Mar 30, 2020Florida megachurch pastor arrested after holding packed services in spite of COVID-19 order
After holding an apparently packed church service—and being bold enough to livestream that service on the church’s Facebook page—this past Sunday, Florida megachurch leader (and Donald Trump supporter) Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne has been arrested and accused of violating the county’s...
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Mar 30, 2020Justice Department investigation into virus vultures could help deliver Senate to the Democrats
A little over a week ago, we found out that a group of senators (like North Carolina Republican Richard Burr and appointed Georgia Republican Kelly Loeffler) cashed out of the market after receiving a classified briefing on the severity of the looming coronavirus pandemic. Then they went out...
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Mar 30, 2020Both town and staff are livid with Falwell for reopening Liberty University during pandemic
Politico has a closer look at Jerry Falwell Jr.'s decision to reopen his grifty Liberty University, inviting students back into the dorms after they distributed themselves across the country during spring break. Sure enough, some students are now displaying possible COVID-19 symptoms, and the...
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Mar 30, 2020Republican state and local officials realize the truth: Trump is hampering fight against coronavirus
As the first reports of a deadly and horrendously infective respiratory virus ravaging China emerged in January, some state and local emergency coordinators around the country galvanized. And some listened to Donald Trump and—tragically—believed him. This investigative piece from The...
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Mar 30, 2020Trump warns that easier voting means 'you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again'
Donald Trump called in to Fox & Friends Monday morning and openly admitted that if more people vote, Republicans will lose. Democrats are pushing for vote by mail so that people don’t have to risk coronavirus to exercise their right to vote. Asked about “special interest projects”...
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Mar 30, 2020Stay Comfortable as You Work From Home In These Loungewear Picks
There has never been a better time to indulge yourself in good loungewear, but let’s be smart here. I’m not talking about buying a 6-pack of leggings and calling it a day. I’m talking about investing in pieces that are as good looking as they are comfortable. For all those digital meetings...
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Mar 30, 2020Pentagon May Keep Paratroopers in Mideast to Counter Iran
via REUTERSDefense Secretary Mark Esper is looking at extending the deployment of a reaction force sent to the Middle East to counter Iran’s militia network, according to three sources and documents provided to The Daily Beast. The 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division arrived...
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Mar 30, 2020CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Defends Not Cutting Away From Trump’s Coronavirus Pressers
MIKE COPPOLA/GETTYIMAGESCNN chief Jeff Zucker on Monday defended the network’s decision to carry President Donald Trump’s coronavirus press briefings live despite criticism that he uses the conferences to spread misinformation during a pandemic.During an internal employee call, the network...
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Mar 30, 2020Rodney Howard-Browne, Megachurch Pastor Who Flouted Virus Rules, Arrested
Courtesy Hernando County SheriffA controversial Florida pastor who refused to stop holding packed church services, in violation of coronavirus restrictions, was arrested Monday by a local sheriff who said he was putting his followers’ lives at risk.Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne was booked on...
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Mar 30, 2020Doctors Are Being Told That Wearing Masks “Might Freak Out Patients”
As hospitals face a wave of patients with COVID-19, Dr. Christopher Garofalo, a family physician in Massachusetts, has become increasingly concerned about physicians working without masks and other protective equipment. In private Facebook groups for doctors, Garofalo asked them to...
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Mar 28, 2020What Happens When a 5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Considered a Coronavirus Risk
A five-year-old girl in a Pennsylvania immigration detention facility was rushed to a nearby hospital with pneumonia-like symptoms on Monday—only to be returned the facility that same day and put in isolation with her mother after being tested for COVID-19. The girl, who had been detained for...
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Mar 28, 2020Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment.
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On a Tuesday just before Halloween in 2018, a group of federal prosecutors and agents from Texas arrived in...
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Mar 26, 2020Let’s Count Our Blessings. If You Think Things Are Bad, Look Back a Century
In a recent column, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, an assiduous observer of our present plight, wrote that “this is the week when memories rush back from childhood.” I’ll second that. A particular memory from my own childhood is that of an oft-told retelling by my grandmother in...
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Feb 19, 2020More Ohio Republicans Tout Anti-Vax Views
Republicans in several competitive Statehouse districts have sought the endorsement of Ohio's largest anti-vaccination interest group.
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Feb 13, 2020Vincent Price, Master of Horror, Meet the Abominable Donald Trump
Just in time for the Oscars, the recent Friday Night Massacre of two of Trump's White House staff and Ambassador Gordon Sondland, along with rumors of further retribution for dissenters in his administration, provide a reminder of a classic 1971 Vincent Price film, The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
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Mar 30, 2020Cuomo Helped Get New York Into This Mess
Ross Barkan
The governor’s position on health care spending looked starkly different a couple of months ago.
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Mar 30, 2020All the President’s Crackpots
Jeet Heer
Richard A. Epstein’s crank theories about the coronavirus are influential thanks to a powerful network of right-wing legal activists.
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Mar 30, 2020As the Coronavirus Pandemic Spreads, Gun Sales Soar
Colleen Quinn
“Coming storm”: In the United States, gun violence is already a public health epidemic.
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Mar 30, 2020Out From Under ‘the Economy’
Sheetal Chhabria, Aparna Gopalan
Covid-19 proves we can’t conflate the market’s health with workers’ well-being.
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Mar 30, 2020House panel delays consideration of annual defense policy bill
The House Armed Services Committee has postponed marking up the annual defense policy bill in order to follow the guidelines meant to stop the spread of the coronavirus.The committee had been scheduled to mark up t...
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Mar 30, 2020New Jersey announces 3,347 new coronavirus cases, 37 deaths
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced Monday that the total number of coronavirus cases in the state surged by 3,347 on Monday, with more than three dozen new deaths blamed on the virus being reported.At a pres...
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