Новости за 31.08.2020

Conservative writer Jonathan Last doesn’t think much of President Donald Trump’s latest appeals to “law and order” given that he and his White House have sewn chaos throughout the United States over the last four years. Writing in The Bulwark, Last documents how Trump has regularly egged on violence among police and his own supporters, […]

During the first Clinton term, I worked on the public TV series In Performance at the White House. One of our episodes was an Aretha Franklin concert on the South Lawn. The show was great. It goes without saying what a remarkable talent she was. But Ms. Franklin was demanding, too. At one point she insisted […]

On Monday, First Lady Melania Trump’s former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff opened up in an interview with ABC News’ Lindsey Davis about the corruption and lies within the Trump family ahead of the release of her book, “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady.” “It was amateur hour then, and […]

President Donald Trump at one point hoped to reach a resolution with special counsel Robert Mueller like the myriad lawsuits he’s been involved with over the years, according to a new book. According to “Donald Trump v. the United States,” by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, the president assured his White House counsel that […]

Giancarlo Granda, the former pool attendant who earlier this month made explosive allegations against former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., opened up about his experience during a CNN interview on Monday. While talking with CNN host Alisyn Camerota, Granda accused Falwell and his wife, Becki Falwell, of engaging in “predatory behavior,” and he claimed […]

As schools and universities across Texas begin reopening, families, students and educators are adjusting to remote instruction, schools are preparing to file weekly reports on COVID-19 cases and universities are providing free on-campus coronavirus testing. The Texas Tribune spoke to epidemiologists and health experts about what the state can expect with schools and universities resuming online or in-person instruction. […]

Public health officials are growing alarmed at President Donald Trump’s decision to hire a doctor whose strategy for handling the novel coronavirus pandemic is to build herd immunity by having more people get sick. The Washington Post reports that the president has increasingly embraced the views of Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist from Stanford’s conservative Hoover […]

A Republican campaign consultant who led the “Swift Boat Veterans” smear on former Secretary of State John Kerry during his run for the presidency is making plans to come to Donald Trump’s rescue as his re-election campaign flounders. According to a report from Politico, Chris LaCivita will head up the Preserve America PAC that is […]

One conservative writer warned darkly that American democracy could be irrevocably harmed if President Donald Trump somehow wins a second term. The Republican Senate’s acquittal of Trump in the impeachment trial had exposed a glaring weakness in American democratic institutions, and writer Nathaniel Zelinsky wrote in The Bulwark that an election win could deal a […]

“This intelligence belongs to the American people, not the agencies which are its custodian.” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) indicated on Sunday that his committee may subpoena intelligence officials, following Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe’s announcement that regular election security briefings will be scaled back ahead of the general election. “This intelligence paid for by […]

In the previous two installments of this series, I chronicled the attempts made by an old friend to convince me of an outlandish conspiracy theory being promoted by the group of rabid online Donald Trump supporters known as “QAnon.” According to my friend, initiates of the Illuminati had teamed up with subterranean demons to torture, rape […]

An August budget document shows funding for the anti-abortion program would be maintained, but reduced for doctors and clinics that provide reduced-cost contraception and health screenings. Texas is proposing to cut nearly $3.8 million in funding from programs that offer low-income residents access to contraceptives and breast and cervical cancer screenings, while leaving intact a […]

A Star of David-adorned El Al plane took off Monday from Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, carrying a high-ranking US and Israeli delegation to Abu Dhabi in the first-ever direct commercial passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Israeli flag carrier’s flight marks the implementation of the historic US-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two nations and […]

Comedian Greg Larsen on Monday challenged his Twitter followers to name some of the most evil people in history — and he’d use the logic of Trump supporters to defend them. One of the first historical villains mentioned was the serpent from the Garden of Eden who enticed Adam and Eve to defy God by […]

US intelligence chief John Ratcliffe on Sunday defended his move to end in-person election security briefings to Congress, blaming a “pandemic” of leaks from lawmakers. The Director of National Intelligence wrote to top lawmakers from both parties in the House and Senate intelligence committees on Friday explaining the change. The announcement sparked accusations from senior […]

A prosecutor busted up self-defense claims by an Illinois teen who crossed state lines with a weapon and killed two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that claims by Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys are contradicted by video evidence and undermined by the law. “His […]

LeBron James described 2020 as the worst year of his life on Saturday, with the Los Angeles Lakers superstar losing two of his black heroes just seven months apart. James honored actor Chadwick Boseman prior to the Lakers game five first-round playoff contest against Portland by folding his arms across his chest in the Wakanda […]

Hundreds of people demonstrated Sunday in the US city of Boston against a new state rule mandating flu shots for students, a measure intended to ease the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The northeastern state of Massachusetts became on August 19 the first in the United States to add seasonal flu shots to a list […]

The last four years have been deeply traumatizing to millions of Americans as we have watched our nation in the stranglehold of a maniacal, dictatorial and compulsively deceptive president. But it is worth examining the relationship that President Donald Trump has with his voters in order to understand why he won the 2016 election and […]

Lady Gaga cleaned up at MTV’s Video Music Awards Sunday, an unorthodox show that paid socially distanced homage to New York City as themes of voting and racial justice punctuated the night. The 2020 VMAs — a show known more for ostentatious performances, made-for-Twitter moments and wild costumes than the actual awards — was scaled […]

The Indian military on Monday accused China of carrying out “provocative” movements on their contested Himalayan border near where 20 Indian troops were killed in a battle in June. A defence ministry statement said the incidents happened in eastern Ladakh on Saturday night but did not indicate whether there was a new clash. Chinese People’s […]

Panelists on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” pondered the reasons for President Donald Trump’s weekend Twitter meltdown. New polling shows the president’s approval rating had fallen even further behind Joe Biden’s since the conventions ended, and host Joe Scarborough asked the Rev. Al Sharpton whether that had freaked Trump out. “Clearly Joe Biden [is] rising with approval […]

In response to the civil rights movement and Black America’s embrace of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party chose to make racism the centerpiece of their electoral strategy. This article first appeared in Salon. From the “Southern strategy” and Richard Nixon’s summoning of “law and order” to Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queens” and appeals to “states’ rights”, Willie Horton, the Tea Party […]

“Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver dedicated his entire show to two stories of the week: the Republican Convention and the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He began by characterizing the RNC as a week full of lying in front of flags. In just two minutes, Oliver took down the idea that anything the GOP said […]

A January 2020 memo to all House members from the Ethics Committee may mean that Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) is in trouble for the deep-fake video that he posted online this weekend. Scalise was outed for doctoring a video of ALS healthcare activist Ady Barkan and using computer audio to change the comments Barkan said […]