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Biden announces ‘partnership’ with EU on global vaccine distribution effort
Biden said the partnership will allow the EU and U.S. “to work more closely together.
A Question Only Elon Musk Can Answer
Updated at 11:51 a.m. ET on September 22, 2021.On the day that SpaceX’s first space tourists launched, Elon Musk was there at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, to see them off, cheering as the private astronauts walked to the Teslas that would take them to suit up. And after they landed safely, having orbited Earth about 45 times, Musk was there again to congratulate them in person.
Vape makers struggle to stay in business after FDA bans flavored e-cigs
Industry watchers predict many smaller operations keep will selling the products until the feds’ enforcement strategy is clearer.
I Think My Husband Is Trying to Destroy My Credit Before We Divorce
He denies it, but I don’t believe him.
“Life Has Become Unlivable in Honduras”: How Corruption & Drug Trade Fueled Migration to U.S.
We look at a new Reuters special report examining corruption and the drug trade in Honduras, which human rights groups say are pushing tens of thousands of people to flee the Central American country for the United States. “People really describe feeling that their life has become unlivable in Honduras,” Reuters correspondent Laura Gottesdiener says.
Cuban Diplomat on U.S. Blockade, Havana’s Homegrown Vaccines & Biden’s Hypocrisy on Human Rights
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has criticized the United States for intensifying its embargo at a time when Cuba is facing a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. “The Biden administration policy toward Cuba today has been the Trump administration policy toward Cuba,” says Carlos Fernández de Cossío, director general for U.S. affairs in the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He says Cuba also rejects U.S.
Arctic Horror Is Having a Comeback
This article contains spoilers for The Terror and The North Water.
Of all the horrors of a 19th-century European voyage to the Arctic—noses and cheeks turned necrotic by frostbite, snow blindness, sea madness, broken bones badly knit—perhaps most ghastly was scurvy. The disease often starts with stiff limbs and ulcerating skin. Gums bleed and blacken, then engorge and protrude over the teeth or their absent weeping sockets like a dark second set of lips.
Why Chinatowns Are in Trouble Now
They are hubs for immigrants. Culinary jewels. And economic victims, now for the second time.
Why Evergrande Is Causing Panic in Stock Markets Everywhere
Is this China’s Lehman Brothers moment, or can this failure be contained?
You Can Kill Single-Family Zoning, but You Can’t Kill the Suburbs
It will take a lot more than California’s historic duplex bill to make the state affordable.
Former Obama aide tapped to help with HHS Covid messaging
Leslie Dach told POLITICO that he’ll spend the next several weeks helping to coordinate Covid-19 policy and messaging across the department.
Vaccine supply fears motivated White House booster push
The internal campaign coincided with pleas from international leaders for the U.S. to do more to help lower-and middle-income countries secure initial doses.
I Found the Cheat Code to Getting an IUD Without Pain
I swore I’d never get one, until I asked my doctor about this method.
Biden hails ‘strong’ economic recovery despite disappointing jobs numbers
Biden laid blame for the sluggish growth of U.S. jobs on the “impact of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus.
Powell walks high wire as Fed plans to ease support for Biden’s economy
Central bank chief seeks to avoid market turmoil as president weighs tapping him for a second term.
U.S. jobless claims near pandemic low as economy strengthens
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
House Dem campaign chief warns the majority at risk without message reboot
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
Biden’s economic gains come with newer worries about the future
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
Indian Civil Society Urges Johnson & Johnson to Stop Exporting Indian-Made Vaccines to Rich Nations
More than a dozen civil society groups in India have written an open letter to Johnson & Johnson and the U.S. government, urging the pharmaceutical giant to cancel export of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine doses to rich countries and instead focus on distributing them in the Global South.
Trump Sues New York Times Over Tax Bombshells, Seeks ‘No Less’ Than $100 Million
The newspaper published a Pulitzer-winning series in 2018 about Trump’s long history of dodgy tax schemes.
MyPillow Guy Mocked For A New Trump Prediction… And It’s A Real Turkey
Twitter users pluck the feathers out of Mike Lindell over his latest wild claim.
News Roundup: GOP plan to nullify the election was brazenly fascist; Texas bounty hunting begins
In the news today: A memo describing the “plan” Trump and Republican allies drafted to overturn Trump’s election loss has been uncovered. What was the plan? For Mike Pence to unilaterally declare that the votes of seven American states—all won by Biden—didn’t count, declare Trump was, therefore, the winner, and … that’s it. That was the plan.
The Daily Show reminds us a former conservative freedom cause: No seatbelts
The big issue facing our country today is whether or not vaccine mandates, or even mask mandates, are American! Do we need a nationalized healthcare system or a robust infrastructure bill, or some kind of regulation on our totalitarian income inequality situation? Nope. Mandates on proven public health measures are still a flashpoint for the policy-free GOP.
Universal legal representation can make a lifesaving difference for immigrants
by Maurizio Guerrero
This story was originally published at Prism.
Tens of thousands of immigrants with strong ties to their communities are deported from the United States every year just because they cannot afford an attorney. Immigrant advocates nationwide are pushing the Biden administration for decisive action and funding to support universal legal representation efforts to give immigrants a fighting chance to determine their future.
Thanks to Trump and the Republican party, COVID-19 is now the deadliest pandemic in U.S. history
The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu, based on the official death count from COVID-19 compared to the estimated fatalities from the 1918 pandemic. As reported by Berkeley Lovelace, Jr., for CNBC:
Covid-19 is officially the most deadly outbreak in recent American history, surpassing the estimated U.S. fatalities from the 1918 influenza pandemic, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Reported U.S.
DHS watchdog confirms border officials failed to conduct required checks on teen who died in custody
In a one-page press release Friday, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchdog said that U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) officials failed to conduct “regular and frequent physical checks as required” on Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez, a 16-year-old Indigenous child from Guatemala who died alone while in U.S. custody in May 2019.
Memo Reveals Trump Campaign Knew Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless
The memo shows that Trump’s people were aware early on that there was no proof the 2020 election had been rigged.
What Cities Can Do With All the Hotels No One Wants to Stay In
Tourists may not need these rooms right now, but another group does.