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Saturday, October 31, 2020
Week In The News: Election Latest, Coronavirus, Supreme Court And More (On Point)
Campaigns make their last stand. The Supreme Court weighs in on ballot deadlines. Coronavirus numbers skyrocket. We make sense of the week's news.
The News Roundup — Domestic (The 1A) 2020-10-30
On the weekend before Election Day, some 75 million Americans have cast their ballots in the presidential election during the early voting period, a figure equal to half the total number of voters in the whole of the 2016 presidential election.
New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio is urging his city’s residents to stay put for the holidays to slow the spread of coronavirus as the nation’s COVID-19 levels surge to their highest since the start of the pandemic.
After conflict concerning her nomination just before the presidential election, Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court and sworn in. Her ascendance to the highest court in the land could spell trouble for progressive and Democratic causes.
After conflict concerning her nomination just before the presidential election, Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court and sworn in. Her ascendance to the highest court in the land could spell trouble for progressive and Democratic causes.
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The News Roundup — International (The 1A) 2020-10-30
Three people were killed in a knife attack in a church in the French city of Nice in what authorities described as an act of “Islamist terror.” Now, thousands of members of the country’s anti-terror security force have been deployed.
As Canada’s coronavirus case numbers rise, officials in the country are linking Canadian Thanksgiving gatherings with a spike in the COVID-19 infection rate. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned that gatherings over Christmas may be in jeopardy if these trends continue.
Last weekend, Chileans voted overwhelmingly to write their country a new constitution. A rewrite of the constitution, which dates back to the legacy of brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, was a central demand for over a million protesters in Santiago last fall.
Last weekend, Chileans voted overwhelmingly to write their country a new constitution. A rewrite of the constitution, which dates back to the legacy of brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, was a central demand for over a million protesters in Santiago last fall.
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“One last ride on the pollercoaster.” (Pod Save America Podcast)
The Trump-McConnell Supreme Court gets involved in the election, and the results of the final Crooked Media/Change Research Pollercoaster series show Biden in the lead and Trump voters in a Fox News bubble. Then TargetSmart CEO Tom Bonier talks to Jon about the most promising trends in the early vote data.
Interview:
How Armed Militia Groups Are Preparing For After The Election (The 1A)
The report provides fresh evidence that while there is an extremist threat to public safety, it’s coming from the right and not the left. Trump’s denunciations of antifa, which have been picked up by other Republicans and some Democrats, are a smokescreen. Far-right militias are more active, and more dangerous, and they’re growing at a disturbing clip. In Trump, many see a champion.
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Americans have bought record 17m guns in year of unrest, analysis finds
Americans have bought nearly 17m guns so far in 2020, more than in any other single year, according to estimates from a firearms analytics company.
Gun sales across the United States first jumped in the spring, driven by fears about the coronavirus pandemic, and spiked even higher in the summer, during massive racial justice protests across the country, prompted by police killings of black Americans.....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/coronavirus-pandemic-americans-gun-sales
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/coronavirus-pandemic-americans-gun-sales
The Anatomy Of An Election Disinformation Campaign (On Point)
The anatomy of a disinformation campaign. How does a bad faith post get mistaken for the truth? We talk about how the tentacles of disinformation reach into millions of homes.
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‘Profit over death’: millions of American diabetics struggle to afford insulin
...Trump claimed the orders will cut the price of insulin to "pennies a day" without acknowledging the limited scope of his orders, as diabetics are still struggling to afford insulin as costs remain high. During the first presidential debate, Trump falsely claimed his orders lowered insulin costs "so cheap, it's like water"...
Internal Documents Reveal COVID-19 Hospitalization Data The Government Keeps Hidden
... Withholding this information from the public and the research community is a missed opportunity to help prevent outbreaks and even save lives, say public health and data experts who reviewed the documents for NPR.
"At this point, I think it's reckless. It's endangering people," says Ryan Panchadsaram, co-founder of the website COVID Exit Strategy and a former data official in the Obama administration. "We're now in the third wave, and I think our only way out is really open, transparent and actionable information."...
Here's what happened when NBC News tried to report on the alleged Hunter Biden emails
Analysis: Trump complains the media isn't reporting on Hunter Biden's emails. But NBC News met obstacles, including Rudy Giuliani, when it tried.
Five days before the election, a federal court moves Minnesota’s mail-in ballot deadline up a full week.
A federal appeals court invalidated Minnesota’s mail-in voting procedure Thursday evening, ruling that mail-in votes had to be received by the close of polls on Election Day, not simply postmarked by then, in order to be counted....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/federal-court-minnesota-mail-in-absentee-ballot-deadline-count-moved.html
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/federal-court-minnesota-mail-in-absentee-ballot-deadline-count-moved.html
Citing Widespread Election-Related Delays, Federal Judge Invokes 'Extraordinary Measures' to Ensure On-Time Delivery, Counting of Ballots | Common Dreams News
...While postal workers have tried to keep up with deliveries, the sheer number of early ballots cast, as well as what critics call politically motivated delays caused by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, have resulted in major issues affecting delivery times...
Governance Experts Assail White House Effort to Strip Federal Employees of Rights - Government Executive
..."This executive order is nothing more than propaganda intended to further the message that career federal workers are corrupt and not dedicated to serving all Americans equally," he said. "The administration's endorsement of this philosophy plays directly into the hands of our adversaries who seek to foment civil unrest and undermine the foundation of our democracy . . . With this order, there is no longer an independent civil service. This is how the party-run governments of authoritarian-led countries are organized and staffed."...
Trump’s Order Sets the Stage for Loyalty Tests for Thousands of Feds - Government Executive
…"This is an aggressive effort to uproot the traditions of a highly skilled and politically impartial public service that have made the country great for more than a century. It is a bold effort to shift the constitutional balance of power, to weaken Congress, and to push aside the public's right to participate in the process that shapes the regulations affecting them"...
Trump Spins ER Statistic to Claim U.S. Is in 'Great Shape' on COVID-19 - FactCheck.org
... At recent campaign rallies, President Donald Trump has made the misleading boast that the U.S. is in "great shape" because 97% of emergency room visits were for something other than COVID-19...
Trump Baslessly Accuses Doctors Of Overreporting Covid Deaths For Financial Gain
"On behalf of the nation's emergency physicians, ACEP is appalled by President Trump's reckless and false assertions that physicians are overcounting deaths related to COVID-19," the American College of Emergency Physicians said in a statement. "Emergency physicians and other health care workers have risked their lives day in and day out for almost a year battling the greatest public health crisis in a generation—all while watching countless patients die alone, going to work without sufficient protection equipment, and struggling with crushing anxiety about getting sick or spreading the virus to their loved ones."
Friday, October 30, 2020
Protecting land and animals will mitigate future pandemics, report says
"The science is not in dispute at all about this. Deforestation is a prime driver of pandemics," says Lee Hannah, a climate scientist for Conservation International who specializes in the effects of forest loss.....
Nearly 1,000 instances of police brutality recorded in US anti-racism protests
...Tabatha Abu El-Haj, a professor of law at Drexel University in Philadelphia and an expert on the first amendment and the right of peaceable assembly, said unlawful assembly laws have been misused at protests over the past decade – something which "absolutely" could infringe protesters' civil rights...
EPA limits enforcement of pesticide application boundaries | TheHill
...Advocates have raised concerns about the potential impact on particularly vulnerable populations, who may have difficulty seeking health care.
"This is not by any means improving enforceability, what it is, is it's weakening protections for farmworkers," said Amy Liebman, the director of the Migrant Clinicians Network, which aims to help clinicians provide care for migrants.......
Here’s how Trump could flee the country if he loses the election — and continue sowing political chaos – Raw Story
"Hunkered down in a foreign country willing to provide sanctuary, he could conceivably style himself a 'president in exile' and incite his die-hard American followers to resist the election results," Zwack wrote. "A degree of domestic upheaval and dangerous division would linger for an extended period until the new administration is able to foster calm and unity."...
Facebook Set Its Advertisting Prices Higher for Biden Campaign Than for Team Trump, Report Says
Facebook reportedly charged Democratic candidate Joe Biden an average of $2.50 more for each 1,000 impressions on campaign advertisements featured on the social media platform in comparison to the price for President Donald Trump, according to The Markup. In swing states between July and August, Biden paid more than double than Trump did to feature his advertisements. In September, Trump’s lower prices ended and both campaigns paid about the same. In October, Biden paid a little bit less than Trump. However, had Biden paid Trump’s average for Facebook’s advertising prices throughout this election season, he would have had to spend $8 million less than he actually did....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-set-its-advertisting-prices-higher-for-biden-campaign-than-for-team-trump-report-says
https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-set-its-advertisting-prices-higher-for-biden-campaign-than-for-team-trump-report-says
Trump is losing ground in states like Wisconsin where Covid-19 is surging, polls show - Vox
... Days before the election, Trump is still lying about the reality of the pandemic. "We're rounding the turn," he said at an October 25 rally in Lumberton, North Carolina. "Our numbers are incredible."
Biden has cast himself as the candidate who will help America rebuild. There's no overstating the size of the challenge the former vice president faces in doing that — but he's the candidate who is owning up to the scale of the problem, said Shannon Monnat, professor and co-director of the Policy, Place, and Population Health Lab at Syracuse University...:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/67709646/1280019575.0.jpg)
Tucker Carlson HUMILIATES himself as Hunter Biden “scandal” crumbles on air
BREAKING: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson just HUMILIATED himself as the Hunter Biden “scandal” crumbled on air.
https://youtu.be/qLZ4xbdP768
https://youtu.be/qLZ4xbdP768
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Trump campaign event use of Marine Corps helicopter raises ethics questions | TheHill
President Trump’s reelection campaign used a Marine Corps helicopter to hover over a large crowd of cheering supporters, raising questions about the ethics of using the military aircraft for such purposes.
Trump early on Wednesday tweeted a video of the helicopter, which was emblazoned with the Marine Corps’ Helicopter Squadron One green and white paint design.....
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/523238-trump-campaign-event-use-of-marine-corps-helicopter-raises-ethics-questions
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/523238-trump-campaign-event-use-of-marine-corps-helicopter-raises-ethics-questions
Lawsuit claims census supervisors pressured workers to falsify data | TheHill
... The lawsuit, filed in San Jose by the National Urban League, claims that this was done in order to end the census early and have the numbers processed while Trump is still in office. The AP notes that this would allow the Trump administration to exclude undocumented immigrants when congressional seats are portioned out, to enforce a presidential order...
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country 'back from the doctors' - CNNPolitics
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the unfolding coronavirus pandemic, comments that came as more than 40,000 Americans already had died from the virus, which was ravaging New York City. 
In a taped interview on April 18, Kushner told legendary journalist Bob Woodward that Trump was "getting the country back from the doctors" in what he called a "negotiated settlement." Kushner also proclaimed that the US was moving swiftly through the "panic phase" and "pain phase" of the pandemic and that the country was at the "beginning of the comeback phase."
"That doesn't mean there's not still a lot of pain and there won't be pain for a while, but that basically was, we've now put out rules to get back to work," Kushner said. "Trump's now back in charge. It's not the doctors."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/woodward-kushner-coronavirus-doctors/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/woodward-kushner-coronavirus-doctors/index.html
Where China Stands on the U.S. Presidential Election | Time
"Many ordinary Chinese people want Trump to win, because they think Trump has destroyed the American system and its alliances," says Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs at Renmin University in Beijing. "So if Trump continues to do that, there may be opportunities for China."
This is still happening: Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric, the Trump children.
A roundup of Trump administration malfeasance, part 12.
'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find
...High levels of the potent greenhouse gas have been detected down to a depth of 350 metres in the Laptev Sea near Russia, prompting concern among researchers that a new climate feedback loop may have been triggered that could accelerate the pace of global heating...
‘Bills or food’: crisis mounts for unemployed Americans
"I'm personally having a really hard time with this feeling like we let our kids down," she said. "We have had Department of Children and Families reports made because of our homeless status. We also have been given no assistance with food or utilities forcing me to make a choice of bills or food."
Black woman shot by police says officers ‘allowed her boyfriend to die’
The video is particularly important because the version of events given by police appears to contradict the version Williams's mother, Clifftina Johnson, gave after she visited her daughter in the hospital. Johnson has said her daughter told her she and Stinnette did nothing to provoke the officer.....
How America Became a Country Full of Assholes
"The asshole, as I define it, is the guy who allows himself special advantages in cooperative life out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people." In other words, he's the individual—generally male, although as John Cleese candidly admits, his mother probably was one too—who thinks the general rules don't apply to them because they're somehow smarter, better, or more special than their fellow citizens.
Cruel
545 children will never see their parents again.
It’s intentional. It’s cruel.....
https://youtu.be/1bVqWcuGpk0
https://youtu.be/1bVqWcuGpk0
President Trump’s stock market: Dow Jones opens down again - The Washington Post
...Moody's Analytics estimated stronger GDP growth under Biden's economic plans than Trump's. Other financial analysts have pointed out that Trump's term in office has been punctuated by erratic swings in the market, dropping dramatically during the 2018 government showdown and again when trade tensions flared in the summer of 2019. About half of all Americans own no stock at all, including retirement accounts such as 401(k) plans...
Conservative Pastor Says Trump Proves Christians Are Immune to COVID
Conservative televangelist Kenneth Copeland has claimed that President Donald Trump's recovery from COVID-19 is proof that Christians are immune from the deadly virus.
Copeland made the inaccurate and dangerous remarks while appearing on the Victory Channel's America Stands: FlashPoint on Tuesday.....
https://www.newsweek.com/kenneth-copeland-trump-christians-immune-covid-trump-1542913
https://www.newsweek.com/kenneth-copeland-trump-christians-immune-covid-trump-1542913
Miracles at the Crucifixion of Christ (Genesis Apologetics response)(Paulogia #30)
The Bible records five miraculous events occurred at the Crucifixion of Christ: 3 hours of darkness, an earthquake, the temple veil tearing in half, graves opening and the dead being raised to life, and the conversion of the Roman Centurion and his guards.
Did they occur, or was they perhaps meant as portents... a literary device by the gospel writers? What's the evidence?
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The Power of Compassion: A Conversation with James R. Doty (Sam Harris, Making Sense podcast #219)
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with James R. Doty about his memoir Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart. They discuss the significance of childhood stress, the possibility of changing one’s core beliefs about oneself, the relationship between surgeons and their patients, the nature of compassion, the Dalai Lama, the relationship between wealth and empathy, the worsening problem of social inequality, the physiology of compassion, the broken healthcare system in the U.S., and other topics.
James R. Doty is a clinical professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University School of Medicine.
As director of CCARE, Dr. Doty has collaborated on a number of research projects focused on compassion and altruism including the use of neuro-economic models to assess altruism, use of the CCARE-developed compassion cultivation training in individuals and its effect, assessment of compassionate and altruistic judgment utilizing implanted brain electrodes and the use of optogenetic techniques to assess nurturing pathways in rodents. Presently, he is developing collaborative research projects to assess the effect of compassion training on immunologic and other physiologic determinants of health, the use of mentoring as a method of instilling compassion in students and the use of compassion training to decrease pain.
Dr. Doty is also an inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist having given support to a number of charitable organizations including Children as the Peacemakers, Global Healing, the Pachamama Alliance and Family & Children Services of Silicon Valley. He is on the Board of Directors of a number of non-profit foundations including the Dalai Lama Foundation, of which he is chairman and the Charter for Compassion International of which he is vice-chair. He is also on the International Advisory Board of the Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions. He also writes for The Huffington Post.
Interview: As director of CCARE, Dr. Doty has collaborated on a number of research projects focused on compassion and altruism including the use of neuro-economic models to assess altruism, use of the CCARE-developed compassion cultivation training in individuals and its effect, assessment of compassionate and altruistic judgment utilizing implanted brain electrodes and the use of optogenetic techniques to assess nurturing pathways in rodents. Presently, he is developing collaborative research projects to assess the effect of compassion training on immunologic and other physiologic determinants of health, the use of mentoring as a method of instilling compassion in students and the use of compassion training to decrease pain.
Dr. Doty is also an inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist having given support to a number of charitable organizations including Children as the Peacemakers, Global Healing, the Pachamama Alliance and Family & Children Services of Silicon Valley. He is on the Board of Directors of a number of non-profit foundations including the Dalai Lama Foundation, of which he is chairman and the Charter for Compassion International of which he is vice-chair. He is also on the International Advisory Board of the Council for the Parliament of the World’s Religions. He also writes for The Huffington Post.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Joe Biden looks like a safe pair of hands for the US economy
The last five recessions, including the current one, all started while a Republican was in the White House.
America's protest crackdown: five months after George Floyd, hundreds face trials and prison
Lee Percy Christian III didn’t think Arizona law enforcement could stop him from protesting – until they locked him up indefinitely.
Earlier this month, Christian, 27, was arrested for “unlawful assembly” after a Black Lives Matter protest in Phoenix and jailed without bond because of outstanding charges from previous demonstrations. Prosecutors later suggested bond be set at $100,000. Christian’s lawyers and a judge agreed he could be released on a lower bond – if he didn’t participate in future public protests.
Christian was mortified, but agreed to sign away his right to protests so he could leave jail – he had spent nine days locked up. “I’m guilty until proven innocent,” he said recently on the phone. “We’re in a police state, and the last thing the police want is for me to be out there using my voice.”....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/27/americas-protest-crackdown-five-months-after-george-floyd-hundreds-face-trials-and-prison
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/27/americas-protest-crackdown-five-months-after-george-floyd-hundreds-face-trials-and-prison
US evangelical group takes legal action against UK venues | Evangelical Christianity | The Guardian
...Peter Tatchell, the LGBT rights campaigner, told openDemocracy: "US evangelicals, funded by secret donors, are exporting homophobia around the world … When they say they are defending religious freedom, what they are really defending is the right of religious people to discriminate against LGBTs."...
GOP former prosecutors blast Trump, endorse Biden - The Washington Post
... "The President has clearly conveyed that he expects his Justice Department appointees and prosecutors to serve his personal and political interests," said the former prosecutors in an open letter. They accused Trump of taking "action against those who have stood up for the interests of justice."...
Self-Identified Racist in Arizona Arrested, Fired for Telling Black YouTuber, ‘This Is a No N---er Zone’
A man in Arizona who hurled racial slurs at a Black YouTuber filming a video has been arrested and fired. “I’m a racist. I’m a racist,” Paul Ng, formerly a real estate agent with Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, says in the video, filmed Friday. “You know what? We’ve had problems here... This is a no n---er zone.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/self-identified-racist-in-arizona-arrested-fired-for-telling-black-youtuber-this-is-a-no-n-er-zone
https://www.thedailybeast.com/self-identified-racist-in-arizona-arrested-fired-for-telling-black-youtuber-this-is-a-no-n-er-zone
As college grads flee the GOP, political ‘diploma divide’ grows - CSMonitor.com
Four years ago, Donald Trump’s path to the White House ran through Rust Belt states with higher-than-average numbers of white voters without college degrees.
That strategy paid off, seeding a narrative of a working-class revolt from the right led by a billionaire Republican, who is seeking to turn out those voters again on Nov. 3.
But what also happened in 2016 now looks arguably more significant: College-educated voters, who once leaned Republican, swung hard to the Democrats, including voters in suburban districts who then helped flip the House of Representatives in 2018.....
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/1027/As-college-grads-flee-the-GOP-political-diploma-divide-grows
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2020/1027/As-college-grads-flee-the-GOP-political-diploma-divide-grows
White House Declares Pandemic Over As It Cites Renowned Scientist Ivanka Trump | HuffPost
The Trump administration triumphantly declared victory over the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, one week before the 2020 election and with COVID-19 cases surging across the country.
The lie came in a news release on a new 62-page report from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy listing what it claims are the scientific and technological accomplishments during President Donald Trump’s first term. The list includes, “ENDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.”
“From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration has taken decisive actions to engage scientists and health professionals in academia, industry, and government to understand, treat, and defeat the disease,” the release states.
The absolutely bonkers threat Donald Trump made this week - CNNPolitics
"I'll remember it, Tom. I'm gonna remember it, Tom. 'Hello, Mr. President, this is Governor Wolf, I need help, I need help.' You know what? These people are bad." 
Let's be very clear what Trump is doing here: He is threatening to withhold federal aid -- or some sort of other assistance -- the next time Pennsylvania needs it because the state's governor, according to the President, made it difficult to find a site to hold a campaign rally. Yes, really...
This Addiction Treatment Works. Why Is It So Underused? - The New York Times
An approach called contingency management rewards drug users with money and prizes for staying abstinent. But few programs offer it, in part because of moral objections to the concept.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/health/meth-addiction-treatment.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/health/meth-addiction-treatment.html
NYT bombshell reveals banks forgave $287 million in debt Trump failed to repay – and he never paid taxes on it – Raw Story
Over the past decade banks have forgiven about $287 million in loans from Donald Trump, after he failed to repay the debts. Not only did Trump benefit from banks approach to his failing businesses, a New York Times bombshell report reveals, but it appears the President failed to pay taxes on the forgiven loans, which the IRS sees as income.....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/nyt-bombshell-reveals-banks-forgave-287-million-in-debt-trump-failed-to-repay-and-he-never-paid-taxes-on-it/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/nyt-bombshell-reveals-banks-forgave-287-million-in-debt-trump-failed-to-repay-and-he-never-paid-taxes-on-it/
DOJ faces new questions about accuracy of Flynn filings - POLITICO
The Justice Department is already facing sharp questions from a judge about altering sensitive documents in the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Now, two lawyers connected to the case say DOJ has made new mischaracterizations in its attempt to clean up the mess.
The department claimed late Monday that it had consulted with lawyers for former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe and former FBI agent Peter Strzok and confirmed that two sets of handwritten notes — key evidence in Flynn’s case — were valid and free of any alterations.
But correspondence between the two attorneys and DOJ reveal that neither vouched for the accuracy of the documents....
Election 2020: 89 articles to teach you about how American elections really work
In a world transformed by a pandemic, few of the fundamentals in Americans’ lives – schools, jobs, even how to shop for groceries – have remained the same. The same is true with the election, where the most basic of the institution’s elements – how, where and when to vote, among them – have changed.
When The Conversation US’s politics editors met to figure out how to provide readers with coverage that would be useful and informative, the approach was clear: a civics lesson. Over the course of roughly 100 articles, our scholars have explained how the U.S. election system works, retold the history of how it got that way and examined what effects and significance those mechanisms have for the nation today.
Here, our team has collected all of these articles, divided thematically, from the very beginning of campaigning through what happens after Election Day itself.
De-escalation training for police gains new prominence - The Washington Post
When the dispatch came out, all Officer Thaddeus Hines knew was that there was a person having a “mental crisis” and “possibly armed with a knife,” two elements that will make any cop’s heart race.
Hines, 24, walked up to the ramshackle boardinghouse and gently knocked. The police officer for Burlington in North Carolina was directed to a back bedroom, where he stopped at an open doorway to see a woman sitting cross-legged on a bare mattress, shrieking at him to leave. A 13-inch knife sat inches from her right hand.
“I have been on cocaine and I’m suicidal,” the woman yelled. “I’m feeling no pain. I’m at the point where I don’t know what to do anymore.”
“Will you let me help you?” Hines asked without raising his voice.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/deescalation-training-police/2020/10/27/3a345830-14a8-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/deescalation-training-police/2020/10/27/3a345830-14a8-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html
Trump’s company billed the government at least $2.5 million. Here are the key charges. - The Washington Post
The Washington Post has obtained federal spending records showing that — while Trump was visiting his properties — his company was benefiting from payments from the U.S. government.
The total: at least $2.5 million in taxpayer funds. Much of that spending was triggered by Trump’s travel, or the travel of his family and aides.
These were some of the notable charges:
E. Jean Carroll lawsuit: Judge rejects Justice Dept. bid to defend Trump in defamation case - The Washington Post
A federal judge Tuesday rejected the Justice Department’s bid to make the U.S. government the defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says President Trump raped her decades ago, paving the way for the case to again proceed.
In a 59-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote that Trump did not qualify as a government “employee” under federal law, nor was he acting “within the scope of his employment” when he denied during interviews in 2019 that he had raped journalist E. Jean Carroll in a Manhattan department store during the 1990s.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/jean-carroll-trump-justice-department/2020/10/27/f00541b0-1859-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/jean-carroll-trump-justice-department/2020/10/27/f00541b0-1859-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html
Trump has emboldened Christian nationalists and sparked a rise in Patriot Churches - The Washington Post
The new congregation is gathered in a barn in Lenoir City, Tenn., with a roof that has a 60-foot American flag painted on it. And they are praying for a Trump landslide.
Standing in a circle, the dozen or so men and women, young and old, lay their hands on their pastor, Ken Peters, as he raises their requests to God.
He prays that “communism and socialism and transgenderism and homosexuality and abortion will not have their way in this land.”....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/10/26/trump-christian-nationalism-patriot-church/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/10/26/trump-christian-nationalism-patriot-church/
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