Ex-Trump Lawyer Sidney Powell Urges Georgia Voters To Boycott Runoff Elections
Appearing at a “Stop the Steal” rally, the conservative firebrand implied once again that the state’s voting machines are not trustworthy.
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Katie Porter Pummels Mnuchin At Hearing After He Calls Her Question ‘Ridiculous’
The California lawmaker grilled the Treasury secretary over his plan to move billions of dollars approved for COVID-19 relief into the general fund.
Biden top economic adviser facing accusations of mismanagement, verbal abuse
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
The Atlantic Daily: Trump Might Fade Away
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 inboxCHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTYThe Trumpian vortex isn’t what it used to be. Weeks after Donald Trump’s defeat, the current is slowing: The president is commanding far less attention in his last weeks of office.That’s not, as my colleague David A.
Trump Releases 46 Minutes Of Lies Falsely Asserting ‘Fraud’ In 2020 Election
Trump lost the popular vote to President-elect Joe Biden by 7 million votes and the Electoral College tally by 74 votes.
The Dangerous Blind Spot of The Undoing
Updated at 9:46 p.m. ET on December 2, 2020.This article contains spoilers through the series finale of The Undoing.The Sunday finale of The Undoing was the most-watched episode of any HBO show since the last episode of Big Little Lies. The Undoing is a whodunit about the murder of a woman found, by her fourth-grade son, with her décolletage displayed and her face in pieces. Sex sells, according to the old advertising adage. Clearly violence does too.
Kayleigh McEnany Defends White House Holiday Parties Amid COVID Surge
“If you can loot businesses, burn down buildings, engage in a protest, you can also go to a Christmas party,” President Donald Trump’s press secretary said.
Raimondo emerges as frontrunner for HHS secretary
New Mexico’s governor is no longer the favorite to lead the department at the center of Biden’s pandemic response.
Photos: The Reality of the Current Coronavirus Surge
As the number of cases of COVID-19 worldwide nears 65 million, and the number of deaths attributed to the disease approaches 1.5 million, many countries are enduring a crushing surge in numbers. The toll on health-care workers, families, and the victims of the disease has been enormous. Gathered below are photographs from around the world of the current battle against COVID-19, taken over the past few weeks.
Michael Flynn Wants Trump To Declare Martial Law And Redo The Election
The president’s freshly pardoned ex-national security adviser retweeted a statement advocating suspending the Constitution.
Mitch McConnell’s Relief Offer Is Actually Worse Than Doing Nothing
The majority leader wants to send Americans a big lump of coal.
I Confessed All My Secret Fantasies, and Now My Girlfriend Is Horrified
She’s literally bursting into tears.
Elliot Page’s Vulnerability Is a Gift to the Trans, Nonbinary Community
He’s come out before. But this time is different.
“The Dead Are Arising”: New Biography on Malcolm X’s Childhood, Killing & Secret Meeting with KKK
We speak with the co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” which recently won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and offers a sweeping account of Malcolm X’s life by weaving together hundreds of interviews with Malcolm X’s family, friends, colleagues and enemies. The book is based on decades of research by Les Payne, who died in 2018, and finished by his daughter, Tamara Payne.
The New Goldman Sachs? BlackRock Sees Clout Growing as Biden Taps Two Execs to Top Economic Posts
For his incoming economic team, President-elect Joe Biden has picked several people associated with the investment giant BlackRock, which has been called “the fourth branch of government.” This includes his choice of Brian Deese, a former adviser to Barack Obama, to be his director of the National Economic Council. Deese was the global head of sustainable investing for BlackRock, which is the world’s largest asset manager, with over $7 trillion in its portfolio.
Where Are the Progressives? Briahna Joy Gray on Neera Tanden & Other Biden Picks for Economic Team
President-elect Joe Biden announced his top economic advisers this week, setting the tone for his administration’s recovery plan, including Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress think tank, as head of the Office of Management and Budget.
Biden backs up Tanden as Republicans attack her tweets
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
Help! I Keep Looking for Excuses Not to Hang Out With My Husband.
He wants us to spend our little free time together, but I’d rather be on my own.
Dear Care and Feeding: My MIL Is Way Too Strict With My Perfectly Normal Kid
Parenting advice on unfair discipline, bad words, and college choices.
How Wells Fargo Became Synonymous With Scandal
In just a few years, the bank squandered 160 years of consumer goodwill.
Janet Yellen Makes History
Slate Money talks Janet Yellen, Simon & Schuster, and United Way Worldwide.
How Klancy Miller Designs Recipes for Single People
“If you have a kitchen and cook and live by yourself … this cookbook is for you.
Biden’s other health crisis: A resurgent drug epidemic
Joe Biden will emphasize treatment and prevention, not law enforcement, in addressing a drug epidemic that’s only grown more dire during the pandemic.
Governments around the world weigh thorny question: Who gets the vaccine first?
Different countries are coming up with different answers to that question.
Trump officials hold first ‘Operation Warp Speed’ briefing for Biden
The focus of the initial meeting was on Covid-19 vaccines, therapeutics and distribution, said one person familiar with the agenda.
Azar says states will decide who gets first Covid-19 shots
He and other top government officials have said that about 40 million doses of the vaccine will likely be available next month.
AstraZeneca to seek FDA authorization for vaccine based on foreign trial data
It’s the third Covid-19 vaccine maker to report results from a late-stage trial.
How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Deese to be Biden’s top White House economic adviser
Brian Deese is an executive at investment giant BlackRock.