As anti-racism protests grip the nation, the citizens of the District of Columbia have endured a living nightmare under Donald Trump. Police attacked journalists with impunity; Washington, D.C. protesters were labeled as “terrorists” by the president; and unmarked, anonymous militias were unleashed on the people.
Yeah, yeah. Irony remains dead, and so forth. You’ve probably already heard the latest Trump administration message-botching, but if you missed it: Yes, the State Department’s top spokesperson ordered that a reporter’s phone line be muted for asking a question she didn’t want to be asked, during a telephone briefing.
In a tale now exceedingly familiar to the American people, certain foreign actors wanted to influence the American president, so they found a way to buy it and, guess what? They got access.
In this case, it appears the Chinese government enlisted certain political donors to make the connections, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This is “hopefully the end of the pandemic,” Trump said in Arizona, which is averaging 2,500 new COVID-19 cases a day.
Normal presidential campaign stuff like debates seems really, really far away in this pandemic-and-protest era, but former Vice President Joe Biden has confirmed he’ll participate in three debates with Donald Trump and his vice presidential nominee will debate Mike Pence.
The House Democratic plan is less ambitious than the platform put forward by Joe Biden.
An investigation showed that a rope tied to look like a noose had been in Garage No. 4 of Talladega Superspeedway since at least October 2019.
Trump chose the perfect megachurch for his “Address to Young Americans.
Trump visited Arizona to tout 212 miles of new fence — but only three were built where there was previously no barrier.
“Why was it canceled? It was canceled because the NIH was told to cancel it,” Fauci said.
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.THE ATLANTICEconomic collapse is over. Recovery is starting. But the shape of the rebound—whether it looks more like a V or an elongated U—is still uncertain. Years of miserable aftershocks could still lead to a second Great Depression, Annie Lowrey argues in a new piece.
Aaron Zelinsky will tell Congress that Stone “was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President.
The working conditions of slaughterhouses are coming under scrutiny as they emerge as hotbeds for infections.
How have I been doing this for eight years?
“It’s the opposite,” Fauci said in response to a question referencing Trump’s remarks. “We’re going to be doing more testing, not less.
By the time Attorney General William Barr tried to fire Geoffrey Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, over the weekend, the Department of Justice had become an extension of the financial and political interests of President Donald Trump. No act of politicization was too blatant for the country’s top law-enforcement officer.
The October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake struck Northern California, where I then lived, shortly after I turned 11. It was not the biggest upheaval in my life that year—my parents’ marriage had just ended—but discovering that, on a random Tuesday afternoon, the ground could start shaking hard enough to knock you over was a pretty close second. In the days that followed, I was obsessed with news about the disaster, especially the deaths it had caused.
The organization writes that the goal of its Global Allocation Framework should be to reduce Covid-19 mortality and protect health systems.
In March, A learned from the agency supervising her son’s court-mandated visitations with his father—her abusive ex-husband—that their visits would have to go virtual because of the coronavirus outbreak. She started preparing by taking out all her extra bed sheets and attempting to cover the windows. She couldn’t take any chances. Even a glimpse outside her New York City windows could be enough to help the man who’d violently abused her discover her address.
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.
