One of the most memorable speeches of the opening night of the virtual Democratic National Convention was delivered by Kristin Urquiza, who said her father, a supporter of Donald Trump, died after believing the president’s assurances that the coronavirus was under control. “My dad, Mark Anthony Urquiza, should be here today, but he isn’t,” she said. “My dad was a healthy 65-year-old.
Calling the 2020 election “the most important in the modern history of this country,” Senator Bernie Sanders, in his speech to the Democratic National Convention, urged people to fight “against greed, oligarchy and bigotry” by voting President Trump out of office in November. “We need Joe Biden as our next president,” Sanders said.
On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, former first lady Michelle Obama delivered a searing critique of President Trump, accusing him of being “in over his head” and incapable of carrying out the duties of the office. “If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can,” Obama said. We air excerpts from her keynote speech, delivered virtually after the convention was moved online due to the pandemic.
An inquiry into what makes Black English sound Black.
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The photographer has a privileged “position of looking.
“A lot of people are being told to bring back the mail and then deliver it tomorrow, which creates a snowball effect.
A few years ago, the Department of Justice started looking into business practices in the canned tuna industry. What unfolded shocked an industry.
The shortage list was released hours after President Donald Trump touted the progress his administration has made in securing critical protective gear.
Both Kyle McGowan and Amanda Campbell have been with the health department since the start of the Trump administration.
A POLITICO survey of health care workers elicited dozens of stories from the front lines across the country.
Texas’s drop in testing is part of a larger nationwide trend that’s seen the average number of coronavirus tests fall since July.
Parenting advice on social isolation, taboo topics, and unfriending friends.
Her first reaction? Panic. Her second? What a great story.
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.
“It is clear that the UK is in the largest recession on record,” the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.
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.
Lawmakers have left town and Trump aides don’t expect new stimulus talks anytime soon. That leaves the U.S. economy without much of the government aid that had been propping it up.
“You literally elected a Reality TV star to be the President,” one critic shot back at the Republican senator.
The opening night of the Democrats’ virtual convention was the beginning of a coronation for Joe Biden, but it was also a victory march for Andrew Cuomo, New York’s governor and a supposed hero of the coronavirus pandemic. “For all the pain and all the tears, our way worked,” Cuomo declared in his five-minute speech. “And it was beautiful.
On Monday, Michelle Obama delivered an incredibly powerful speech to close out the first night of the Democratic National Convention.
“It is what it is,” the former first lady said in a stirring speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
“His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that, he paid with his life,” Urquiza said of her father in a video played at the DNC.
It’s the first night of what will probably be the strangest Democratic National Convention ever. The one normal thing, though, is us watching it from home and talking to each other about it. So here’s a thread to do that. Sen. Bernie Sanders and former First Lady (and most popular woman in America) Michelle Obama are scheduled to being speaking at 10:00 PM ET. You can watch this, and every other event, online at this portal.
Results of Puerto Rico’s primary election yesterday are in, and according to news reports from the island, Puerto Rico’s current appointed governor, Wanda Vázquez Garced, lost her party’s primary and has conceded.
The second round of the botched primary took place yesterday. Garced’s party, Partido Nuevo Progresista, the New Progressive Party (PNP), is the party currently in power in Puerto Rico.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has a very difficult job. He has been tasked with being the government’s head infectious disease expert during a pandemic, at a time in our history when science has become acutely politicized. He also has to work against a president and administration who help to spread misinformation regarding the best public health guidance. Dr.
A U.S. Postal Service worker says a “lull in mail volume” has everything to do with President Donald Trump’s presumed attempt to take away Americans’ constitutional right to vote. “They’re trying to shut us down so people can’t vote,” the unnamed worker said in a video shared on social media Sunday, “just basically trying to take away people’s constitutional right to vote to rig the election.
