Новости за 05.08.2020

Allan Lichtman, a political historian who teaches at American University in Washington, D.C., became famous for correctly predicting President Donald Trump’s upset win four years ago. But in a new interview with The New York Times, Lichtman makes the case that Trump appears very unlikely to win a second term as the country has been […]

President Donald Trump made clear he’s pinning his re-election chances on opposing Black Lives Matter. The president attacked the movement as a “Marxist group” during a Wednesday morning appearance on “Fox & Friends,” but insisted he’s done more for Black Americans than almost anyone else in history. “With the possible exception of Abraham Lincoln, it’s […]

On Wednesday, The Daily Beast reported that Defense Department officials were confused by President Donald Trump’s claim that the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon was “a bomb of some kind.” “CNN has reportedly spoken to U.S. defense officials who said there is absolutely no indication that it was an attack and, if there was, efforts would […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has enabled President Donald Trump at every turn, but his slavish devotion may cost his leadership. The Kentucky Republican faces a tough election fight back home, and McConnell has signaled to GOP senators they could “distance from Trump if necessary” as previously safe seats suddenly come into play, according […]

President Donald Trump gave a long, rambling interview to “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday in which he repeated a number of false claims about the United States’ handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the interview, Trump falsely claimed that children were “virtually immune” to the disease, that Democrats were only keeping schools closed to hurt […]

President Donald Trump and his allies have been waging a disinformation campaign about mail-in voting, aggressively trying to delegitimize the practice that has a history in the United States dating back to the Civil War. The plan, as I’ve argued, seems to be to lay the groundwork for challenging mail-in votes or stopping them from […]

President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that he is considering circumventing Congress to unilaterally suspend collection of the payroll tax, a move advocacy groups and lawmakers said would be an “unconstitutional” abuse of power and a destructive attack on Social Security funding. Trump said during a Covid-19 press briefing that his administration is examining a variety of potential […]

Republicans are hoping Joe Biden picks Susan Rice as his running mate, because there’s already a built-in wealth of Fox News programming against her. President Barack Obama’s former national security adviser has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories on the conservative network, so viewers are primed to fear and loathe her, reported Politico. “I […]

Nearly a third of Afghanistan’s population — or 10 million people — has been infected with the coronavirus, according to health ministry estimates published Wednesday. The figure comes from a survey based on antibody tests on around 9,500 people across the country, with technical support from the World Health Organization, health minister Ahmad Jawad Osmani […]

A new ad from the Lincoln Project takes aim at Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom it deems the president’s unofficial “Secretary of Failure.” The ad begins by noting how President Donald Trump has given Kushner multiple important jobs during his tenure, and that Kushner has failed all of them. “Jared’s not up to the task,” […]

There has been a sharp rise in the number of black Americans buying firearms and joining gun clubs, according to the National African American Gun Association (NAGAA), purchases attributed to growing anxiety over the Covid-19 crisis and increased racial tensions following the death of George Floyd. NAGAA says its figures shows gun ownership levels among […]

President Donald Trump is being investigated by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance for alleged tax fraud — and New York-based attorney David Lurie says the president has no one but himself to blame for this information now being public knowledge. Writing in The Daily Beast, Lurie explains how Trump “overplayed his hand” in his efforts […]

President Donald Trump’s flailing interview with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan should help Joe Biden clinch the election, according to a veteran political operative. The president showed a lack of compassion and failed a test of his basic understanding of the coronavirus pandemic, and political strategist Mark McKinnon told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that should give Biden’s […]

President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next Ambassador to Germany has repeatedly called for martial law at the U.S.-Mexico border, and has called for “shooting people” there if necessary, along with ensuring people bringing the “wrong culture” cannot be allowed into the United States. His focus is not just on the U.S.-Mexico border. Germany […]

A German neo-Nazi on trial over the murder of pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke admitted Wednesday to the killing that has shocked the nation and highlighted the growing threat of right-wing extremism. “I fired the shot,” Stephan Ernst, 46, told the court of the killing in a statement read out by his defense. Federal prosecutors have […]

“It is sadly predictable that Big Pharma responds to a global pandemic by trying to bring to market only those drugs that maximize its profits.” As Covid-19 cases and deaths continue an upward trajectory in the United States, a watchdog group and allied scientists Tuesday urged the federal government and Gilead, the maker of the promising drug […]

Adapted from Greg Mitchell’s latest book,   The Beginning or the End:  How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. ______ After toiling in a top-secret government program for two to three years, many scientists who were part of the Manhattan Project finally learned in 1945 that all that work was aimed at creating […]

President Donald Trump started off Wednesday a bit earlier than usual with a warning about “tremendous lawlessness” in cities governed by Democrats. Federal agents deployed to Portland, Oregon, have drawn back under an agreement between the Trump administration and the governor, and protests there have turned largely peaceful — but the president tried again to […]

If the United States isn’t a failed state in 2020, it is rapidly on its way toward becoming one. Economists, historians and public health experts I spoke to would generally agree with that sentence, even if they might disagree on some of the details or the severity of the crisis. Since 2000 we have had two […]

A UAW regional director representing union members in Ohio and Indiana who had faced a possible union trial over harassment claims is resigning.The news of Region 2B Director Rich Rankin’s resignation, which was effective immediately, as both regional director and a UAW employee was announced in a joint statement from the UAW and Rankin Tuesday […]

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party officials charged Tuesday that Antone Melton-Meaux, the top challenger to incumbent U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, skirted campaign finance laws by hiding some of his top political consultants in next week’s nationally watched Democratic primary.A Federal Election Commission complaint obtained by the Minneapolis Star Tribune alleges that Melton-Meaux’s campaign violated federal […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A new poll from Morning Consult put Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jaime Harrison within one percentage point of incumbent Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.According to the poll, 43% of voters said they would vote for the former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman, while 44% said they would go for the Seneca Republican.Though pollsters […]

Individuals who claim knowledge of fake religious concepts are more supportive of religious aggression, while individuals with accurate religious knowledge are less supportive, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.“Although many quote the Christian Bible, few have read it. Thus, religious books are often incorrectly cited or cited in a way […]

MARMORA, N.J. — The tornado came off the ocean in Strathmere and, like a beachgoer headed back home in a hurry, tore over the bridge out of Ocean City, cutting a path through the mainland community of Marmora in and around Route 9.Witnesses in Marmora, a section of Upper Township in Cape May County, reported […]

FORT WORTH, Texas — The leader of an alt-right, white supremacist group was arrested in Texas on Saturday after police said he and two other men placed stickers on county property.The Parker County Sheriff’s Department arrested the three men on Saturday after watching them place stickers on two different signs on the Parker County Courthouse […]