8/17/20

Belarus protests: Workers boo Lukashenko as election unrest spreads

Workers boo Belarus president as protests spread

'Highest temperature on Earth' as Death Valley, US hits 54.4C

Highest temperature on Earth' recorded in US

A man lived in a Tampa Bay-area stadium's luxury sui...

suite for over 2 weeks before he was arrested, police say

Riot declared in Portland

Internal USPS documents raise questions about effect...

effectiveness of sorting machines removal order

A cargo ship leaking tons of oil off the Mauritius c...

coast has split in two

Voters in North Carolina have received absentee ball...

ballot request forms in the mail with Trump's face on them

Japan suffers worst GDP fall on record

Face masks: in 2020, 'mask slacking' is more partisa...

partisan than in 1918, historians say

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern delays election over C...

Covid-19

Three police officers shot in Texas while responding...

to call at a home

New Jersey counties are under quarantine for another...

reason: Invasive bugs

Portugal president helps rescue two women caught at sea

Portugal president rescues two women caught at sea

UFW files charges against Primex Farms for allegedly...

United Farm Workers union announced it is filing charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Primex Farms in Wasco. The organization said the company fired employees who complained that the company was failing to properly protect employees from COVID-19.

Trump retweets call to let ‘Democrat cities rot’ ove...

Donald Trump has come under fire for appearing to endorse a tweet calling for “Democrat cities” to be left to “rot” amid continuing unrest in several metropolises over the killing of George Floyd.

Exclusive: Postal service inspector general reviewin...

The internal watchdog at the United States Postal Service is reviewing controversial policy changes recently imposed under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and is also examining DeJoy's compliance with federal ethics rules, according to a spokeswoman for the USPS inspector general and an aide to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Postal Service warns states across US about mail vot...

The U.S. Postal Service is warning states coast to coast that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted, even if mailed by state deadlines, raising the possibility that millions of voters could be disenfranchised.

The Chaotic, Desperate, Last-Minute Trump 2020 Reboo...

Olivia Nuzzi’s stunning look inside the Trump presidential campaign confirms everything we’ve been saying, for so long—that it’s a disorganized disaster of a mess, riven by internal discord and rival factions, with no guiding strategy that could plausibly give the incumbent president a path to reelection.

Trump Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows: Lack of Evidence ...

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s continued push to delegitimize mail-in voting, brushing off CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s insistence that there’s no evidence of “widespread voter fraud” by retorting that “there’s no evidence that there’s not, either.”

Dozens of Montana USPS drop boxes to be removed

UPDATE: At 3:10 Friday afternoon, NBC Montana confirmed that the removal of USPS collection boxes has been put on hold statewide. A union leader says the decision came after Friday's pressure.

( please remember that Mail-In ballots can be submitted at ballot boxes instead of via traditional mail because of all this crap going on, because don't forget that trump is literally recruiting people to join up with GOP poll watchers to mess with folks)

Trump eyes Putin meeting before November election, s...

President Donald Trump has told aides he'd like to hold an in-person meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the November election, according to four people familiar with the discussions. Because OF COURSE HE DOES.

Pelosi calls back House over Postal Service upheaval

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders will summon the House back in session this coming week to confront President Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the U.S. Postal Service, she announced Sunday night.

Puerto Rico's Governor Loses Primary Bid For Full Te...

Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez concedes primary loss...

Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez concedes primary loss as island resumes elections

Washington hires Jason Wright as NFL’s first Black t...