Новости за 10.08.2020

Health experts have determined that face coverings are a vital tool in reducing the spread of coronavirus — but little research has been done into how different kinds of masks compare. A new study has ranked 14 types of commonly available mask, finding that medical masks offer significantly more protection against droplet spread than cotton […]

Brooks Buser, the president of the Christian ministry training organization Radius International is under fire after bragging about converting people in Papua New Guinea to Christianity – especially during a pandemic. “Tomorrow night, deep in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, after 5 months of teaching that started in Genesis 1:1, the gospel will be presented […]

The midwest is currently being hit by a devastating derecho. Over 450,000 homes and businesses are without power in Nebraska and Iowa, The Weather Channel reported Monday. “Residents in the Midwest felt the wrath of a derecho which left widespread damage and hundreds of thousands in the dark Monday afternoon,” the network reported. “The severe […]

While on campus, students in Illinois’ school district are not allowed to wear hats, bandannas, sunglasses, pajama pants or slippers in school. Now that distance learning will be going forward as planned for this school year, the Springfield Public Schools’ dress code is being enforced at home as well, according to the New York Times. […]

Conservative Washington Post columnist Max Boot unleashed on the Republican Party, saying that if their only solution to Trumpism is the likes of Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) then they don’t deserve to have a future. He cited a David Brooks column, in which the New York Times columnist suggested a “high-minded […]

President Donald Trump has been adamant in calling for schools to reopen in the fall, and many Republicans are afraid to publicly disagree with him. But journalist Erin Banco, in an article published by the Daily Beast on August 10, reports that some Trump aides — behind closed doors — are seriously worried about the risks of […]

In a piece published at CNN this Monday, Chris Cillizza argues that Joe Biden has won his first debate against President Trump before the official debates have even begun. As Cillizza points out, the Trump campaign is going all-in on the narrative that Biden is not mentally fit to be president, and they’re even looking forward […]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got shamed by a colleague after taking to Twitter to mock the desperation of Americans suffering under the coronavirus pandemic that ushered in high unemployment, as well as a new recession. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) tweeted that he supports a universal basic income for the remainder of the pandemic, with each […]

Between the coronavirus pandemic, the George Floyd protests, a brutal economic downturn and what promises to be an increasingly ugly presidential election, 2020 will go down in history as a year of frayed nerves. Conservative journalist Charlie Sykes, in an article for The Bulwark, lays out some reasons why tension and anxiety are likely to grow […]

In his latest column, Washington Post writer Phil Bump outlined the numbers dispelling the myth that President Donald Trump is the hardest working president in history. Trump has made the claim frequently, bragging about his accomplishments being far above any other president. Economic adviser Peter Navarro sang Trump’s praises on Sunday, but he was faced […]

Around 100 people on Sunday gathered on the lawn of a 71-year-old Rhode Island man who was accused of unleashing a torrent of racial slurs as he assaulted a neighbor, the Providence Journal reports. Richard Gordon was arrested on Friday and charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct. Video of the incident was reportedly too […]

One of President Donald Trump’s favorite attack lines against former Vice President Joe Biden is “Sleepy Joe,” which is Trump’s way of claiming that the 77-year-old Biden is past his prime and is unfit for the presidency either mentally or physically. But journalist Dean Obeidallah, in an August 10 op-ed for CNN’s website, argues that Biden has […]

A leak from a damaged oil tank in a Japanese ship has stopped, the Mauritius prime minister’s office said on Monday, adding that the situation was still very serious and they were preparing for “a worst case scenario”. The MV Wakashio, owned by the Nagashiki Shipping Company and operated by Mitsui OSK Line still has […]

History matters, especially when an unscrupulous president constantly seeks to revise and distort fundamental facts as events unfold. This week, a courageous law enforcement official stepped forward to correct the record at last, and under oath. Over the past two years, as the Russia and Ukraine investigations unfolded, President Donald Trump has tried repeatedly to […]

When President Donald Trump started doing the coronavirus task force press briefings again there were two major differences. First, the coronavirus task force wasn’t present, but the second is that the president kept things short and left the room when he got frustrated. A Politico Magazine column by Jack Shafer speculated that the reason Trump […]

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisted on Monday that President Donald Trump’s executive actions are “a lot different” from executive actions taken by former President Barack Obama. During her daily White House briefing, one reporter noted that Trump had taken executive actions on financial relief for COVID-19 despite his criticism of then-President Obama for […]

Donald Trump has a dilemma. Along with the rest of the Republican Party, he abhors the idea of enacting the kind of federal relief program that would actually help people and keep the nation’s economy from collapsing completely in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. But that kind of substantive relief means giving ordinary working people money, […]

President Donald Trump on Monday said that he might deliver his speech accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for the presidency at either the White House or the historic battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. The choice of Gettysburg would be particularly interesting from a historical perspective, as it was the site of the key battle that […]

Lebanon’s prime minister stepped down from his job on Monday in the wake of the disastrous Beirut port explosion that triggered public fury, saying he has come to the conclusion that corruption in Lebanon is “bigger than the state.” In a brief televised speech after three of his ministers resigned, Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that he […]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday he is “deeply troubled” by the Hong Kong arrest of pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai, accusing Beijing of an assault on rights and freedoms in the territory. “I’m deeply troubled by reports of the arrest of @JimmyLaiApple under Hong Kong’s draconian National Security Law,” Pompeo tweeted, calling […]

The main cause for the stalemate in Congress over a new round of COVID stimulus funding is a belief by numerous Republicans that the federal government has been too generous to the unemployed. The enhanced jobless benefits created by the CARES Act need to be curtailed, they argue, to push people to return to work. […]

On Tuesday night, November 6, 2018, Republicans got some very bad news: they had lost their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. But after Election Night, as the vote counting continued, Republicans realized just how large the blue wave was in the 2018 midterms — an example of what journalist David A. Graham, in an August 10 […]

According to a report from Reuters, Democrats are sinking more money into Texas in the belief that voters in the state have grown tired of Donald Trump and his faltering administration, making the Lone Star State’s 38 electoral votes ripe for the picking. With Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) privately confiding Republicans are in trouble in […]

Forget about the old days. They are gone. Forget about the old ways of doing things. They are gone. You are facing things your parents never faced. Your children are facing things that you, as a child, never faced. Everything has changed. I mean that completely, categorically. The one exception is our belief in a return to […]

First son Eric Trump encouraged supporters to vote by mail on Monday, even though President Donald Trump has continuously attacked the practice as a vehicle for purported “voter fraud.” As reported by WFTV’s Christopher Heath, the president’s middle son told supporters to “mail in your ballot” during a campaign bus stop in Florida, where he […]