Internet throws up in its mouth after conservative commentators assert that suburban women are horny for Mike Pence.

Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel has been a constant presence on Fox’s coronavirus coverage since the beginning of the crisis. During these many, many appearances -- 318 since January 20 -- Siegel regularly pushes coronavirus misinformation, downplays the severity of the crisis, and discards science in favor of right-wing talking points.

Federal prosecutors who ran a 2017 "pilot" program for migrant family separation determined that children younger than 12 should not be separated because most could not find their way back to their parents on their own, according to a copy of a Justice Department memo obtained by NBC News. The pilot program in El Paso, Texas, laid the groundwork for what became the Trump administration's "zero tolerance policy," which separated more than 3,000 children from their parents in 2018. But the memo, prepared for John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, was never sent to Justice Department officials in Washington, according to a draft report from the department's inspector general obtained by NBC News. And, the draft report says, Rod Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, told federal prosecutors on the southern border in a conference call that no child was so young that a parent should not be separated for prosecution under the zero-tolerance policy. Rosenstein declined to comment. The Jan. 7, 2018, memo from El Paso also indicates that neither the pilot program nor the zero-tolerance policy enacted across the southern border later that year was created with a plan to reunite families; instead, it expected that children would see their parents again when both were deported to their home countries.

The stunt will go ahead a day after Trump insisted he was fine while coughing his way through a phone interview.

The pressure on his top administration officials to take action came as President Trump bristled at the restraints of his illness.

Biden’s advantage among absentee or mail voters is even larger: 69% of these voters say they plan to cast a ballot – or have already cast their ballot – for Biden. Only about a quarter say they plan to vote for Trump (27%). However, Trump captures a sizable majority of those who plan to vote in person on Election Day; 63% of these voters favor Trump, compared with three-in-ten who plan to vote for Biden.

The federal trial of a former commander of the naval base put a spotlight on life at the isolated and secretive outpost best known for its terrorist court and prison.

But if Gottfried’s treatment seems horrific, she was just one of many women subjected to “girl watching,” a two-decade trend popularized by an ad executive and broadcast through major ad campaigns. Girl watching guides and girl watching clubs of the midcentury (alongside cartoons and advertisements) taught American men how to sexualize and harass women on the street, among other public places. These activities even had a soundtrack: At the very moment Gottfried was being harassed on Wall Street, the song “Girl Watcher” by the American pop band The O’Kaysions was climbing the charts. The history of this girl watching phenomenon speaks volumes about how the “male gaze” was made and then resisted.

A complex federal case involving a New Orleans man who allegedly made a living by causing car wrecks, a stuntwoman-turned-lawyer who represented him and her fiancé — a disbarred lawyer and convicted felon — took a gothic turn this week when the accused accident stager was fatally shot ahead of his arraignment. Cornelius Garrison, 54, was killed Tuesday night inside a Gentilly apartment, just four days after prosecutors accused him of causing more than 50 car crashes in exchange for $150,000. Garrison’s lawyer, federal public defender Claude Kelly, confirmed his client was the man shot dead in the 1500 block of Foy Street.

On Sept. 30 just before 11:00 p.m., an unidentified person was walking by the church on St. Mary Drive and looked inside through windows and glass doors because the lights were still on. Police allege that the person “observed and had video of Ms. Cheng and Ms. Dixon” using plastic sex toys while engaging in intercourse on the altar with Clark, who was still partially wearing his priestly attire.

Military dogs can scout ahead for explosives and other hazards, but need instructions. The goggles are designed to let their handlers direct them, safely out of harm's way.

Climate change is taking a toll on woodlands in the Northeast. Environmental Racism Many arborists say they are spending more time taking down dead or unhealthy trees than ever before. Many arborists say they are spending more time taking down dead or unhealthy trees than ever before. SKIP TO CONTENTSKIP TO SITE INDEX New England’s Forests Are Sick. They Need More Tree Doctors. Climate change is taking a toll on woodlands in the Northeast. By Marguerite HollowayPhotographs by George Etheredge Marguerite Holloway and George Etheredge traveled to western Massachusetts to see how the warming planet is stressing trees and forests. Oct. 7, 2020 258 Bear and Melissa LeVangie spent much of their childhood aloft, in a then-forested area of Massachusetts. “Our mother would say, I don’t want to see you until it is dark,” said Bear LeVangie. “We would climb an 80-foot — it seemed like a 100-foot then — white pine and hang out and not think twice about it.” The twins still spend much of their time in and around trees: Both are arborists, which is akin to being tree doctors. Both are seeing a surge in demand for arborists because the region’s trees are faring so poorly. “I would never have anticipated how fast things are declining,” said Melissa LeVangie, who works for Shelter Tree, a tree care supply company, and is tree warden, or caretaker, for the town of Petersham in central Massachusetts. As climate change accelerates, the trees in the Eastern forests of the United States are increasingly vulnerable. For many arborists, the challenges facing trees are reshaping and expanding the nature of their work. Many said they are spending more time on tree removal than ever before — taking down dead or unhealthy trees, or trees damaged or felled by storms.

t was still the fly’s fifteen minutes when, into the Twitter storm of Emily Dickinson-meets-Mike Pence jokes (“I heard a fly buzz—when I lied—”), there interposed the news from Stockholm: Louise Glück had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Right on cue, you saw the limits of the written word. I tweeted, “whhhhhaaaaaatttttt.” Others whose life calling it is to manage language were similarly eloquent. The novelist Brandon Taylor wrote “oh. my. fucking. god. oh my god. ohhhhh my god.” There were multiple context-free “holy shit” ’s. Tweets referred to, but couldn’t embody, the emotions: several writers reported that they were crying. My own emotions hadn’t arrived yet at whatever their final form would be. (They still haven’t.) I ran into our front yard to attempt to hail my wife’s car as she and my two sons headed out of the driveway, on the way to the bus. I was too late. I shouldn’t have stopped to pull on pants. The reasons for the widespread joy are both simple and deep. Simple, because Louise Glück is a great writer who deserves the prize. Her work is thrilling and surprising; it’s both intimate and grand; she appeals to people who read only poetry and to people who read almost no poetry. It is various enough to appeal to all temperaments, often in the same poem: here is a line for the skeptic, here’s one for the pushover. If you want to know what it’s like to fall in love, to have an abortion, to have a child, to be seriously ill, to get divorced, to shop for cheese, to weed, to plant, to grieve for your parents and teachers: you can find it in Glück’s work. Her poems are anathema to easy comfort, and often seem to ban or forbid the going and conventional emotional logic. And yet people read them to know the contours of their own inner lives.

DETROIT (AP) — Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch Whitmer at her vacation home. Six men were charged in federal court, while seven others accused of trying to target police and the state Capitol were charged in state court.

Elite politicians invoke the rhetoric of national emergency only to behave like hapless passengers trapped aboard a sinking ship.

After testing positive for the virus last week, President Trump called an experimental antibody cocktail that he had been given a “cure.” It was developed with cells originally derived from fetal tissue, a practice his administration has moved to restrict.

OCT 8, 2020 - Two former detention officers and their supervisor were charged Monday after an investigation found inmates at the Oklahoma County jail were forced to listen to the popular children's song, "Baby Shark," on a loop at loud volumes for extended periods of time. At least four inmates were subjected to the "inhuman" discipline in an attorney visitation room of the jail last November and December, according to the charge. The inmates were forced to stand the entire time, hands cuffed behind them and secured to the wall, the investigation found. Charged were Gregory Cornell Butler Jr., 21, of Edmond; Christian Charles Miles, 21, of Oklahoma City; and Christopher Raymond Hendershott, 50, of Wellston.

Verma said that the goal of the programs were to help improve the health of able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries. “We saw the data that people engaged in work have better health outcomes,” she said. “When we talk about social determinants of health, just giving somebody a Medicaid card isn’t going to solve their problems.” But opponents of the program say that the requirements will cause beneficiaries to inadvertently lose Medicaid coverage and that most of the people on Medicaid are already working.

Trump campaign adviser Harlan Hill will no longer be allowed on Fox News after tweeting during the vice presidential debate Wednesday night that Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) is an “insufferable lying bitch.” “Kamala Harris comes off as such an insufferable lying bitch. Sorry, it’s just true,” tweeted Hill, an Advisory Board Member on the Trump campaign and occasional guest on Fox News.

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