[ad_1] After New York’s Board of Elections canceled its Democratic presidential primary on April 27, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders—who’d suspended his own campaign on April 8, but intended to stay on primary ballots and amass delegates he could then leverage at the Democratic National Convention this summer—and his supporters made their outrage known. The very next day, former presidential […]Read More

[ad_1] • The demise of the White House pandemic task force does not appear to mean administration officials will now be freer to give the public information about the pandemic or comply with oversight efforts during the now-national emergency. Donald Trump says his White House has explicitly prohibited Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex […]Read More

[ad_1] It’s quite so. As the rabbis note, Jewish sages “teach us that to save one life is to save an entire world.” A core Jewish belief is the concept of pikuach nefesh, which literally means “saving a life.” This principle means that you can break almost every other commandment in order to protect human […]Read More

[ad_1] What that means is that Donald Trump—through his depraved insistence on reopening the country—may actually be leading the nation straight into a slaughter worse than D-Day in 1944, when about 2,811 Americans perished at the outset of an Allied operation to liberate Nazi-occupied France and ultimately win World War II. As Howell Raines, former executive editor […]Read More

[ad_1] “There’s not too many states that I know of that are going up. Almost everybody is headed in the right direction,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall on Sunday about the infection rate. “We’re on the right side of it, but we want to keep it that way, but we also want to […]Read More

[ad_1] Bright points to a January 21, 2020 email from Mike Bowen, co-owner and Executive Vice President of domestic surgical mask producer Prestige Ameritech who had been in contact with the Department of Homeland Security about masks. He said DHS had contacted him about getting masks, and he was concerned about getting production ramped up […]Read More

[ad_1] As reported by the Post‘s Aaron Blake, Ingraham and Solomon pushed the discovery that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had a webpage up that was tracking COVID-19 deaths and, as Solomon marketed it, that webpage showed “deaths fall for a second straight week.” The Ingraham version was that the page cut the pandemic death toll […]Read More

[ad_1] Campaign Action “The hearing on Walker’s nomination should not go forward until we know the truth about what ethical lines Mitch McConnell crossed to get Walker this seat,” Fallon continued. “At the very least, McConnell should come clean about whether and when he contacted Judge Thomas Griffith prior to his sudden retirement.” McConnell’s court packing […]Read More

[ad_1] TRUMP: No, no I’m not, because that assumes no mitigation. And we’re gonna have mitigation. The fact that we’re letting people go and go to their jobs—they have to do it. You know, if they held people any longer with the shutdowns, you’re gonna lose people that way too. And you already have I’m sure. But […]Read More

[ad_1] “The lead plaintiffs in the case include a Cuban couple, a 19-year old Guatemalan woman who has been separated from her younger brother for ten months, and a Honduran woman who has been separated from her husband for nearly four months,” the group continued. “One plaintiff is diagnosed with HIV and another has severe asthma. […]Read More