In the news today: Senate Republicans remain unified in their promise to cause another government shutdown while daring Democrats to do something about it. An internal Trump campaign document shows that top Trump “lawyers” knew full well that their election claims were lies; those claims would soon lead to a violent attempted insurrection inside the U.S. Capitol.
For a brief period, Michael Flynn was the actual national security adviser to an actual U.S. presidential administration. He left in disgrace (i.e., was fired) after lying to Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. Ultimately, he was fired by Donald Trump. For being a liar.
Let that sink in for a moment. Trump fired a guy for telling one lie.
The nation has its eyes on teachers, staff, and parents of school-aged children as many classrooms reopen to in-person learning amid the pandemic. We know teachers have had a world of stress to deal with, ranging from parents infuriated over mask requirements to worry about becoming ill (or, conversely, bringing the virus to school) themselves. National media has covered a disturbing trend about teachers losing their jobs in recent months, and it has nothing to do with the virus.
Desperate to both get through a Republican primary and not talk about his disastrous COVID-19 response, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claimed earlier this past summer that he would finish the previous president’s stupid border wall. This week, he claimed he built it … or something he’d like to call a wall. Abbott on Tuesday touted a “steel wall” consisting of state-owned cars lined up along the Rio Grande.
The GOP is risking the full faith and credit of the United States to score points. Democrats don’t have to play the game.
From early on in the pandemic, there have been two sites that have competed to offer a view of the future, offering predictions of where COVID-19 cases and deaths go over coming months. One of these, the IHME projection from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
Pfizer said a third shot would restore the effectiveness of its vaccine to about 95%.
The move aligns with the recommendation the agency’s independent vaccine advisers made Friday.
The president held a series of meetings with lawmakers on Wednesday in an attempt to quell the warring progressive and moderate factions in his party.
The CDC’s vaccine advisers will refine exactly who is eligible — in this case, that will likely involve defining “high risk.
Maybe I’m fooling myself.
Ronald Colton McAbee was a sheriff’s deputy when he attempted to breach the Capitol on Jan. 6. A judge is deciding whether he’ll be freed pretrial.
He added that the company would share methods to raise awareness on the issue in the next few days.
I watched the entirety of Couples Therapy from my childhood bedroom while visiting my parents in July. It was as apt a time and place as any for entertaining some heavy psychoanalytic ideas that would, no doubt, cause me to reflect on my life. The Showtime docuseries follows Orna Guralnik, a real-life psychologist in New York, as she works with couples over the course of several months.
The central bank said it’s making progress toward its goals of averaging 2 percent inflation over time and reaching maximum employment.
The former presidential nominee was condemned for her remarks, but she was “too kind,” Chauncey DeVega wrote in a commentary.
The Atlantic Festival kicks off today for an expanded seven days of must-attend experiences and conversations on September 22–24 and 27–30––with virtual events happening from Washington, D.C., and streamed to subscribers and audiences around the world.The full schedule has been released for next week’s Ideas Stage, happening September 27–30 from 2 to 4 p.m. ET each day, where The Atlantic will interview some of the country’s most influential voices.
During a conversation shortly after the riot, Mick Chan allegedly told the FBI that he “broke into, well, air quotes, broke into” the Capitol.
Parenting advice on kid content, sibling disparagement, and wanting to move.
Biden said the partnership will allow the EU and U.S. “to work more closely together.
Updated at 11:51 a.m. ET on September 22, 2021.On the day that SpaceX’s first space tourists launched, Elon Musk was there at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, to see them off, cheering as the private astronauts walked to the Teslas that would take them to suit up. And after they landed safely, having orbited Earth about 45 times, Musk was there again to congratulate them in person.
Industry watchers predict many smaller operations keep will selling the products until the feds’ enforcement strategy is clearer.
He denies it, but I don’t believe him.
We look at a new Reuters special report examining corruption and the drug trade in Honduras, which human rights groups say are pushing tens of thousands of people to flee the Central American country for the United States. “People really describe feeling that their life has become unlivable in Honduras,” Reuters correspondent Laura Gottesdiener says.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has criticized the United States for intensifying its embargo at a time when Cuba is facing a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths. “The Biden administration policy toward Cuba today has been the Trump administration policy toward Cuba,” says Carlos Fernández de Cossío, director general for U.S. affairs in the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He says Cuba also rejects U.S.
This article contains spoilers for The Terror and The North Water.
Of all the horrors of a 19th-century European voyage to the Arctic—noses and cheeks turned necrotic by frostbite, snow blindness, sea madness, broken bones badly knit—perhaps most ghastly was scurvy. The disease often starts with stiff limbs and ulcerating skin. Gums bleed and blacken, then engorge and protrude over the teeth or their absent weeping sockets like a dark second set of lips.
They are hubs for immigrants. Culinary jewels. And economic victims, now for the second time.
Is this China’s Lehman Brothers moment, or can this failure be contained?
It will take a lot more than California’s historic duplex bill to make the state affordable.
