With the news cycle exploding over reports that Donald Trump called American soldiers who died to stop a German attack on Paris “losers” and “sucker,” it’s obvious that Trump had only one choice: Spend the day honoring America’s military by chasing a little white ball around his private golf course in Virginia.
The Fox News host says without evidence that the last three months of 2020 have been a “nationwide fear campaign” to drive votes against Donald Trump.
So, no. This Labor Day weekend will not be the traditional end-of-summer big backyard party. At least, not if you’re trying to keep coronavirus from spreading. But if you’re having a scaled-down picnic or grilling session, put some union-made in the U.S. foods and drinks on your table. And don’t forget the sunscreen and games.
If that’s not your speed, you might want to hold an at-home labor film festival.
Donald Trump’s campaign is broke, being forced to go off the air in key battlegrounds, including the entire state of must-win Arizona.
Donald Trump is losing, with even Fox News polling showing him lagging in key must-win states, including the aforementioned Arizona (which Joe Biden lads 49-40).
Though strippers are some of hip-hop’s most , starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. But the series benefits from the spaciousness of television as a format: P-Valley combines the weightiness of a premium-cable show with the fun and soapiness you might expect from a BET marathon. We’ve come a long way from The Players Club. P-Valley’s characters live rich, full lives shaped by the region they inhabit. Mercedes in particular is almost impossibly enthralling.
They say it’s what our parents would have wanted.
About 20 percent of colleges plan to open exclusively or primarily in person, according to a tracker from Davidson College in North Carolina.
Trump is no stranger to conspiracy-mongering — but he outdid himself this week by pushing multiple unsubstantiated claims.
Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET on September 5, 2020. The pandemic hit Paris hard. It hit poor Paris suburbs harder. Paris had already staked its future on merging with a wide ring of banlieue towns to form the new Metropolis of Grand Paris—an environmentally resilient 21st-century capital. But the coronavirus made clear how urgent that transformation really is.Last year, more than 38 million people visited Paris. This summer, international travel bans sent hotel occupancy down 86 percent.
In an empty arena, the seats a ghost’s playground, the floors shiny and robbed of traffic, everything is plain and naked and disturbingly honest. And in that absence is a lesson about what we think we should see.If you had found yourself wanting to watch the NBA playoffs the night of August 26, live from the league’s quarantine “bubble” in Florida, this was the reality you faced. Emptiness, confusion, and signs of corporate sponsorship.
The government still isn’t doing nearly enough to stop an eviction crisis.
Restaurants know the only way they’ll survive the winter is to somehow function alfresco.
If they want to meaningfully expand coverage, they should boot Rep. Richard Neal.
A total of 14 states and New York City supplied POLITICO contact tracing results showing widespread public reluctance to participate in disease tracking.
Alex Azar’s remarks come as three vaccine candidates have entered late-stage Phase 3 clinical trials.
The White House pivot amounts to a tacit admission that the administration’s months-long containment effort has failed.
“We certainly are not wanting to wait back and just let people get infected,” he said.
It didn’t have to be this way.
Plus, getting a clingy preteen off your back.
It won’t exactly be an October surprise, but it could still be a shock: a wave of business failures hitting during the campaign season.
Canada’s prime minister is building a Covid-19 recovery plan he hopes will “change the future” — and turn the page for his Liberal Party.
Despite unemployment above 10 percent and millions of jobs vaporized, Trump is running on his economic record before the pandemic.
“When you have $60 billion less going to families,” former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, “that means that there’s going to be something close to that less in spending.
In the debate over Covid-19 relief, Congress is worried about the wrong problem.
As Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden heads to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to meet with the family of Jacob Blake, we speak with Congressmember Mark Pocan, who was born and raised in Kenosha. “Clearly, what happened — someone shot in the back seven times, close range, in front of their children, by the police — was another example of the policing problem we have in this country,” Pocan says.
It’s been no secret that the Trump campaign is a cesspool of nepotism and corruption. It’s also telling that while the Biden campaign triumphantly announced a record-shattering $365 million haul for August, the Trump campaign has been notably silent.
And then there was that most telling of tells—the Trump campaign going dark during its convention week, pulling all TV advertising from the airwaves.
It’s a close race between Donald Trump and Facebook for which is most dangerous to America’s political and social systems. Combined, they’re a disaster. The Trump campaign, in conjunction with Trump’s denials of having had a series of mini-strokes (which no media organization had reported), has been running Facebook ads that have doctored images of Joe Biden, in which he’s made to look older.
Contracts for training that mention “white privilege” must be canceled immediately, demands memo forwarding orders from the president.
This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.
By Briana Perry
Jails and prisons were designed as sites of reproductive coercion.
Women’s divergence from what is narrowly considered appropriate gender performance under patriarchy, particularly around sex and reproduction, has been the foundational basis for their “criminality.
