(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a key military meeting to discuss bolstering the country’s nuclear arsenal and putting its armed forces on high alert, state media reported Sunday, in Kim’s first known public appearance in about 20 days. Kim earlier this month quelled intense rumors about his health by…
With several states attempting to reopen their economies by forcing people back to work under threat of losing their unemployment benefits and health insurance, many Americans may soon be scrambling to find adequate child care. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has already forced most child care centers to close, and a lack of public funding threatens…
(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong police fired tear gas and a water cannon at protesters in a popular shopping district Sunday, as thousands took to the streets to march against China’s move to impose national security legislation on the city. Pro-democracy supporters have sharply criticized a proposal, set to be approved by China’s rubber-stamp parliament…
“You can actually have church actually in your own home on a Sunday morning, or a Wednesday, for that matter,” the Reverand Gregory Holston told Daily Kos during a Making Progress interview. Now, that conversation took place last summer at Netroots Nation, a conference for progressives, but his words on how to make faith and…
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week Jake Johnson at Common Dreams writes—Bernie Sanders Says It Is ‘Nauseating’ to See Corporations Praise Frontline Workers as ‘Heroes’ While Refusing to Pay Them More: During a virtual town hall late Thursday with public health professionals and labor leaders, Sen. Bernie Sanders ripped…
Aides to President Donald Trump are considering a plan to shift the government’s global response to future infectious disease outbreaks to a new unit inside the State Department, according to documents obtained by POLITICO. The proposal, discussed during a National Security Council deputies committee meeting on Thursday, already has set off a turf battle between…
On Friday, Donald Trump let it be known that he had something to say about the COVID-19 pandemic. But rather than his usual hours-long ramble in which he confesses to taking a dangerous off-label prescription, or encourages Americans to sip a Clorox cocktail, Trump stumped out to the stage for only two minutes flat. He was…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — President Donald Trump plans to travel to Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday to witness the launch of the first Americans into space in nearly a decade, a White House official said Friday. Two NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, will travel aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on a…
TALLAHASSEE — Republicans are seeking to join a high-stakes voting rights battle in Florida, claiming that Democrat-aligned groups are using the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to strike down voting laws. The Republican National Committee, the Republican Party of Florida and the National Republican Congressional Committee on Thursday asked a federal judge for permission to…
YPSILANTI, Mich.—At the intersection of Rawsonville and Textile Roads, on a slender stretch of turf that runs the length of a half-deserted strip mall, Kathryn Prater and Kelra Rise are dancing. The longtime friends, white women in their early 40s, haven’t had much to celebrate recently. Rise lost her job as a shipping clerk two…
OAKLAND — Republican congressional candidate Darrell Issa and a conservative group are suing to block California’s move to an all-mail November election. They are legally challenging Gov. Gavin Newsom’s directive that elections officials mail every registered voter a ballot for the November election, making California the first state to switch to vote by mail due…
A large observational study shows no evidence that an antimalarial drug treats the coronavirus — and can actually cause harm — despite President Donald Trump’s claims the “great” and “powerful” drug showed “some very strong signs” of fighting the virus. The study involving 96,000 patients and published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Lancet found that…
Donald Trump, by dint of his unflagging ineptitude and pervasive presence on the national stage, has left the Biden campaign with an embarrassment of riches for material to use in attack ads. Two released by the campaign this week work in tandem, one reminding Americans just how devastating this pandemic has been under Trump’s leadership while…
President Donald Trump is lunching with Senate Republicans in the Capitol and prodding them to launch subpoenas against his enemies. Joe Biden is stuck in Delaware and has yet to hold even a conference call with House or Senate Democrats. At this point in a typical presidential campaign, Biden probably would have already visited with…
Trump administration officials are preparing plans to extend the federal deployment of more than 40,000 National Guard members performing coronavirus relief work across the country, after scores of lawmakers moved to pressure President Donald Trump to keep the Guards in place past June. Four people familiar with the matter said the administration is prepared to…
Former President Barack Obama since leaving office rarely wades into debates about his successor, but President Donald Trump’s performance during the pandemic compelled him to raise his voice. He was sharp by his standards, though hardly by Trump’s, in a rapidly leaked conference call with former employees in which he credited the incumbent with “an…
At least three people were injured and a suspect taken into custody Wednesday night following a shooting at a shopping complex in Glendale, Arizona, police say. One person believed to be in critical condition was sent to the hospital, while two others have non life-threatening injuries, Tiffany Ngalula, a public information officer for the Glendale…
Texas’ 24th congressional district is precisely the kind of seat Democrats are targeting in November to cement or pad their House majority: A longtime Republican stronghold in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs where shifting demographics have put it in play. But a dispute over whether the party should embrace an Afro-Latina educator with a hardscrabble upbringing…
More than 40,000 National Guard members are hard at work helping states fight the novel coronavirus, from testing to disinfecting facilities to contact tracing—and the Trump administration plans to screw them over to save some money. The administration announced a “hard stop” on deployments on a date that just happens to be one day before any of…
Impeached president Donald Trump’s buffet lunch with Republican senators Tuesday had a lot do to with his reelection and very little to do with the pandemic still raging across the nation. Or the urgent need for more relief. Or the budget crisis states and counties and cities and towns are facing. Or a persistent lack…