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Hawaii schools superintendent says students' COVID-19 vaccine should be voluntary, 100+ legislators head to Maui conference despite pandemic, Hawaii National Guardsman, 52, dies from coronavirus, more news from all the Hawaiian IslandsNovember 18, 2020 at 10:53 PM Hawaii Schools Superintendent Christina KishimotoHawaii DOE Optimistic Students Will Return To Class In January. In a briefing with legislators, school leaders said they were also encouraged by the low rate of teacher vacancies during the pandemic. Civil Beat.Should a COVID-19 vaccine be required for students to attend school? State superintendent says it should be “personal choice." The House Higher and Lower Education Committee held a meeting with the Department of Education (DOE) Tues...Tags: Travel, Obama, Washington, Barack Obama, Hawaii, DOE, IVP, Big Island, Hawaii Island, Maui, Department Of Health, Honolulu, Oahu, State House, Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii News Now 56 people like this. Like Live Updates: McEnany says Wisconsin officials trying to change recount laws 'as we speak'November 18, 2020 at 10:59 PM White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday that officials in Wisconsin are trying to change...Tags: White House, Wisconsin, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Kayleigh McEnany, McEnany 2 people like this. Like Trump Admin Taps Ex-Aide Fired for Ties to Far Right for Commission That Preserves Holocaust MemorialsNovember 18, 2020 at 8:00 PM In 2018, the Trump administration fired a White House speechwriter after he was revealed to have spoken at an annual far-right conference in 2016 attended by white supremacists, pseudoscientific quacks, contrarian academics, and other racists. This week, the White House nominated the same guy to a three-year term on a…Read more...Tags: Science, White House, History, Holocaust, Donald Trump, Trump, Alt Right, Heritage Sites, Xenophobia, Right Wing Extremism 110 people like this. Like Barack Obama breaks a first-day sales record for a presidential memoir, with nearly 890,000 copies purchasedNovember 18, 2020 at 8:05 PM Former president Barack Obama.
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Former president Barack Obama's new memoir, "A Promised Land," has sold nearly 890,000 copies in its first day, according to the Associated Press.
The memoir is currently on track to set sales record for a presidential memoir.
In "A Promised Land," Obama, the first Black president in US history, details the first two-and-a-half years of his historic presidency.
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Former president Bara...Tags: Books, Politics, Obama, Obama Administration, US, Barack Obama, Trends, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Manhattan, Associated Press, Biden, Memoir, Donald Trump, George W Bush 106 people like this. Like Obama's insights on Merkel, Putin and other leaders in his new bookNovember 18, 2020 at 9:11 PM Part one of Barack Obama's presidential memoir: "A Promised Land," published on Tuesday reveals an introspective narrator who runs a self-critical eye over his 2008 campaign and the first few years of his administration. The 44th President is generous to allied leaders but also delivers sharp character sketches of those with whom he shared the world stage.Tags: Obama, Barack Obama, Cnn, Merkel Putin Even when Trump leaves the White House, his lie machine will be a powerful forceNovember 18, 2020 at 8:57 PM Jodi Doering can't believe her ears. The South Dakota nurse toils in an overcrowded hospital tending to Covid-19 victims who still insist their affliction is a hoax. "Their last dying words are, 'This can't be happening; it is not real,'" Doering said Monday on CNN's "New Day."Tags: White House, Cnn, South Dakota, Trump, Doering, Jodi Doering 43 people like this. Like Analysis: When Trump leaves the White House, his lie machine will still be powerfulNovember 18, 2020 at 8:57 PM Jodi Doering can't believe her ears. The South Dakota nurse toils in an overcrowded hospital tending to Covid-19 victims who still insist their affliction is a hoax. "Their last dying words are, 'This can't be happening; it is not real,'" Doering said Monday on CNN's "New Day."Tags: News, White House, Cnn, South Dakota, Stories, Trump, Doering, Jodi Doering 11 people like this. Like Barack Obama memoir 'A Promised Land' sells more than 887,000 copies on first dayNovember 18, 2020 at 6:46 PM "A Promised Land," the first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs, sold 887,000 copies on its first day of release.
[Author: USA TODAY]Tags: Usa, News, Barack Obama, Usa Today 64 people like this. Like 'You got me emotional': Joe Biden started tearing up after talking to a nurse about treating COVID-19 patients in ICUNovember 18, 2020 at 7:26 PM Joe Biden and his son, Beau, in 2008.
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President-elect Joe Biden teared up when talking to an ICU nurse about her experience treating COVID-19 patients.
"You got me emotional," Biden said on a video call with frontline workers. "Anyone who spent significant time in ICU, like I did for months, ... observed the incredible mental strain on nurses in ICU units."
Biden's son, Beau, spent time in the ICU during his treatment for brain cancer.
As coronavirus...Tags: Politics, Minnesota, Nurses, Senate, US, Trends, Joe Biden, Pennsylvania, Healthcare, National Nurses United, Biden, Turner, Beau, Paul J Richards, Mary Turner, Walter Reed Medical Center 57 people like this. Like Obama’s A Promised Land on track to become best selling presidential memoirNovember 18, 2020 at 7:42 PM In its first day, the book sold nearly 890,000 copies in the US and Canada, beating sales of Michelle Obama’s BecomingBarack Obama’s new book A Promised Land has sold nearly 890,000 copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to become the best selling presidential memoir in modern history.The first-day sales, which set a record for Penguin Random House, includes pre-orders, e-books and audio. Continue reading...Tags: Books, Obama, US, Barack Obama, US news, Canada, US politics, Michelle Obama, Penguin Random House, BecomingBarack Obama 14 people like this. Like Michael Ellis as NSA General CounselNovember 18, 2020 at 7:22 PM Over at Lawfare, Susan Hennessey has an excellent primer on how Trump loyalist Michael Ellis got to be the NSA General Counsel, over the objections of NSA Director Paul Nakasone, and what Biden can and should do about it.
While important details remain unclear, media accounts include numerous indications of irregularity in the process by which Ellis was selected for the job, including interference by the White House. At a minimum, the evidence of possible violations of civil service rules demand...Tags: Congress, Nsa, Senate, White House, Uncategorized, Department Of Defense, Pentagon, Biden, Trump, Ellis, Michael Ellis, Bruce Schneier, Ryan Goodman, CIA Pentagon, National Security Policy, Paul Nakasone 42 people like this. Like Barack Obama Memoir Sells More Than 887,000 Copies on First Day - The Wall Street JournalNovember 18, 2020 at 6:53 PM Barack Obama Memoir Sells More Than 887,000 Copies on First Day The Wall Street JournalTags: Barack Obama, Seo 2 people like this. Like Leaked White House report warns current Covid-19 mitigation efforts 'inadequate'November 18, 2020 at 6:41 PM Record high of over 76,000 people hospitalised WednesdayReport warns of ‘further deterioration’ of situationAs the US death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 250,000 on Wednesday, with a caseload above 11.3m and more than 161,000 new cases added the previous day, an internal White House taskforce report warned of “aggressive, unrelenting, broad community spread across the country, without evidence of improvement but, rather, further deterioration”. Related: Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine has 95% efficacy...Tags: White House, US, World news, US news, Leaked White House, Coronavirus, COVID, WednesdayReport 20 people like this. Like Republican who temporarily blocked certification of Detroit's results shared election conspiracy theories on FacebookNovember 18, 2020 at 6:29 PM William Hartmann, a Republican member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers who temporarily blocked certification of election results in the Michigan county, has recently shared conspiracy theories about the election and Covid-19 on Facebook, CNN has found. He also shared racist posts about President Barack Obama during his presidency.Tags: Facebook, Barack Obama, Cnn, Michigan, Detroit, Facebook CNN, Wayne County Board of Canvassers, William Hartmann 27 people like this. Like Obama's highly anticipated book 'A Promised Land' sells 890,000 copies on its first dayNovember 18, 2020 at 6:10 PM Barack Obama is well on his way to becoming the best selling author of the year.Tags: Obama, Barack Obama, Cnn 48 people like this. Like Obama's 'A Promised Land' is breaking records for the book's publisherNovember 18, 2020 at 6:10 PM Barack Obama is well on his way to becoming the best selling author of the year.Tags: News, Obama, Barack Obama, Stories 37 people like this. Like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo snapped at reporters at a tense coronavirus press briefing where he learned that NYC schools were closing amid a spike in new infectionsNovember 18, 2020 at 4:58 PM Gov. Andrew Cuomo arrives for a briefing on the state's COVID-19 response.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo berated reporters during a tense coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday.
As Cuomo was being asked about whether New York City schools would close amid a surge in cases, Mayor Bill de Blasio was running more than five hours late to his own COVID-19 news conference.
Cuomo found out from a reporter at the end of the briefing that NYC s...Tags: Politics, New York, Science, News, Education, New York City, Trends, New York Times, Bill De Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, Wall Street Journal, Cuomo, New York City Department of Education, Empire State, McKinley, Jesse McKinley 134 people like this. Like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo snapped at reporters at a tense coronavirus press briefing where he learned that NYC schools are closing amid a spike in new infectionsNovember 18, 2020 at 4:58 PM Governor Cuomo arrives for briefing on COVID-19 response at Red Room at New York State Capitol Building.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo berated reporters during a tense coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday.
As Cuomo was being asked about whether New York City schools would close amid a surge in cases, Mayor Bill de Blasio was running more than five hours late to his own COVID-19 news conference.
Cuomo found out from a reporter at the end ...Tags: Politics, New York, Science, News, Education, New York City, Trends, New York Times, Public Schools, Bill De Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, Wall Street Journal, Cuomo, Empire State, McKinley, Jesse McKinley 98 people like this. Like Lindsey Graham says Biden should begin receiving national security briefings even while Trump's election litigation plays out in courtNovember 18, 2020 at 5:00 PM Getty
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday said President-elect Joe Biden should begin receiving intelligence briefings while President Donald Trump's election-related litigation continues.
Graham is a staunch ally of Trump and has come under scrutiny in recent days for inserting himself in the vote-counting process in Georgia.
Only a handful of Senate Republicans have publicly called for Biden to begin receiving briefings.
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Se...Tags: Florida, Politics, Washington Post, Kentucky, Senate, Trends, Georgia, Joe Biden, Gop, Maine, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Graham, Oklahoma, Biden, Donald Trump 123 people like this. Like COVID Testing Czar Warns Country Is In ‘Absolutely Dangerous Situation’November 18, 2020 at 5:40 PM Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of health who leads the government’s COVID testing efforts, sounded the alarm on Wednesday that the country is in an “absolutely dangerous situation” as COVID-19 cases continue surging ahead of the holiday season.
During an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday, Giroir said that both COVID-19 hospitalizations and fatalities being up by 25% week over week means that the country is “not going in the right direction.”
Giroir stressed that the country is at an “abs...Tags: News, White House, United States, Pfizer, Msnbc, Moderna, Brett Giroir, Summer Concepcion, COVID-19, COVID, Giroir, Adm Brett Giroir 143 people like this. Like Trump's tweets have become increasingly impotent but his lies are getting bigger by the dayNovember 18, 2020 at 2:23 PM President Donald Trump departs after speaking about the 2020 U.S. presidential election results in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC, November 5, 2020.
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President Donald Trump's lies-via-tweet have become more audacious since Election Day and his loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
Trump continues to push baseless claims that Democrats rigged the election, among other disinformation, as he refuses to concede.
But weeks have gone by and n...Tags: Twitter, Politics, Labor, Stanford, White House, US, America, Trends, Joe Biden, Analysis, Gop, Washington Dc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Biden, Donald Trump, Abc News 88 people like this. Like Fox News panel erupts at a liberal guest for saying it's 'not time to joke' about COVID-19 as US deaths near 250,000November 18, 2020 at 2:30 PM A Fox News panel Wednesday on COVID-19 restrictions for Thanksgiving got testy when a liberal guest called out the others for joking about the virus.
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After a Fox News panel traded memes and banter mocking COVID-19 restrictions in some states heading into Thanksgiving, the discussion got testy.
"It's not a joke, first of all. A bunch of people are dying every day in this country from coronavirus," Former State Department spokeswoman and Democratic operative Marie Harf said.
"God fo...Tags: Politics, Thanksgiving, California, Cdc, US, Trends, Fox, United States, Fox News, God, Anthony Fauci, Fox Business Network, Gavin Newsom, Marie, McDowell, Johns Hopkins University 142 people like this. Like Biden considering former campaign aides for top White House communications rolesNovember 18, 2020 at 3:38 PM Several women who worked on Joe Biden's campaign are being considered for top White House communications roles in the Biden-Harris administration, sources with knowledge of the deliberations tell CNN.Tags: White House, Joe Biden, Cnn, Biden, Biden Harris 34 people like this. Like Despite COVID-19, Analyst Forecasts One-Time $26B California Budget WindfallNovember 18, 2020 at 3:08 PM SACRAMENTO (AP/CBS13) – California is expected to have a one-time $26 billion windfall in its next budget year, according to the state’s nonpartisan legislative analyst, who said Wednesday that the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic have not been as severe as anticipated.
But analyst Gabriel Petek warned that the eye-popping windfall is solely the result of the state overestimating what was expected to be $54 billion budget deficit in the current spending plan.
State lawmakers als...Tags: Politics, California, California News, Sacramento, Ap, Cbs, Associated Press, State, CBS Broadcasting Inc, California Budget, Assemblymember Phil Ting, Petek, Coronavirus, Gabriel Petek, Christie Wilson, Her Killer 's Property Sacramento Health 23 people like this. Like Report: Biden May Select First Black Woman To Become Press SecretaryNovember 18, 2020 at 3:40 PM President-elect Joe Biden has begun filling positions for his administration, and after making history by selecting the first woman who became the vice president-elect, he may be on the brink of another first — tapping the first Black woman to be named White House press secretary, NBC News reported on Wednesday.
Multiple officials stressed to the network that a final decision has not yet been made but that Karine Jean-Pierre, a former Obama official who served as senior adviser to Biden a...Tags: News, Obama, White House, Nbc News, Joe Biden, Cnn, Biden, Msnbc, Kamala Harris, Sanders, Sen Bernie Sanders, Jean Pierre, Ron Klain, Symone Sanders, Jen O Malley Dillon, Karine Jean Pierre 137 people like this. Like Lindsey Graham says that Biden should begin receiving national security briefings even while Trump's election litigation plays out in courtNovember 18, 2020 at 3:55 PM Getty
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday said that President-elect Joe Biden should begin receiving intelligence briefings while President Donald Trump's election-related litigation continues.
Graham is a staunch ally of Trump and has come under fire in recent days for inserting himself in the vote counting process in Georgia.
Only a handful of Senate Republicans have publicly called for Biden to begin receiving briefings.
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S...Tags: Utah, Politics, Washington Post, Kentucky, Senate, Trends, Georgia, Joe Biden, Gop, Maine, Alaska, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, Graham, Biden, Donald Trump 61 people like this. Like Mulvaney Jabs At Giuliani’s Legal Chops: ‘Not Using The Most Well-Noted Election Lawyers’November 18, 2020 at 1:40 PM Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, a Trump ally, who now serves as U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, expressed concern on Wednesday about Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s last minute bid to fill the shoes of a trained election lawyer amid Trump’s flimsy effort in court to advance false claims of election fraud in Pennsylvania.
“I’m still a little concerned about the use of Rudy Giuliani,” Mulvaney told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo during an interview on Wednesd...Tags: News, White House, New York City, Joe Biden, Pennsylvania, Northern Ireland, Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, Fox Business, Trump, Maria Bartiromo, Keystone State, Mick Mulvaney, Mulvaney, President Trump, Porter Wright Morris Arthur 128 people like this. Like Trump digs in at White House, denying Biden transition help on pandemic, national securityNovember 18, 2020 at 1:56 PM An increasing chorus has called for President Donald Trump to allow for presidential-level intelligence briefings for President-elect Joe Biden.Tags: White House, Biden, Donald Trump, Trump 5 people like this. Like A permanent fix for DACA recipients should be a top priorityNovember 18, 2020 at 1:50 PM A federal judge has invalidated the Trump administration’s most recent effort to scale back protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. With a new administration on the way, we are hopeful a permanent solution to the plight of Dreamers will be finally and swiftly found.
In 2012, President Barack Obama used executive authority to establish the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Known as DACA, the program has shielded from deportation a relatively...Tags: Obama, Congress, Opinion, Barack Obama, Sport, Soccer, United States, Editorials, Homeland Security, Gavin Newsom, Trump, U S Supreme Court, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, Chad Wolf, Nicholas Garaufis 32 people like this. Like |
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