Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter Activists, medical professionals and members of the community in Chicago have warned that the closure of Mercy Hospital – the city’s oldest healthcare facility, and one of its oldest – is likely to lead to a sharp rise in ethnic health issues …
Read More »Gail Gadot as Cleopatra is a step back for the Hollywood release of the film
CLeopatra is once again taking on the big screen treatment, this time courtesy of Wonder Woman director Patti Jenkins and the DC heroine herself, Gail Gadot. But even with a female director and female screenwriter in Ladeta Klagridis, the role of an Israeli actor with Ashkenazi Jewish heritage as Egypt’s …
Read More »Jacob Blake: Father refuses to ‘politicize my son’s life’ amid fuss over Trump visit | US News
The father of Jacob Blake, a man shot by police in Kesosha, Wisconsin, said Monday that the family had received threats and that he had refused to play politics with my son’s life amid tensions over Donald Trump’s planned visit to the city. On tuesday. Jacob Black Sr., the father …
Read More »A contested election, a constitutional crisis, polarization … welcome to 1876 | American news
INs Donald Trump warns wrongly about voter fraud and polls show that the unpopular president remains within touching distance of Democrat Joe Biden, the prospect of an unresolved U.S. election hits terribly close, especially since the impact of the coronavirus is widely seen as likely a result delayed by days, …
Read More »Chain reaction: Michelle Obama’s ‘mood’ chain goes viral | Fashion
Tthrough the powerful 18-minute virtual Democratic National Convention of Michelle Obama. One message was clear: VOTE, spelled not only by her evisceration of Donald Trump, but also by the letters of her necklace. “Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, as our lives depend on it,” Obama said as he …
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