Новости за 26.12.2020

On Saturday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to blame "Democrat run states" for the spread of COVID-19 — which he referred to as "China Virus."

Kelly Loeffler had a tumultuous first year in the Senate.

Now, the chief executive-turned-Republican lawmaker from Georgia is in the final days of a just-as-turbulent bid to keep her seat. It will culminate with a January 5 runoff election that will also determine whether her party maintains control of the upper congressional chamber.

When it comes to securing that victory, President Donald Trump has not made Loeffler's — or the party's — job any easier.

The difficulties started in late 2019, when Georgia Republican Gov. Читать дальше...

On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's standing with Congress is in "tatters" after the president tanked the COVID-19 stimulus deal he spent weeks negotiating on Capitol Hill — and assuring lawmakers had the full backing of his boss.

One of the nation's premier constitutional law experts explained why Donald Trump could be criminally prosecuted for his pardons -- and how it could compound his legal liabilities.

On Saturday morning, outgoing President Donald Trump fired off a new round of conspiracy theories on Twitter attacking his own Justice Department and the Republican-controlled Supreme Court — but as of this writing, he has not put out a statement of any kind on the mysterious bombing that took place on Christmas Day in Nashville, Tennessee.

Authorities believe they are making progress in their investigation of the RV explosion that rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas.

On MSNBC Saturday, former George W. Bush State Department official Elise Jordan tore into Republicans in Congress for refusing to stand up to outgoing President Donald Trump as he threatens to torpedo COVID-19 relief legislation.

Americans were blasted for selfishness and whining in a new column by Rick Newman.

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In a series of tweets on Saturday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) blasted Donald Trump for contiui8ng to whine about losing the 2020 presidential election, saying he is letting the country be destroyed because the president "can't handle losing."

Kinzinger, who has become the most vocal House Republican critical of Trump lashed out at the president after Trump raged at the Supreme Court and the Justice Department for not coming to his aid to overturn the election results.

Responding to the president tweeting... Читать дальше...

On Saturday, The Washington Post published a lengthy exposé of how missteps by President Donald Trump's Centers for Disease Control director, Robert Redfield, and other officials at the agency, led to a several-week delay in development of adequate coronavirus testing.

On MSNBC Saturday, Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) tore into outgoing President Donald Trump for standing in the way of COVID-19 stimulus passage.

Twitter users are sharing police bodycam footage taken during the Tuesday police shooting of Andre Hill, an unarmed 47-year-old Black man in Columbus, Ohio who was shot dead just for sitting in a vehicle within his own garage.

On CNN Saturday, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley broke down outgoing President Donald Trump's state of mind as he issues a flurry of pardons for his former associates and threatens to blow up COVID-19 stimulus negotiations.

Even people sympathetic to Donald Trump are fed up with his supporters' barbarous anti-Semitic conduct at his behest.

Last week I interviewed James Fallows, who'd spoken with many people over a period of a few months who'd been involved in or studied previous investigations of presidents, for a piece he wrote on how Joe Biden should investigate Donald Trump.

Fred Piccolo, a communications director for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), found himself at the center of controversy for his gross disregard of the lives lost to COVID-19.

On Saturday, the New York Daily News reported that a doctor in Boston is urging precautions after experiencing a severe allergic reaction to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

With all that is going on in the U.S. during Christmas week -- COVID-19 infections on the rise, a desperately needed COVID-related aid package being held hostage by the president, extended unemployment insurance about to run out, families facing evictions -- Donald Trump took time out from his busy holiday vacation at Mar-a-Lago to complain that his wife Melania didn't get fashion magazine cover stories he feels she deserves.

Linking to a tweet from right-wing Breitbart, that read, "The... Читать дальше...

On CNN Saturday, New York journalist and podcaster Errol Louis suggested that outgoing President Donald Trump is treating the current round of COVID-19 stimulus negotiations like an episode of "The Apprentice."

On Saturday, outgoing President Donald Trump took to Twitter once again to attack the legitimacy of the election — going after his own Department of Justice by demanding to know why U.S. Attorney John Durham hasn't validated his conspiracy theories about the intelligence community "spying" on his campaign.

Russian authorities on Friday launched a criminal probe into an ally of Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny after she tried to doorstep the apartment of a man Navalny said took part in his poisoning.

One American News, like Newsmax TV, has gone out of its way to promote the baseless conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump, not President-elect Joe Biden, really won the 2020 presidential election. Two companies that have been targeted by far-right election conspiracy theorists include Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, both of which specialize in election technology. And journalist Kelsey Vlamis, in an article published by Business Insider on Christmas Day 2020, reports that OAN has... Читать дальше...

On Saturday, The Daily Beast reported that vaccine conspiracy theorists are hunting for examples of people who have been killed by COVID-19 vaccines — even though no documented cases of any such deaths exist. Bolstering their argument is a "dramatic video" that appears to show a vaccine reaction, but that is considerably less than what it looks like.

On the terrace of a seafood restaurant in Houston, Texas's largest city, a few ladies are enjoying a local oyster dish: the breaded mollusks are slathered in mayonnaise and served in a sandwich.

A Temp Worker Died on the Job After FedEx Didn't Fix a Known Hazard. The Fine: $7,000.