Новости за 14.10.2020

During the coronavirus pandemic, the lack of social distancing and protective face masks at President Donald Trump’s events have made them giant Petri dishes — including a MAGA rally that was held in Bemidji, Minnesota on September 18. And according to WCCO-TV, a CBS affiliate in Minneapolis, state health officials are saying that at least nine […]

A longtime GOP insider knows why many Republicans are sticking by President Donald Trump — even though they secretly hate his guts. Kurt Bardella, a former spokesperson and senior adviser for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republicans, writes for USA Today that many Republicans have spent years in a highly tribal political party […]

White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah on Wednesday faced questions from Fox News about why Republican lawmakers have been absent from President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign. “If you look at the polls, Biden is winning,” Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt told Farah. “And if you look at the crowds outside the Trump rallies, they go […]

The former Navy SEAL known for his role in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden spoke out against President Trump for amplifying a conspiracy theory that claims it was a body double of bin Laden that was shot, not the actual Al Qaeda leader. “Very brave men said good bye to their kids to […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) raised eyebrows by asking Amy Coney Barrett whether a constitutional right to polygamy existed. President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg refused to give her opinion on same-sex marriage and other legal topics throughout her confirmation hearings, but she gave her opinion on polygamous relationships. “Let’s see,” she said. […]

President Donald Trump’s chances of winning the 2020 presidential election continue to trend downward, and a brutal poll out of North Carolina shows just how much ground the president has lost even among groups who were once seen as his staunchest supporters. Local news station WRAL reports that a new poll of North Carolina voters […]

A failed Idaho gubernatorial candidate was charged in the 1984 murder of a 12-year-old girl. Steve Pankey, a 2014 Constitution Party candidate for governor who also ran in the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary in 2018, was taken into custody Monday on two first-degree murder charges, two violent crime charges and one second-degree kidnapping charge, reported […]

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday made a reference to “the good old days of segregation.” Graham opened the third day of Amy Comey Barrett’s confirmation hearing by defending the Supreme Court nominee’s refusal to answer questions. However, the South Carolina senator pointed out that Barrett could express an opinion about Brown […]

On Wednesday, writing for USA TODAY, Dr. Dean Taylor, a retired Army colonel, surgeon, and West Point graduate who represents Service Academy Physicians for Biden, penned an op-ed urging his fellow service doctors to reject President Donald Trump. “As physicians, we see extraordinary challenges,” wrote Taylor. “We share firsthand the pain of our patients’ families […]

President Donald Trump once again ratcheted up the rhetoric against Democratic rival Joe Biden by calling him a “communist” during a campaign rally on Tuesday. “My opponent stands with socialists and communists!” Trump said during the rally. “They want to turn America into communist Cuba or socialist Venezuela!” CNN’s John Avlon on Wednesday tore the […]

President Donald Trump has encouraged an “army” of supporters to show up to “monitor” polling places, which has raised concerns about intimidation and suppression. Voting rights activists and government officials fear Trump supporters will scare off Democratic voters afraid of possibly violent confrontation, and some officials suspect that’s the president’s intent, reported USA Today. “The […]

Late summer sunshine bathed a working-class neighborhood in suburban Olympia, Washington, on the first Thursday afternoon in September as Michael Forest Reinoehl left the Tanglewilde Terrace Townhomes, climbed behind the wheel of his silver Volkswagen station wagon and tossed a couple of travel bags onto the passenger seat. It was Reinoehl’s fifth day on the […]

During last week’s vice presidential debate, moderator Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief, asked Vice President Mike Pence about the U.S. COVID-19 death toll. Pence replied by touting the Trump administration’s actions to combat the pandemic, such as restrictions on travel from China, steps to expand testing and efforts to accelerate the production of […]

As California continues battling its worst wildfire season on record, new research shows that fall fire weather days — days with high temperatures, low humidity and high wind speeds — will double in parts of the state by the end of the century and will increase 40% by 2065. On these days all it takes […]

The week that Iowa reported its 90,000th confirmed case of COVID-19, Sen. Joni Ernst sat behind a plexiglass partition and told a debate audience watching from home what she thinks about masks. “Even though they’re homemade, they work,” said Ernst, an Iowa Republican, showing off a mask emblazoned with the logo of Iowa State University, […]

Amy Coney Barrett told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she’d keep an open mind about President Donald Trump delaying the election, but MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski called out her answer as unacceptable. The president’s Supreme Court nominee claims to be an originalist and textualist, which is rooted in the idea the Constitution should be interpreted based […]

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, whose political contributions are the subject of multiple congressional investigations and a campaign finance complaint, donated nearly $700,000 to the host committee who put on the Republican National Convention, according to recent Federal Election Commission filings. One $250,000 donation came the same day that DeJoy gave $210,600 to Trump Victory, a donation which is currently part of an inquiry led by Senate […]

Dr. Judith Herman, the co-founder of the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Health Alliance and a longtime psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, has been warning about President Donald Trump’s mental health since the 2016 election, when she called on then-President Barack Obama to request a “full medical and psychiatric evaluation” of the president-elect. Since then, […]

President Donald Trump is infuriating members of his own coronavirus task force by flouting public health recommendations — and many of them are reportedly in open rebellion against him. The Daily Beast reports that nearly all of the top health experts on the task force are “at their wits’ end with Trump,” who is now […]

President Donald Trump will hold a solo town hall Thursday instead of a debate with Joe Biden. NBC News will broadcast the 8 p.m. event, which will be moderated by “TODAY” anchor Savannah Guthrie, at the same time Biden will host his own town hall on ABC News, in Philadelphia. The president and his Democratic […]

MSNBC’s Michael Steele spent years winning over senior voters to Republican candidates, and he has no idea why President Donald Trump is purposefully insulting them. The president won over senior voters by nine points in 2016, but this past week a Wall Street Journal/NBC News national poll and another from CNN showed the Joe Biden […]

A former Harvard Medical School professor on Wednesday issued a scathing denunciation of President Donald Trump for explicitly backing a “herd immunity” strategy for handling the novel coronavirus. William Haseltine, a scientist best known for his groundbreaking research on HIV/AIDs, told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota that Trump’s White House is now explicitly telling Americans to get […]

Up to a third of people in certain countries may believe coronavirus misinformation and in turn be less open to immunisation, scientists said Wednesday, warning that development of a vaccine “might not be enough”. Researchers in Britain and the Netherlands conducted surveys in the UK, United States, Ireland, Mexico and Spain and found that while […]

The US Justice Department filed suit Tuesday against a former aide to Melania Trump over her tell-all book on the US first lady. The department said that Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who published the book “Melania and Me” last month, had committed not to disclose information about President Donald Trump’s wife that was gleaned from her […]

It should have been an idyllic dotage in coastal Florida for Gregory Zec and his wife. Instead, they are contemplating a retirement overshadowed by uncertainty and fear because of a viral outbreak that has laid low friends and family alike. Like other seniors, the 69-year-old and his septuagenarian wife are high risk for a raging […]