Pfizer trying to defuse critics amid push for vaccine before Election Day
The campaign by Pfizer comes amid growing scrutiny of the CEO’s predictions that the company will know this month whether it has a viable vaccine.
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Health officials scrambling to produce Trump’s ‘last-minute’ drug cards by Election Day
As officials debate how to get Trump’s name on the cards, health officials warn of a taxpayer-funded boondoggle to bolster president’s flagging poll numbers.
Fauci: There could be 300,000 to 400,000 Covid deaths unless precautions taken
He added that a vaccine likely won’t be widely available until next summer or fall.
HHS whistleblower Rick Bright resigns from government
Bright alleges that he was demoted because he opposed political pressure linked to an unproven Covid-19 treatment.
House Democrats seek to block funds for ‘defeat despair’ Covid ads
House Democrats will introduce a bill intended to limit the administration’s ability to spend federal funds on certain coronavirus-related advertisements before the election.
Mark Meadows’ Big Pandemic-Denying Family Wedding Pushed Me Over the Edge
As my family stays apart to keep one another alive, Trump’s top aide married his daughter off in lavish style.
Help! My Therapist Texts During Our Sessions.
I could clearly hear his iPhone ping and make keyboard sounds as he typed messages for nearly 10 minutes.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Daughter’s Little Friend Keeps Saying He’s Her “Boyfriend”
Parenting advice on clingy friends, pajama rejection, and daycare deception.
Hard-hit small businesses face long winter without lifeline
Some 60 percent of all U.S. businesses that have closed during the pandemic have not reopened.
‘We need to step forward’: Fed leaders call for new focus on race in the economy
The comments from the leading Fed officials were the latest evidence of the central bank’s growing attention to persistent inequality in the economy.
‘Trump just kicked over the chess board’: GOP faces an election with more pain
The president’s approval rating on the economy remained his bright spot. But he darkened that outlook by shutting the door on a comprehensive economic aid package just as millions of Americans start voting.
Why Trump lost his battle against the trade deficit
The monthly deficit in U.S. goods trade with all other countries set a record high in August at more than $83 billion.
Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: Why Turkey’s Intervention Could Turn It into a “Proxy War”
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are in Moscow for talks following two weeks of fighting over the disputed territory Nagorno-Karabakh. At least 300 people have already died in what could turn into a wider regional conflagration, with Turkey openly supporting Azerbaijan and Russia backing Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic Armenians.
U.N. World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Tackling Hunger Amid War, Pandemic & Climate Crisis
As the World Food Programme wins the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger around the world, we speak with Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, who says the United Nations body is doing vital work around the world. “I couldn’t be happier that the World Food Programme won the Nobel Prize for peace, because this hunger pandemic is paralyzing perhaps 2.7 billion people,” he says.
FBI Foils Right-Wing Plot to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Months After Trump Urged “Liberation” of State
Just months after President Trump tweeted for his supporters to ”LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” the FBI has foiled an alleged plot to kidnap and take hostage Democratic Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer. Authorities arrested six men Thursday involved in the kidnapping plot, and seven others who were said to be planning to storm the state Capitol in Lansing with the intent of starting a civil war.
Rev. William Barber on Voter Suppression: Republicans Know They Can’t Win If Everyone Casts a Ballot
During Wednesday’s debate, Vice President Mike Pence refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if Biden wins the election. Instead, he referenced the Trump administration’s legal efforts to restrict mail-in voting. Rev. William Barber says the Republican Party’s voter suppression efforts ahead of the November election, aimed primarily at Black and Brown voters, amount to “surgical racism with surgical precision.
White House Doctor Gives Trump The All-Clear With Few Details
The president is no longer a transmission risk to others, Dr. Sean Conley declares. Other experts disagree.
Saturday Night Owls: Raskin wants new structures to deal with presidential fitness. Pelosi agrees
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
John Nichols at The Nation writes—It’s Time to Put Some Muscle Behind the 25th Amendment:
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin appeared before reporters Friday and proposed a plan to evaluate the mental fitness of presidents, they were peppered with predictable questions about Donald Trump.
Trump Reportedly Plotted Wacky Superman Stunt For Walter Reed Discharge
The president ultimately opted not to go ahead with the Superman stunt. It wasn’t immediately clear why.
‘It went as I expected’: Kamala Harris’ uncle’s take on the vice presidential debate is a must-watch
Dr. Balachandran Gopalan is Sen. Kamala Harris’ maternal uncle, and you best believe that he watched his niece—who happens to be the first South Asian American vice presidential nominee in American history (as well as the first Black one)—as she debated the white-haired liar who currently holds the nation’s second-highest office.
This may not be the stupidest argument against taxing the rich, but it’s trying hard
Joe Biden is promising to raise taxes only on families making $400,000 or more each year—the top 1.8% of taxpayers. Here to explain why that will really hit middle-class families is CNBC with the latest contribution to the “why rich people are really barely making it” genre. No, really. Experts say!
“Based on the expenses, a $400,000 household income provides for a relatively middle-class lifestyle,” one personal finance website guy claimed.
2 Students, Teacher Tested Positive At School Attended By Amy Coney Barrett’s Children
School parents learned of positive tests for COVID-19 12 days after Barrett and her children attended the Rose Garden event.
Protecting the Affordable Care Act goes beyond preexisting conditions
As the president continues his treatment for COVID-19 with the benefit of the best medicines and care that taxpayer funding can buy, he has called for “his representatives” to focus solely on confirming his Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, shelving discussions of additional COVID-19 relief.
This Biden-Harris ad featuring a bunch of Black mayors is exactly what you need today
The campaign to eject Donald Trump from the White House and replace him with Joe Biden dropped an ad beautifully targeted at Black voters Saturday. “Mayors” features duly elected city leaders from across the country, and has one simple message: Vote.
The ad was released on a day where Candace Owens and Trump hosted multiple superspreader events, including one that definitely was the latter’s latest Hatch Act violation.
Florida Seniors Are Sending A Warning Sign To Trump
Older voters helped propel Trump with winning the White House in 2016 — but it’s proving harder to get their support in 2020.
Lindsey Graham Says Black People ‘Can Go Anywhere’ In His State If They’re ‘Conservative’
And yet his Black Democratic opponent, Jamie Harrison, has been polling very well.
Reading Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
Illustration by Katie Martin; images from Kean Collection / Getty; National Museum of American HistoryWas Thomas Jefferson an atheist? Plenty of people thought so. Jefferson never identified himself as such, of course.
Help! My Husband Is on a Sex Strike and Won’t Tell Me Why.
I feel like he’s trying to get back at me instead of talking about something that’s bothering him.
The Many Beginnings of Louise Glück
One of the most striking qualities about the poetry of Louise Glück, who on Thursday won the Nobel Prize in Literature, is the way it returns again and again to the start of things—a story, a myth, a day, a marriage, a childhood. The question How do we begin anew? runs throughout the American poet’s work, from Firstborn (1968) to her most recent collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014).