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China Freezes Credentials for Journalists at U.S. Outlets, Hinting at Expulsions

WASHINGTON — The Chinese government has stopped renewing press credentials for foreign journalists working for American news organizations in China and has implied it will proceed with expulsions if the Trump administration takes further action against Chinese media employees in the United States, according to six people with knowledge of the events.The actions and threats

Kamala Harris Warns Russian Interference Could Cost Biden The Election

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris said that Russian election interference could cost Joe Biden the White House. When asked about Russian election interference on CNN’s State of the Union, Harris said: I am clear that Russia interfered in the election of the President of the United States in 2016. I serve on the senate intelligence

Our Actions in This Election Will Tell if We Are For America or For Trump

We already know all there really is to know about Donald Trump. He has no bottom. A few of us knew that in 2016. There is truly no excuse for naivete after what we heard from him in the primary and general elections of 2016 and the nearly four years since. So when Jeffrey Goldberg’s

Flat Polls. Weak Ratings. Do Political Conventions Have a Future?

They help fire up the party’s most fervent voters (though perhaps not so much this year) and can gin up contributions from viewers. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee, had one of his best nights of fund-raising the night he gave his acceptance speech. And they can be fun for attendees: There is a

Democrat Biden adds former rival Buttigieg, ex-Obama officials to transition team

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Saturday added former Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg, along with senior officials who served under President Barack Obama, to an expanded White House transition team.Biden added four new co-chairs to the team led by his longtime ally Ted Kaufman: New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, former Obama

Biden’s Week Gets Even Better As Osama Bin Laden’s Niece Endorses Trump

As Trump is insulting US veterans and troops, he has picked the endorsement of Osama Bin Laden’s niece who claims that only Trump can prevent another 9/11. The New York Post reported:“ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe. Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign

Overlooked No More: Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass

In today’s terms, many of Bass’s beliefs — civil rights, organized labor, redirecting military budgets to social needs, universal health care — might have been labeled Democratic socialism, said Anne Rapp, a historian who wrote her doctoral dissertation on Bass.But in that era, they were radical — and Bass became the subject of government surveillance

The Trump campaign is broke

This is quite the remarkable turn of events. Arizona is a must-win state for Trump, and yet here he is, mere weeks before people stop voting, and they’ve pulled their ads. On Thursday, records filed with the Federal Communications Commission by Phoenix-area television stations showed that the Trump campaign cancelled all of its ads between

Kentucky congressman defends teen accused in protest deaths

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky congressman said a teenager charged with fatally shooting two people with a semi-automatic rifle during the unrest in Wisconsin showed “incredible restraint” and acted in self-defense.Rep. Thomas Massie also told a radio interviewer on Thursday that if he were on the jury, he would vote to acquit the teenager

Joe Biden Just Called Out William Barr For Lying About Russian Election Interference

Vice President Joe Biden called out Attorney General William Barr for lying about Russia not being the biggest threat to the election. Biden was asked about Barr’s claim that China is a bigger threat to the election than Russia, and he answered: No, it’s not consistent with the briefings I have received. He’s a lousy

Which Candidate Do Voters Trust to Handle the Unrest?

Welcome to Poll Watch, our weekly look at polling data and survey research on the candidates, voters and issues that will shape the 2020 election.The trips this week to Kenosha, Wis., by President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. laid bare the political bets both presidential candidates are making about how voters will respond to

As Others Condemn Putin Critic’s Poisoning, Trump Just Wants to ‘Get Along’

But in Latrobe on Thursday, the president treated the topic of Russia as little more than a political cudgel used by his opponents for partisan gain. He renewed his attacks on Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, who led the House Intelligence Committee’s inquiry into a possible conspiracy between the Trump 2016 campaign and

Facebook announces new preelection rules for political ads and claims—but will it follow through?

In addition to the mere one-week duration, though, there’s a caveat there. Only new advertisements will be refused; if political groups already have ads in the Facebook pipeline, they will be allowed to boost spending on and visibility of those ads during the final week. Facebook will be showing plenty of political ads in that

Trump’s hires are sabotaging Voice of America and transforming its journalism

Also, if you believe some of the staunch Republicans who Pack has booted out of the way, in this quest to do what is most certainly not his job, he appears to be slightly off his rocker. NPR reports the discovery of a specific case of Pack-Dewey interference in the news, the “formal review” of

Trump’s Base Is Shrinking Which Is Why He’s Trying To Block Your Vote

The backbone of Trump’s support is non-college-educated white voters, but these voters have shrunk by 4% since 2016. NPR and Brookings Institution analyzed census data and found: President Trump’s base has gotten smaller. That’s a key finding of an analysis of how the U.S. electorate has changed since 2016, based on census data analyzed by

Trump and Biden to both attend 9/11 Shanksville, PA memorial

President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will both pay their respects at the site of the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the two announced Wednesday. The memorial is located at the site of the attack, where one of the four hijacked planes crashed into

6 Takeaways From ‘Speaking for Myself’ Book by Sarah Huckabee Sanders

“In the raging battle between the president and the media, I often felt like I was on the front lines in no-man’s land,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders writes in her memoir, “Speaking for Myself,” which comes out on Tuesday. “In one of my first briefings in my new role, I noted that I was the first

Trump supporters didn’t become conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theorists became Trump supporters

The “quotas” excuse is harmful in so many ways. First, it leaves a large number of poorly informed white men nursing a grudge over a nonexistent “wrong.” Second, it perpetuates the upside-down mythology that white men are somehow at a disadvantage in the workplace. Third, the fact that so many interviewers feel comfortable in using this

Joe Biden Tells America You’re Paying For Trump’s Failure And Delusions

Joe Biden spoke about safely reopening schools and said that Trump has offered parents and students nothing but failure and delusions. Biden said: American families all across this country are paying the price for his failures. And his administration’s failures. Like many of you, because you’re all reporters, you also have a lot of friends,

Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday

The President goes on: For all that we do in the federal government however, everybody has a roll in responding to this virus. We need state and local governments on the front line to make antivirals available and be ready to take whatever steps are necessary to support the health-care system. Sept. 1, 2009 We

Nina Simone was blunt about hand-wringers advising Black folks to ‘go slow’

Like most sane Black folks, I want Trump and his Republican Klan gone. Yesterday. We didn’t elect him. We are well aware that racism and white supremacy are deeply embedded in this nation’s foundation and we have been fighting against it since the time we were enslaved here, throughout Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and through the

Trump says Biden is using ‘enhancement’ drug based on performance

President Trump on Tuesday night said he believes Joe Biden “is on some kind of enhancement” based on the former vice president’s previous debate performances. The president told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that Biden “was horrible” in the Democratic debates, except for the final one when he squared off against Sen. Bernie Sanders. “I watched

Trump is using federal resources to campaign again—this time, via food aid boxes

Forty-nine House Democrats, led by Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio, objected to the Trump letter, writing to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, “Using a federal relief program to distribute a self-promoting letter from the President to American families just three months before the presidential election is inappropriate and a violation of federal law.” As we know,

Trump Spread Multiple Conspiracy Theories on Monday. Here Are Their Roots.

In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday night, President Trump spread multiple conspiracy theories about the protests that have erupted across the nation. Many of Mr. Trump’s unfounded claims can be traced back to narratives that have been swirling online for months.Here are three of the baseless conspiracy theories that

Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday

Bullshit Mountain cont’d Eric the LesserGoodyear TiresGolden showersMount RushmoreThe dial on his TVHis younger brotherJoe Biden’s bike rideHis Minnesota speechPre-existing conditionsThe Jerusalem embassyFact-checker Daniel DaleThe QAnon numbskull cultHuffPost reporter S.V. DateHis low, low convention ratingsThe current wife who hates himThe Manhattan District Attorney This is only the tip of the assberg. The rest can be

75 years later, Japanese man recalls bitter internment in US

TOKYO (AP) — When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I’ll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.” It wouldn’t be the last time he felt that way.At 99, amid commemorations of Wednesday’s 75th anniversary of the formal Sept. 2,

Trump refused meeting Jacob Blake’s family because they wanted lawyer present

WASHINGTON — President Trump says he turned down a meeting with Jacob Blake’s family during his visit to Wisconsin on Tuesday because they wanted a lawyer present, something he said was “inappropriate.” During a Monday evening briefing at the White House, Trump also claimed he spoke to the family’s pastor but a confused Jacob Blake

Iowa’s Senate race is anyone’s to win as Republican advantage withers away

Ernst faces a well-funded challenge from Democrat Theresa Greenfield, prompting major outside groups from both sides to spend massive sums and reserve even more advertising time for the fall. National Republicans may have hoped that they could weaken Greenfield by going on the offensive right after her June primary win, but surveys taken since then

Top Republican backs down to Ady Barkan over manipulated video

“Though Ady would have loved Joe Biden to announce in this interview that he is in favor of defunding the police, the Vice President never said it,” Liz Jaff, the president of Barkan’s Be A Hero political fund, said. In fact, what Biden said was that he had proposed reforms to, as Barkan put it, “reduce

Cheers and Jeers: Monday

Margaret and Helen cont’d Your selfishness is killing people. You don’t deserve our votes. You don’t deserve to breathe the same air we breathe. In your America 200,000 people are dead and it didn’t have to be that way.  In your America children are rioting in the streets begging for justice and it didn’t have