In the news today: House Republicans have picked their members for a House probe into the January 6 insurrection and, as expected, the choices appear to be targeted towards discrediting the probe by turning it into a partisan circus. Dr. Anthony Fauci loses patience with Sen. Rand Paul after Paul stinks up yet another Senate hearing with sketchy pandemic claims.
The delta variant is spreading fast in the U.S., resulting in more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 every hour. According to reports, more than 90% of coronavirus-related deaths occurring right now are among unvaccinated people. Despite warnings of the deadly threat the coronavirus still poses, misinformation is being credited for why some people refuse to be vaccinated.
Tuesday morning, we were all treated to headlines about Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ “historic” space flight. I’m not exactly sure what’s meant by “historic.” It wouldn’t be the first time a billionaire burned through gobs of money and resources to accomplish something a monkey did 72 years ago.
The title is a reference to Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel written in 1985 at the height of Ronald Reagan’s presidency that was adapted in 2017 for a highly successful, award-winning TV series, available on Hulu.
After the far-right lawmaker said COVID-19 only threatened seniors and the obese, she burst into laughter when a reporter pointed out deaths in other populations.
The official version of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchdog report obtained by BuzzFeed News last month confirms that officials at a privately operated prison failed to provide sufficient medical attention to an immigrant experiencing chest and arm pain. While 51-year-old Anthony Jones was given medication (reportedly aspirin) and an electrocardiogram, he was not sent to a hospital.
Humans run the animal kingdom’s only criminal courts. We alone bicker over the difference between murder and manslaughter, and plumb the ethical depths of intent. Other animals still kill their own kind, but whether they do so deliberately, with any semblance of malevolence or premeditation, is up for debate—mostly because we don’t have any real way to tell.
Updated at 8:06 p.m. ET on July 20, 2021Conservatives are not necessarily vaccine-hesitant, to paraphrase John Stuart Mill, but most vaccine-hesitant Americans people are conservatives. Resistance to vaccines has been concentrated among Republican voters, and led by GOP politicians and various leading lights in conservative media.And that makes the past day or so one of the stranger stretches in recent pandemic politics.“Just like we’ve been saying, please take COVID seriously.
Trump has been banned on the platform since his attempt to overthrow American democracy on Jan. 6, but Twitter has taken no action against Liz Harrington.
The American carbon tax, an alluringly simple policy once hailed by environmentalists, scholars, and politicians as a cure-all for climate change that, for all its elegance in economic models, could not overcome its enduring unpopularity with the American public, died last month at its home in Washington, D.C. It was 47.The death was confirmed by President Joe Biden’s utter lack of interest in passing it.
Barrack, who chaired Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, altered the former president’s statements and policy on behalf of the Emirates, an indictment says.
“I want to say that officially,” Dr. Fauci told the Kentucky Republican during a hearing on the coronavirus pandemic.
I’m questioning my own judgment.
The release of Black Widow earlier this month was one of the biggest tests of a new Hollywood paradigm that emerged after the coronavirus pandemic began: the simultaneous rollout of a blockbuster in theaters and on streaming services. The latest Marvel movie opened in thousands of cinemas in the U.S. and Canada on the same day it was made available to Disney+ subscribers for a $30 surcharge. At first, the gambit seemed to work.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.If you’re feeling unnerved about the rise in COVID-19 cases in the United States, you aren’t alone. Officials in Los Angeles reimplemented indoor mask restrictions for the fully vaccinated and the unprotected alike, and even the markets got spooked about Delta today.
The former president was uncharacteristically honest with his response to Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
After a federal judge struck down DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, we look at what may come next with Cesar Espinosa, a DACA recipient and executive director of the Houston, Texas-based, immigrant-led civil rights organization FIEL. He says the latest ruling is “heartbreaking,” and urges lawmakers to create a legislative solution for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. “We want to see Congress and the president take action.
Fifty-six-year-old Abdul Latif Nasser is the first Guantánamo Bay prisoner to be released under the Biden administration. He was imprisoned for nearly two decades without charge and had been cleared for release since 2016. Thirty-nine prisoners remain at Guantánamo.
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if he is extradited to the U.S. under the Espionage Act for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes, Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard says his detention since 2010 “is arbitrary and that he should be released.” She adds that allegations made against him by the U.S. authorities “raise a large number of problems and red flags in relation to freedom of the press.
Mexico appears to have submitted more phone numbers for potential surveillance to the Israeli cybersurveillance company NSO Group than any other client country, according to an investigation of the company by an international collaboration of media outlets called The Pegasus Project.
Calls are growing for stricter regulations on the use of surveillance technology after revelations that countries have used the powerful Pegasus spyware against politicians, journalists and activists around the world. The Pegasus software, sold by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO Group, can secretly infect a mobile phone and harvest its information.
She’d be in for a big surprise.
Parenting advice on body image, neighbors, and excessive gift-giving.
The company has taken on some investors that don’t align with its environmentally virtuous image.
She left me $6,000. I’m now homeless.
Thank Democrats for the hottest meme this side of Cannes.
And elite universities deserve a huge share of the blame.
They had a child together. Their kid deserves my help more.
Less that half of those who have not been vaccinated are worried about the contagious Covid variant.
“The reality is that misinformation is still spreading like wildfire in our country,” Vivek Murthy said.