“It’s a rigged election,” claimed President Trump when he and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden were asked about election integrity during last night’s debate as the two men sparred over mail-in voting. Trump ended the debate by calling for poll watchers.
Shortly before 1 AM ET on Friday morning, Donald Trump tweeted that both he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19. On Thursday evening, Trump aide Hope Hicks, who had been traveling with Trump’s campaign this week, tested positive. Hicks was with Trump when he held a large rally in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday and had previously joined him at the presidential debate on Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio.
The president tested positive for COVID-19 while working on plans to reopen the country despite the risks of cases soaring again.
A rocket in Nagorno-Karabakh, flowered hills in Australia, alpine cattle herds in Germany, salt production in Turkey, the Washington Prayer March 2020, projections on the the Sydney Opera House, coronavirus burials in Indonesia, scenes from Paris Fashion Week, protests in Mexico City, fire damage in California, and much more.
Hope Hicks, one of Trump’s closest aides, tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Anna V. Smith at High Country News writes—An inaccurate census has major implications for Indian Country. Indigenous people are frequently undercounted, undermining political power and representation:
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One of the ex-host’s assistants sent executives a confidential draft complaint in 2018 accusing Guilfoyle of sexual harassment, according to The New Yorker.
In 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) teamed with illustrator Molly Crabapple to create a short film called A Message from the Future. That film presented something extraordinarily rare when it comes to looking ahead these days: optimism.
After what seems like an endless parade of dystopias in literature and film, the short film, in which Crabapple illustrates scenes to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s narration, seems almost shocking in its optimism.
It’s been 139 days since the House passed the $3.4 trillion HEROES Act, which Mitch McConnell has refused to take up. To put an exclamation point on that, and on the ongoing critical need for assistance to America, the House passed a slimmed-down version at $2.2 trillion.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been every day this week, sometimes multiple times a day.
“‘Oh, what about the children that were separated?’ Give me a f**king break,” the first lady said in a secret July 2018 recording.
Donald Trump and his administration’s inability to just condemn white supremacy and domestic terrorist groups straight out is extraordinary. One the one hand, it isn’t surprising because Trump’s administration is as clear an example of white supremacist leadership as our country has seen in the modern era. On the other hand, it is surprising that they continue to try and parse language and pigheadedly refuse to do it from an optics stand point.
The White House adviser is reportedly experiencing COVID-19 symptoms. President Trump and the first lady later tested positive.
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.Aaron TurnerIn the years following Brown v. Board of Education, thousands of children desegregated America’s schools. “The task that fell to them was a brutal one,” our senior editor Rebecca J. Rosen writes.
And what history tells us about the long-term harms of keeping kids out of school.
It looks like Americans are shaking off their economic misery—but we’re not nearly in the clear yet.
Albert Bourla’s memo to staff asserts Pfizer’s independence in the face of strong pressure from the White House to deliver a shot before Election Day.
The letter was led by Sen. Gary Peters, who oversaw the creation of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee as part of the CARES Act.
Elsewhere in the solar system, a NASA rover is on its way to Mars. It carries, among other things, several pieces of spacesuit material. Designers want to see how the samples fare in the planet’s dusty, radiation-laden environment—the sturdy fabrics of the suit’s exterior, the cut-resistant fibers of its gloves, the shatterproof plastic of the bubble helmet that might someday reflect the soft light of a Martian sunset.
Five Republicans facing tough reelections crossed party lines in a vote highlighting Trump’s challenge to the health care law.
Last year, I featured photos of the efforts made to move parts of the ancient Turkish town of Hasankeyf to a new location, as a massive dam project was about to cause the Tigris River to rise and flood the area. A year later, the reservoir behind Ilisu Dam has largely filled up, inundating the historic town and surrounding archaeological sites, despite years of protests by residents and activists.
(moises Saman / Magnum)Being a mother has long been a liability at work. But with work, school, and child care now happening under one roof for so many families, working mothers are at unprecedented risk of experiencing a pandemic-size motherhood penalty.The struggle faced by working mothers is a key focus of the new 2020 Women in the Workplace Report by LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Company, which I co-authored.
A new survey revives a decadeslong debate over how to measure public attitudes about Jews and genocide.
Two years ago, in a story that shocked the world, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul for marriage documents and was never seen again. It was later revealed that Khashoggi — a Saudi insider turned critic and Washington Post columnist — was murdered and dismembered by a team of Saudi agents at the direct order of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
As India becomes just the second country to hit 6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, we speak to journalist Rana Ayyub in Mumbai, who was recently hospitalized after testing positive for the disease. India’s lead pandemic agency says an antibody study suggests more than 60 million people in the country have already been infected with the coronavirus — 10 times the official count but still a small fraction of its population of 1.3 billion.
Is this a terrible idea?
This all seems very bizarre and unethical to me.
The wealthy no longer fear the taxman. Democrats finally have an opening to fix that.
“Four houses fully booked for months—every single one of them canceled. … I banked everything on this.
