Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. His award-winning books include “Into the Silence” and “The Wayfinders.” His new book, “Magdalena: River of Dreams,” is published by Knopf. Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. …
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During Monday’s coronavirus briefing President Trump called on an ally from his favorite propaganda network, OAN, to serve him up a softball question on a topic that the president consistently lies about: mail-in voting. After Trump specifically pointed towards OAN’s Chanel Rion, making sure he promoted the network that trolls …
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The Rolling Stones are taking “further steps” to prevent Donald Trump from using their music at his rallies after the president’s campaign ignored the previous cease-and-desist letters. “This could be the last time Trump uses any Jagger/ Richards songs on his campaigns,” the band’s rep said in a statement. In …
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President Donald Trump did not wear a face mask — as is recommended by health officials to aid in preventing the spread of COVID-19 — during his tour of a Honeywell factory in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday. As Trump toured the factory, which is producing N95 masks for the federal …
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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said she will vote no to hearing from witnesses during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which all but ensures that Republican senators will have enough votes to block witnesses. With Murkowski’s Friday announcement, which followed Tennesee Republican Senator Lamar Alexander’s Thursday announcement that he too would …
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President Trump told then-National Security Advisor John Bolton, in August 2019, that the hold his administration placed on the military aid to Ukraine should continue until Ukraine officials announced investigations into Trump’s political opponents, including former vice president Joe Biden and his son. This contradicts Trump’s public statements that he …
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The blowback has begun. The question is: Is it over? Delivering on promises to retaliate after the assassination of general Qasem Soleimani, Iran conducted missile strikes on at least two U.S. bases in Iraq, including the Al-Assad airbase. The strikes were touted by Iran as a “successful attack … in …
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Foreign leaders bully Donald Trump like the recent NATO conference was a high school cafeteria in Saturday Night Live’s cold open sketch that featured Alec Baldwin’s President Trump alongside French President Emmanuel Macron (Paul Rudd), Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Jimmy Fallon) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (James Corden). …
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WASHINGTON —With each witness, the House impeachment investigation moves closer to the president and the July 25th call between Trump and Ukraine‘s new president in which Trump asked the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens and a debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 presidential election. Four witnesses testified before the House …
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President Donald Trump received bad polling news on Sunday, with a Fox News poll and NBC/WSJ both showing that 49 percent of voters want him impeached and removed from office. Not surprisingly, the president dismissed the results saying that he has “the real polls” and that all others are “fake” …
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