“The growing autocracy of the GOP along with the white supremacist terrorism found in the Republican base is the greatest threat to American democracy. Much as in Putin's Russia, there is utter contempt for the truth.” — Andrea Chalupa
Deaths
US: 299,692 (+2994)
World: 1,588,348 (+12,727)
Cases
US: 16,039,393 (+219,351)
World: 70,717,552 (+1,489,158)
Countdown 1: 26 days.
Countdown 2: 41 days.
One-day US deaths top 3,000, more than D-Day or 9/11.
Moderna begins testing COVID-19 vaccine in US adolescents. There has been limited testing so far to explore if any of the experimental coronavirus shots being pushed for adults can also protect children.
The Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel has recommended the emergency use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
Yes, the rich got richer: Top 1% saw their wages soar by 160% since 1979, six times the increase of the bottom 90% of workers. During the last economic expansion, from 2009 to 2019, average yearly wages for the bottom 90% of workers rose 8.7% after adjusting for inflation, according to an analysis of Social Security Administration data by the liberal Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Meanwhile, pay for most of the top 10% rose 13.2% – while earnings for the top 1% jumped 20.4%...In 2019, salaries averaged $38,923 for the bottom 90%; $320,096 for the top 5%; $758,434 for the top 1%; and $2,858,981 for the top 0.1%. Over a longer time period, the gap between the highest-paid workers and other Americans is even starker. From 1979 to 2019, average pay increased 26% for the bottom 90%, 64.1% for most of the top 10%, 160.3% for the top 1%, and 345.2% for the top 0.1%, according to EPI.
'Seditious abuse of judicial process': States fire back at Texas' Supreme Court election challenge.
Hundreds of GOP members sign onto Texas-led election lawsuit.
Katie Porter slams McConnell: Here to "expose corruption in real time". “Everyone at the negotiating table—including Senate Rs—has agreed to a compromise. Except one. Mitch McConnell is refusing to bring it to the floor unless it wipes away all COVID-related lawsuits filed that “allege injury or death” due to corporate negligence.”
National Latino museum vote blocked by Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee. Estuardo Rodriguez, president and CEO of Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, told NBC News that Lee’s statement on the floor, "was a sad commentary based on fears around the diversity of our nation. He fails to understand that by highlighting the diversity that has helped build our nation, we are able to better understand each other and come together." -- Again, one man, like McConnell, has too much power.
Trump HHS Proposal Criticized As Burden For Biden Administration. The Trump administration wants to require the incoming Department of Health and Human Services team to review most HHS regulations by 2023 — and automatically void those that haven't been assessed by then. The recently proposed rule would require HHS to analyze within 24 months about 2,400 regulations — rules that affect tens of millions of Americans on everything from Medicare benefits to prescription drug approvals. The move — widely seen as a political ploy by HHS — met a fierce backlash from consumer advocates and health providers who fear it would hamstring federal health officials in the Biden administration, just as they're seeking to control the COVID-19 pandemic.
How the Coronavirus Outbreak Has – and Hasn’t – Changed the Way Americans Work. Women are more likely than men to say they’d want to work from home all of the time when the pandemic is over.
An estimated 205 million Americans are at risk of utility disconnection. Here's how you can get help.
Child abuse visits to the emergency room dropped during the early days of the pandemic, according to a new analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But injuries requiring hospitalization went up, a trend that worries experts.
Ellen DeGeneres announces she has Covid-19.
The Supreme Court hands down a loss for rogue law enforcement officers — and a win for the religious right. Religious conservatives gained a new weapon they can use against federal officials, but law enforcement now has a reason to think twice about targeting Muslims.
The Supreme Court overturns top military court, rules that rape cases before 2006 can be prosecuted.
U.S. to shatter record for billion-dollar climate disasters in 2020. From social justice protests to politics to the pandemic, 2020 has been unprecedented in any number of ways. And although it didn't always receive top billing, the climate crisis and the extreme weather that comes along with it also escalated to levels not experienced before. The U.S. experienced major disasters like the western wildfires, a record-breaking hurricane season and the mid-summer Midwest derecho that caused extensive damage.
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