Exxon Lobbyist Brags About Regular Access To Joe Manchin
Environmental groups weigh in on whether they get the same sort of treatment.
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Trump Is Preparing for the Worst
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”“What brought it on?”“Friends,” said Mike. “I had a lot of friends.”— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also RisesLike Hemingway’s Mike Campbell, the Trump Organization is confronting troubles that accumulated gradually and have coalesced suddenly. And once again, friends are at the bottom of it.
Trump Organization And Its Top Exec Charged With Financial Crimes
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office filed charges against the former president’s business on Thursday.
Democrats Have 1 Option Left
Today’s Supreme Court decision further weakening the Voting Rights Act affirmed that the only way Democrats can reverse the wave of restrictive voting laws in GOP-controlled states is to pass new federal voting rights by curtailing the Senate filibuster.Congressional action has long seemed the only realistic lever for Democrats to resist red states’ surge of voter-suppression laws, which are passing, as I’ve written, on an almost entirely party-line basis.
CDC director: Delta variant is growing threat to unvaccinated people
Nearly 25 percent of recent infections have been linked to Delta, up from 6 percent in early June.
Justice Kagan Pens Fiery Dissent In Arizona Voting Rights Case
Kagan accused her conservative colleagues of doing Congress’ work for them, saying “this Court has no right to remake” a key section of the Voting Rights Act.
Doctors Are Puzzled by Heart Inflammation in the Young and Vaccinated
The most reliable way to inflame the heart is to bother it with a virus. Many types of viruses can manage it—coxsackieviruses, flu viruses, herpesviruses, adenoviruses, even the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Some of these pathogens bust their way straight into cardiac tissue, damaging cells directly; others rile up the immune system so overzealously that the heart gets caught in the crossfire.
Supreme Court Allows Arizona To Keep Voting Restrictions
The ruling in Brnovich v. DNC could have implications for voting measures nationwide.
“He Was Defeated”: Ethiopian PM Withdraws from Tigray After Months of Civil War, as Famine Looms
The Ethiopian military has withdrawn its forces from Mekelle, the capital of the war-torn Tigray region, after the government declared a ceasefire. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed denied reports his military was defeated by Tigrayan forces, and said he had successfully pacified the city. Ahmed, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, launched the offensive against Tigray separatists in November.
Demonization of Iran Is a “Mistake” That Has Trapped the U.S. in Perpetual Middle East Conflict
After the Biden administration launched airstrikes targeting an Iranian-backed militia in Syria and Iraq, military historian Andrew Bacevich says the United States needs to reassess its decades-long hostility toward Iran. “The demonization of Iran is now a well-established reality of our contemporary politics. It’s a mistake,” he says.
“He Was a Disaster”: Ret. Col. Andrew Bacevich on Donald Rumsfeld’s Legacy as Architect of Iraq War
Donald Rumsfeld, considered the chief architect of the Iraq War, has died at the age of 88. As defense secretary for both Presidents George W. Bush and Gerald Ford, Rumsfeld presided, his critics say, over systemic torture, massacres of civilians and illegal wars. We look at Rumsfeld’s legacy with retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich, whose son was killed in Iraq. Bacevich is the president of the antiwar think tank the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Help! My Cousin Turned My Family Against Me Over a Baby Name.
She says I stole it from her stillborn daughter.
Ask a Teacher: I Totally Bungled Our Move Date. Am I Scarring My Son for Life?
Teacher advice on moving, math advancement, and IEPs.
Biden admin preps for next pandemic as Delta variant surges
Federal health officials are weighing how to implement the lessons they have learned from this pandemic to prepare for the next one.
What Rescue Crews Are Doing in Miami Right Now
“If you look at some of those old pictures of Oklahoma City, it’s the same exact scenes you’re seeing today in Florida.
What Caused the Miami Building Collapse, and Who Could Have Averted It?
Every plausible explanation for the tragedy in Surfside.
Seven Reasons to Be Extremely Optimistic About the Economy Right Now
Forget the inflation scolds. Ignore the small-business Scrooges. There’s a very different story in the data.
North Korea’s Kim berates officials for ‘grave’ coronavirus lapse
The alleged “grave incident” in North Korea’s pandemic fight was not specified.
Arkansas governor trying to reverse his state’s trends on vaccination
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said incentives to get people vaccinated aren’t working.
The Horror of Surfside
Just as Americans began returning to life in public again, disaster struck the people of Champlain Towers South at home.
I Proposed an Honest Solution to My Girlfriend’s Sexual Deficiencies. She Lost It.
I’m not sure how to proceed.
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
Soaring prices draw both shrugs and screaming in Washington
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Biden’s back door to wage hikes
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
Bargain hunters pounce as Trump condo prices hit decade lows
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
‘Hard to love it’: Modest job gains leave lingering doubts about recovery
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
News roundup: Republicans reaffirm fealty to racist traitors, and a serial rapist is out of prison
In the news today: More than half of the Republican members of the House of Representatives voted to continue honoring racist traitors. And in other news, almost all of those House Republicans voted against an investigation into racist traitors who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Uh oh: Federal investigators looking into Rudy’s Turkish lobbyist ties
Failed human being Rudolph Giuliani was facing questions of corruption long before being added to Donald Trump’s advisory team. In 2017, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman wanted to know exactly what job the former New York City mayor had on the legal team of Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab. Zarrab, an Iranian and Turkish national, was arrested on charges that he conspired to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran. In its most simple form, Zarrab reportedly used U.S.
After wanting to quit gymnastics a few years ago, Jordan Chiles makes it to the Olympics
Sisterhood and women supporting women is a thing and we’re all here for it. Simone Biles is headed back to the Olympics, her second one as the world’s most decorated gymnast but that’s not all: Biles will be joined by friend Jordan Chiles. This year’s 2021 Olympics will be Chiles’ first Olympics; Securing a spot on Team USA came as a proud moment not just for Chiles but Biles who supported the athlete as an older sister.
How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered
In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for The New Yorker, a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war. This was a first; until then, no one close to the president would talk to me, probably because my writing had not been friendly and the administration listened only to what it wanted to hear.