Justice Department Seeks Restraining Order Against John Bolton Over New Book
The DOJ seeks to block publication of the former national security adviser’s book, “The Room Where It Happened,” which it claims contains classified information.
The DOJ seeks to block publication of the former national security adviser’s book, “The Room Where It Happened,” which it claims contains classified information.
Atlanta megachurch pastor Louie Giglio gave the obligatory apology Tuesday after attempting to repackage the phrase “white privilege” as a “white blessing” during a talk about race and religion. “We understand the curse that was slavery, white people do,” Giglio said Sunday during the conversation. “And we say that was bad. But we miss the blessing of slavery, that it actually built up the framework for the world that white people live in.
This past March, Marisol Mendoza sued for release from Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center as the novel coronavirus pandemic was hitting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, pleading that her medical condition made her particularly vulnerable to risk should she get sick. “Instead, in a 19 May ruling, a federal judge ordered ICE to improve her conditions and make them constitutional,” The Guardian reports.
There is no question that testing will remain a linchpin of the coronavirus response heading into the fall.
Localities are moving in different directions on whether to require masks to slow the spread of COVID-19. It’s creating a national divide with deadly consequences.
He could face 45 years to life in state prison if found guilty.
In an excerpt of his new book, the former national security advisor details the president’s complicated relationship with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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.ANDREW HARRER / BLOOMBERG / GETTYJohn Bolton’s new book “plumbs the depth of Trump’s depravity,” David A. Graham writes.
In June 2019, Donald Trump was desperate for a win—and he was willing to endorse Chinese concentration camps to get it.In the back half of his first term, Trump was feeling pinched. He’d escaped Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation without charges, but a Democratic House was making his life progressively more difficult and he hadn’t had a major political win in months. There were even warning signs for the economy.
Thanks to the pandemic, we’re spending every day like it’s Independence Day this summer.
The fifth anniversary of marriage equality—and the future of LGBTQ fights.
The former national security adviser described a meeting last year between the two presidents in his forthcoming tell-all book.
Supplements claiming to “boost your immune system” have gotten new attention during the pandemic. On the podcast Social Distance, the staff writer James Hamblin explains why these claims are mostly nonsense (and have been for years), and the executive producer Katherine Wells asks him about vitamins.Listen to their conversation here:Subscribe to Social Distance on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or another podcast platform to receive new episodes as soon as they’re published.
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is a vital work on an overlooked subject in American film: the experience of black veterans in the Vietnam War, a perspective largely lacking from Hollywood’s 50 years of output on that conflict. The movie follows a group of 60-something retirees, still mourning their leader Stormin’ Norman (played by Chadwick Boseman), who died in battle, as they return to Vietnam to recover his body and a cache of gold bars he was buried alongside.
Parenting advice on sibling pleas, lawnmower danger, and boundaries with neighbors.
The Zulay Original model will pay for itself in just a few homemade cups.
Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, James Hamblin takes questions from readers about health-related curiosities, concerns, and obsessions. Have one? Email him at paging.dr.hamblin@theatlantic.com.Dear Dr. Hamblin,My brother and his fiancée are planning to get married next week in California. I just assumed they would postpone it or have a small gathering, but as it turns out they’re going through with the 150-person wedding and local authorities are allowing it.
In the Bronx, the second most economically unequal district in New York state, the insurgent primary campaign of former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman threatens to unseat 16-term Democratic congressmember and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel. Bowman supports defunding the police, Medicare for All and a Green New Deal.
As hurricane season begins, we look at moves to privatize Puerto Rico’s electric grid and a new investigation that reveals the island’s government failed to follow proper oversight or examine the environmental impact when it issued a $1.5 billion contract to a company for the first large power generation project since Hurricane Maria, that will continue its reliance on fossil fuels.
President Donald Trump says he will push ahead with a massive campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, even as COVID cases are surging there as the state reopens. Trump delayed the rally by one day after it was originally scheduled for June 19, Juneteenth, a celebration marking the emancipation of enslaved people. Tulsa is also the site of one of the deadliest massacres in U.S.
How do I nip this in the bibbidi bobbidi bud before it’s too late?
His work is funny and dark and very, very gay.
About half of all facilities have yet to be inspected for procedures to stop the spread of coronavirus.
The agency now believes that the suggested dosing regimens “are unlikely to produce an antiviral effect,” FDA chief scientist Denise Hinton said in a letter.
Drugmakers and health agencies have already begun rewriting the rules of vaccine research.
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.