Новости за 07.10.2020

While there has been much focus on Saturday’s White House nomination events for Amy Coney Barrett, they might not have been the only weekend events at the White House that spread COVID-19. “On the same day President Trump acknowledged contracting the coronavirus, the White House quietly informed a veterans group that there was a COVID-19 […]

After President Trump pulled out of negotiations over a fifth round of coronavirus relief this Tuesday, it’s looking desperate workers won’t be getting their next round of stimulus checks any time soon. According to CNBC, unemployed Americans “will be living off their current allotment of benefits from the state or federal government. In some cases, that amounts […]

America is “losing” the battle against COVID-19, a top medical expert explained on MSNBC on Wednesday. “Deadline: White House” anchor Nicolle Wallace interviewed Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota. “I just keep coming back to the fact that we have a […]

Bena Apreala was out running this Tuesday in his Boston neighborhood when he was stopped by alleged ICE agents who asked for his identification. According to WBUR, two SUV’s driven by the agents blocked his path on the sidewalk. When Apreala took out his cellphone and began recording the encounter, the agents backed off. Before they […]

President Donald Trump went into the Oval Office today instead of staying in isolation upstairs in the White House residence. It’s something that Dr. Sanjay Gupta said is endangering people’s lives. Already 19 members of the White House staff have contracted COVID-19, leaving the West Wing dark and quiet as people left the building, went […]

Jacob Blake has moved from a Milwaukee hospital to an out-of-state spinal cord center after he was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, six weeks ago.Blake, 29, is “in a spinal injury rehabilitation center in Chicago,” his lawyer Patrick Cafferty said, according to CNN. “I can’t provide […]

America’s national security officials are on alert and global markets shook – at least briefly – following the announcement that President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. As someone who studies the U.S.‘s image, I am curious about the geopolitical implications of the leader of the free world falling victim to the […]

In many ways, a vice president’s most important constitutional duty is simply to stay alive. Beyond breaking ties in the US Senate, the vice president essentially has no real constitutional duties beyond replacing a deceased or incapacitated president. Such matters of life or death could not weigh heavier in the upcoming presidential election, which features […]

Germany and France on Wednesday directly accused Russia of “involvement and responsibility” in the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, announcing that they will seek EU sanctions over the case. Moscow quickly hit back that the accusations were “unacceptable” and amounted to “blackmail”. The European powers have repeatedly asked Moscow to shed light on the […]

Speaking on MSNBC this Wednesday, Dr. Ashish Jha responded to an update from President Trump’s doctors who said he’s been “symptom free” from coronavirus for 24-hours. According to Jha, “all of this is very confusing.” “I wish they would just come clean and explain what’s going on with the President,” he said, adding that the […]

President Donald Trump’s maskless return to the White House on Monday following a weekend at Walter Reed Medical Center shows that he wants his supporters to “prove their loyalty to him with their lives,” Yale psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee said in an interview with Salon. Trump, who is still infected with the novel coronavirus, took off his […]

It’s a civics lesson young students and academia won’t have to read about in history books – because they are living it firsthand right now. Voter suppression. It seems to be the only way Republicans can ensure their unethical, sharp-tongued, bully-based candidate stays in the White House – but at what cost to our democracy? […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday apparently ended his COVID-19 quarantine and returned to work at the Oval Office. White House deputy communications director Brian Morgenstern told reporters that Trump was being briefed on the status of coronavirus stimulus negotiations and Hurricane Delta. Trump returning to the Oval Office was first noticed by reporters who spotted […]

Within one day, President Donald Trump announced his COVID diagnosis and was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for treatment. The flurry of events was stunning, confusing and triggered many questions. What was his prognosis? When was he last tested for COVID-19? What is his viral load? The answers were elusive. Picture the […]

U.S. Postal Service officials suggested Tuesday that ensuring Americans are able to get mail in a timely manner—as millions plan to vote by mail this year—is solely a Democratic priority, when they claimed members of Congress cannot inspect mail facilities because such visits would be a violation of the Hatch Act. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.), […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell weighed in on President Donald Trump’s latest antics as he distanced himself from the madness currently taking place at the White House. While discussing his plan to move forward with the vote on the Senate floor for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, McConnell offered his take on all that […]

Kashmire Duran, 37, assaulted a Black security guard and shouted racial slurs at a supermarket in West Hollywood, California, in an incident that was captured on video. KTLA reports that security guard Natosha Lawson said she intervened when she saw Duran arguing with her father, but Duran then turned her anger towards her. “She gets a water […]

No one knows why the president all of a sudden Tuesday put the kibosh on stimulus talks. Maybe it’s the meds Donald Trump is on. Maybe he’s crazy. Maybe he’s stupid. Maybe he’s bad at politics. Maybe he’s going to take the country down with him. Maybe, as the wags on Twitter often say, it’s a […]

It’s hard to process the news of the president’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis without having recourse to some kind of mythological system, some larger frame of reference. Karma, wrote one journalist, and then reproached himself for the ungenerous thought. Or perhaps it was simple irony on display when, Washington Post reporters wrote, “President Trump contracted the […]

Brain cells have been found in exceptionally preserved form in the remains of a young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago, an Italian study has revealed. The preserved neuronal structures in vitrified or frozen form were discovered at the archaeological site of Herculaneum, an ancient Roman city engulfed under […]

Donald Trump Jr. claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has “substance issues” as he fired back at her for her latest criticism of his father, President Donald Trump. During an appearance on Fox News, Trump Jr. was asked to weigh in on Pelosi’s criticism of the president’s decision to abruptly and unilaterally end negotiations for […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Florida Department of Health on Wednesday reported that a total of 15,084 people have died from COVID-19 complications in the state.These confirmed fatalities include 14,904 residents plus 180 people from other states who died here.The bleak milestone was reached as the state reported another 139 deaths on its daily coronavirus […]

This Wednesday, the White House released President Trump’s latest medical update. Within the update, it was noted that Trump’s lab results showed “detectable levels of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies” — a detail that some doctors say is useless information since Trump was infused with those very same antibodies during the course of his treatment. The White […]

Chairman of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, Robert Wachter, appeared on CNN Wednesday to debunk the myth that President Donald J. Trump is “feeling great” after his hospitalization and eventual return home to the White House from Walter Reed Medical Center. In fact, the overarching message from Wachter was the exact opposite: […]

While Covid-19 has taken the lives of over one million people across the globe and exacerbated economic precarity for millions more, the combined wealth held by the world’s 2,189 billionaires has skyrocketed—increasing by 27.5% between April and July 2020 and reaching a record high of $10.2 trillion. “Billionaire wealth equates to a fortune almost impossible […]