NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon scheduled for Nov. 1 has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
New York Road Runners announced the cancellation of the world’s largest marathon Wednesday after coordinating with the mayor’s office and deciding the race posed too many health and safety concerns for runners, volunteers, spectators and others.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordered Wednesday that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan dismiss Michael Flynn’s case.
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Amidst nationwide protests ignited by the racist police murder of George Floyd, union members everywhere are asking: how can labor throw its weight into the fight to uproot racist repression? Continue reading “Why Cops And Their ‘Unions’ Have No Place In The Labor Movement”
MOSCOW (AP) — The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are. And that’s got scientists worried about what it means for the rest of the world.
The thermometer hit a likely record of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Russian Arctic town of Verkhoyansk on Saturday, a temperature that would be a fever for a person — but this is Siberia, known for being frozen. The World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday that it’s looking to verify the temperature reading, which would be unprecedented for the region north of the Arctic Circle.
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The Justice Department will have to weigh in on whether Roger Stone’s surrender date should be delayed, as the longtime GOP operative has requested.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said in “Fox News” interview on Tuesday night that President Trump wants to run a campaign, not a country.
“Donald Trump doesn’t want to run a country, he wants to run a campaign.” Cuban told Fox News commentator Sean Hannity on Tuesday. “Joe Biden actually wants to run a country.”
Mark Cuban: Donald Trump doesn’t want to run a country, he wants to run a campaign. Joe Biden actually wants to run a country pic.twitter.com/FPRFsoCRxb
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) June 24, 2020
Hannity asked Cuban to back up the Democratic presidential nominee’s record on policing issues and racial justice, touting the iron fist-type criminal justice reform that Trump has made a selling point in his campaign for reelection.
The Fox News host also criticized Biden for his lengthy “50-year” legacy as a lawmaker who in his view has not accomplished much to those ends. “So tell me what Joe has done that you’re proud of, that qualified him to be president after 50 years,” Hannity said.
Cuban countered by clarifying that much of Biden’s career was spent as a senator, suggesting that the same argument could be made for any Republican senator in office today. Cuban said the case for what Biden could achieve as president was another matter. He applauded the former vice president for his efforts to expand healthcare through the Affordable Care Act criticizing Trump for trying to undo those efforts “with no replacement.”
This was not the first time the entrepreneur has cone out against the president. In an earlier interview with Hannity in May, Cuban said that although Trump is arguably the most powerful man in the world he regularly “plays the victim card” by blaming Democrats and taking fault with the media.
Hannity contrasted Trump’s accomplishments with Obama’s, lauding the president for wins that occurred before the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country. The Fox news host said that the ravaged economy has show some signs of revival due to recent and contested dips in unemployment in reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in May.
In a no nonsense reply, Cuban offered the analogy of celebrating a dwindling bank account balance.
“When your bank account goes from $10 to $1, and then all of a sudden it goes to $2, you can say you doubled your bank account, but you’re still down 80 percent,” Cuban said.
The GOP has decided to move its headliner events at the Republican National Convention in August to Jacksonville, Florida, but apparently a majority of the city’s voters would rather they didn’t.
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As COVID-19 cases reach record highs in Arizona, an estimated 3,000 people showed up at President Donald Trump’s “Students for Trump” rally at a megachurch in Phoenix on Tuesday night–and most of them went mask-free.
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Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney isn’t worried about President Trump’s re-election prospects in light of former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s damning tell-all book recalling his experiences in the Trump administration. Continue reading “Mulvaney Brushes Off Trump Criticism From Ex-Admin Officials: ‘Inside Beltway Kind Of Discussion’”
