Новости за 26.08.2020

The Milwaukee Bucks have boycotted their upcoming game against the Orlando Magic this Wednesday in response to the police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, HuffPost reports. The Magic’s players reportedly wanted to go forward with the game, but then returned to the locker room after learning of the boycott. BREAKING: The Milwaukee Bucks decided […]

“For billionaires, this is a heads we win, tails you lose economy, boosted by Trump policies to funnel wealth to the top.” As President Donald Trump and top members of his administration continue their push to deliver another round of tax cuts to rich investors, an analysis published Tuesday by the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness showed […]

Hurricane experts at the National Hurricane Center warn that Hurricane Laura’s storm surge will likely reach 20 feet high for the southern part of Louisiana. The surge will be so large and move inland so far that it could even reach the I-10 highway that many could be used to escape the storm. NBC weatherman […]

Donald Trump’s devoutly evangelical Christian vice president, Mike Pence, takes center stage at the Republican convention Wednesday with a speech likely aimed at voters worried about the president’s moral standing and leadership during the Covid-19 crisis. Pence will speak from Fort McHenry in Baltimore, the site in 1814 of a British bombardment against American revolutionaries […]

The 17-year-old charged with shooting three people and killing two of them during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this Tuesday is a self-described militia member who claimed to be in the scene to protect property of looters, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In an interview conducted by a Daily Caller reporter that was posted to […]

President Donald Trump’s White House is breaking the Hatch Act law non-stop throughout the Republican Convention this year. Given that the White House governs its own violations of the law, it isn’t likely that the president will do anything to stop his appointees and other government staff who use their position to promote the president. […]

President Donald Trump for weeks hinted he would deliver his renomination acceptance speech from the South Lawn of the White House, but after the first two nights of the Republican National Convention Trump has far exceeded that claim. Already much of the RNC has been held at the White House, including a citizenship naturalization ceremony, an official […]

According to POLITICO’s Alex Isenstat, President Trump is getting “pummeled” when it comes to his TV ratings, and Republicans are getting nervous. “August has been a blowout,” writes Isenstat. “Trump has been outspent on TV more than 2-to-1 over the past month, according to the media tracking firm Advertising Analytics. And in the past two weeks, […]

Hurricane Laura strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, prompting warnings of “unsurvivable” storm surge of up to 20 feet (six meters) and evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of coastal residents of Louisiana and Texas. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Laura was packing winds of 140 […]

Scientists have created an army of microscopic four-legged robots too small to see with the naked eye that walk when stimulated by a laser and could be injected into the body through hypodermic needles, a study said Wednesday. Microscopic robotics are seen as having an array of potential uses, particularly in medicine, and US researchers […]

White evangelical support for Donald Trump has long puzzled observers. To many, it seems hypocritical that Christians who have long touted “family values” could rally around a thrice-married man who was accused by several women of sexual assault. Scholars have commented on his crassness, defined by historian Walter G. Moss as “a lack refinement, tact, […]

The Illinois teenager accused of killing two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin may have been part of a group of people who asked to be deputized, according to Sheriff David Beth. “Yesterday, I had a person call me and say why don’t you deputize citizens who have guns to come out and patrol the city of Kenosha? And I’m like oh, […]

This Wednesday, lifelong Republican Jim Greenwood penned an op-ed in the Courier Times, explaining that after years of working on Republican campaigns, he’s now voting for Joe Biden in 2020. Greenwood writes that before being a Republican, he’s a patriot. “As such I refuse to allow Donald Trump to further degrade and defile the nation […]

A new study looking at male and female immune responses to the new coronavirus may shed new light on why men are more likely to become seriously ill with Covid-19, researchers said Wednesday. Since early in the pandemic it has been clear that men, particularly older men, are at a far higher risk of dying […]

Jerry Falwell Jr. may well be wishing that a photo with his underwear showing and his arm around the waist of a woman not his wife was the worst of his problems. That snapshot kick-started a round of speculation into the prominent evangelical leader’s personal life that has cost him his job. On Aug. 25, […]

“A ‘heat-ray’ designed by the military to make people’s skin feel like it is burning” In the run up to the November 2018 election President Donald Trump publicly fear-mongered for months about a “caravan” of migrants coming to the U.S. southern border. “The Caravans are made up of some very tough fighters and people,” Trump tweeted […]

President Donald Trump vowed to crack down on Wisconsin protesters after a pro-police militant was arrested for the killing of demonstrators. Protests have raged all week since Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black father, in the back after he tried to break up a fight, and the demonstrations turned deadly after suspected militia […]

It’s a small but significant foot in the door of an urban landscape completely dominated by white men: On Wednesday, New York’s Central Park inaugurated its first statue honoring “real women,” two of them white and one black, all of them pioneers in the struggle for women’s rights. In its 167-year history, the park has […]

Progressives are raising alarm over new poll results from CBS News out Tuesday, which suggest  the Democratic Party’s courting of moderate so-called “Biden Republicans” while sidelining popular progressive proposals and voices has not so far resulted in a groundswell of support for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden from disaffected GOP voters. In a poll taken between August 20 […]

A supporter of President Donald Trump on Wednesday told MSNBC that she was backing him even though she couldn’t explain why. “What do you plan to do with your vote in November?” a voter named Jean Dinapoli was asked while she lounged in a pool at a country club in Florida. “Of course,” Dinapoli said. […]

An Illinois teenager has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a demonstrator in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, of Antioch, was charged Wednesday with first-degree intentional homicide in a shooting late Tuesday during a clash between protesters of police brutality and right-wing militia group members. The militia members had gathered to […]

“It certainly doesn’t give the American public confidence that he and the Trump donor that he helped install as postmaster general are going to take concerns about voting by mail and about potential partisanship seriously.” Robert Duncan, the Trump-appointed chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors who previously served as head of the […]

During the second night of the Republican National Convention, a sign of the “rot in the American experiment” manifested itself during a segment that featured Vice President Mike Pence speaking with a mother named Sarah, according to Jack Holmes writing for Esquire. At one point, Pence pointed out that Sarah has been working three jobs […]

Four U.S. service members were injured during an altercation in northeast Syria with Russian forces. The service members suffered mild concussion-like symptoms after the incident, according to a draft Pentagon statement reviewed reviewed and reported by Politico. Videos of the encounter posted on Twitter appear to show a Russian vehicle ramming an American vehicle as […]

A handful of people with HIV are able to control the disease without treatment, and now research on these so-called elite controllers is offering clues in the search for a cure. For most people with HIV, controlling the virus requires a daily, life-long regime of anti-retroviral therapy (ART). This treatment must be followed continuously because […]