The service member was assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolution, the United States-led military coalition fighting against ISIS, according to the statement. The statement did not identify the service member, noting that it was standard policy “to defer victim identification procedures to relevant national authorities …
Read More »Fact check: In his first coronavirus briefing since April, Trump repeats a handful of classic false claims
Trump, reading the prepared comments, acknowledged a “troubling increase” in cases in the South (he had previously ruled out the sharp increase as mere evidence of how many people are being evaluated) and said the situation will worsen before it improves (he previously he had already stated in June that …
Read More »Michael Brooks, popular political commentator, died at age 37.
Popular political commentator Michael Brooks, who featured “The Michael Brooks Show” and “The Majority Report,” died suddenly of an undisclosed medical condition at age 37. “It is with great regret that we announce the unexpected death of Michael Brooks: a son, brother, friend and true companion to many, due to …
Read More »Republicans and the White House split over the stimulus proposal: “I’m not a no, I’m hell no”
With less than three weeks to go before the August recess, and with the virus still ravaging many corners of the country, Tuesday’s negotiations marked little progress and instead turned into a day of ventilation sessions for base members, each with their own idea of how to approach the next …
Read More »Trump at the briefing says the Covid crisis “will unfortunately likely get worse before it gets better”
The late-afternoon appearance of the president in the White House meeting room was designed to project a more dominant role for Trump, who was largely absent in discussing the health crisis that is ravaging the country and has seen it fall. their poll numbers as a result. In a press …
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