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Don’t Breathe Easy About the Postal Service Yet
The postmaster general said he’ll stop screwing with the mail—but he left some wiggle room.
How America’s Canned Tuna Industry Went Belly Up
The story is a lot bigger—and weirder—than a simple change in consumer tastes.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya on the Inherent Intimacy of Photography
The photographer has a privileged “position of looking.
SCOTUS sets hearing on Obamacare for week after election
A Supreme Court decision on the lawsuit isn’t likely until the spring.
Judge halts Trump’s rollback of transgender health protections
Monday’s decision didn’t address other provisions of Trump’s revised nondiscrimination rules.
Masks, surgical gowns, testing supplies on FDA shortage list
The shortage list was released hours after President Donald Trump touted the progress his administration has made in securing critical protective gear.
CDC’s chief of staff, deputy chief of staff jointly depart
Both Kyle McGowan and Amanda Campbell have been with the health department since the start of the Trump administration.
Unemployment Isn’t Too High — Regular Wages Are Too Low
In the debate over Covid-19 relief, Congress is worried about the wrong problem.
Japan’s economy shrinks at record rate, slammed by pandemic
For the April-June period, Japan’s exports dropped at a whopping annual rate of 56 percent.
Negotiators ‘miles apart’ on Covid funding, with little hope for deal until September
Asked when she would next be meeting with Republicans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday: “I don’t know. When they come in with $2 trillion.
British economy plunged record 20 percent in second quarter
“It is clear that the UK is in the largest recession on record,” the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.
‘It means nothing’: Trump’s pledge to aid tenants won’t halt evictions
Donald Trump’s executive order wouldn’t do much to immediately help the 20 million or so Americans who face losing their homes in the next few months.
Stuttering Through It
You could hear the stutter in Brayden’s lungs, all those heavy inhalations, his search for sounds that wouldn’t come. The 13-year-old stared into a stationary camera and told the world about his problem, the affliction he shares with 3 million Americans, one of whom is now the Democratic nominee for president.“Without Joe Biden, I wouldn’t be talking with you today,” Brayden began. A big smile revealed braces.
Photos of the Week: Flooded Buddha, Tokyo Skytree, Damp Moose
Retired police dog adoptions in Ecuador, ballet in Brazil, an open-air brass band rehearsal in Wales, the Criterium du Dauphine cycling race in France, record heat in Death Valley and wildfires across California, a cool bear in Kosovo, scenes from the the Democratic National Convention, a sail-in floating cinema in Israel, and much more.
Joe Biden delivers the speech of his lifetime, at exactly the right time
Joe Biden appeared on a stage, not in Milwaukee, but in Wilmington, Delaware to accept the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. But if the convention was constrained by the disaster that’s resulted from Donald Trump’s malignant neglect of the COVID-19 crisis, there was nothing small about Biden’s speech.
In a long career, Joe Biden has delivered many speeches, but none of them were a match for what he did on Thursday evening.
Ocasio-Cortez Fires A ‘Windmill Cancer’ Dig Back After Trump Blasts Her Education
The president said the progressive lawmaker “knows nothing about the environment” and “probably never studied.
Watching Joe Biden accept the Democratic nomination? Talk about it here
Well, folks, this is it. The last night of a 2020 political convention not dedicated to hate and divisiveness, and the moment former Vice President Joe Biden formally accepts the Democratic nomination for president.
The main hour of programming begins at 10 PM ET. You can watch the DNC online here.
Trump Cooks Up Wacky New Birther Slam: Joe Biden Wasn’t Born In Pennsylvania
Because the Democratic nominee moved out as a child, he really wasn’t born in Scranton, the president told a perplexed Pennsylvania crowd.
Trump’s war on the Postal Service is also an attack on Black lives
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has over 600,000 workers across the United States, and has been, as you know, under attack by Donald Trump, who, in his reckless attempt to screw up mail-in ballots, is also wreaking havoc on the lives of USPS employees. As a side benefit for the Bigot in Chief, he gets yet another opportunity to harm Black folks.
‘I am disgusted’: North Carolina cop fired after defending George Floyd in viral TikTok video
A Black North Carolina police officer who defended George Floyd in a viral TikTok video has been fired from the Greensboro Police Department after an accusation he violated the department’s social media policy by wearing his uniform in the video. Former officer Ja’Quay Williams said in a TikTok video posted to YouTube Thursday that he’s been on administrative leave for two months while the department investigated his TikTok account.
FBI Now Probing $300 Million Media Company Deal Linked To Steve Bannon: Report
The FBI and SEC launched an investigation after investors said they never received verification of their investments, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
DeJoy’s family company was sued over shocking racism, sexual assault, wage theft, and more
Part of Trump Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s credentials for handling a government agency as large and spread-out as the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is his creation of New Breed Logistics, a family shipping company that would eventually become a 9,000 employee operation and be sold off for $615 million, enough money that DeJoy could become a major Republican donor.
Inside Steve Bannon’s Alleged Scheme To Fleece Trump Voters Who Wanted A Border Wall
The president’s family denies knowing anything about the scheme, but a HuffPost investigation reveals close ties.
The Hiring of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Looks Even Sketchier Now
The Trump donor’s qualifications and vetting were both highly unusual, according to new congressional testimony.
The United States Versus Steve Bannon
Shortly after 4 p.m. this afternoon, the sunburned visage of Steve Bannon popped up on a projector screen inside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse in Lower Manhattan. President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist was sitting in what appeared to be a holding cell in lieu of a courtroom, wearing an open-collared shirt, a white mask, and handcuffs.
Biden’s pandemic challenge: A unified plan for a divided country
“The way that you build public trust is that you tell the truth,” says one health adviser.
Inside the Slow-Moving Disaster of Students Returning to College Campuses
How does one properly quarantine in a dorm?
Democrats’ Unprecedented Embrace of Gun Control
On a cold February evening, weeks before the full force of the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States, a few dozen Mike Bloomberg supporters milled around the airy living room of a home in the genteel Washington, D.C., suburb of McLean, Virginia. The voters, most of them white, described themselves as moderates or former Republicans.