Oprah Winfrey has launched a powerful #OWNYourVote campaign geared toward Black women, kicking off a series of events and actions in the run-up to the critical elections in November and beyond with a powerful video.
The video is a montage of images of women from civil rights movement history; women taking to the streets; and women marching and standing with family.
Millions of Muslims worldwide this weekend celebrated Eid al-Adha, one of the two Islamic holidays of the year. Celebrated this year between July 30 and Aug. 3, Eid al-Adha, or the “Feast of Sacrifice,” is a holiday meant to commemorate the story of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham). During the holiday, Muslims worldwide sacrifice an animal—most often a goat, sheep, or cow—to distribute the meat to a family in need.
The very real possibility that House Republicans lose rather than gain seats in November already has the minority caucus drawing the battle lines for an epic leadership fight.
“If Trump loses, there’s gonna be a mad scramble if we’re in the minority,” one Republican lawmaker told Politico. “There’s people seeing this as an opportunity. … I think it’s gonna be a real fight.
“For the sake of our constitutional republic, he must lose, and lose badly. Yet that should be just a start,” the conservative attorney wrote.
Texas is increasingly looking like a battleground state, and the Joe Biden campaign is sending some attention that way. The campaign announced six hires in Texas, including state director Rebecca Acuña and deputy state director Jennifer Longoria.
The campaign is also launching digital ads in English and Spanish, commemorating the anniversary of the mass shooting in El Paso.
More than 500 health professionals signed a letter calling for the expansion of paid family and sick leave to all American workers.
House Democrats have subpoenaed four top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the ongoing investigation into why Donald Trump axed the agency’s inspector general.
House Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel of New York said the four aides were obstructing the panel’s investigation into the dismissal of Inspector General Steve Linick, who was conducting two investigations into Pompeo.
Tata, who called former President Barack Obama a “terrorist leader,” took a different, less-senior role at the Defense Department.
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.Dina Litovsky / ReduxThe United States is home to just 4 percent of the world’s population but a quarter of its confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths.
“Am I delusional in thinking that leaving my fiancé for Tom would ever work out?
The findings, published in Health Affairs, underscore the economic disparities shaping the nation’s coronavirus response.
When the economy goes bad, coverage gets even harder to keep. More than 20 million could become uninsured this year.
It meets the CDC’s recommendations, and is comfortable and affordable.
On this episode of the podcast Social Distance, Katherine Wells and James Hamblin investigate a new pandemic-compatible hobby.Listen to the episode here:Subscribe to Social Distance on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or another podcast platform to receive new episodes as soon as they’re published.Some highlights from their conversation:Jason Ward: The birds that you’re seeing in your yard or in your neighborhood are not there year-round.
A giant dies and the world left behind feels a bit more tawdry and mundane and uninspiring and small. A melancholy descends, filled with insecurity about the present and seductive nostalgia for the certainty of the past. Where have the great leaders gone, one wonders—the great causes and morality, the clarity and vision? The death of the Nobel Prize–winning Irish politician John Hume is such a moment.
Almost as soon as Serena Lyn stepped back inside the Magic Kingdom, she burst into tears. It’d been four months since the theme park and crown jewel of Walt Disney World’s Florida stronghold had shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. Before the parks closed, Lyn had been visiting them twice a week; it was part of her job as a Disney blogger and an Instagrammer with more than 71,000 followers.
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. urged a federal judge to reject President Trump’s attempts to block a subpoena for his tax returns.
Trump’s announcement comes as his administration has rolled out multiple health care announcements in recent weeks.
In recent years, as SpaceX launched rocket after rocket without incident, liftoff became the company’s second-most-impressive feat. The truly dazzling moment came after the rocket had left the ground, and its booster—or, sometimes, two boosters—reversed course high up in the air, flipped around, and glided back down, landing upright on the ground or a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean, ready to be refurbished and used again.
Award-winning journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi spoke to us from Casablanca on July 16. Two weeks later, on July 29, last Wednesday, Moroccan authorities arrested him on what press freedom advocates call “retaliatory charges.” Now a court has charged Radi with undermining state security by receiving foreign funding and collaborating with foreign intelligence, and also charged him with rape.
With President Trump trailing in most polls, he tweeted recently that he was floating the idea of delaying the November election — something he cannot legally do — and continued his attacks on mail-in voting. “We have a president who is probably the most fascist president that we’ve ever had in this country,” responds LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund and the BVM Capacity Building Institute.
As President Trump floats the idea of delaying the election, we speak with Nils Gilman, historian and co-founder of Transition Integrity Project, which organized a bipartisan group of experts to game out what a contested November election might look like.
Parenting advice on overly honest children, chore inequality, and life after ballet.
At an assisted living facility for people with dementia, it’s my job to entertain the residents.
You don’t need to be the most aggressive person in the room to win.
Generational wealth as seen through one family’s financial history.
Automatic stabilizers: learn them, live them, love them.
Two years ago, the camera maker got into cryptocurrency.
Executives with pharma ties are exempt from disclosing conflicts.
