Новости за 10.02.2020

According to an exclusive report from Reuters, internal complaints are emerging from the US Justice Department’s anti-human trafficking grant program. The complaints stem from two nonprofits that were denied funds which instead went to two less established groups “whose applications were not recommended by career DOJ officials.” “The awarding of more than $1 million total to the […]

Staff members at the Ottawa County Jail in Miami, Oklahoma are shown both mocking and ignoring the calls for help from an inmate who would be found dead in his cell hours later. Authorities this week released surveillance footage taken from the jail in October 2015, when inmate Terral Ellis Jr. died days after he […]

During a business session at the White House this Monday, President Trump called on Utah Governor Gary Herbert to ask a question, but before he could get a word out, the President used the moment to take a dig at Mitt Romney. “How’s Mitt Romney?” Trump asked. “I haven’t talked to him,” Herbert replied. “You keep […]

Retired Brig. Gen. Peter Zwack served as a mentor to Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who has ended up as the target of President Donald Trump’s revenge for the impeachment over the Ukraine scandal. Speaking to CNN Monday, Zwack recalled when he was serving in Afghanistan and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) came to see the troops […]

After the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate acquitted President Donald Trump during his impeachment trial on February 5, some Republicans were hoping he would leave well enough alone and not try to take revenge. Instead, Trump fired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland (U.S. ambassador to the European Union) as well as Vindman’s brother, Lt. Col. […]

This is not a post about our president but something more general, a lifestyle that can be adopted by anyone in any arena, at any scale, for any reason, in any culture, disguised as serving any goal. It is an attempt at a unified theory of what makes some humans particularly dangerous company, the product […]

President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade wars are expected to cost the average American family $1,277 a year, according to a new study by the Congressional Budget Office. But for some families, things have been even worse. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, not their real names, have lost $32,000 this past year from their pecan farm in […]

Half of the one million animal and plant species on Earth facing extinction are insects, and their disappearance could be catastrophic for humankind, scientists have said in a “warning to humanity”. “The current insect extinction crisis is deeply worrying,” said Pedro Cardoso, a biologist at the Finnish Museum of Natural History and lead author of […]

Trump’s Bureau of Land Management, now run by attorney William Perry Pendley, wants to take our nation back to the days of the Dust Bowl when ranchers lorded over public land and their cattle grazed away the natural vegetation and destroyed the topsoil. The bureau has scheduled meetings this month in Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and […]

Many political observers have found themselves baffled at how many people could support a billionaire like President Donald Trump even while claiming to be against America’s ruling elites. In a conversation with Slate’s Virginia Heffernan, author Joel Stein explains why there are actually two categories of elites in the United States, intellectual elites and economic […]

The president’s revenge began in November when the US Treasury Department sent highly sensitive financial documents tied to Hunter Biden to three Senate panels led by Republicans. Donald Trump’s vengeance continued Friday when not only national security official Alexander Vindman was perp-walked out of the White House but his twin brother, too. Yevgeny Vindman had […]

Bangladeshi authorities have suspended a high school headmaster who cut the hair of scores of students in an effort to discipline them, sparking protests in a western rural town, officials said Monday. Sekandar Ali, headmaster of Joari High School in Baraigram town, started cutting the boys’ hair with barber’s scissors on Sunday afternoon, creating panic […]

President Donald Trump had a lot to say about health care when he gave his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, February 4, claiming that he was determined to protect coverage for preexisting health conditions and that “socialist” Democrats were trying to rob Americans of the health plans they love. Problem: the Trump Administration […]

In the wake of an Iranian missile attack on the al Asad military base in Iraq this past January 8, over 100 US service members have been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injuries, CNN reports. The tally is a jump from the Pentagon’s initial assessment that said 64 service members had been diagnosed with injuries. Speaking to CNN last […]

A new profile of the wonderfully foul-mouthed political scientist and rising election prognisticator Rachel Bitecofer describes her theories about voting as “unsettling,” and there’s no question that they’ve been received that way by many. They certainly have caused a stir. In brief, Bitecofer disputes the conventional wisdom that elections are won or lost on the […]

President Donald Trump said Monday the time has come to pursue trade negotiations with the European Union which he said imposes “incredible” barriers to US goods. “Europe has been treating us very badly,” Trump said at a White House event with US state governors. After a reaching a series of trade deals with Canada, Mexico […]

George Conway, the husband of Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, argued in the Washington Post on Monday that President Donald Trump may need to be impeached again. In his column, Conway outlines how Trump has only grown more emboldened to violate his oath of office ever since getting acquitted by the Senate last week, […]

John Bolton never had any intention of testifying in Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. And he knew he would never have to.Trump’s former national security adviser threw Democrats a sucker punch by pretending that he was noble enough to stand up against his old boss and the entire Republican Party. Turns out, he’s a selfish […]

The state of New York has sued the Trump administration over a new policy that bars thousands of New Yorkers from taking advantage of programs that speed up passage through airport security lines and borders, Reuters reports. “In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, New York said the ban violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee […]

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and former European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland were both pushed out of their positions over the weekend — but sources tell CNN they were both planning on leaving anyway and that President Donald Trump wanted to push them out sooner. According to CNN’s sources, both Sondland and Vindman “had seen their […]

President Donald Trump once again called for the death penalty for drug dealers. The president has repeatedly praised authoritarian nations that execute people for selling illegal drugs, and he did so again Monday at a White House meetings with governors. “Countries with a powerful death penalty, with a fair but quick trial, they have very […]

Imagine that it’s January 1941, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt is delivering his annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. The planet is literally on fire from the Big One, World War II. Nazi Germany has overrun France and Adolf Hitler’s regime has been raining bombs on London for months. […]

The US Justice Department announced indictments of four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army for alleged involvement in the massive 2017 hack of the database of giant US credit rating agency Equifax. The hackers are accused of stealing the sensitive personal information on some 145 million Americans, in one of the world’s largest ever data […]

There are over 40,000 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in China and over 900 people have died from the epidemic in that country alone, but President Donald Trump on Monday says Americans should not worry because China has told him things will be better by April. Trump cited “the heat” as the cause for his optimism. Steve Herman, White House […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom bashed President Donald Trump and his Republican enablers during an appearance on “The View.” The Democratic governor boasted his record on challenging Trump administration policies and protecting groups attacked by the president, and he promised not to abandon his principles. “Hey, I’m not going to turn into Lindsey Graham,” Newsom said. […]