#201526
The Tadeusz Kościuszko monument in Washington DC was vandalized last night in rioting that has engulfed the United States after the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
#201527
We’re witnessing one of the worst series of riots in recent American history. If you haven’t been keeping up with the news, America is currently in intense turmoil triggered by the death of George Floyd through the use of unnecessary and excessive force by police officers in Minneapolis.
#201528
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified Wednesday that he would not have signed a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant renewal for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page had he known about the since-revealed misconduct surrounding those warrants -- while faulting the FBI for its handling of the documents.
#201529
Nickelodeon aired eight minutes and 46 seconds with the message "I CAN'T BREATHE" in white letters emblazoned across a black screen. The message's length matches the purported amount of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin placed his knee on George Floyd's neck.
#201530
Scientists say "institutionalized racism" is keeping black Americans out of science but also say employers must hire more foreign scientists.
#201531
West Palm Beach Florida Mayor Keith James declared a 72-hour State of Local Emergency on May 31, 2020, in response to...
#201532
Former officer already faces murder charges
#201533
We are seeing now what happens when the rule of law breaks down. It is frightening, but it is hardly unprecedented, even in modern history.
#201534
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said on Wednesday that he would not have signed off on a final warrant application of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page if he had known the information that would be in a watchdog report.
#201535
President Trump criticized NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s refusal to send in the National Guard to address the rioting in the city telling “The Brian Kilmeade Show” on Wednesday that “liberal” mayors are “having a lot of trouble” with the violent demonstrations.
#201536
New York governor Andrew Cuomo pushed back on claims that state lockdowns were creating more harm than the COVID-19 pandemic, saying “how can the cure be worse than the illness if the illness is potential death?”Speaking to reporters as protestors demonstrated outside New York’s state capitol in Albany
#201537
Minneapolis and urban centers across America are burning, most directly in response to the brutal killing of a black man by a white Minnesota police officer. But the rage ignited by the death of George Floyd is symptomatic of a profound sense of alienation that has been building for years among millions of poor, working class urbanites. The already diminished prospects facing such people have only been worsened by the unforeseen onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic and the policies devised to combat it. Like earlier pandemics, the virus has devastated poorer communities, where people live in the most crowded housing, are forced to travel on public transport, and work in the most exposed “essential” jobs, most of which are badly paid. Unlike the affluent of Gotham, some 30 percent of whom were able to leave town and work remotely, the working class remained, forced to endure crowded conditions as the disease raged through the city. No surprise then that inhabitants of the impoverished Bronx have suffered nearly twice as many deaths from COVID-19 as those …
#201538
You may not punish the innocent merely because they share some collective characteristics with the guilty. Therefore, to hold all white people responsible for the death of George Floyd is as immoral, unjust and dangerous as holding all Jews responsible for the suffering of Germany following World War One -- precisely what Hitler did.
#201539
Americans returning from China landed at U.S. airports by the thousands in early February, potential carriers of a deadly virus who had been diverted to a handful of cities for screening by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Their arrival prompted a frantic scramble by local and state officials to press the travelers to self-quarantine and to monitor whether anyone fell ill. It was one of the earliest tests of whether the public health system in the United States could contain the contagion.
But the effort was frustrated as the CDC's decades-old notification system delivered information collected at the airports that was riddled with duplicative records, bad phone numbers and incomplete addresses. For weeks, officials tried to track passengers using lists sent by the CDC, scouring information about each flight in separate spreadsheets.
"It was insane," said Dr. Sharon Balter, a director at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. When the system went offline in mid-February, briefly halting the flow of passenger data, local officials listened in disbelief on a conference call as the CDC responded to the possibility that infected travelers might slip away.
"Just let them go," two of the health officials recall being told.
The flawed effort was an early revelation for some health departments, whose confidence in the CDC was shaken as it confronted the most urgent public health emergency in its...
#201540
A sustained intake of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has shown positive results in reducing the risk of coronavirus in the healthcare workers, the ICMR study says. However, HCQ prophylaxis should be taken in tandem with wearing the personal protective equipment (PPE) to minimise risk exposure, it said.
#201541
A reporter with the New York Times Magazine stunned viewers on CBS News this week; bizarrely asserting that looting “is not violence” because “property can be replaced” as violent demonstrations break-out around the country. “Violence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man’s neck until all of the life is leached out […]
#201542
The FBI and other federal agencies have warned, however, that far-right groups will try to incite violence in the George Floyd protests.
#201543
As every parent knows, children can sleep through anything when they’re tired enough. So it was with our two kids Monday night. They snored away, oblivious to the buzz of helicopters overhead, the …
#201544
Satire For The Right. And The Wrong.
#201545
As every parent knows, children can sleep through anything when they’re tired enough. So it was with our two kids Monday night. They snored away, oblivious to the buzz of helicopters overhead, the …
#201546
Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the man who launched the fraudulent Mueller Special Investigation, is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. Early in his testimony he tossed fired Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe under the bus saying McCabe was “not candid” with him regarding the garbage investigation of the…
#201547
An email from Sundar to Google employees today about commitments to addressing racial inequity.
#201548
The Trump administration moved Wednesday to block Chinese airlines from flying to the U.S. in an escalation of trade and travel tensions between the two countries. The Transportation...
#201549
In a recent interview, one person said that they miss former President Obama. They said they knew he would have done the right thing in these riots. Are you serous? #Obama #Trump #riots #protests #violence
#201550
Senate Majority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) on Wednesday threw his support behind Defense Secretary Mark Esper after the Pentagon chief said he opposes invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to deploy active U.S. military on American soil to quell urban protests.
