Новости за 26.08.2020

Intelligence and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance is criticizing President Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention performance from Tuesday night, noting the extreme similarity to images of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. President Trump inappropriately if not illegally used uniformed members of the U.S. Military in video of him walking in the White House to attend […]

While President Donald Trump famously shifted several states in the Democrats’ Midwestern “Blue Wall” into the GOP column in 2016, his candidacy also shifted many longtime GOP strongholds significantly to the left — although not by enough to benefit Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. An analysis posted at FiveThirtyEight shows that Arizona, Georgia, and Texas have […]

The fury over racial injustice that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s killing has forced Americans to confront their history. That’s unfamiliar territory for most Americans, whose historical knowledge amounts to a vague blend of fact and myth that was only half-learned in high school and is only half-remembered now. If their historical knowledge […]

On Tuesday, in an interview with Vox, “Grifters Club” author Sarah Blaskey walked through how President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club has become a tool for overseas billionaires to sway the president. “You document in the book how by 2018 Mar-a-Lago’s revenue had more than doubled compared to the year before Trump launched his presidential […]

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Wednesday predicted that first lady Melania Trump’s efforts to soften her husband’s image at the Republican National Convention would flop the minute the president starts tweeting again. In analyzing the first lady’s speech, Scaramucci said she deserved praise for showing empathy toward the families of Americans who […]

Melania Trump praised her husband and his coronavirus response during her speech at the Republican National Convention, but her privately recorded comments could upend his re-election campaign. A forthcoming tell-all book by the first lady’s former friend and aide reportedly contains taped conversations of her complaining about the president and his children, but she could […]

The president of the United States is relentlessly threatening the right of citizens to exercise their right to vote. He is also saying that he might not leave office if he loses the election, and that the election is “rigged” — unless he wins. He also spends most of his days watching television, raging, fulminating, […]

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough marveled at the “absolutely shameless” lies on display in the second night of the Republican National Convention. Administration officials, outside allies and Trump family members praised the president and attacked his enemies from government property during the virtual event, which was made necessary by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic that White House economic […]

A former spokeswoman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday gave an alarming analysis of what is happening in the United States, especially in light of deadly clashes in Kenosha, Wisconsin that reportedly involved an armed vigilante shooting demonstrators. In particular, Carpenter noted how the president potentially broke the law by using his pardon powers […]

Former Ambassador Nikki Haley delivered one of the starring speeches Monday night at the Republican National Convention, putting a softer face of President Donald Trump’s version of conservatism while joining his rallying cry in the culture war. At one point in her speech, she tried to draw a contrast between the GOP and its Democratic […]

Homeland Security officials repeatedly sounded the alarm against domestic right-wing terrorism, but President Donald Trump and other administration officials ignored them — even after acts of domestic right-wing terror. Elizabeth Neumann, who served as DHS assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy, said the president remained single-mindedly focused on stopping border crossings, and the […]

Prosecutors urged UN judges on Wednesday to uphold former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s genocide conviction, saying he personally oversaw the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys. Mladic, 78, is appealing against his 2017 conviction and life sentence by a tribunal in The Hague for genocide over the massacre and […]

Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday he was adding 36 more counties to his state disaster declaration as Hurricane Laura approached the Texas coast. Fifty-nine of Texas’ 254 counties are now under the disaster declaration. Earlier in the day, the mayor of Galveston called for a mandatory evacuation of the city after Tropical Storm Laura strengthened into a hurricane and […]

Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson writes in The Daily Beast that his one-time party’s convention this year has become nothing more than a “Republican funeral pyre.” In his latest column, titled “Republican Funeral Pyre,” Wilson outlines how the GOP convention has become nothing more than a giant salve for President Donald Trump’s ego rather than […]

CHICAGO — The members of the Obama family, two of whom made notable television appearances as part of this week’s Democratic National Convention, include two Portuguese Water Dogs who lived in the White House. Those dogs — as you may have forgotten or never known or never cared — were named Bo, a male, and […]

CHICAGO — There is a historian who lives in Edgewater who is changing the way we think about American political history. Specifically, he’s been altering the way we think about the 60-year rise of the conservative right, from its floundering days of Barry Goldwater to the Reagan Revolution, depositing seeds that rose into a Trump. […]

MINNEAPOLIS — For 48 years in a row, Linda Christensen spent each August at the Minnesota State Fair’s butter booth, carving the heads of the state’s dairy princesses out of 90-pound blocks of butter.During that time, the butter heads evolved from foodstuff to cultural icon, much like Minnesota-made Spam. The golden-yellow princesses are equal parts […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — She was afraid of catching the coronavirus — so fearful, in fact, that she switched jobs to pack tomatoes for an employer who seemed to be taking the right precautions.But Maria Claudia Garcia got sick anyway.A farmworker from Venezuela living in the San Joaquin Valley town of Mendota, she came down with […]

North Korean state media on Wednesday showed leader Kim Jong Un at a meeting of a top committee issuing warnings about the coronavirus and a looming typhoon, following international speculation over his state of health. Kim‘s comments come amid conjecture over his condition after South Korea’s spy agency said he had delegated some authority to […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel views with “great gravity” the latest flare-up on the Lebanese border and pledged a tough response in the event of further incidents. “We shall react forcefully to any attack against us,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “I advise Hezbollah not to test Israel’s strength. Hezbollah is once […]

Hillary Clinton, who lost to Donald Trump in 2016, said Tuesday that this year’s Democratic challenger Joe Biden should refuse to concede until all votes are counted in a tight and possibly drawn-out contest. Clinton said that possible delays in tallying ballots — with mail-in voting set to reach unprecedented levels — mean Biden must […]

t is the film of the summer — the release that cinema operators, beset by coronavirus regulations around the world which have largely kept audiences at home, are praying will reboot the industry. That film is Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet”, a clever blockbuster that slips between espionage and science fiction. After several postponements, “Tenet”, which ran […]

First lady Melania Trump addressed the Republican National Committee Convention on Tuesday evening. The partisan political speech was given from the White House, with the first lady speaking behind the official presidential seal. Here is some of what people were saying about the claims in her speech: First Lady Melania Trump offers well-wishes to all […]

“Cissie” Graham Lynch is following in the footsteps of her father, far right-wing evangelical Franklin Graham, delivering an ugly and hate-filled attack on transgender girls on national television in prime time, when thousands of young, vulnerable LGBTQ children and teens may be watching. During Tuesday’s Republican National Convention Cissie Graham called transgender girls “boys” who […]

A leading Democratic group accused Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., of hypocrisy for campaign ads touting Daines as tough on China after he repeatedly met with Chinese Communist Party officials on trips paid for by taxpayers — while avoiding town halls with his constituents back home.Daines, who holds a narrow lead over Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock in what […]