Source: ESPN Former New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury is trying to arrange a deal that would deliver 10 million N95 masks to New York City, but he has run into issues coordinating a deal between a Chinese company and the coronavirus-struck city. Marbury told the New York Post that he arranged for a supplier …
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Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
Source: Matt Stoller Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. This is a special edition. I need you to take this newsletter and repost it, forward it, and contact anyone you know in politics. Here’s why. Congressional leaders are likely to put a very ugly deal in front of the American …
Supreme Court says Trump administration may continue ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy for asylum seekers
Source: MSN The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Trump administration may continue its “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers while lower-court challenges continue, after the federal government warned that tens of thousands of immigrants amassed at the southern border could overwhelm the immigration system. The justices reversed a decision of a panel of …
Weinstein gets 23 years in sentence hailed by accusers
Source: MSN Harvey Weinstein pleaded for mercy and said he was “totally confused” by the sex crime case that got him sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison, capping the onetime Hollywood mogul’s #MeToo downfall. His accusers — those who testified against him and many others who have spoken out elsewhere against the former Hollywood …
Trump urged Mnuchin to pressure Fed’s Powell on economic stimulus in explosive tirade about coronavirus
Source: MSN President Trump, in an explosive tirade Monday, urged Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to encourage Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell to do more to stimulate the economy, three officials familiar with the exchange said, revealing the president’s mounting fury as his administration struggles to corral economic fallout from the novel coronavirus. Trump has …
Senate GOP chairman abruptly shifts course on subpoena targeting Bidens
Source: MSN A top Senate Republican abruptly canceled plans to subpoena records and testimony from an official connected to a Ukrainian firm that once employed the son of former vice president Joe Biden. The decision by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, comes as Democrats have attacked …
Trump’s Company Paid Bribes to Reduce Property Taxes, Assessors Say
Source: MSN The Trump Organization paid bribes, through middlemen, to New York City tax assessors to lower its property tax bills for several Manhattan buildings in the 1980s and 1990s, according to five former tax assessors and city employees as well as a former Trump Organization employee. Two of the five city employees said they …
Police: Remains identified as missing Tennessee girl
Source: MSN Remains found last week in Tennessee were positively identified as those of a 15-month-old girl missing for weeks, police said Wednesday. The remains found Friday are those of Evelyn Mae Boswell, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Leslie Earhart said in a video message posted on Twitter. No other details were released. The remains …
Bloomberg donates $500,000 to register Latino voters
Source: MSN Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, fresh off having spent more than $500 million on his failed presidential bid, gave $500,000 to a group registering young Latinos to vote. Bloomberg made the donation to Voto Latino, a group founded by the actress Rosario Dawson and María Teresa Kumar, the group’s president. “President Trump has spent four …
The US might already be in a recession
Source: MSN Money Let’s just say it: The longest economic expansion in U.S. history may already be over, killed by Covid-19. It might seem crazy to talk about a recession when jobs are plentiful. Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced a decline in the February unemployment rate to 3.5%, tying a 50-year low. But …