Our project to calculate the 2020 presidential results for all 435 congressional districts nationwide hits North Carolina, where Donald Trump pulled off a narrow win last year. You can find our detailed calculations here, a large-size map of the results here, and our permanent, bookmarkable link for all 435 districts here.
I have written before about the horrors of the pandemic, from my perspective as a physician and from our viewpoint in a typical emergency department in America: stories of death, sickness, suffering, and isolation. The corporate indifference and the government bungling. The physical and psychological damage to the survivors, the families, and the staff.
The censure document accused Cheney of voting to impeach even though the U.S. House didn’t offer Trump “formal hearing or due process.
Black workers have been hit so hard during the coronavirus pandemic, and a full accounting of the hits is not yet complete. We know that Black people have been disproportionately likely to get sick, to be hospitalized, and to die from COVID-19. That they’ve been more likely to face job loss during the pandemic (when they aren’t being exposed to the virus at essential but underpaid jobs). That they’ve been less likely to get unemployment benefits.
Looking over the list of rescued Community stories this week, I thought “whew, back to normal” because fear, fatigue, anger, and outrage no longer dominate. For Rescue Rangers who read every Community story as we search for excellent work that deserves more attention, periods of extreme tension make for grueling reading. Imagine our four-hour shifts on Nov.
Video obtained by ABC News shows the Donald Trump confidant flanked by members of the far-right militia the morning of the insurrection.
MICHELLE MISHINA KUNZ / New York Times / ReduxIf you’ve ever been lured into a mediocre dining establishment by the promise of unlimited food, you’re not alone. In 2017, TGI Fridays made endless appetizers a permanent part of its menu because they had, in the words of the chain’s CEO, become such a “pop-culture phenomenon, as evidenced by the outcry we heard every time the limited-time offer expired.
The GOP lawmakers were the first to be fined for refusing to cooperate with the new security policy, put in place after last month’s deadly Capitol insurrection.
This article was published online on February 6, 2021.Last February, on a sunny afternoon in West Hollywood, two girls with precise eye makeup paused on Melrose Avenue and peered in the windows of a building whose interior was painted a bright, happy pink. Two pink, winged unicorns flanked racks of clothes: ribbed crop tops, snakeskin-print pants, white sleeveless bodysuits. One of the girls tugged on the door, then frowned. It was locked, which was weird. She tugged again.
He screams threats and obscenities every time I walk my dogs past his house.
Becerra provided legal muscle for the state’s pandemic restrictions.
Updated at 10:28 a.m. ET on February 6, 2021.Public-health experts predicted a tsunami of COVID-19 infections in Iowa this winter. Doctors and researchers told me in November that they expected thousands of Iowans to travel to visit family over Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Over the past few years, the Supreme Court has been sketching the outline of a broad compromise on LGBTQ rights. Civil-rights protections will shield people from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. At the same time, religious objectors will have their own set of robust rights. For example, the Court recently clarified that Title IX, the federal antidiscrimination employment law, covers LGBTQ employees.
China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive infrastructure that they can’t afford and that will yield few benefits, all with the end goal of Beijing eventually taking control of these assets from its struggling borrowers. As states around the world pile on debt to combat the coronavirus pandemic and bolster flagging economies, fears of such possible seizures have only amplified.
But if you’re still not convinced, look at these charts.
The GameStop surge was just one of the ways Americans have renewed their love of betting.
There are a lot of bizarre, self-imposed congressional limits that may delay final passage until March.
The troubled startup was primed to fail in a pandemic. Here’s how it survived.
The vaccine is a single dose shot that experts say is key to vaccinating vulnerable, hard-to-reach and even skeptical people.
The FDA’s acting commissioner, Janet Woodcock, said in a statement Thursday that the agency would release updates soon.
The next CMS administrator will oversee Biden’s efforts to expand Obamacare and erase much of Trump’s health care legacy.
Many pharmacies are already administering vaccine doses that have been allocated to states.
Unemployment statistics don’t tell the whole story.
The Outward Hound Hide a Squirrel Toy is now $10, or 20 percent off the regular price.
Employment levels, however, will not fully recover until 2024.
Without help from Congress, he has few options to turn the U.S. economy around.
“There’s nothing more important to the economy now than people getting vaccinated,” Jerome Powell said.
The debt poses no imminent danger to U.S. finances, economists say, so the more pressing concern should be jump-starting the economy.
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Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute writes—The Biden rescue plan is neither risky nor a distraction from structural issues:
Economist Larry Summers raised fears today that the Biden administration’s economic rescue plan might go too far, leading to economic overheating or squandering political and economic space for long-run reforms down the road.
I get it. The media have a job to do. And for the first time in four years, the government doesn’t have a cabinet-level Department of Gaslighting.
But this is a question this reporter already knows the answer to, right?
Right?
I believe this is AP White House correspondent Zeke Miller, but he’s wearing a mask, so I don’t know for sure. For all I know this is what Carrot Top looks like when he’s not on stage.