One week after news outlets hailed Donald Trump’s pivot to a new, more sober tone on the coronavirus, Trump literally fled the briefing room Tuesday over tough questioning about his promotion of a video of doctors making false Covid-19 claims.
“It can only be my personality, that’s all,” Trump said at a news conference where he lamented his plunging popularity.
During a question and answer session on Tuesday afternoon, Joe Biden let reporters know that his selection of a vice-presidential candidate is imminent. “I’m going to have a choice the first week in August and I promise, I’ll let you know when I do,” said Biden.
Joe Biden’s talking points about the vice presidential contender included “talented,” “great respect for her” and “do not hold grudges.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell likes to talk about an “epidemic of lawsuits” that will come “on the heels of the pandemic we’re already struggling with” to justify the liability protections line in the sand he created for a coronavirus relief bill. That’s the ultimatum he came up with after his “let the states go bankrupt” bottom line was roundly rejected by even Republicans. He soon pivoted to pushing the U.S.
As the novel coronavirus pandemic upends just about every aspect of education, graduation ceremonies and traditions have changed, too. To celebrate a monumental time in young peoples’ lives, many families are putting signs, posters, or other decorations outside of their homes to show off the graduate in their family.
The last filing deadline for major-party candidates anywhere in the country passed on Friday when Louisiana, which always bring up the caboose, closed its books.
Candidates often enter races late in the Pelican State, and Democrats received a welcome surprise a couple of days before the deadline when Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins announced a bid against Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, giving the party a credible contender where before it had none.
Frustrated with his low approval ratings, the president is once again leaning in to hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.
Progressives are insisting the party embrace “Medicare for All” in grim times.
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.The Tenet debut moved abroad, a major theater made a concession, and Emmy nominations landed. We explain what it all meansBRYAN ANSELM / REDUXChristopher Nolan’s highly anticipated Tenet will debut in movie theaters in August—just not in America.
House Democrats have been waiting for more than a year to grill Attorney General Bill Barr, a man they’ve accused of all manner of professional misconduct—including repeatedly and inappropriately intervening to protect President Donald Trump and deploying federal agents to incite violence in American cities.Today they finally had their chance, as Barr testified, at long last, before the House Judiciary Committee.
A group calling itself “America’s Frontline Doctors” spread false information about COVID-19 with the help of Facebook, right-wing media and President Trump.
One of the delights of Folklore, an audacious and almost-too-rich feast of an album, is that Taylor Swift moves away from a solid sense of the first person. (Beth Garrabrant)The coronavirus pandemic has made a mess of the present and clouded any visions of the future, but at least—as artworks of our era keep insisting—the past is there to guide us. Taylor Swift, for example, has been thinking about her grandfather fighting in World War II.
Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, the attorney general also defended the deployment of federal officers in cities across the country.
Said one psychologist studying facial perception, “That’s nightmare-inducing.
As professional sports leagues continue to grapple with coronavirus restrictions on both players and fans, teams are playing to empty, or near-empty, stadiums, and broadcasting the games live. Team mascots, who normally thrive on interaction with a live audience, are left to play to the cameras, interacting with empty bleachers and cardboard cutouts of fans. Below is a collection of images from recent months of various mascots, still hard at work during trying times.
The legislation is so pathogen-friendly it might as well have been brought to us by the lobbyists at Big COVID.
I’m worried my habit might be crossing a line.
Bryan Anselm / ReduxFinally, there’s some good news for Hollywood: Yesterday, Warner Bros. announced that Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated action thriller, Tenet, will debut next month following multiple delays. As the pandemic has shut down cinemas across the globe, Tenet has been widely regarded as the film that could revive a depressed theater industry, and now it has its chance.
Under a shocking new Trump administration policy, hundreds of people who came to the United States seeking asylum were secretly held in hotels for days on end before being expelled from the country, often with little or no paper trail. This includes more than 200 unaccompanied immigrant children — including babies and toddlers — who were taken to hotels near the Texas-Mexico border by a private contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
As researchers around the world race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, we speak with Peter Maybarduk, director of Public Citizen’s Access to Medicines Program, about who is profiting from government efforts to fund vaccines, testing and treatment. The Trump administration has announced major contracts with pharmaceutical companies as part of its $6 billion program, Operation Warp Speed, including with firms that have never brought a vaccine to market.
With 30,000 people taking part in the first major COVID-19 vaccine study in the United States, hopes are high that the collaboration between drugmaker Moderna and the National Institutes of Health will yield positive results as early as November. Researchers around the world are working on more than 165 vaccine candidates, though only a handful are conducting large-scale human trials.
And now he won’t stop bringing it up out of embarrassment.
Parenting advice on family secrets, adoption, and friends who are family.
Early in his career, he tried hard to distinguish his work from superhero comics.
Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati return to discuss sovereign debt and emerging markets.
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
Too few materials, too many coronavirus outbreaks, and a never-ending canister shortage.
