Join News Views for a Live Discussion on the Democratic Party’s National Convention. Monday 8-17 : 9-10 PM: Speakers include Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Catherine Cortez Mastro, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Representative Jim Clyburn, MORE
The Trump administration on Monday approved an oil and gas leasing program within Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the sprawling home to polar bears, caribou and other wildlife. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt signed MORE
LE††UCE PREY Standing on a stage before Mankato’s North Star Aviation flight school, Air Force One behind him, Trump credited his administration for boosting the economy in his first several years in the White House. MORE
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to appear for a U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing next week as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have voiced concern over the direction of the U.S. Postal MORE
The president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, vowed Monday to cling tightly to power as many factory workers walked off their jobs and joined with hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters demanding his immediate resignation. Lukashenko, MORE
Amid a heatwave on the west coast, Death Valley National Park, California, is verifying with the National Weather Service what may be the highest ever recorded temperature on earth at 130F (54.4C). Sunday’s reading was MORE
The Social Security Act was passed 85 years ago on August 14, 1935, and for most of the elderly in this country Social Security is their major source of income. The latest Social Security Trustees Report MORE
Wing Nut darlings, Patricia and Mark McCloskey, the white couple who brandished weapons at BLM protesters on their private street will be part of Republican National Convention next week. The St. Louis couple became well-known MORE
173,128 Americans are confirmed to have died from the Covid-19 virus, up 522 from 8/15. 5,566,632 Americans are confirmed to have been infected with the Covid-19 virus, up 37,345 from 8/15. This is the lowest MORE
An experimental botanical extract, oleandrin, was promoted to Trump during an Oval Office meeting in July. Now it’s being embraced by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell. MORE
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Sunday evening that the House will be called back from August recess — likely on Saturday, Axios is told — to act to “save the Postal Service.” “To save the Postal MORE
NU††ER WA†CH A correspondent for InfoWars, the Alex Jones-helmed far-right media organization known as a hub for conspiracy theories and false news stories, was arrested Friday evening at her home in Diamond, Ohio, midway between MORE
172,606 Americans are confirmed to have died from the Covid-19 virus, up 1,170 from 8/14. 5,529,783 Americans are confirmed to have been infected by the Covid-19 virus, up 53,500 from 8/14. In this week of MORE
Sanders comments Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” follow word that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seriously discussing whether to bring back lawmakers early from recess, according to a Democratic aide. Senators must pressure Majority MORE
The Proud Boys showed up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday and met up with a group of local church counter-protesters. First Congregational Church hosted a vigil of anti-racism counter-protesters and formed a perimeter around the MORE
The Democratic Party’s all-virtual convention will begin Monday August 17 and end Thursday August 20. Although they have scheduled many events to fill each day, the speeches will run nightly from 9-11PM EDT/6-8PM PDT. MSNBC MORE
Natasha Senat used an Uber Eats to order food on Tuesday at a Wendy’s located in Miramar. The Uber Eats driver recorded the manager, who’s mask was not covering her mouth, cough into her hand MORE
Rachel may have posted about California’s crippling and disgusting heatwave, but those of us call the state home are living it and it sucks. I believe around noon, we hit 104 degrees with clouds, humidity, MORE
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California is bracing for more power outages after as many as 2 million residents were plunged into darkness late Friday in the state’s first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis. Grid operators in the MORE
171,535 Americans are confirmed to have died from the Covid-19 virus, up 1,120 from 8/13. 5,476,266 Americans are confirmed to have been infected by the Covid-19 virus, up 60,600 from 8/13. Article submitted by, ronald MORE
Texas: 3-week-old boy found dead in bucket of tar True Crime Daily: WFAA: According to arrest warrants, the Grabowskis told “numerous lies” to detectives. MyTexasDaily.com reports that according to investigators, 42-year-old Roland Grabowski and MORE
Happy Friday and Happy Happy Hour! I thought today we should drink to the newly-anointed Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, and tip our mugs to great possibilities in our not-so-distant future — not to mention the MORE
Anticipating an avalanche of absentee ballots, the U.S. Postal Service recently sent detailed letters to 46 states and D.C. warning that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive MORE
Hillary Clinton Can’t Be Deposed Over Use of Private Email Server, Appeals Court Rules A federal appeals court panel has unanimously overturned a lower-court order requiring Hillary Clinton to provide a sworn deposition about her MORE