Новости за 07.10.2020

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is seeing her 24-year legislative career boiled down to the last three years, and she doesn’t like it. The Maine Republican is running neck-and-neck with Democratic challenger Sara Gideon, whose campaign has focused on Collins’ record of voting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to enact President Donald Trump’s right-wing […]

President Donald Trump has not been tested daily for the coronavirus, the New York Times reported Tuesday, which raises questions about whether the White House lied about the issue recently in on-the-record emails with reporters. Citing “two people familiar with the practices,” The Times reported that “the president himself was not tested every day.” However, Salon had […]

Former police officer Derek Chauvin, who was charged earlier this year with third-degree murder in the death of Black Minneapolis resident George Floyd, has been released from custody. Local news station Fox 9 reports that Chauvin on Wednesday posted a non-cash $1 million bond and was subsequently released from the Oak Park Heights prison, where […]

According to Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope, a video shared by the Michigan Republican Party this Wednesday showing an unlocked ballot box was recorded before ballots were sent out in the mail, the Lansing State Journal reports. The state GOP said the video was shot two weeks ago at a ballot box outside the Foster Community Center. […]

Some frustrated Republicans are getting fed up with President Donald Trump’s new attempts to play down the novel coronavirus pandemic. In interviews with The Hill, anonymous GOP lawmakers took issue with Trump telling his followers that they had nothing to fear from the virus, which so far has killed more than 211,000 Americans in just […]

The Department of Justice has weakened its long-standing prohibition against interfering in elections, according to two department officials. Avoiding election interference is the overarching principle of DOJ policy on voting-related crimes. In place since at least 1980, the policy generally bars prosecutors not only from making any announcement about ongoing investigations close to an election […]

An elderly supporter who trusted President Donald Trump on the coronavirus has died from the illness, according to the man’s family. Juan Ciprian refused to wear a face mask because he believed the president’s assurances about the risk from the potentially deadly virus, the 81-year-old’s family members told the Boston Globe. “He was the only […]

More than 1,000 workers have tested positive for coronavirus at a Sri Lanka factory that until August was producing surgical masks for the US, officials said Wednesday, as they scrambled to find the source of the country’s biggest outbreak. The flurry of cases since the first positive test at the garment factory was reported three […]

Fans of President Donald Trump lashed out on Wednesday after former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina endorsed Democratic nominee Joe Biden. In an interview on Fox News, Fiorina said that she is just one of many Republican women who are voting for Biden. “In my view, President Trump has failed in his leadership,” Fiorina told […]

Two members of an Islamic State cell dubbed the “Beatles” accused of killing several Western hostages are to be brought to the United States on Wednesday to face charges, a Justice Department source said. El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of involvement in the murders of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff […]

President Donald Trump has raised concerns about his medicated state during his coronavirus treatment, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been concerned about his drug use for much longer. The president returned to the White House after three days at Walter Reed Medical Center, and Pelosi told “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg she’s not going […]

They were warned. President Donald Trump in late March touted a new rapid coronavirus test that produces a result within minutes. zHe called it a “whole new ballgame,” and bragged that “normally, this approval process from the FDA would take ten months, and even longer but we did it in four weeks.” Trump quietly implemented […]

President Donald Trump’s favorite pollster delivered very bad news for him on Wednesday. The latest national poll from Rasmussen Reports, which last month was the only pollster in the United States showing Trump leading Democratic rival Joe Biden in the national popular vote, now shows that the former vice president has opened up a massive […]

As President Trump compares the deadly COVID-19 outbreak to the flu despite being hospitalized for the virus, we speak to his only niece, Mary Trump, about his increasingly erratic behavior in the final weeks of the election season and how his family views illness as a weakness. “To be treated for something is to admit that […]

Republican candidate for the North Dakota House of Representatives, David Andahl, died from complications due to coronavirus this Monday. But with no way to replace his name on the November ballot, Secretary of State Al Jaeger says his name will stay, the Grand Forks Herald reports. “There’s no way to remove him,” Jaeger said. “At […]

President Donald Trump insisted — in all capital letters — that he was “entitled” to ask for another four-year term as repayment for a debunked conspiracy theory he revived weeks ahead of the election. The president announced Tuesday night during a marathon Twitter spree that he had declassified documents he claims will prove a conspiracy […]

A New York Times reporter this week went to speak with Trump voters in Pennsylvania and was disturbed to learn that they were being badly misinformed about the dangers of the novel coronavirus. In a tweet storm discussing his latest dispatch out of central Pennsylvania, reporter Trip Gabriel said that he found overall that “many […]

Gen. Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and NSA under President George W. Bush, told CNN on Wednesday that the United States could be left without allies if President Donald Trump is elected to a second term. Hayden, who recently suffered a stroke, spoke to CNN after releasing a video endorsing Joe Biden […]

Republican strategists have struggled to agree on a line of attack against Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket, branding her both a “radical leftist” and not progressive enough. We take a look at where she stands on the key issues as she prepares to square off with Vice President Mike […]

On Wednesday, ahead of the vice presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris, NBC reporter Amanda Golden posted a picture of the debate stage, complete with the infection control features the candidates and debate commission agreed to for the safety of the candidates, moderator, and audience — including the plexiglass barriers that Pence’s team […]

With his polling situation worsening, President Donald Trump on Wednesday thanked a rabid supporter who said she would endanger her own personal health to vote for him. A Trump-loving Twitter user named Heather on Tuesday evening boasted that she “would wade though a sea of COVID infested water to vote for President Trump on November […]

Fox News host Sandra Smith grilled Trump 2020 campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp over “the irresponsible nature” of how President Donald Trump handled his COVID-19 infection. Smith began her interview with Schlapp on Wednesday by pointing to a recent CNN poll which found that 63% of Americans believe Trump acted “irresponsibly” after testing positive for […]

The US biotech firm Eli Lilly on Wednesday announced it was seeking an emergency use authorization (EUA) for its lab-produced antibody treatments against Covid-19, after early trial results showed they reduced viral load, symptoms and hospitalization rates. “Our teams have worked tirelessly the last seven months to discover and develop these potential antibody treatments,” said […]

For the fifth time President Donald Trump has lost a court battle to shield his taxes. On Wednesday a three-judge federal appeals court panel ruled Trump’s taxes must be handed over to the Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals judges, Pierre N. Leval, Robert A. Katzmann, and Judge Raymond J. […]

President Donald Trump keeps sabotaging his own re-election campaign with just weeks to go, and one conservative says his presidency appears to be in freefall. The president returned to the White House from the Walter Reed Medical Center, where he was briefly treated for the coronavirus, and instead of being chastened he’s doubling down on […]