Новости за 26.08.2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently changed its guidelines for testing for the novel coronavirus in a way that could mean fewer people get tested — and now CNN is reporting that the agency faced pressure from “the upper ranks of the Trump administration” to make the change. An unnamed federal health official […]

One-time Republican strategist Rick Wilson on Wednesday issued a brutal warning to any GOP 2024 presidential hopefuls who think that they’ll stand any shot of winning if Donald Trump Jr. decides to run. During an appearance on MSNBC, Wilson argued that the Republican Party is about to become a family dynasty, and that any candidate […]

The French translation of Agatha Christie’s hit novel “And Then There Were None” will change its title to remove a racially-charged word already dropped from the British edition decades ago, its editor said Wednesday. The title “Dix Petits Negres”, or “Ten Little Niggers”, will become “Ils Etaient Dix” or “They Were Ten”. The decision to […]

Writing in the Washington Post this Wednesday, Greg Sargent contends that the GOP convention managed to accomplish something counterintuitive in politics: it flaunted President Trump’s “corrupt manipulation of the levers of government to remain in power — on national television, with absolute impunity.” “It also showcased a party that’s equally confident in its power to create […]

Trump voters. Nearly 4 years in, here’s an updated list of Trump’s 40 biggest broken promises. 1. He said coronavirus would “go away without a vaccine.” You bought it. But it didn’t. While other countries got the pandemic under control and avoided large numbers of fatalities, the virus has killed more than 130,000 Americans*, and […]

Shots were fired outside a Pennsylvania hotel where a civil rights group was staying. The Black Lives Matter group is marching from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C., but stopped in Bedford County after one of their members was shot the previous night, and state police were called to their hotel to investigate a report of gunshots, […]

In what is being called a “stunning reversal” the CDC has posted updated guidance saying that even in cases of close contact with someone infected with the coronavirus testing is “not necessarily” needed. On Tuesday the CDC quietly posted new guidance. “If you have been in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with […]

One of the most nail-biting presidential elections in U.S. history came in 2000, when Americans were unsure whether Democratic Vice President Al Gore or Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush won Florida’s electoral votes. In an article for The Atlantic, four reporters (Ena Alvarado-Esteller, David A. Graham, Cullen Murphy and Amy Weiss-Meyer) take an in-depth […]

More than half the ice shelves ringing Antarctica that prevent huge glaciers from sliding into the ocean and lifting sea levels are at risk of crumbling due to climate change, researchers said Wednesday. Melt water running into deep fissures caused by warming air is undermining the structural integrity of these natural barricades, they reported in […]

First lady Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention was overshadowed by an invitee list ripe with far-right fringe views and multiple likely violations of federal ethics laws.The first lady headlined the second night after ratings from the first night fell significantly short of last week’s Democratic National Convention, which featured former first lady Michelle […]

It’s a political truism that a second-term election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. And when you have President Trump’s terrible approval rating, the strategists all say that his only real hope is to refocus the electorate on Joe Biden and make voters disapprove of him more than they disapprove of Trump. Trump doesn’t really require such […]

Fox Business host Charles Payne on Wednesday complained about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s promise not to raise taxes on people making under $400,000 a year. During an appearance on Fox News, Payne argued that Americans have a “simple choice” because President Donald Trump wants to cut taxes for the richest Americans. “He’s not raising […]

A Ohio woman who voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 says that she regretted it almost instantly — and now she’s running for office in the hopes of kicking the GOP out of power. In an interview with Insider, Erin Rosiello, who is running for the Ohio House of Representatives as a Democrat, explains […]

Jerry Falwell, Jr. says he was bored and wanted to quit as president and chancellor of one of the world’s largest conservative Christian colleges. He also says his decision to resign was based in part on him not wanting his wife’s conduct to embarrass Liberty University, the school his “Moral Majority” father founded nearly 50 […]

On MSNBC Wednesday, anchor Stephanie Ruhle clashed with Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) after he tried to claim that the slowdowns at the Postal Service are “fake.” “You know, I was really disappointed that our small businesses, our unemployed workers were just ignored for Congress to rush back or fake Post Office crisis that didn’t exist,” […]

Vice President Mike Pence deserves much of the blame for the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic — which has now claimed nearly 180,000 lives in the United States. The vice president was placed in charge of the pandemic response in late February, when the U.S. still had zero deaths but scores of Americans […]

Donald Trump’s narcissism and his sociopathy and his sadism have been dominant in his political life as president. It is this psychopathology that underlies his yearnings for power and control and greed. He has felt empowered and emboldened to push the limits on the guardrails of democracy. As Philip Rotner writes in his 2019 Bulwark […]

On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that some Senate Republicans running for re-election are caught between trying to appease Trump supporters distrustful of their loyalty, and avoiding alienating everyone else. “For nearly four years, these Republicans have been obsequious toward Trump, almost never criticizing him publicly and professing ignorance when questioned about an incendiary remark […]

While participating in an antiracism protest in California in July that she helped organize, 20-year-old Tianna Arata was arrested. Now, according to the Los Angeles Times, her arrested has sparked a new protest movement. This Tuesday, hundreds of people showed up to a rally in front of the San Luis Obispo courthouse in a show of […]

A St. Louis couple who brandished weapons at protesters admitted on Wednesday that they need more firearms training due to “poor muzzle control.” Attorneys Mark and Patty McCloskey made the remarks on Fox Business after co-host Dagan McDowell grilled the couple over criticism from gun advocates. The couple appeared on the network after speaking to […]

Police in Tiburon, California were caught on video this week demanding that a Black businessman prove that he owned his own store — even though the store itself featured his photograph hung on the wall. Local news station ABC 7 reports that Yema Khalif, owner of the Yema clothing brand and store, was approached by […]

When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised to “drain the swamp” and declare war on crony capitalism — and he insisted that if he was elected, there would be a strict separation between his presidency and his business interests. But Dan Alexander, in Forbes, reports that according to Federal Election Commission filings, […]

Shortly after a devastating wildfire destroyed the small town of Paradise in Northern California in November 2018, Pacific Gas & Electric hired an obscure waste disposal company to help it rebuild from the fire. PG&E owed the firm millions of dollars when it abruptly terminated its business relationship this year. The utility giant announced that […]

One of the more pessimistic warnings about a Donald Trump presidency appears to be coming true. Right-wing militias are walking out of the anti-government shadows and standing side by side with law enforcement, and sometimes Republican Party officials, to counter demonstrations against racist police brutality. An overnight shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, left two people dead […]

On CNN Wednesday, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) clashed with anchor Alisyn Camerota over the violence unfolding in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a “vigilante” evidently opened fire on civil rights protesters Tuesday night. “I don’t know of anybody that supports vigilante justice. I mean, that man running with a long gun through a crowd and shooting […]