Congress Should Extend Unemployment Benefits for an Extra Three Weeks While Republicans Get Their Act Together
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
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Why It’s Still So Tough to Find Disinfectant Wipes
Too few materials, too many coronavirus outbreaks, and a never-ending canister shortage.
Chris Christie cashes in on coronavirus lobbying
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
Commission still talking to vax companies, while U.S., U.K. secure deals
This news comes after the U.S. announced earlier in the day that it had secured up to 600 million doses of a vaccine created by BioNTech and Pfizer.
Republican governors of Indiana and Ohio issue mask mandates, joining more than half of U.S. states
The announcements come a day after President Donald Trump threw his support behind facial coverings to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
Fauci: I was not invited to Trump’s coronavirus briefing
The nation’s top infectious disease expert said he had last spoken with the president late last week.
True number of U.S. coronavirus infections likely 10 times larger than reported, CDC data shows
The study is based on antibody tests of about 16,000 people conducted between late March and early May.
How the Child Care Crisis Will Distort the Economy for a Generation
The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
‘Oil on the inequality fire’: How slashing jobless aid could widen the wealth gap
Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring.
Housing market defies expectations amid economic turmoil
Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
Trump shifts messaging: Coronavirus ‘will get worse before it gets better’
In the first such briefing in three months, the president acknowledged the real scope of the pandemic’s impact in the U.S.
Cartoon: Chad Wolf’s goon squad!
The regular cops are still wilding out, and adding the Republicans’ secret police to the mix right as pandemic relief expires is a recipe for (even more) disaster.
Family jailed for nearly 11 months now fears ICE may tear them apart in just days
Claudia, a mother who has been detained with her 8-year-old son for nearly 11 months at a migrant family jail in Texas, told CBS News over the phone that she knows that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has the ability to release her family together right now. Officials “have the option of letting us leave with our children,” she said.
As A Candidate, Trump Asked FBI In Intelligence Briefing: ‘Are The Russians Bad?’
GOP senators pushed to have this once-classified document released, but maybe they shouldn’t have.
We’ll prosecute: Two chief prosecutors tell Trump and federal agents to back off their cities
The top prosecutors of two major American cities issued a preemptive warning to both Donald Trump and federal agents Friday, pledging in an op-ed to prosecute Trump’s troops if they violate the law in their cities.
Portland woman said she’s had it with Trump—’I will not support a tyranist any longer’
As Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr prepare to unleash more federal forces in Seattle, Chicago, and other large cities in the U.S., protest crowds are still swelling in Portland—and there are some new faces in the crowd. At least one of them was willing to talk to MSNBC, declaring: “As of last night, I am no longer a Trump supporter.”
Watch as the unnamed woman explains why she can no longer support Trump.
Supreme Court Denies Nevada Church’s Challenge To Coronavirus Restrictions
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley argued that the hard cap on religious gatherings was an unconstitutional violation of its parishioners’ First Amendment rights.
USCIS has postponed furlough of more than half of its workforce until end of August, senator says
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is postponing its furlough of more than half of its workforce for nearly another month, Senate Appropriations Vice Chair Patrick Leahy said on Friday. The agency had been set to furlough 13,000 of its 20,000 employees on Aug. 3 until revised estimates showed the agency actually had enough funds to continue work for several more weeks, his office said.
‘PAW Patrol’ Fact-Checks Kayleigh McEnany After She Said Show Was Canceled
One Twitter user noted “we’re now at a point where Paw Patrol has to fact check the White House.
Why Planned Parenthood Has Been Reluctant to Confront Its Founder’s Troubling History
“It hands the appearance of victory to the wrong people,” a former board member said.
Judge Won’t Block Federal Agents From Arresting Portland Protesters
Oregon’s attorney general had sued the Trump administration, alleging federal agents arrested anti-racism protesters without probable cause.
Even if School Kids Survive COVID-19, They Won’t Be Spared “Contagion Guilt”
Anyone rushing the reopening of schools needs to consider the emotional cost to kids of infecting family and friends.
40 million Americans face student loan cliff
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
I Work Rides at the Reopened Disney World. The People Here Right Now Are, Uh, Interesting.
Instead of wearing all-day smiles, I tell people to fix their masks.
The Paycheck Protection Program Was a Flop
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
AOC Gave The Most Important Feminist Speech In A Generation
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s remarks were an eloquent dismantling of the playbook men have used to keep women in their place for centuries.
25 Underrated Films That Will Save Your Summer
Summer blockbusters have started to look the same in recent years: iterations from the same franchises, with comic-book superheroes leading the pack again and again. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 summer-movie season never really began. With Hollywood’s biggest films delayed for months, or indefinitely, I’ve assembled a list of unconventional and underrated movies with a much more eclectic range of heroes to cheer for or be thrilled by.
A New Solution to Climate Science’s Biggest Mystery
The project began, in one telling, five years ago, in a castle that overlooks the Bavarian Alps, where three dozen of the world’s most successful and rivalrous earth scientists came together for a week of cloistered meetings.They gathered, in part, out of embarrassment. For the past four decades, their field—the study of Earth’s natural phenomena, including its land, ocean, and climate—had boomed.