Seven months ago, Damien Williams was living the football dream. In February, the Kansas City Chiefs running back tallied 133 yards in the Super Bowl, more than any other player, as the team overcame a 10-point deficit to win its first championship in 50 years.
Plus, how to respond when your little one says they want to kill you.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf allegedly sought to suppress intelligence information that would make President Trump look bad.
The Willamette Valley in Oregon. (Will Matsuda)The West is on fire and there’s nowhere to run. Up and down Interstate 5, the artery connecting most of the major cities on the West Coast, a pall of thick smoke has turned the sun red. Millions of acres have burned. I’m calling and texting friends in communities across Oregon, Washington, California.
During the long legal battle in Florida that ultimately determined the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore, the Democratic nominee, specifically discouraged Jesse Jackson, the veteran civil-rights leader, from organizing public protests to demand a full counting of the disputed ballots.Gore wanted to fight solely in the courts, though that meant ceding the streets to Republicans, who held raucous rallies accusing Democrats of trying to steal the election from the GOP nominee, George W.
We look at the history of clinical vaccine trials and exploitation of vulnerable people in the U.S. and India, which recently surpassed Brazil as the country with the second most infections worldwide. Kaushik Sunder Rajan, an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, says there is a documented history of “ethical lapses” and lack of accountability in vaccine studies in India.
As President Trump pushes to release a coronavirus vaccine before the November election, a National Institutes of Health report details how the process could be slowed by a lack of participation in vaccine studies by African American and Latinx people, many of whom mistrust the U.S. healthcare system due the history of racist medical exploitation.
The skies of the Bay Area and Northern California turned a dark orange as 90 major fires burn in the western United States, from San Diego to the Canadian border. At least seven people have died as a result of the fires, which have already burned 2.5 million acres in California alone. Despite heavy coverage in the mainstream media, however, few outlets are highlighting the link between the blazes and the accelerating climate crisis.
She thinks we should leave it to women to “do it right.
What to do when distance learning completely fails.
It wasn’t just because of a shortage of beer, hand sanitizer, yeast, and pasta.
The new jobs numbers were a mixed bag.
The polarizing nature of Crocs has brought the brand to the edge of oblivion and back to soaring popularity.
A brief opportunity to bring down the caseload before cold weather sets in may be squandered.
About 20 percent of colleges plan to open exclusively or primarily in person, according to a tracker from Davidson College in North Carolina.
While three vaccine developers have entered the final stages of trials, phase III, the studies take months and enroll tens of thousands of people.
A total of 14 states and New York City supplied POLITICO contact tracing results showing widespread public reluctance to participate in disease tracking.
Alex Azar’s remarks come as three vaccine candidates have entered late-stage Phase 3 clinical trials.
After months of setbacks amid Covid-19, the White House used Labor Day to focus on worker resilience and tout pre-pandemic conditions.
The trend is on track to exacerbate dramatic wealth and income gaps in the U.S., where divides are already wider than any other nation in the G-7.
It won’t exactly be an October surprise, but it could still be a shock: a wave of business failures hitting during the campaign season.
Canada’s prime minister is building a Covid-19 recovery plan he hopes will “change the future” — and turn the page for his Liberal Party.
Despite unemployment above 10 percent and millions of jobs vaporized, Trump is running on his economic record before the pandemic.
Iván Velásquez is a Colombian prosecutor who headed the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala from 2013 to 2019, a powerful U.N.-backed commission formed to investigate corruption in the country and supported by the Obama administration.
Filmmaker Yoruba Richen, director of The New York Times documentary “The Killing of Breonna Taylor,” says the 26-year-old EMT’s killing was not just a devastating blow to her friends and family, but a “loss of the entire community.” Police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, fatally shot Taylor during a raid on her home in March, part of a botched drug investigation.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
At Common Dreams, Ariel Gold, the national co-director and Senior Middle East Policy Analyst with CODEPINK for Peace, writes Peace Through Weapons Sales to the UAE:
On September 7, Trump spoke out against the revolving door of U.S. weapons sales and endless wars. Pushing back against a report in the Atlantic that he had disparaged fallen U.S.
More than 190,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19, but the president argued that the number would’ve been far higher without his actions.
