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As Black Lives Matter protests continue in Portland, Oregon, officers with no identification and unmarked vehicles have reportedly been arresting protesters. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that demonstrators warned each other of federal officers in camouflage grabbing people off the street, with some driving in unmarked non-government rental cars. These same federal officers were told by Portland Mayor […]
The White House Press Secretary claimed “science is on our side,” while defending Donald Trump‘s calls for schools to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. Kayleigh McEnany made the argument during Thursday’s White House press briefing, when asked about the U.S. school districts that planned to conduct the fall semester exclusively online. McEnany reiterated Trump’s stance that students should return to […]
Security officials in the U.S. and elsewhere have accused Russia of a hacking effort linked to COVID-19 vaccine research, Vice reports. On Thursday, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre shared an advisory message discussing the alleged activities of a group known by the names APT29, Cozy Bear, and the Dukes. In an accompanying statement, Paul Chichester—Director […]
In a move that only hurts the people he claims to serve, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has said that cities and counties can’t mandate the wearing of COVID-19 masks. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Kemp’s order extends certain virus-inspired restrictions while also “explicitly banning cities and counties from adopting rules requiring masks or other face […]
NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has advised six presidents on matters pertaining to domestic and global health issues, has recently found himself in the White House’s crosshairs as the Trump administration looks to soil his credibility amid their unacceptable and destructive response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The White House released a memo Sunday with […]
The head of the New York State Troopers is demanding that all of its members be pulled from New York City in direct response to the legislation criminalizing the use of chokeholds by police, which was signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio earlier today, the New York Post reports. In a letter submitted on Wednesday, Thomas Mungeer, president […]
With less than four months until Election Day, Donald Trump has decided to replace Brad Parscale as his re-election campaign manager. The president announced the shake-up via social media on Wednesday, confirming Parscale would be succeeded by Bill Stepien, a political operative who worked in the 2016 Trump campaign as the national field director. POTUS said Parscale, who was tapped to lead […]
On Wednesday, as multiple states see COVID-19 cases surging, Donald Trump decided to awkwardly pose with an assortment of Goya Foods products in the Oval Office and post the resulting image onto his Instagram account. “You tell me how a president in the middle of a pandemic has time for this BULLSHIT!!?!? […]
The debate over wearing masks in public is getting deadly. Not just because people with masks are less likely to transmit COVID-19, but they are also less likely to pull out guns because of them. One man in Florida pulled out a handgun on a man with his daughter after getting into a dispute over face masks. […]
Houston Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills was arrested on Tuesday, after he attended a protest in Louisville, Kentucky calling for the prosecution of the officers responsible for the death of Breonna Taylor. Stills was one of the 87 people arrested outside of Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s house, where peaceful protesters gathered to put pressure on […]
