How on-brand can the Trump team get? They are again letting payday lenders be as predatory as they want to be, lending to consumers at ridiculous interest rates—sometimes as high as several hundred percent—without verifying that the borrower has the ability to repay the loan.
Some Minneapolis Target employees seem to share one similarity with the city’s police: discrimination based on identity. A Muslim-American advocacy organization is calling for a Target Starbucks employee and her manager in Minnesota to be fired after a 19-year-old Black Muslim woman alleges the employee purposely wrote “ISIS” on her Starbucks cup, WCOO/CNN reported.
Narcotics unit officers in Springfield, Massachusetts, likely engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force, the Justice Department said.
By Patrisse Cullors and Kendrick Sampson
Amidst this war on Black bodies, we are being saturated with content about Black death and violence. It is critical in this moment of rebellion and uprising to find moments to consume and live within Black joy. Black joy amongst our loved ones, Black joy in celebration of our resilience, Black joy within the music and stories we make and tell. Black Joy is revolutionary. This is where we can find our center.
No matter where the virus strikes, communities of color bear the brunt.
“Learn their names. Remember their actions. And never, ever trust them again,” The Lincoln Project video warns.
State and local budgets are an emergency as the coronavirus economy hits them hard, reducing revenues and straining resources. The new fiscal year started July 1 in most places, with state and local governments waiting to hear from Congress, which is on recess for two weeks. The House passed $1 trillion in help for state and local governments back in May, but Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Senate has done nothing.
“In the past few days, we’ve seen almost 500 new cases,” Dr. Bruce Dart said.
Recent surge in infections and Trump policies prompt a serious reassessment by forecasters, who now see no end in sight for coronavirus crisis.
Trump yanked the Republican convention from North Carolina because it wouldn’t let him give a speech to a packed house. Now coronavirus is spiking in Florida.
Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart said the president’s campaign rally last month “likely contributed” to a dramatic surge in new COVID-19 cases.
Six years of organizing, infighting, and lawsuits led to a rare, massive win for rural communities.
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.(BODO SCHACKOW / PICTURE ALLIANCE / GETTY)America still doesn’t have a plan to safely reopen its schools. Earlier today, President Donald Trump criticized the CDC’s guidelines on Twitter, calling them “very tough” and “expensive.
Even during the worst of the pandemic in New York City, when the threat of the virus had emptied out the streets, the lights of Times Square stayed on, its many towering advertisements flashing and flickering.
President Donald Trump is waging a pressure campaign against state and local governments.
Donald Trump has never been much for encouraging social distancing. He might end up getting political distancing as a result.This week, five senators announced that they will skip the Republican National Convention in August. A Republican governor up for reelection said he wouldn’t attend a Trump rally in his state. And Senator Lindsey Graham disagreed publicly with Trump for what his home-state newspaper reckoned was the fifth time in three weeks.
Days of torrential rainfall in central Japan have led to extensive flooding and mudslides, leaving as many as 58 people dead so far. Rivers that overflowed their banks have swept away bridges and roads, cutting off communities and making it difficult for rescue workers to reach many areas. Emergency crews are now working against the clock, trying to find people who may still be trapped.
Food, at its essence, is sustenance; that much is simple. Where things get complicated is in all the manifold ways it sustains us. Consider the burrito. In the first episode of Padma Lakshmi’s new Hulu show, Taste the Nation, the food writer and longtime Top Chef host travels to El Paso, Texas, where she attempts to isolate all the different ingredients in one of America’s favorite dishes.
I find stories of her escapades super hot.
The coronavirus continues to hit communities of color the hardest, with federal data showing African American and Latinx people are nearly three times more likely to be infected and twice as likely to die from the virus compared to their white neighbors. There were “pretty significant racial health disparities” even before COVID-19 ravaged the country, says Dr.
As COVID-19 cases rise and hospitalizations are soaring, hospitals in Florida, Texas, Arizona and California are running out of ICU beds. On Tuesday, Texas set a grim new record of 10,000 new cases in a single day. “It’s been astonishing,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent Dr. Sheri Fink, who has been reporting from Houston’s largest hospital. “They’ve been adding unit after unit after unit just to care for coronavirus patients.
As President Trump pressures states to reopen schools in the fall despite an alarming surge in new coronavirus cases, ICE says international students studying at U.S. universities could face deportation if their schools switch to online-only courses. The U.S. issues more than a million student visas a year, and international students account for as much as a third of the undergraduate student body at many colleges and universities and often constitute the majority of graduate students.
We’ve been together for six years now, and she’s usually an amazing person, but this hurt me deeply.
“Black people are interested in a variety of things—we don’t only want to talk about race.
Inside San Quentin, we’re just waiting for the virus to find us.
An extension would give taxpayers until Oct. 15 to file their returns, though they would still have to pay what they owe by July 15.
The acting chair of the CEA will leave Trump without another senior economist as discussions start about a new economic aid package.
