Month: September 2020

Last weekend marked an Amsterdam Fashion Week like no other. Planning for the Spring/Summer 2021 edition began all the way back in March in preparation for inevitable corona safety measures that needed to be taken. The result: a Dutch fashion week with time slot appointments, distanced presentations, catwalk shows, films and live streams. Below are…

FIA race director Michael Masi addressed a clear warning to drivers who indulge in backing-up tactics in qualifying, insisting the practice will not be tolerated around Turns 12 and 13 at Sochi. In recent races, and especially at Monza, several drivers resorted to dramatically slowing down to give themselves the space required for a practice…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE explained to supporters in a campaign fundraising email Tuesday that he decided against attending this weekend’s White House…

A long-shot Democratic candidate is ending his bid in Mississippi’s special Senate election, giving hope to a party that sees a unified front as its best chance at pulling off a miracle in November. Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton announced Tuesday that he would step aside, leaving former Rep. Mike Espy the lone Democrat in the race. ADVERTISEMENT “The…

A group backed by former U.S. Attorney General Eric HolderEric Himpton HolderTrump official criticizes ex-Clinton spokesman over defunding police tweet Obama to speak about George Floyd in virtual town hall GOP group launches redistricting site MORE is fighting for additional majority-black congressional districts in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana according to three new lawsuits filed Wednesday. The National Redistricting…

Christine Collins’ brother Peter tested positive for COVID-19 less than a month after he was transferred from a hospital to Carlingview Manor in Ottawa. He was supposed to be in isolation upon arriving at the long-term care home, but on the dementia floor where he lived, residents wandered around without distancing, she said.  The home,…

Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was pilloried overnight and into Sunday morning after posting a tweet on Saturday—one he later deleted—bragging about the $1.50 per week a public school employee was “pleasantly surprised” to find in her paycheck following the passage of last year’s tax cuts which gave the nation’s corporations and richest…

Billionaire Betsy DeVos spent her first year in charge of the Trump Education Department making it easier for predatory for-profit colleges to defraud students, undermining her department’s central civil rights provisions, and repeatedly demonstrating her disdain for public education. “DeVos’s attacks on public schools and underserved students show us a clueless, out-of-touch Secretary of Education.”…

Bolstering recent warnings about the dangers of giving guns to teachers—a proposal touted by the gun lobby as well as President Donald Trump and other Republicans following the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month—a high school teacher and reserve cop in California accidentally fired a weapon in his classroom this week, injuring three…

On the fourth day of a teachers’ strike which has kept hundreds of thousands of students out of school this week, educators from across Oklahoma warned lawmakers that they have no plans to end the walkout until the State House and Senate approve a funding increase for schools—to make up for a decade in which…