Common Dreams staff
The news comes just hours before the president holds a campaign event in the city.
Juan Cole
President Donald Trump pretends to take a Covid-19 test while holding a swab during his visit of the Puritan Medical Products facility in Guilford, Maine on June 5, 2020. The facility said after Trump's visit it would have to discard tests that were made during the president's visit because he did not wear a face mask. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
Jade Begay
A shrine to George Floyd and others is pictured in the newly created Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), in Seattle on June 11, 2020. The area surrounding the East Precinct building has come to be known as the CHAZ, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Volunteer medics are available to tend to medical needs, alongside tents with medical supplies, gourmet food donated form local restaurants, fruit, snacks, water bottles free for whomever needed them. (Photo: Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty... Читать дальше...
Julian Agyeman, Kofi Boone
Society is facing "an unrivaled opportunity to look again at the idea of collective black action and ownership," the authors write. (Image: Inequality.org / Institute for Policy Studies)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Jefferson County has a population of roughly 767,000 and will have just one polling location.
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Jefferson County has a population of roughly 767,000 and will have just one polling location.
Dean Baker
In this picture taken on April 29, 2020, engineers work on an experimental vaccine for the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Quality Control Laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing. (Photo: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images)
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This late Friday night dismissal reeks of potential corruption of the legal process," said Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Today we honor Black excellence. Black innovation. Black history. Black futures. Black joy. Black brilliance."
Julia Conley, staff writer
Progressive advocacy groups on Friday called on Amy McGrath, who is running in the Democratic primary for Sen. Mitch McConnell's seat in Kentucky, to commit to dedicating millions of dollars in unspent campaign cash to defeating the longtime Republican leader in the general election, should she lose the primary.
