Friday, July 31, 2020

And another day of plans, errors, inconsistencies, children’s camp, school videos, unsealed documents, genocide, political distancing, a “secretive clique,” an old guy wanting to ban TikTok, a digital Dark Ages, and Tucker Carlson is not “News” comes to a close:

“Very few people can afford to be poor.” -- George Bernard Shaw

Deaths

US: 156,747 (+1462)

World: 682,998 (+6239)

Cases

US: 4,705,889 (+70,904)

World: 17,757,501 (+282,810)

Countdown: 95 days.

How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”. Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration abruptly required hospitals to stop reporting COVID-19 data to the CDC—and to use a new online system instead. But that new system has proven to be rife with errors and inconsistent updates, data analysts say.

Some 260 cases of the coronavirus have been tied to attendees and staff at a North Georgia YMCA children’s camp in June, according to a report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the largest known superspreading events in the state. The report details how COVID-19 spread rapidly among children and teens within the camp and raises questions about the effectiveness of safety protocols as school districts and colleges contemplate reopening for in-person instruction this fall.

More than 150,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. Here is that tragic story in figures. These are the key stats so far.

A Florida school district shared a video of its reopening. Some parents call it 'apocalyptic-y.'

House Democrats find administration overspent for ventilators by as much as $500 million. But internal emails and documents obtained by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee suggest that the Trump administration failed to enforce an existing contract with a major medical manufacturer, delayed negotiations for more than a month and subsequently overpaid as much as $500 million for tens of thousands of the devices — a costly error at a time when officials from some of the biggest states were warning of shortages.

Scientists have discovered why coronavirus causes some patients to lose their sense of smell.

Election officials say that it's more important to focus on accuracy than speed in counting results. A delay in counting mail ballots should be seen as a sign that officials are safeguarding against the fraud President Trump says he is worried about. — There’s no need for the country to know who won on election night. Put aside your instant gratification crap. 

Unsealed documents show Epstein, Maxwell correspondence in 2015. Attorneys for Maxwell have argued that she hadn’t had any contact with the accused sex trafficker for more than a decade.

Women in Xinjiang shine a light on a campaign of abuse and control by Beijing. For years, Uyghur women both inside Xinjiang and around the world have accused the Chinese government of a campaign of abuse, including forced sterilization, cultural indoctrination and incidents of sexual violence. It's part of a wider pattern of human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang, where authorities are accused of detaining up to two million Muslim-majority Uyghurs and other minority ethnic groups inside vast, fortified centers as part of efforts to enforce greater control over the region...”You don’t look like a human.” -- A genocide is occurring in China.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signals to Republican Senate candidates: Distance from President Trump if necessary. -- Oh no. You’re all complicit. There is no “distancing.” Vote every Republican out of office.

Fox lawyers admit Tucker Carlson doesn’t always tell the truth. “”Would a reasonable viewer be coming here [to ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’] and thinking, ‘This is where I’m going to be hearing the news of the day’?” Fox News attorney Erin Murphy asked in a hearing-via-telephone on Wednesday, according to reporter Frank G. Runyeons’s story at Law360.com. Did you get that? If you watch Carlson’s show and think it has anything to do with news, according to Murphy, you’re just not that bright....And in an earlier court filing, Murphy referred to “Tucker Carlson Tonight” as “hyperbolic opinion commentary,” not “sober factual reporting.” That’s not exactly a surprise — the only surprise is that Fox’s lawyers openly admitted that.”

Officers in Vallejo, California, bent badges to mark each fatal police killing, ex-captain says

Some officers involved in fatal shootings reportedly marked those incidents with backyard barbecues and were initiated into a "secretive clique."

As calls to remove Confederate monuments grew louder, states passed new laws to protect them.

Trump tells reporters he plans to ban TikTok as soon as Saturday. -- Well this should be fun to watch.

Ellen DeGeneres apologizes, says she's committed to ensuring workplace allegations "do not happen again".

The Dark Virality of a Hollywood Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy. A centuries-old anti-Semitic myth is spreading freely on far-right corners of social media—suggesting a new digital Dark Age has arrived. THE DARK AGES were rife with plague, fanaticism, and accusations that Jews secretly fed off the blood of children. In 2020, we too are beset with plague, rampant medical misinformation, and a persistent rumor that “global elites” torture children to harvest the chemical adrenochrome from their blood, which they then inject in order to stay healthy and young.

Australia is moving to impose sweeping new rules that would require Facebook and Google to pay media organizations for the use of their news content.

Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack that targeted high-profile accounts.

Twitter confirmed that it has permanently banned former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke for violating its policy against promoting violence.

Twitter is surveying users on what features they’d want from a subscription. — Um, security?

MLB commissioner warns of shutdown if coronavirus isn't better managed.

Football’s first fa’afafine: trans rights trailblazer Jaiyah Saelua on stardom and sisterhood. The first openly transgender woman and fa’afafine to compete in a Fifa World Cup qualifying match for men, she has become a global champion for the rights of transgender and fa’afafine athletes, and now - almost disbelievingly - finds her life portrayed in an upcoming Hollywood film, directed by Oscar winner Taika Waititi, to be released later this year.

Germany is banning single-use plastic straws, cotton buds and food containers.

RIP Alan Parker. He was 76.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

And another day of the worst GDP ever, how important it is to vote, desperate distractions, baseless accusations, possible post office closures, heart damage, cervical cancer screening, headed to Mars, and living in caves comes to a close:

“When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act.” -- John Lewis

Deaths

US: 155,285 (+1445)

World: 676,759 (+6559)

Cases

US: 4,634,985 (+66,948)

World: 17,474,691 (+288,764)

Countdown: 96 days.

The vote. It’s important. Here’s how to help make sure every last vote is counted, including yours. — Thanks to a friend on FB for sending this to me. 

Trump suggests delaying 2020 election. While states have the authority to delay their primary elections, only Congress can change the date for the general election for president.

Republicans openly challenge Trump's tweet on delaying election.

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s view of flawed election is baseless. President Donald Trump’s apocalyptic views of voting by mail are baseless, according to research into election fraud and the record. Despite that, he’s now floated the idea of delaying the election until it can be held “properly.”...“Trump is simply wrong about mail-in balloting raising a ‘tremendous’ potential for fraud,” Richard L. Hasen, an elections expert at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, wrote recently.

3 Months Of Hell: U.S. Economy Drops 32.9%, In Worst GDP Report Ever. — This is what he was using the “election delay” Tweet to distract from. 

The U.S. economy suffered its biggest blow since the Great Depression in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic shattered consumer and business spending.

Trump Floats Delaying The Election. It Would Require A Change In Law. Additionally, there is no nationwide turn to universal mail-in voting and as much as half of the electorate is still expected to cast ballots in person. While he draws a distinction between mail-in and absentee voting, there is essentially no difference.

Trump's real target is election's legitimacy.

Election results may be delayed — but not because of fraud. -- And no, we don’t need to know the winner on election night.

Joe Manchin and head of postal service union warn of possible post office closures. The U.S. Postal Service is considering closing post offices across the country, sparking concerns ahead of an anticipated surge of mail-in ballots in the 2020 elections, U.S. Sen Joe Manchin and a union leader said Wednesday. — All part of the plan. 

‘Now it is your turn’: John Lewis issues call to action in posthumous op-ed.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos argues against the need for national plan to reopen schools.

9 ways America is having the wrong conversation about 'reopening' schools. “2. When we pretend students are going to follow the safety guidelines.”...”4. When we imagine schools can make their programs COVID-safe without additional funding.”...”6. When we assume that the greatest threat to children’s mental health and well-being comes from staying home.”...”7. When we say that the entire U.S. economy depends on kids being in school buildings.” -- Good points in this article. Thank you to a friend of mine for posting this on FB. Now read the rest.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan described the deployment of federal agents to U.S. cities to quell gun violence "a dry run for martial law" and warned it could risk disenfranchising voters.

Michael Jordan donates $2.5 million to combat voter suppression. "There is a long history of oppression against Black Americans that holds us back from full participation in American society. We understand that one of the main ways we can change systemic racism is at the polls," Jordan said.

Surviving a COVID-19 ICU stay is just the start. We're ignoring what else it takes to recover. After the ICU, coronavirus patients need rehab facilities and staff to get them back to normal functioning, if they even can — the U.S. is short on both. -- This virus is not just about the number of deaths.

Herman Cain, a former presidential candidate, has died from coronavirus. As a co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, Cain was one of the surrogates at President Donald Trump's June 20 rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- which saw at least eight Trump advance team staffers in attendance test positive for coronavirus.

Brazil's first lady tests positive for Covid-19.

Scientists say that hydroxychloroquine should no longer be touted as a COVID-19 treatment: "It does not work for treatment or for prevention. I have no idea why there is still talk about it, but it’s wrong.”

Heart damage found in coronavirus patients months after recovering from COVID-19, study says.

Obama calls filibuster Jim Crow relic that should be eliminated if necessary to enact voting rights legislation.

Senators urge U.S. Justice Department to probe TikTok, Zoom.

New cervical cancer screening guidelines released: What you need to know. The American Cancer Society's updated cervical cancer screening requirements now suggest that people with a cervix undergo human papillomavirus virus (HPV) primary testing — instead of a Pap test — every five years, starting at age 25 and continuing through 65.

Lack of awareness, data hinders cases of missing and murdered Native American women, study finds. A new report documents more than 2,300 missing Native American women and girls in the U.S., underscoring the reasons behind the lack of awareness and scrutiny in these cases.

Settlement sprawl forces Hebron's Palestinian families to live in caves. Dozens of Palestinians are living in caves in Hebron as the Israeli authorities repeatedly demolish their homes built without impossible-to-obtain permits.

Netflix's 'Love on the Spectrum' updates both reality dating shows and portrayals of autism.

FCC approves Amazon's Kuiper Project. Amazon has received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to proceed with Project Kuiper, its initiative to launch a fleet of low-orbiting satellites that would be used to provide broadband internet access to underserved communities in the U.S.

The Perseverance rover and its Ingenuity helicopter are finally on the journey to Mars.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

And another day of questions, misinformation, a “gift to Putin,” a desperate grasp for suburbia, conspiracy theories, voters backing Trump, the Senate and smaller states, social media, Kodak, B&W challenges, and mystery seeds comes to a close:

“Thank God the Republican Party stood up to the president before the shit hit the fan.” — Andy Slavitt

Deaths

US: 153,840 (+1520)

World: 670,200 (+6735)

Cases

US: 4,568,037 (+69,694)

World: 17,185,927 (+292,634)

Countdown: 97 days.

An NPR analysis of new coronavirus cases and hospital capacity shows that in addition to well-known hot spots like Arizona, Texas and Florida, hospitals in other states are having to shuffle patients between hospitals to ensure all patients get a bed.

Irregularities in COVID Reporting Contract Award Process Raises New Questions. An NPR investigation has found irregularities in the process by which the Trump administration awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a Pittsburgh company to collect key data about Covid-19 from the country's hospitals. The contract is at the center of a controversy over the Administration's decision to move that data reporting function from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — which has tracked infection information for a range of illnesses for years — to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Misinformation on coronavirus is proving highly contagious. As the world races to find a vaccine and a treatment for COVID-19, there is seemingly no antidote in sight for the burgeoning outbreak of coronavirus conspiracy theories, hoaxes, anti-mask myths and sham cures.

GOP tucks $8 billion for military weaponry in coronavirus bill. The Republican measure includes billions for F-35 fighters, Apache helicopters and infantry carriers sought by Washington’s powerful defense lobby. Overall, the proposal stuffs $8 billion into Pentagon weapons systems built by defense contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics — corporate titans that sit atop the Washington influence industry.

U.S. to withdraw almost 12,000 troops from Germany in sweeping reorganization

President Donald Trump has long singled out Germany, a historically close U.S. ally, for not spending enough on defense and running a trade surplus.

President Trump's decision to move troops from Germany slammed as "a gift to Putin".

Rep. Louie Gohmert, who often went without a mask, tests positive for coronavirus. -- The virus doesn’t give a shit what you believe.

Lawmakers question why there isn't a testing regimen on Capitol Hill.

Pelosi mandates masks in House chamber after Gohmert tests positive for Covid-19.

Trump again attempts to stoke racial divisions in housing message. Trumpeting his rollback of an Obama-era rule meant to combat segregation, Trump informed "all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood. Your housing prices will go up based on the market, and crime will go down," Trump went on in his message posted to Twitter. "I have rescinded the Obama-Biden AFFH Rule. Enjoy!" — Could be his most racist tweet yet. Plus his disdain for poor people is again showing. Suburban Lives Matter!! Suburban Lives Matter!!

Operation Legend Expanded to Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee.

For some of the people arrested on protest-related charges by US federal authorities in Oregon, their conditions for release include an order that they may not participate in any protests, demonstrations, or rallies, a review of court records shows. “The government cannot force you to relinquish your First Amendment rights as a condition for your freedom. Release conditions must be related to public safety or flight. This is neither."

'Nobody likes me': Trump ponders pandemic popularity of Fauci and Birx. — The man is certifiable. 

Around half of Americans with a high school diploma or less education (48%) say the conspiracy theory that powerful people intentionally planned the coronavirus outbreak is probably or definitely true. — Ugh. 

President Trump says he did not talk to Vladimir Putin about reports the Russians paid bounties to Taliban rebels for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

The voters who are still backing Trump. Beyond the numbers, though, it's critical to understand why so many of them continue to support Trump. They think a businessman is best suited to turn the country around economically. They feel Covid-19 was not Trump's fault, and he's doing the best he can to contain it. They conflate the Black Lives Matter protesters with the rioters attacking federal buildings and retail shops. They don't want historic monuments torn down. And they dismiss defunding the police as ridiculous. These voters tell me they want America finally to be put first; they oppose immigration and trade policies they say give benefits to foreigners at their expense. And they want a non-politician who relentlessly fights back, after witnessing too many office holders fold in the face of special interests. These voters may sound like typical Fox News watchers, but, significantly, the overwhelming majority are not...In short, while America's political media generate a pipeline's worth of information daily, these swing voters consume merely a trickle...For those of us who follow politics closely, my admonition is: Pay a lot of attention to those voters who don't pay much attention at all. They may be telling us something very important. -- Ignorance in this day and age is a choice. Will the country be torn down because these voters refused to “pay attention”?

As crime surges on his watch, Trump warns of Biden’s America. President Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would ravage communities should the former vice president win the White House in November. Left unsaid: A recent surge in violent crime in several American cities has happened on his watch.

How Brett Kavanaugh tried to sidestep abortion and Trump financial docs cases.

The Senate Has Always Favored Smaller States. It Just Didn’t Help Republicans Until Now. In fact, it’s reached the point that Republicans can win a majority of Senate seats while only representing a minority of Americans. — Um, that’s not right. 

A former Border Patrol agent describes the special federal unit deployed in Portland as one of 'the most violent and racist in all law enforcement'.

AOC, ACLU demand answers after NYC protester arrested and thrown into unmarked van.

A federal appeals court has restored a major part of actor Ashley Judd’s lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, saying she can move forward with her 2018 case against the former Hollywood producer under a California sexual harassment law.

Once again, there is no 'anti-conservative' bias on social media. President Donald Trump and other politicians and pundits on the right love to complain that social media companies “censor conservatives.” There is no evidence that's true. In fact, conservative news thrives on Facebook. Of Trump’s thousands of lies, Twitter had the audacity to lightly fact-check him three times.

Kodak shares soar by 570 percent after Trump announces deal to help produce drugs in fight against COVID-19. Eastman Kodak shares soared on Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a deal to work with the photography pioneer to produce ingredients in generic drugs in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove denial posts. Holocaust survivors around the world are lending their voices to a campaign launched Wednesday targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of the Nazi genocide from the social media site.

‘Empowerment’ Selfies Are Burying a Turkish Women’s Rights Campaign. What is now a light-hearted expression of female solidarity in America was originally, in Turkey, a campaign inspired by both the soaring rates of violence against women and the brutal murder of a 27-year-old student named Pinar Gültekin...But the vast majority of black-and-white posts currently flooding our Instagram feeds could just as easily have been tagged #feelingmyself, #selfcare or #selflove, and accompanied by an appropriately light-hearted phrase like “Pass it on.” Using serious tags for uninformative posts isn’t just misleading, it can act as a barrier to constructive work.

Some 22 million people around the world are so dependent on marijuana that it affects their ability to function in life. But a new study shows that abuse or dependence on weed may respond to treatment with CBD, or cannabidiol.

Mystery seeds from China are landing in Americans' mailboxes. The USDA and agriculture officials across the U.S. have issued warnings about unsolicited shipments of foreign seeds and advised people not to plant them..."At this point in time, we don't have enough information to know if this is a hoax, a prank, an internet scam or an act of agricultural bio-terrorism," he said. "Unsolicited seeds could be invasive and introduce unknown diseases to local plants, harm livestock or threaten our environment." -- It’s believed the seeds came from China. Still a lot of unknowns. Regardless, don’t plant the seeds. Follow the guidelines for what to do with them.

The Perseverance rover is finally ready to launch on its journey to Mars on Thursday after nearly a decade of hard work and planning by thousands of engineers, scientists and specialists at NASA centers across the country and their commercial partners.

Secret UFO files? In Canada the truth is out there — online and searchable.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

And another day of Wolverines, a viral video backed by dark money, hospitalizations, cancer screenings, Russian disinformation, legal waivers, DACA, secret payments, racism among white Christians, and ‘speech police’ comes to a close:

"You must never ever, ever give up or give in. You must keep the faith, and keep your eyes on the prize. We're one people. We're one family." — Rep. John Lewis

Deaths

US: 152,320 (+1576)

World: 663,465 (+6920)

Cases

US: 4,498,343 (+64,933)

World: 16,893,293 (+249,795)

Countdown: 98 days.

As coronavirus threatened invasion, a new 'Red Dawn' team tried to save America. A group of public health and national security experts who sent some of the earliest and most dire warnings to officials across the Trump administration about the gathering coronavirus crisis is now offering a searing assessment of how the federal government blundered through the critical first months of a lethal outbreak. Members of the group, whose lengthy string of emails now read like a chilling foreshadowing of the unfolding deadly pandemic, came to be known by the chain’s dark-humored subject line, “Red Dawn Rising,” a reference to the campy 1984 cold war movie about a gritty band of Americans who fend off foreign invaders. Now several have broken their silence about the early warnings in interviews with ABC News to describe their lingering distress about the missed chances to spare lives.

A viral video claiming without evidence that the coronavirus could be cured was quietly backed by dark money political organizations. A dozen doctors delivered speeches in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday to a small crowd, claiming without evidence that the coronavirus could be cured and that widely accepted efforts to slow its spread were unnecessary and dangerous. It was the latest video to go viral from apparent experts, quietly backed by dark money political organizations, evangelizing treatments for or opinions about the coronavirus that most doctors, public health officials and epidemiologists have roundly decried as dangerous misinformation.

Twitter removes tweet highlighted by Trump falsely claiming COVID-19 'cure'. Trump also retweeted tweets defending the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine, including one that accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, of misleading the public by dismissing the drug...This comes as Trump has recently tried to take a more moderate approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. — That didn’t last long.

Twitter locks Donald Trump Jr.'s account for spreading COVID misinformation.

Florida sets death toll record, while trailer truck outside funeral home raises COVID-19 fears.

Coronavirus hospitalizations among children in Florida rose by more than 20 percent over a period of eight days in July as schools prepare to reopen across the state despite a sustained surge in infections.

‘More likely to die from cancer' than COVID-19: Doctors urge Americans to go to their cancer screenings. A recent survey suggests more than a third of Americans have missed scheduled cancer screenings because of COVID-19, concerning health experts who warn this could be another fatal consequence of the coronavirus pandemic.

US officials: Russia behind spread of virus disinformation. Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Should We Shield Businesses From COVID-19 Lawsuits? We've come to expect legal waivers at places like ski resorts and bungee-jumping facilities, but colleges and all sorts of typically safe businesses — from hair salons to dentists' offices — are using them to try to escape legal accountability for injuries and deaths as they reopen during the pandemic. In the age of COVID-19, every reopened institution is now a bungee-jumping facility.

Barr goes head-to-head with Jayapal over administration's handling of protesters.

Trump administration to reject new DACA applications during 'comprehensive' review. The White House's decision comes shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump's efforts to end the DACA program was unconstitutional.

Complaint: Trump Making Illegal Secret Payments, Including To His Own Family. President Donald Trump’s campaign is violating federal election law by funneling close to a quarter-billion dollars to date through private companies in order to hide the ultimate recipients of the money, including the wife of one of his sons and the girlfriend of another, a watchdog group charged in a complaint filed Tuesday.

Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence. For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order. As a white Christian who was raised Southern Baptist and shaped by a denominational college and seminary, it pains me to see these patterns in the data. Even worse, these questions only hint at the magnitude of the problem...But even when controls are introduced in a statistical model for a range of demographic characteristics, such as partisanship, education levels and region, the connection between holding racist attitudes and white Christian identity remains stubbornly robust. The results point to a stark conclusion: While most white Christians think of themselves as people who hold warm feelings toward African Americans, holding racist views is nonetheless positively and independently associated with white Christian identity. Again, this troubling relationship holds not just for white evangelical Protestants, but also for white mainline Protestants and white Catholics.

A group of protesters in Portland is suing the Trump administration over the actions of federal agents in the city, including injuring peaceful protesters, making arrests without probable cause and using otherwise violent tactics.

Source: US, Oregon in talks about pulling agents in Portland.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan confirmed that federal agents have left Seattle.

Police: Richmond riots instigated by white supremacists disguised as Black Lives Matter.

'The President's Speech Police': Trump Pushes Forward With Regulating Bias Online. Right on cue last night, Trump began posting angrily about Twitter's trend recommendations, an algorithmically determined selection of popular hashtags and words tailored to each individual Twitter user's habits. This leads to individuals seeing different trends—that is, if a user sees a lot of a certain type of trending topic, it's related to both what other users are clicking on and their own previous activity on the network. None of it is determined by the individuals working at Twitter or the preferences of the company's leaders. The president either doesn't understand this or is pretending he doesn't understand.

Harley-Davidson reboots business as coronavirus hammers earnings.

U.S. gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy again. Remington Arms Co on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in two years as the U.S. gunmaker faced financial troubles partly because some retailers placed restrictions on gun sales after school shootings.

Alabama state GOP lawmaker criticized for attending celebration for former KKK leader.

'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' is the subject of an internal probe by Warner Media after reports of a toxic work environment, a source close to the production says.

CES will be fully virtual next year amid continued concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.