Not that there were ever adults in the room. But over a weekend that saw Donald Trump airlifted to a hospital as positive coronavirus tests ripped through the West Wing and GOP circles alike, White House staffers were left with chief of staff Mark Meadows to look to for guidance. It didn’t go well, according to multiple reports, even by Trump-era standards. And that’s saying something.
The United States has learned how much to trust Donald Trump: Just 12% of people in a new CNN poll say they trust almost all of what the White House is saying about Trump’s health. By contrast, 69% said they trust little of what they’re hearing from the White House.
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In the midst of crisis, the happenings of the immediate moment all too easily overwhelm our ability to keep the overall picture in mind. When multiple crises unfold simultaneously, it becomes even easier to lose track of how we have arrived at our predicaments of the moment.
Observers fear for the health and lives of Trump’s household staff, security detail, aides and officials as the maskless, COVID-contagious president comes home.
Well, it’s what we expected. The New York Times reports that the Trump team “has decided not to trace the contacts of guests and staff members” at the superspreading White House Rose Garden celebration for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, the apparent source of infection for at least three Republican senators and numerous other people.
One of the things that the FCC and FTC have not done effectively over the last few decades is hold telecommunications companies like AT&T and Verizon accountable for their tax-subsidized infrastructure obligations. In fact, the FCC under Trump’s choice and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, have done everything possible to protect big telecommunications from being held responsible for their fraudulent behaviors.
The president returned after a three-day hospital stay, tweeting that he was “feeling really good!
He is also a superspreader, so there’s that.
Two photographers explain how they document a stillbirth or miscarriage—and praise the model for sharing her images.
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.TASOS KATOPODIS / GETTYPutting aside the mechanics of who infected whom: The outbreak of COVID-19 at the White House is Trump’s doing.Call it the Trump cluster.
Updated on October 5, 2020 at 7:04 p.m. ET.On any given morning, the White House is a blur of activity. A chef may be whipping up breakfast for the first couple in the second-floor kitchen. A valet might be shining the president’s shoes, while the head butler lingers in the West Sitting Hall, awaiting any urgent presidential requests. Housekeepers, maybe a dozen of them, could be deployed throughout the building, vacuuming, polishing, and dusting.
I want her to stay discreet in her profiles, but she says it doesn’t matter.
White House physician Sean Conley refused to discuss details of the president’s coronavirus infection and said he “may not entirely be out of the woods yet.
And he complained to our mom when I confronted him about it.
Late in Netflix’s Emily in Paris, the new comedy series from Sex and the City’s creator, Darren Star, Emily (Lily Collins), the titular American expat, tries to give herself a reality check about her new home. “It’s just Paris,” she says. “It’s not some alternate universe where rules don’t apply.”Oh, but Emily does live in an alternate universe, one built by Star for his first Millennial protagonist.
The updated guidance comes just days after President Donald Trump was diagnosed with Covid-19.
“Truth will come to light,” Launcelot Gobbo tells his father in The Merchant of Venice. “At the length truth will out.”For Donald Trump, this past week is when, for all except his most beguiled and gullible supporters, the truth willed itself out. At the start of the week, the ground on which the president’s most fanatical followers stood started to crumble; by the end of the week, it had completely collapsed.
The whole point of Cal Cunningham was that he was supposed to be boring. The North Carolina Democrat is not the most dynamic campaigner, but polls have consistently given him a lead over the Republican incumbent, Thom Tillis, in the race for U.S. Senate.Now that lead is up in the air. On Thursday, a report revealed texts between Cunningham, a married father of two, and a Democratic strategist. The texts are less racy than, say, joggy; true to form for Cunningham, they’re rather dull.
Breonna Taylor’s family is calling on Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to appoint a new special prosecutor to reopen the case after they say newly released grand jury tapes confirm the state Attorney General Daniel Cameron “did not serve as an unbiased prosecutor in this case and intentionally did not present charges to the grand jury that would have pursued justice for Ms. Taylor.
As President Trump and a growing number of prominent Republicans are infected with COVID-19, we speak with Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, who says Trump was reckless in his approach to the coronavirus and continues to flout public health recommendations. “There is an outbreak happening at the White House. It will continue to spread. It will not go away on its own,” says Dr. Jha. “The way you stop it is to test, trace and isolate.
As the White House and President Trump’s medical team issue conflicting statements on Trump’s condition after he was hospitalized for COVID-19, and when he was infected, we speak with Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason. The administration’s lack of transparency “certainly raises questions about the decisions that were made to allow him to travel, for him to decide to travel, and to expose what seems like a lot of people,” Mason says.
Parenting advice on teens and Instagram, squabbling siblings, and crying kids.
Amid Trump’s push to reopen schools, Michael Caputo’s science adviser asked that the health agency alter its warning about a study of pediatric coronavirus.
As if there wasn’t enough troubling news on this Friday.
Brooks Brothers popularized the button-down shirt. It clothed nearly every U.S. President.
The president’s creative filings illustrate the complexities—and the shortcomings—of our tax system.
As if there wasn’t enough troubling news on this Friday.
Monoclonal antibodies are a potential treatment that could combat Covid outbreaks before and after a safe and effective vaccine is widely available.
