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Is Wayfair Trafficking Children Via Overpriced Items?
The claim that Wayfair is trafficking children is based almost entirely on one person's confusion over an expensive cabinet.
Christopher Hitchens - On FrumCast with David Frum discussing 'Hitch-22' [2010]
David Frum sat down with Christopher Hitchens to discuss his memoir, Hitch-22, the end of the Empire and the state of modern Britain. Credit to frum forum: h...
7,000 Floridians hospitalized with COVID-19; state finally releases data by county
The data, which for the first time breaks down the number of people in the hospital with coronavirus, was promised by the state two weeks ago. It does not show how many patients are in general hospital beds or intensive care units.
‘You get made fun of’: Trump campaign office shuns masks, social distancing
Despite his own administration's recommendations, president's Arlington, Va., headquarters still lacks key protections.
‘All the Hospitals Are Full’: In Houston, Overwhelmed ICUs Leave COVID-19 Patients Waiting in ERs
The busiest hospitals in Houston are increasingly telling emergency responders they cannot safely accept new patients as hundreds of coronavirus patients crowd emergency rooms, and hospitals scramble to open more intensive care space.
Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum
Editor's note: This article quotes racist, homophobic and sexist language, much of which has not been censored.
How Silicon Valley’s ‘Vampire’ CEOs Are Just Like Trump
In Ep. 24 of The New Abnormal, tech expert Kara Swisher picks apart Silicon Valley, and the author of “Separated” shares what the Trump administration really thinks about the wall.
White House insiders worried 'unhinged conspiracy theorists' are being given more powerful roles at the Pentagon
'It's like these individuals are living in a complete alternate reality,' one source told me, adding that the idea of such people still serving in government was 'terrifying'
Trump expected to commute Roger Stone sentence, days before prison term set to begin
President Trump is expected to announce that he will commute Roger Stone’s sentence, just days before the longtime political operative is slated to report to prison to serve more than three years for charges stemming from former Special Counsel...
How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus
The New York Times, in collaboration with The Marshall Project, investigated how Immigration and Customs Enforcement became a domestic and global spreader of the virus.
‘It Was Like a Time Bomb’: How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus
An investigation by The New York Times and The Marshall Project reveals how Immigration and Customs Enforcement became a spreader of the coronavirus.
Why is poverty higher in the U.S. than in other countries? - Confronting Poverty
A Failure of Policy The question that arises is why is this so? Surely it is not because Americans fail to work hard. In fact, studies have shown that Americans tend to be at the top internationally in terms of the average number of hours worked per...
Among 20 wealthy nations, US child mortality ranks worst
The United States has the worst overall child mortality rate, compared with those of 19 other wealthy nations, a new study finds.
US Drug Prices vs The World
Prescription drugs cost more in the U.S. than most anywhere else in the world. As a result, Americans are illegally importing drugs from other countries.
Medicare For All would save $450 billion annually while preventing 68,000 deaths, new study shows
"Our study is actually conservative, because it doesn't factor in the lives saved among underinsured Americans," study author Alison Galvani from the the Yale School of Public Health told Newsweek.
US Leads World in Coronavirus Cases, Deaths
The death toll in the United States from the COVID-19 pandemic rose above 130,000 people Monday, according to data compiled by U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. leads the world not only in terms of coronavirus deaths but total number...
U.S. Bets On Small, Untested Company to Deliver COVID Vaccine
As part of its strategy to administer the vaccine as quickly as possible, the Trump administration has agreed to invest more than a half billion in tax dollars in a young company that hasn’t yet set up a factory to manufacture the devices.
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