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America’s top news continues to touch on the upcoming election. The Friday night news dump was about the United States Postal Service. Postmaster Gener…
Heather Cox Richardson
17 hr 79
FOLKS, I LOST POWER LAST NIGHT JUST AS I WENT TO POST THIS AT ALMOST EXACTLY 3:00 AM. FRUSTRATING TIMING. SORRY FOR THE DELAY.
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 7 147
Trump dominated the news today, which is usually a sign of negative news stories and his need to create distractions from them. There were certainly ne…
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 6 119
Today, the major domestic news was last night’s Axios interview, in which reporter Jonathan Swan challenged Trump’s assertions and revealed just how sh…
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 5 89
Both the administration’s disastrous response to the coronavirus and looming legal troubles are putting pressure on the president. Yesterday, Dr. Debor…
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 4 119
Today's most important story comes from Dr. Deborah Birx, the doctor advising the White House on the coronavirus. She warns that we are entering a “new…
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 3 100
Question #8So… it is August. We are in the midst of a deadly pandemic. The Republican Senate has so far declined to provide more federal relief for the 31.…
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 2 997
There are many things I would like to write about, but they will have to wait. There were too many nights lately that ended up as mornings, and I canno…
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 2 105
Everything now coming from the White House is about Trump’s reelection. While all presidential candidates want to win, they are usually able to accept …
Heather Cox Richardson
Aug 1 90
Today juxtaposed the worst of America and its best. The day began with the news that, as bad as we expected the second-quarter’s economic news to be, i…
Heather Cox Richardson
Jul 31 81
Today, America passed 150,000 deaths from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Covid-19. America has suffered more than a fifth of the world’s …
Heather Cox Richardson
Jul 30 126
Attorney General William Barr testified today before the House Judiciary Committee. His combative answers confirmed that he is Trump’s man. He is commi…
Heather Cox Richardson
Jul 29 112
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