The first picture ever captured of a black hole, one situated in the center of another galaxy, was pretty blurry. Seen in silhouette, it appeared fuzzy, as did the ring of hot gas surrounding it. The reaction of the public did not necessarily match the unalloyed joy of astronomers accustomed to extracting cosmic wonders from lines in a graph. To anyone more familiar with black holes from epic space films, this one mostly looked like a flame-glazed donut.
A menstruation-themed red is the latest cross-branded stunt color to dilute a once-vibrant brand.
Nearly 41 years after Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis shot dead five antiracist activists in the town of Greensboro, North Carolina, the City Council there has passed a resolution apologizing for the attack and the police department’s complicity in the killings. We speak with two survivors of the 1979 attack, Reverend Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson, who say the city’s apology acknowledges “the police knew and chose to do nothing.
As President Trump compares the deadly COVID-19 outbreak to the flu despite being hospitalized for the virus, we speak to his only niece, Mary Trump, about his increasingly erratic behavior in the final weeks of the election season and how his family views illness as a weakness. “To be treated for something is to admit that you need the treatment, and I don’t see him having any self-awareness,” she says.
I’ve contemplated leaving them, but I still love my wife so much.
The only way parents and their child-free co-workers can survive this pandemic is for bosses to acknowledge reality, lower their goals, and do their part.
“They saved the world, but it wasn’t enough.
As if there wasn’t enough troubling news on this Friday.
Brooks Brothers popularized the button-down shirt. It clothed nearly every U.S. president.
The updated guidance comes just days after President Donald Trump was diagnosed with Covid-19.
His campaign is targeting swing state voters by highlighting specific trade deal wins.
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
If presidential elections really turn on how the country is doing, there’s a good reason for the incumbent to sweat.
“This does have the potential to incite … the metastasizing of social unrest,” said one market strategist.
Breonna Taylor’s family is calling on Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to appoint a new special prosecutor to reopen the case after they say newly released grand jury tapes confirm the state Attorney General Daniel Cameron “did not serve as an unbiased prosecutor in this case and intentionally did not present charges to the grand jury that would have pursued justice for Ms. Taylor.
Trump had fired off more than 40 tweets and retweets over half an hour.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Nancy LeTourneau at The Washington Monthly takes note of The Gray Revolt, the move away from Donald Trump by voters over age 65, whose previous support for him declined in the latest nationwide poll showing citizens overall favor Biden by 14 percentage points.
Donald Trump’s remaking of the federal government into a fascist personality cult continues apace. Surprising exactly no one, NPR reports that two of Trump’s new political hires have compiled a confidential “report” on Voice of America’s (VoA) White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman, accusing him of being unfair to Donald Dear Leader in his reporting. They presented their report to VoA acting director Elez Biberaj “for action.
Craighead County Republican committee chairman Steven Farmer has died of COVID-19, according to a post on Facebook from his daughter, Audrey Haynie. It is unclear when or where Farmer contracted the disease, but Haynie had been providing updates on her father’s progress on Facebook. She said he had been admitted to the ICU on September 18.
He added that a vaccine likely won’t be widely available until next summer or fall.
The uncertainty facing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients didn’t come to an end following the Supreme Court’s decision this past June ruling that the Trump administration unlawfully ended the program. Not only have officials continued to defy this ruling for over 100 days now, but unlawfully appointed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec.
People who were in close proximity to the president around the time of his COVID-19 diagnosis are hosting in-person events throughout the country.
Donald Trump is a man who has no idea what’s happening in the real world because he’s so desperately committed to his demented version of reality.
To him, spending a mere three days in Walter Reed Medical Center and leaving while he’s still highly infectious projects strength. To the vast majority of Americans, it’s foolish.
Miller is among the people who have contracted COVID-19 after helping Trump prepare for the first presidential debate.
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.
Shortly after returning to the White House last night, Donald Trump tweeted out a triumphant video in which he urges Americans not to let the coronavirus “dominate your life,” because “we have the best medicines in the world.”That was true of Trump’s stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, during which doctors threw the kitchen sink of COVID-19 medicines at him while he relaxed, knowing his bills would be covered.
Mark McCloskey and his wife, Patricia McCloskey, were charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon.
I used to be fine with once a week.
