Joy Reid suggest Biden recovering from COVID is ‘exactly the same thing’ as Trump surviving an assassination
MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested Wednesday that President Biden’s recovery from COVID-19 is a “sign of strength,” similar to former President Trump’s survival of an assassination attempt. “These are two elderly people. Donald Trump is elderly, and yet for some reason he was given nine seconds in the middle of a mass shooting to take […]
Dodging the draft: one Ukrainian man’s story – podcast | News
Two years on, the Ukrainian war is nearing a stalemate — and that’s causing problems. When the conflict first began, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians volunteered to fight. But with no end in sight, recruits are growing weary and their enthusiasm waning. In response, Ukraine has lowered the conscription age, deployed patrols to round up […]
JD Vance book Hillbilly Elegy skyrockets on video streaming and stores’ backorder lists
Sen. J.D. Vance‘s (R-OH) bestselling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, has exploded in book sales, alongside the movie, which is based on his book, sitting atop streaming services’ trending lists following former President Donald Trump naming the senator as his 2024 running mate. Vance’s memoir, published by HarperCollins, shares his tough upbringing of living in poverty in […]
‘I Went To Jail So You Don’t Have To’: Peter Navarro Goes Straight From Slammer To RNC For Massive Ovation
The Republican National Convention (RNC) crowd leaped to their feet after Peter Navarro came out on stage, just hours after his release from prison Wednesday. The former aide in the Trump White House made a dramatic appearance at the RNC, speaking shortly after his release from a federal prison in Miami. In a video shared […]
Questions for Starbucks About Its New Diversity Policy
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Starbucks recently announced that it is tying pay to the accomplishment of diversity goals. Specifically, its goals are to have at least 30% of its U.S. corporate employees and 40% of its U.S. retail and manufacturing employees to be people of color defined as black people, other people of color and […]
Asian Stocks Decline as Chip Selloff Gains Steam: Markets Wrap – Yahoo Finance
(Bloomberg) — Asian shares fell on Thursday as worries over tightening U.S. restrictions on semiconductor sales to China deepened a global sell-off in technology shares. Most read articles on Bloomberg Stocks in Japan and South Korea fell, with the Tokyo Stock Exchange down 1.5%, weighed down by a stronger yen and heavy selling by chipmakers […]
DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH: Democrats Are On A Different Planet
As Republicans and Democrats meet at their conventions to propose policies for the next four years, the contrast between Republican and Democratic energy policies is greater than ever. Republican Speed it up It would cut oil and natural gas production, eliminate electric vehicle purchase mandates, eliminate subsidies for renewable energy, and end dependence on China. […]
Donald Trump ally Rick Scott’s long game is poised to pay off in the Senate
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida Sen. Rick Scott has been underestimated throughout his political career, but he’s out to prove his critics wrong again. When he first won his gubernatorial race 14 years ago, he defeated mainstream Republicans in the primary despite Tallahassee insiders campaigning to the contrary. He had close re-election races in 2014 and […]
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, hours after release from prison, appears at RNC: ‘I am your wake-up call’
Former Advisor to Donald Trump Peter Navarro Taking the stage on the third day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Trump was greeted by a cheering crowd of Republican supporters and declared that Democrats “will never beat Trump.” Navarro, who took to the stage to chants of “Fight, fight, fight,” was released from […]
Florida man allegedly threatens to ‘finish off’ Biden, marks day he ‘will kill’ president: court docs
“I am going to kill Joe Biden today,” a Florida man allegedly wrote on July 11, two days before Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in western Pennsylvania. Jason Patrick Alday, 39, of Florida, had been under Secret Service surveillance since late June when he told a receptionist at a psychiatric facility that he didn’t […]