POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans believe Covid leaked from lab
Opinion on the lab leak scenario, once seen as a fringe theory, has shifted dramatically.
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Elon Musk’s Tunnels Never Go Anywhere
Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami—who hasn’t been promised a tunnel?
My Wife Spends Her Money on Hair and Nails, Leaving Me to Pay for Our Expenses
She’s always broke a few days into the month.
The Hidden Costs of Dollar General
Critics say the company drives out grocery stores and exacerbates the problem of food deserts.
My Cat Needs $2,000 Dental Surgery. Should I Spend the Money to Keep Him Alive?
He’s only 3 years old.
Global Covid deaths hit 4 million
The toll is three times the number of people killed in traffic accidents around the globe every year.
Biden’s Covid vaccine push crashes into reality
After falling short of its July 4th goal, the White House is now turning to a hyper-local strategy. But progress is slow.
My Husband and I Never Had Sex in Five Years of Dating. Now We’re Newlyweds and … Yikes.
This isn’t what was supposed to happen.
Gasoline is up and GOP sees an easy target: Biden
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
Soaring prices draw both shrugs and screaming in Washington
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Joins Howard U. After Rejecting UNC Tenure
After months of controversy, acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has announced that she will join the faculty at Howard University, one of the country’s most prestigious historically Black universities, instead of joining the faculty at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she went to graduate school.
News roundup: Conspiracies, martyrdom, erasing history, and collusion
In the news Thursday: The Republican insistence on bowing to the altar of Trump may cost them any hope of retaking the Senate in 2022. The martyrdom of Ashli Babbitt has taken the right by storm. Tennessee Republicans are calling Ruby Bridges’ life critical race theory because they don’t want her story taught in schools.
This Week in Statehouse Action: Livin’ on a Prayer edition
Happy (slightly belated) half-New Year!
(Get it? We’re “halfway there”? [Whoa-OH, LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER])
We just crossed the halfway point of this year that at least isn’t 2020 but is still definitely bringing the strife.
‘Pandemic Is Not Over’: Florida Republican Describes Harrowing COVID-19 Ordeal
James Ring, president of the Lakeland GOP, said he hadn’t taken the time to get vaccinated yet.
Contractor running camp for migrant kids is fire and water damage repair company, report reveals
The private contractor managing the Fort Bliss prison camp near El Paso, Texas, is a fire and water damage repair company with absolutely zero experience in child welfare, two federal workers who volunteered there have revealed in a shocking whistleblower report. The document, released by a whistleblower advocacy organization, comes just weeks after nearly 20 children revealed disturbing conditions at the unlicensed camp.
Trump Reportedly Socked Secret Service With $50,000 Bill For Lodging At His Own Properties
The Secret Service paid more than $10,000 at his Bedminster resort in New Jersey for 18 days in May, reveals The Washington Post.
Right-wing Rep. Ken Buck serves up new spin on the Big Lie, claims Google stole the election
Earlier in the week, video appeared of Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas reportedly meeting with constituents (and Rick Santorum) to discuss how sowing the seeds of chaos and legislative obstruction is the best GOP policy going into the 2022 midterm election cycle.
In ultimate display of classlessness, Trump bills Secret Service more than $10K in May to guard him
First, former President Donald Trump downplayed the coronavirus pandemic while 881 active Secret Service employees were infected with the virus. Then this May, he charged the agency tasked with protecting his life rent of almost $10,200 for one month of guest rooms at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to records The Washington Post obtained.
Calls mount on FDA to formally endorse Covid vaccines as Delta surges
“I don’t think there’s anything that can move the needle more in the U.S.,” said Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, about the unvaccinated who are eligible to get the shot.
I Just Tried to Have My First Post-COVID Sex, and I Have a Big Problem
I don’t know how I did this before.
Tennessee Cop Knocked Unconscious After Allegedly Making Racist Remarks
Knoxville Police Officer Tanner Holt was off duty at a wedding reception when he was knocked unconscious after the alleged remarks.
Toyota Will No Longer Donate To Republicans Who Voted To Overturn 2020 Election
Toyota reversed course hours after the Lincoln Project released a damning video attacking the company for backing lawmakers who refused to certify the election.
The Democrats’ New Voting-Rights Obstacle
There is a gnawing anxiety among voting-rights advocates that even if Democrats find a way to roll back the Senate filibuster and pass new federal legislation safeguarding access to the ballot, the Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court might still strike it down.
Remington Arms Included 18,000 Cartoons In Docs Sent To Sandy Hook Families’ Lawyers
The company “treated discovery as a game” when it sent 33,000 useless images along with breadcrumbs of potentially relevant information, lawyers said.
The Story of Songbirds Is a Story of Sugar
Australia’s unique forests are the birthplace of birdsong. The plants there are drenched in sunlight and can readily mass-produce sugars through photosynthesis. But with few nutrients in the soil, they struggle to convert those sugars into leaves, seeds, and other tissues. They end up with excess, which they simply give away. Flowers overflow with nectar. Eucalyptus trees exude a sweet substance called manna from their bark.
Murders Are Skyrocketing. Here’s How Democrats Should Respond.
They don’t have to act like Republicans to do it.
HHS chief says his vaccine comments are being taken ‘wildly out of context’
Republicans balked after Secretary Xavier Becerra said it was “absolutely the government’s business” to know which Americans have been vaccinated.
Delta variant said to be far more widespread than federal estimates
The reality on the ground is likely much higher because states and private labs are taking weeks to report testing results to the CDC.
“Police State Without the State”: Palestinian Authority Faces Protests over Critic’s Death in Custody
We look at growing opposition to the Palestinian Authority after the killing of a prominent activist, Nizar Banat, a vocal critic of the ruling body who died in PA custody after security forces violently arrested him at his home. Banat’s killing has sparked protests calling for President Mahmoud Abbas to step down. “The Palestinian Authority now is acting like a police state without the state,” says Palestinian writer Mariam Barghouti.