with concerns growing Thursday that coronavirus cases could spike in Europe just as holidaymakers return home and children go back to school. In the United States, the country’s top infectious diseases official, Anthony Fauci, said the government would not make any future COVID-19 vaccine […]

This fall’s elections are the latest chapter in the slow-motion collapse of the U.S. Postal Service, one of America’s most venerated institutions. As November approaches, members of Congress and state election officials have grown increasingly concerned that the USPS will fail at a critical moment: a closely contested vote that will involve a record number […]

The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was in intensive care in a Siberian hospital on Thursday after he fell ill in what his spokeswoman said was a suspected poisoning. Navalny, a 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner who is among President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, was being treated in a hospital in the city of Omsk […]

Beyond a mere source of entertainment, the video-sharing social media app TikTok has become a hub for quick educational videos, as users turn its 60-second video format into an opportunity to share interesting and informative lessons. User experience (UX) designer Mary Formanek (@UXWithMary) has become a viral TikTok influencer in this regard, in particular for her series of TikTok explainer videos breaking down politicians’ campaign […]

CNN’s panel responded to President Barack Obama’s speech by noting that it was one delivered by a leader fearful of a national emergency facing the United States. CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson noted that it many ways it seemed like Obama passing a baton to Sen. Kamala Harris, a daughter of immigrants and who will be the […]

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace praised the storytelling at the Democratic National Committee Convention on Wednesday night, following speeches by former President Barack Obama and the party’s vice presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. “Let me jump in on the Obama speech first because I actually think that these speeches went together in an interesting way, and I […]