Month: September 2020

Shortly following a relatively tempered speech (by his standards) at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, President Donald Trump veered from the script during a brief question-and-answer session, launching into a tirade against the “vicious” and “fake” press—a rant for which he was promptly booed by some attendees. “I’ve always seemed to …

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Balenciaga is to delay its first foray into haute couture until July 2021, according to the brand’s creative director Demna Gvasalia. In an interview with WWD the designer said the pandemic upended the company’s fashion calendar forcing the planned show for January 2021 to be put forward to next July. Gvasalia further confirmed Balenciaga intends …

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Renault F1 team principal Cyril Abiteboul has told Esteban Ocon to set realistic goals for himself. Ocon joined the team at the start of the year following a year on the sidelines after being let go by the Force India team. Getting used to a brand new team after years of being a Mercedes protege …

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Democratic candidates in upcoming Senate races in Arizona and Nevada hold slight edges over their respective Republican opponents, a poll released Thursday found. A poll conducted by Axios and SurveyMonkey found Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) leads each of her potential Republican opponents in the race to replace retiring Sen. Jeff FlakeJeffrey (Jeff) Lane FlakeGOP lawmakers …

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The Sanders Institute — a think tank co-founded by Jane Sanders, the wife of Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.) — on Tuesday began a push to …

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The only Democrat who has officially declared a bid for president in 2020 is not a senator, governor or even a mayor. It’s Rep. John DelaneyJohn DelaneyThe Hill’s Coronavirus Report: Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says country needs to rethink what ‘policing’ means; US cases surpass 2 million with no end to pandemic in sight …

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Reacting to President Donald Trump’s dictator-like insistence that Democrats who didn’t applaud during his State of the Union address are “treasonous” and “un-American,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) argued in a video on Tuesday that Trump’s remarks and behavior demonstrate that the “great political issue now facing our country” is “democracy versus authoritarianism.” “Yesterday Trump suggested …

Read more “After Trump 'Treason' Talk, Sanders Says 'Grassroots Activism' Key to Defeating 'Authoritarianism'”

One day ahead of the deadline set by President Donald Trump for Congress to pass a bill to address the group of undocumented young immigrants known as Dreamers, rights advocates rallied outside the White House on Sunday to demand action from the president and oppose his administration’s deportation agenda. Trump alarmed undocumented immigrants and advocacy …

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A Republican state senator from Idaho is facing intense criticism on a national scale after videos were posted to social media that show him shouting about abortion to college students who were at the state capital to advocate for more access to birth control and improved sexual education. In a hallway at the Idaho state …

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John Bolton loved the war in Iraq, constantly pushes for war with Iran, and “really wants to bomb North Korea”—and he could be America’s next national security adviser. Click Here: NRL Telstra Premiership “A national security strategy developed by John Bolton will surely and inevitably lead to more war.” —Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)Though the White …

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