Democrats officially approved a new party platform on Tuesday night, outlining a sweeping set of policies on key issues including health care, climate change and the economy. But the platform also reinforced divisions among the party’s moderates and its liberal wing, which has expressed disappointment that the official Democratic agenda …...Read More
The Democrats approved a platform setting out the party’s agenda.
Doug Emhoff is a contender to become the country’s first Second Gentleman.
Doug Emhoff, who emerged as a fervent professional spouse during Senator Kamala Harris’s thwarted campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, is a serious contender to be the country’s first-ever Second Gentleman. Only two women besides Ms. Harris have ever been nominated for the vice presidency from major parties, so …...Read More
This Trawler’s Haul: Evidence That Antibodies Block the Coronavirus
“People have been so worried about the titers, and the titers going down,” Dr. Alexander Greninger, a virologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, said. The results indicate even moderate titers prevented reinfection in a situation in which exposure to the virus was high, he said: “These are attainable …...Read More
The Supreme Court will hear a suit seeking to overturn Obamacare a week after the election.
The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would hear arguments in the latest case seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act — one backed by President Trump — on Nov. 10, a week after the presidential election. Democrats have seized on Mr. Trump’s support of the case, brought in 2018 …...Read More
QAnon Groups Removed by Facebook
OAKLAND, Calif. — Facebook said on Wednesday that it had removed 790 QAnon groups from its site and was restricting another 1,950 groups, 440 pages and more than 10,000 Instagram accounts related to the right-wing conspiracy theory, in the social network’s most sweeping action against the fast-growing movement. Facebook’s takedown …...Read More
Amazon halts sales of shirts that used a derogatory term to refer to Kamala Harris.
Amazon this week removed shirts from its online marketplace that used a derogatory word to refer to Senator Kamala Harris of California, the Democratic nominee for vice president, the company said on Wednesday. The shirts featured a fictitious campaign logo for Ms. Harris and Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic …...Read More
Slade Gorton, Who Was Voted Out of Senate and Then Back In, Dies at 92
Slade Gorton, a Washington Republican who in three nonconsecutive terms in the Senate championed his state’s logging, aviation and technology industries and feuded with Native American tribes over fishing rights and sovereignty in the casino age, died on Wednesday at his daughter Sarah’s home in the Seattle area. He was …...Read More
Biden’s ‘most cops are good’ comment rankles some progressives.
During their convention, Democrats have presented a unified front on racial justice, declaring that the status quo is not acceptable. But beneath the surface lies broad disagreement over policing, with the reform-oriented proposals of Joseph R. Biden Jr. falling well short of progressive activists’ demands. The gap was evident in …...Read More
Trump urges Goodyear boycott after report that his campaign gear was banned at a plant.
A photo that an employee told WIBW-TV was taken during a recent diversity-training presentation that included guidance on acceptable clothing appears to show a slide projected on a screen listing “Black Lives Matter” and L.G.B.T. pride as “acceptable,” while listing “Blue Lives Matter,” “All Lives Matter,” “MAGA Attire” and “Political …...Read More
She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’
That same year, she led about 8,000 women up Pennsylvania Avenue during the first major suffrage parade. Astride a white horse and garbed in an elegant cape and crown, she was compared by the press to a modern-day Joan of Arc and called the “most beautiful suffragist.” The moniker stuck. …...Read More
