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Oregon Attorney General Sues Against Shady Federal Arrests in Portland, Trump Administration Says More to Come
A showdown appears to be brewing between elected leaders in Portland, Oregon and the Trump Administration, as tensions continue on the ground between protestors and enforcement agents deployed by the federal government. On the heels of reports on Friday that federal officers were in Portland snatching people off the streets, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum…
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CDC Removes Then Restores COVID-19 Hospitalization Data to Its Website
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently removed data on hospital capacity for medical facilities across the country from its website. Since COVID-19 hospitalizations have often been used to speculate on how well the health care system can handle the coronavirus outbreak, a lot of people expressed their displeasure over the data being…
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Trump Administration Is Now Ordering Hospitals to Send COVID-19 Data to Washington and Not the CDC. We Finna Die
President Trump, arguably the worst president in American history, is continuing his presidential practice of being messy AF as he’s now ordering that hospitals not to send their COVID-19 information to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but instead, to send it right to the White House, where the official shredder of documents that…
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Surgeon General Jerome Adams Explains Government's Reversal on Wearing Face Masks by Comparing Them to…Cocaine
From the surgeon general who brought you “do it for your big momma” comes another profound moment in intellectual flatulence: that the government reversing its stance on face masks is kind of like when doctors gave cocaine as medicine. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, in an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, revisited…
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Trump Continues Crooked Behavior by Saving Roger Stone From Federal Prison
As anyone could have predicted—and as The Root did just a day ago—President Trump has used the power of his office to commute the sentence of his criminal crony Roger Stone. As the New York Times reports, on Friday evening Trump issued a statement announcing his decision to stop Stone from facing the legal consequences of…
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Trans Women of Color File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration for Discriminatory Rule Change
Two transgender women, one of them a Black Army veteran and lung cancer survivor, have filed suit against the Trump Administration challenging a recent rule change which strips away anti-discrimination protections in the Affordable Care Act. The lawsuit was filed on the behalf of Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker and Cecilia Gentili, a Latinx woman and health care…
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U.S. Attorney for Manhattan Challenges His Late Night Forced Resignation by Trump Administration [Updated]
Updated: 6/20/2020 4:24 p.m. EDT: Attorney General William Barr said in a letter on Saturday that the President has terminated Geoffrey Berman’s post as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. “Because you have declared that you have no intention of resigning, I have asked the President to remove you as of today,…