As a new Amnesty International report documents at least 125 instances of police violence against Black Lives Matters protesters in 40 states from May 26 to June 5, we speak with Brandon Saenz, a 26-year-old Black man shot in the face by Dallas police with so-called less-lethal ammunition that shattered his left eye and fractured his face.
As primary voters head to the polls in New York, Kentucky and Virginia, they face long lines, even as President Trump continues to attack mail-in voting, falsely claiming it leads to fraud. Kentucky has reduced the number of polling places from 3,700 to just 170 — a 95% reduction. “There’s the potential for record turnout,” notes Cliff Albright, co-founder and executive director of Black Voters Matter, despite such suppression tactics.
President Trump claims without evidence that anti-fascists are inciting riots at protests against police brutality, but has downplayed groups like the “boogaloo” movement, which are using the protests as cover to carry out violence, even murder.
“I feel like I took it down just to make some white people feel more comfortable.
Working at a firm like McKinsey was once considered prestigious. Now, it’s complicated.
New research suggests shoveling money at Americans during an economic crisis did the trick.
Chad Wolf said states are reopening safely.
He’s stopped even trying with me.
Parenting advice on racism, baby names, and confidence.
“We have a long road ahead of us to get those people back to work,” Jerome Powell said earlier this week.
“Significant uncertainty remains about the timing and strength of the recovery,” Powell said.
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
“I will teach my grandkids to hate you all,” the woman said at a Black Lives Matter protest.
The anti-Trump Lincoln Project targeted the president’s lackluster turnout in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a Jurassic Park-inspired attack ad.
The Trump campaign, like other conservative campaigns before his, has been trying to rally up the masses in the face of a terrible economic outlook and public health crisis. All of these things have been mismanaged by an administration beset with scandal after scandal. So Trump and crew are trying their best to do what they do best: create a circus dog and pony show made out of anger, hate, fear, racism, and xenophobia.
Donald Trump has nothing on his schedule today and is in a bad mood after being humiliated by poor attendance at the Tulsa, Oklahoma COVID-19 ball pit his advisers set up for him to play in. Because he is a malignant narcissist whose mind is rapidly disintegrating from the dissonance of not being worshipped as the god-king he imagines himself to be, he is going to fill this void by inventing insane conspiracy theories about the plots against him and telling us about them on Twitter.
“Let’s see what happens to them now,” the president said, once again attempting to shift blame for campaign interference to his predecessor.
Nearly all of the 1,001 children who arrived to the southern border by themselves last month were quickly deported by the Trump administration under a Stephen Miller-led public health order condemned by a U.N. agency, and implemented in complete defiance of U.S. asylum law. Of those 1,001 children, only 39 were allowed to remain in the U.S. to continue pursuing their asylum claims, according to government data obtained by CBS News. Just 39.
Famous last words: “Nobody’s ever heard of numbers like this,” lip-syncs Sarah Cooper over Donald Trump’s great rally expectations.
The rise in poverty many economists projected as a result of the coronavirus pandemic has been largely avoided, capped by the relief bills passed in March, two new studies posit. But the one time payment of $1,200 per person was just one time, and the extra assistance in unemployment benefits, as well as their extension to contract and gig workers, ends at the end of July with no apparent intention on the part of Mitch McConnell and the Republican Senate to extend it.
Two weeks after Georgia’s primary election debacle (or voter suppression success, depending how you look at it), Kentucky is up, and there are worrying signs. Interest in voting is clearly sky-high, with more than one in four registered voters in the state having requested absentee ballots and thousands having voted early. Those are good things—but the worry is about Tuesday, and how polling places will handle a possible rush of voters.
Centers are laying off staff while facing a surge in patients.
Nigel Farage and other VIPs were flown to and from Tulsa in jets chartered by the Trump campaign for a rally that wound up drawing less than 6,200 people.
By some measures, livelihoods actually improved when the economy locked down. It’s up to Congress to keep them that way.
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.PATRICK SEMANSKY / APDonald Trump had a tough week. As my colleague David A. Graham put it: “From his campaign to the coronavirus, from the economy to the courts, from polls to policy, Trump stumbled on every front.
