It turns out a white Virginia police sergeant who levied felony criminal charges against Black Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas for an alleged conspiracy to “injure” a Confederate monument may have done so to feed a longstanding grudge, according to The Huffington Post. A scathing email Portsmouth Sgt.
Given that Fox News, as well as some conservative radio stations, have downplayed the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic, it’s not too surprising that people who rely on such sources for their news may not take all advised precautions seriously at this point in the public health crisis. What sort of precautions? Oh, one of the most essential, basic ones: wearing a face mask in public.
The multimillion-dollar privately funded border fencing near Mission, Texas isn’t just a legal disaster for the likes of newly indicted white nationalist creep and former Trump official Steve Bannon, it’s an actual physical disaster. ProPublica and The Texas Tribune write that new engineering reports say that if necessary repairs aren’t made, extensive erosion will cause the fencing to fail the next time the Rio Grande floods.
The government still isn’t doing nearly enough to stop an eviction crisis.
The White House pivot amounts to a tacit admission that the administration’s months-long containment effort has failed.
One of the pandemic’s most insidious misconceptions is getting closer to explicit national policy. On Monday, The Washington Post reported that a top Trump medical adviser, Scott Atlas, has been “urging the White House to embrace a controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy.
The attorney general dismissed the idea of systemic racism in the justice system and claimed Jacob Blake was armed when police shot him.
The president also dismissed police brutality, acknowledging only that a few “bad apples” occasionally “choke” under pressure.
Without citing any evidence, Barr told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that widespread voter fraud from the use of mail-in ballots could affect the 2020 presidential election.
Warner Bros.“We live in a twilight world.” This phrase is recited often in Tenet, as a passcode that opens doors and gains trust (especially if you get the desired response, “and there are no friends at dusk”).
The mountainous Guizhou province, in southwestern China, is home to more than 34 million people. The steep terrain is challenging to work, and has led to the development of thousands of terraced hillsides over centuries of farming and building. From remote hilltop Buddhist monasteries to ancient villages to the skyline of the capital city, Guiyang, gathered here are a few glimpses of Guizhou and its residents.
Restaurants know the only way they’ll survive the winter is to somehow function alfresco.
Parenting advice on negative emotions, teenage skin care, and herd immunity.
The Trump campaign claims some of them are “clear opponents of President Trump.
“We certainly are not wanting to wait back and just let people get infected,” he said.
In her 2019 memoir, What Do We Need Men For?, E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of rape, in a Bergdorf’s dressing room in the mid-1990s. After the president denied ever meeting her and dismissed her story as a Democratic plot, she sued him for defamation. Carroll was not, of course, the first woman to say that Trump had sexually harassed or assaulted her, but unlike so many other powerful men, the president has remained unscathed by the #MeToo reckoning.
You don’t have to head inside when the temperature drops.
Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, James Hamblin takes questions from readers about health-related curiosities, concerns, and obsessions. Have one? Email him at paging.dr.hamblin@theatlantic.com.Dear Dr. Hamblin,I was hospitalized with COVID-19 for two weeks in March. I was very lucky to avoid needing a ventilator, but the road to recovery has been long and confusing.
The mainstream media’s role in perpetuating racism has come under increased scrutiny during the nationwide uprisings against injustice, leading to resignations and firings at news outlets across the country and calls for more diverse newsrooms.
New York unions representing teachers and principals have reached a deal with the city over how to reopen the largest public school system in the United States, averting a planned strike by educators. “We feel betrayed, and we feel as if it’s an inadequate plan,” says Aixa Rodriguez, a Bronx-based high school teacher.
As the coronavirus pandemic contributes to a glut of fossil fuels, groups like Greenpeace are calling on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to ban fossil fuel interests from his campaign and administration, if he wins, even as he recently declared at a campaign stop that he “will not ban fracking.” We discuss the politics of fossil fuels with reporter Antonia Juhasz, who says the end of oil could be near, and look at how the industry has profited from the COVID bailout.
I try to be nice, but mean words just slip out of my mouth sometimes. Now I have no friends.
Parents are scrambling to sort out child care. What if they had a massive lobby in D.C.
It’s a surprisingly principled stand by a multibillionaire.
It’s scary to start out on your own. But it’s dangerous to stay in a job you hate.
The proposed communications contract comes as the agency faces growing questions about its independence from the Trump White House.
Virus cases are dropping everywhere, but the rush to reopen could backfire.
