Four questions about Biden’s Covid-19 diagnosis
Experts say the president’s case is likely to stay mild.
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How Biden’s Covid case compares to Trump’s
Biden, who is twice boosted and has already started Paxlovid, is experiencing mild symptoms, according to the White House.
Biden administration plans to elevate pandemic response office
The reorganization will put the office’s director on a par with those of larger agencies like the CDC and FDA
The Criminal Case Against Trump Is Getting Stronger
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Federal and state prosecutors may soon need to decide whether to bring charges against a former president and current front-runner for the Republican nomination.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
There’s one hopeful sign for the Fed on inflation. Really.
Slower wage growth could help bring down prices and ultimately mean less sting for the average worker.
U.S. inflation reached a new 40-year high in June of 9.1 percent
Lower-income and Black and Hispanic Americans have been hit especially hard.
No recession here: Hot jobs market tames fears of slump
Biden officials have repeatedly touted the jobs numbers as evidence of the economy’s underlying strength, but slowing the labor market is essential to helping tame consumer prices.
Failure ‘not an option’: Fed vows all-out fight on inflation
Fears have mounted that the central bank might trigger a recession sometime in the next year with its aggressive rate action.
“I Don’t Want to Say the Election Is Over”: Video Outtakes Show Trump Refused to Admit Loss on Jan. 7
The January 6 committee aired never-before-seen outtakes of President Trump’s speech on January 7, one day after the insurrection. He is seen initially reading a script that read “this election is now over. Congress has certified the results.” But Trump insisted on changing the script. “I don’t want to say the election is over,” Trump says in the video. “I just want to say Congress has certified the results, without saying the election is over.
Pence’s Secret Service Team Feared for Their Lives as Trump Egged On Mob to Target VP on Jan. 6
During their eighth and final hearing until the fall, the January 6 House select committee aired new testimony from an anonymous national security official detailing how Mike Pence’s Secret Service agents feared for their lives during the breach of the Capitol. “There were calls to say goodbye to family members,” said the anonymous official. Despite knowledge of the growing mob, Trump decided to publish a tweet at 2:24 p.m.
187 Minutes: Jan. 6 Hearing Examines Trump’s Refusal to Urge Mob to Stop Violent Attack on Capitol
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol held a primetime hearing on Thursday night focused on former President Donald Trump’s refusal to take action as his supporters attacked the Capitol on January 6. Lawmakers dissected the three-hour period on January 6 after Trump urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell.
“Morons”: George Monbiot Compares PM Race to Viral British TV News Clip Questioning Climate Science
Following the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss have advanced to a runoff to succeed Johnson as Conservative leader, which would also make them prime minister. Both candidates would be “utterly devastating” for the U.K., says Guardian columnist George Monbiot. “What these people have to do to become prime minister is really to appeal to the worst instincts of humanity.
‘Lost’ Creator Snaps Back At Mehmet Oz Meme Attacking Senate Rival John Fetterman
“If you actually WATCHED ‘Lost,’ you’d know not to f**k with the bald guy,” slammed Damon Lindelof.
Josh Hawley’s Home State Newspaper Chides Him As ‘Laughingstock’
Hawley’s been widely ridiculed since video showed him fleeing Capitol rioters not long after saluting them.
Matt Gaetz: Women Who ‘Look Like A Thumb’ Shouldn’t Gripe About Abortion Rights
The U.S. congressman is being blasted for his overtly misogynistic speech at a conservative student summit.
Alan Dershowitz whines that he’s now a pariah on Martha’s Vineyard just because he enabled Trump
You defend one wannabe fascist dictator by saying his boundless lust for power means he should be able to do anything he wants, and all of a sudden progressives don’t like you anymore. It’s brutally unfair, and we shouldn’t stand for it. Every American has an inalienable right to be invited to exclusive dress-formal cotillions on Martha’s Vineyard, no matter how many absurd arguments they’ve trotted out on behalf of lawless autocrats.
Ukraine update: Russia asks for ‘green corridor’ to evacuate encircled troops north of Kherson
Back in early May, I wrote an update on Ukraine in which I insisted that that the tide had turned and that Ukraine was about to do big things in Kherson and Kharkiv. Which, yeah, that didn’t exactly pan out. Though to be fair, at the time Russia still occupied some areas right outside of Kharkiv, and Ukraine was just beginning the move that would net Staryi Saltiv and drive Russian forces back to the border in some areas, so … it wasn’t completely wrong.
Ted Cruz Makes Crass Crack About Gender Pronouns, Met With Cheers
The senator’s crude remark came during his speech at a conservative student conference on Friday.
Ukraine, Russia agree to UN-backed deal to restart grain exports; global food crisis may be averted
A catastrophic global food crisis may just have been averted, even though Russia continues to wage war throughout Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia separately signed a U.N.-backed treaty in Istanbul on Friday that would allow Ukraine to export millions of tons of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports. Russia will also be able to export fertilizer products through the Black Sea, even though sanctions remain in place.
“Today, there is a beacon on the Black Sea,” U.N.
Starbucks union hits major milestone despite ongoing union-busting, this week in the war on workers
Get your expressions of stunned awe ready here, because the Starbucks union has reached a truly amazing milestone: 200 unionized Starbucks stores. Of those, 52 voted unanimously to unionize, labor reporter Steve Greenhouse notes, with the union winning about five out of six stores to vote.
Last summer, when the organizing drive kicked off in Buffalo, unionizing one corporate-owned Starbucks seemed like a long shot.
Connect! Unite! Act! Finding liberation, hope, and togetherness
Welcome back! When I started writing Connect! Unite! Act! this week, I want to talk about the Daily Kos Liberation League. Elections are a very important way of influencing the way our nation functions. They help us protect rights, look after members of our community, and establish leadership.
The Torment of Odesa
A most predictable rocket attack hit Odesa today—announced shortly before it happened by an air-raid alert on my phone, but also a full day before, when Russia and Ukraine struck a tentative deal to let Ukraine ship grain from Odesa and two other ports. This morning, rockets landed at the port itself, which was soon in flames. Russia could not let a point of accord pass without spicing it up with discord. Let no agreement blossom into celebration.
Speaker Pelosi Declines To Comment On Super PAC Spending In Michigan Primary
Rep. Andy Levin (D) has called on Rep. Haley Stevens (D) to reject the support of a pro-Israel group that also supports Republicans.
WHO declares monkeypox an international health emergency
There are over 16,800 cases reported globally, with nearly 2,900 in the U.S.
The Era of Climate Change Has Created a New Emotion
From above, an open-cut coal mine looks like some geological aberration, a sort of man-made desert, a recent volcanic eruption, or a kind of terra forming. When the Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht first gazed at a series of such mines while driving through his home region in southeast Australia, he stopped and got out of his car, overcome “at the desolation of this once beautiful place,” he wrote in his book, Earth Emotions.
Is Democracy Constitutional?
Every American child in public school learns that the U.S. political system is one of checks and balances, in which the judicial, executive, and legislative branches constrain one another to ensure that no one branch of government exercises too much power. One pending case before the Supreme Court asks: What if they didn’t?In Moore v.
Mike Pence Is Trying to Send a Message
You may not have predicted that Mike Pence—a man who once praised Donald Trump 14 times in a span of three minutes—would ever publicly defy his former boss. But 2022, it seems, is a brave new world in Republican politics.In the Arizona GOP primary for governor, Pence is, in essence, campaigning against Trump.
How Biden’s Covid case compares to Trump’s
Biden, who is twice boosted and has already started Paxlovid, is experiencing mild symptoms, according to the White House.
Biden administration plans to elevate pandemic response office
The reorganization will put the office’s director on a par with those of larger agencies like the CDC and FDA
To fight inequity, Africa wants to produce its own vaccines. First, it needs to find buyers.
Governments on the continent and international donors must be ready to pay higher prices for African-made shots, experts and pharma industry representatives said.