In the news today: In scenes reminiscent of the pandemic’s first, once-worst months, overflowing Idaho hospitals are now triggering the rationing of emergency care. The extent of U.S. tax-dodging by the rich continues to be astonishing—and that tax dodging is directly damaging our schools, our health care, and other national priorities.
If the five rabid ideologues on the U.S. Supreme Court who last week sanctioned the Texas law prohibiting women from terminating an unwanted pregnancy after six weeks were capable of shame, this might embarrass them.
Early in August, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Minnesota announced the arrest of 30-year-old Anton “Tony” Lazzaro. Lazzaro is charged with multiple counts of sex trafficking with at least six minor victims. A couple of days later, a 19-year-old Minnesota woman, Gisela Castro Medina, was arrested in Florida and named Lazzaro’s co-defendant in the case.
Anotha one (cue the DJ Khaled clip). Yet another COVID-19 denier has been hospitalized with the novel coronavirus. According to The Daytona Beach News-Journal, a Florida council member who promoted conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and mocked disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci is hospitalized after contracting the virus.
The last Volusia County meeting attended by Fred Lowry, the COVID-infected council member in question, was August 17.
On Aug. 13, 2021, Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon issued an executive order requiring any employee or worker employed by the executive branch of the state’s government to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The order required state employees to get these vaccinations before Oct. 18. This order includes law enforcement in the state as well as firefighters.
The Biden administration has notified some countries that it plans to propose the conference, one person familiar with the matter said, but has yet to send out formal invitations.
Biden will address the testing situation Thursday afternoon, in what the White House is billing as a major speech laying out the next phase of the federal pandemic response.
Federal authorities also released a virtual map depicting the route they believe the suspect walked while planting the two pipe bombs the night of Jan. 5.
Conservative media is awash in pandemic conspiracy. But it’s mostly local talk radio hosts who are actually getting sick and dying.
Many Twitter users pointed out the Florida governor has politicized the virus by selling products that mock the COVID-19 vaccines.
Russell James Peterson, who wore a “(F**k) your feelings” sweatshirt inside the U.S. Capitol building, “sat in Pelosi’s chair,” his mother posted.
One nominee could be the first Korean American woman to serve on a U.S. appeals court. Another could be the second Black woman to serve on the 9th Circuit.
Parenting advice on fire trauma, small towns, and grade anxiety.
Internal senior leadership briefings obtained by POLITICO show the disparate nature of FEMA’s activity across the country.
On the Friday after 9/11, President George W. Bush visited the New York City site that the world would come to know as Ground Zero. After rescue workers shouted that they couldn’t hear him as he spoke to them through a bullhorn, he turned toward them and ad-libbed. “I can hear you,” he shouted. “The whole world hears you, and when we find these people who knocked these buildings down, they’ll hear all of us soon.” Everybody roared.
Updated at 1:40 p.m. on September 8, 2021.Joe Biden’s “mission accomplished” moment came on the Fourth of July.Standing behind a lectern adorned with the presidential seal, he peered out at the hundreds of maskless guests drinking beer and eating pulled pork on the South Lawn of the White House. “Thanks to our heroic vaccine effort, we’ve gained the upper hand against this virus,” Biden said.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says global vaccine inequity endangers everyone on the planet, including those in rich countries, and says the best way to solve the problem is to drastically increase production of COVID-19 vaccines. “As long as the disease is festering someplace in the world, there are going to be mutations,” Stiglitz says. “So it’s in our own self-interest that we get the disease controlled everywhere.
As unemployment benefits for millions of U.S. workers expired on Labor Day, with many states suffering the worst surge of the pandemic, economist Joseph Stiglitz says it’s “disturbing” federal aid was allowed to lapse. “This is going to feed into the problems posed by the Delta variant.
Oil and gas investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz says the extent of damage done after Hurricane Ida from the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry from leaks, spills, flaring, ruptures and chemical releases in the Gulf Coast could be among the worst of such events ever recorded.
As part of our ongoing coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, one of the strongest storms to ever hit the United States, we go to St. James Parish, Louisiana, to speak with Sharon Lavigne, the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, who lives in the heart of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” home to more than 150 petrochemical facilities. She is now documenting oil spills in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida even as her home was badly damaged.
As the Taliban announces a new acting government in Kabul led by hard-liners from its previous stint in power and fight against U.S. occupation, Danish Afghan journalist Nagieb Khaja says the composition has been a “surprising outcome” as many observers expected the group to strike a more conciliatory tone. “It’s really been disappointing for the people who have been looking for a glimpse of hope,” Khaja says.
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Once the limousine door closed, a dozen of Nate Bargatze’s closest friends and family members began reciting their favorite jokes from the sold-out show he’d just finished in Reno, Nevada. There was the one about never asking a fitness junkie for advice on losing weight, lest they warn you about eating too much fruit. (“Let’s get to that point, all right?” Bargatze had said.
I feel torn between respecting my mom’s wishes and withholding significant information.
Announcing the completion of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden declared an end to the post-9/11 “forever war.” Ahead of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks that prompted the original invasion, Biden highlighted how, “if you’re 20 years old today, you’ve never known an America at peace.”Despite the president’s spin, you still won’t.
Maybe contestants will have their blood pressure taken onstage.
The lefty case against Jerome Powell almost makes sense. Almost.
Larry Hogan said that messaging from both administrations about the pandemic has been problematic.
The booster plan has caused turmoil within FDA and among public health experts.
