Being racist and deleting social media posts once they go viral seem to be requirements if you’d like to work for or with Donald Trump. In a number of incidents, Trump and his associates have deleted posts on social media that were either offensive or just filled with nonsense false information.
“You’re the president; you’re not like someone’s crazy uncle who can retweet whatever,” the host said at Trump’s NBC News town hall.
The president also praised supporters of the outlandish conspiracy theory for being “very strongly against pedophilia.
There’s something about hitting the teens that’s scary.
As in days left until the election, I mean.
Not adolescence.
Or literally assaulting teenagers. Please don’t do that.
But we’re a whole 19 days out now, so there’s no time to waste.
The High Priestess: The fact that the election is less than three weeks away means it’s high time I unveil my state legislative chamber flip ratings.
The series of events laid out by the conservative tabloid and pushed by Trumpworld strain credibility and suggest a crude political hit.
After a month of warning signs, this week’s data make it clear: The third surge of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is underway. Outbreaks have been worsening in many states for more than a month, and new COVID-19 cases jumped 18 percent this week, bringing the seven-day average to more than 51,000 cases a day. Though testing rose by 8 percent nationally, that’s not enough of an increase to explain the steep rise in cases.
The paper’s supposed “smoking gun” was smoking in a different way.
Democrats want it. The president wants it. Americans need it. If GOP senators want to kill it, they can own it, too.
The kind of people who run for the United States Senate overlap strongly with the kind of people who like to make grandstanding speeches about the sweep of history and the decline of democracy. Senators were in full form today during the close of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination hearings. “There are very few written rules around here. The most important rules are the unwritten ones.
She’s making it hard to raise our daughter without traditional gender norms.
Today, The Atlantic launches Planet, a new section devoted to covering climate change, founded on the view that the shifting climate will be the backdrop of our lives and one of the major moral questions of the century. “Living through a pandemic has primed people to think differently about climate change,” said Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic’s executive editor. “This isn’t just a science story, and it’s not just a politics story.
The two senators even shared a hug afterward. Now a progressive group is calling for her removal from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The president described the killing of Michael Forest Reinoehl, who was charged in the death of a right-wing protester in Portland, before a cheering crowd.
Should you force your kid to learn to drive? What’s the best way to change a squirmy baby? Who should have priority over the family’s wifi?
Stories of vandalism and booby traps are everywhere. But passions over free (lawn) speech are about more than Biden vs. Trump.
The court will soon weigh cases that could shrink Medicaid or undermine Obamacare’s marketplaces if the health care law survives.
We air highlights from the second day of questioning of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, who faced eight hours of questions on Wednesday about her views on issues ranging from climate change to voting rights to gay marriage and abortion, as Republicans race to confirm her ahead of the election and secure a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court for conservatives.
As coronavirus cases increase across much of the United States, the Trump administration has reportedly adopted a policy of deliberately letting the virus infect much of the U.S. population in order to attain “herd immunity” — despite warnings from the World Health Organization against such an approach.
Not seeing my students makes it really hard to have a discussion.
Amid fears of eviction and not being able to pay for food, a group of Bronx tenants saw only one option: to go on rent strike.
On a cold winter day, his thoughts turned to a summer on Long Island.
The campaign by Pfizer comes amid growing scrutiny of the CEO’s predictions that the company will know this month whether it has a viable vaccine.
As officials debate how to get Trump’s name on the cards, health officials warn of a taxpayer-funded boondoggle to bolster president’s flagging poll numbers.
He added that a vaccine likely won’t be widely available until next summer or fall.
Bright alleges that he was demoted because he opposed political pressure linked to an unproven Covid-19 treatment.
House Democrats will introduce a bill intended to limit the administration’s ability to spend federal funds on certain coronavirus-related advertisements before the election.
I have no one else to talk to. I can’t talk to my family, and I don’t have friends anymore.
Some 60 percent of all U.S. businesses that have closed during the pandemic have not reopened.
