Powell’s warning on pandemic clashes with Trump’s upbeat tweets
“Significant uncertainty remains about the timing and strength of the recovery,” Powell said.
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Kudlow says $600 additional unemployment checks will end in July
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
A QAnon supporter just ousted a congressman in a massive upset—and a massive headache for the GOP
Businesswoman Lauren Boebert, who runs a gun-themed restaurant where servers openly carry firearms, has defeated Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton in a stunning upset in Tuesday’s Republican primary. With most votes counted, Boebert was leading 54-46, prompting Tipton to concede.
Far-right protest rally gets pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen performing a racist singalong
The organizers of a Saturday rally in Olympia, Washington, to protest the state’s anti-COVID stay-at-home orders—including the militiamen of 3% of Washington—were happy to have what they thought was a conservative PAC step up and finance the event. The PAC paid for facilities, outhouses, security, and promotion, and it all seemed good.
Trump Tried To Give Himself A New Nickname. It Really Didn’t Go Well.
The president’s all-caps declaration on Twitter brought out his critics.
‘More inclusive and welcoming America’: Biden says he’ll reverse decimation of U.S. refugee program
The Trump administration, under the watch of White House aide and noted white supremacist Stephen Miller, has taken a sledgehammer to the U.S. refugee program, decimating annual admissions from 110,000 set by the Obama administration to a historic low of just 18,000. On World Refugee Day this past weekend, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden pledged to go even beyond the number set by the Obama administration.
Trump thinks he can save his campaign with a new Supreme Court nominee
Donald Trump has been nursing yet another grudge as he squats in the Oval Office: the Supreme Court that keeps thwarting him. He wants a fix figuring that a last-minute Supreme Court appointment would give him a big political boost ahead of November’s election. At least, that’s what CNN’s sources are saying.
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to resume federal executions after 17-year pause
Though it was buried in yet another frantic news day, on Monday the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume federal executions by letting stand an appeals court ruling allowing the same. After a 17-year pause, the 60 prisoners on federal death row will now face new execution dates.
It was Attorney General William Barr, of course, who had indicated that his department would be lifting the hiatus.
As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Says He Won’t Reinstate Restrictions
The Republican governor said “social interactions” among younger Floridians — and not the state’s reopening — was driving the spike in coronavirus cases.
The Flag-Hugger-In-Chief Flies A Nonstandard, Cheaper One At Mar-a-Lago
Under President Eisenhower’s executive order, government offices must fly the standard U.S. ensign. Trump doesn’t at his “Southern White House.
Pride Can’t Go Back to What It Was Before
It might have been the sight of a muscled roller skater in a lacy tutu, or of a thong-clad twerker commanding an on-the-move cheering circle, or of a giant papier-mâché puppet of Janelle Monáe that sparked the epiphany.
Kayleigh McEnany Mocked After Insisting Trump Is ‘Most Informed Person’
“The president does read and he also consumes intelligence verbally,” the White House press secretary insisted.
“An Act of Betrayal”: How Pro-Life Activists Are Reacting to the Supreme Court’s Latest Abortion Decision
“I don’t think this nullifies the conservative legal movement. But it significantly weakens it.
The Atlantic Daily: Stay Home Anyway
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.BRYAN R. SMITH / AFP / GETTYIn a normal year, July would signal a bit of relief, a kind of seventh-inning stretch for the nation. But this year’s will likely bring more of the same: Americans won’t be getting a vacation from this virus.
Judge Temporarily Blocks Release Of Tell-All Book By Trump’s Niece
Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” was set to hit bookstores in July.
A Dire Warning From COVID-19 Test Providers
Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. The United States is once again at risk of outstripping its COVID-19 testing capacity, an ominous development that would deny the country a crucial tool to understand its pandemic in real time.
Jeff Sessions Explains Why Christians Support Trump
“In Christ there is no east or west / In him no south or north, / But one great family bound by love / Throughout the whole wide earth,” goes the old hymn.But in Donald Trump, there is division among American Christians. On one side are those who insist that the president is a Christian hero who is standing up for religious rights.
Scenes From Antarctica
Antarctica is currently approaching the coldest months of its long winter, and the previous summer’s activities have mostly wrapped up. Collected below are recent images of the Antarctic landscape, wildlife, and research facilities, as well as some of the work taking place there.
FDA spells out guidelines for approving Covid-19 vaccines
The agency also left open the possibility it would issue an emergency use authorization for a vaccine.
What’s Really Going on With the Fireworks in New York City
“I love this shit. I want to be a demolition man.
U.S. risks 100,000 new Covid-19 cases a day, Fauci warns
“I am quite concerned about what we are seeing evolve in four states,” Anthony Fauci told the Senate health panel, without naming the states.
A Florida Bar on Getting Shut Down, Reopening, and Getting Shut Down Again
“We’re back to where we started. … It’s a lot of work we’re just losing.
What It’s Like to Deliver Pizza in a Pandemic
“People are just a lot more mean. It seems a lot more hostile.
#OccupyCityHall: Mayor’s “Tone Deaf” Pledge to Move $1B from NYPD Budget Fails to Satisfy Protesters
New York police have closed in on peaceful protesters camped outside City Hall who are demanding $1 billion be cut from the police department’s $6 billion budget, as the city approaches its July 1 budget deadline. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a budget deal that would move $1 billion in NYPD funding in an apparent nod to protesters’ demands, but organizers say they’re not satisfied.
NJ Latinx Parents & Students Fight Robert Wood Johnson Plan to Demolish Public School
In a story Democracy Now! has followed closely, Juan González shares an update on efforts to prevent the demolition of the Lincoln Annex public school in New Brunswick, New Jersey. City officials are trying to proceed with demolishing the public school this summer, in a move that would force 760 students to be bused to other schools for years, and parents and local activists are holding a rally in front of the Lincoln Annex School.
NAACP’s Derrick Johnson on Mississippi’s State Flag, Trump’s White Power Tweet & Boycotting Facebook
In a historic vote, the Mississippi state Legislature passed a bill to remove the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, making it the last state to do so, after an ongoing nationwide uprising against racism and police brutality and a mounting pressure campaign in Mississippi. Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, says it has been a “long journey” to change the Mississippi flag.
“Moment of Elation”: In 1st Big Abortion Case of Trump Era, SCOTUS Strikes Down Strict Louisiana Law
In the first big ruling on abortion in the Trump era, the Supreme Court has struck down a restrictive abortion law in Louisiana that would have left the state with just one abortion clinic. The 2014 law required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic, an onerous requirement that often made it impossible for abortion providers to continue to operate.
Why You Should Stop Journaling and Start Writing
You can’t get to the good sentences if you don’t write the bad ones first.