House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that Democrats are willing to agree to a new coronavirus stimulus package that doesn't include an extension of an extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits, saying the party's position is not "$600 or bust."

In four days, the extra benefits are set to expire for millions of Americans who have been receiving them amid the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats and Republicans are currently divided over how to continue supporting Americans economically ...

When I first met the Trillbillies in February 2020, we lived in a much different world than the one we live in now.

It was the night of the Nevada Democratic Caucus debate, and the Trillbillies — Tarence Ray, Tom Sexton and Tanya Turner — had gathered at Sexton’s apartment in Lexington, Kentucky, to record an episode of their podcast, the Trillbilly Worker’s Party. Like most young, American leftists, they were excited about the prospect of Bernie Sanders becoming the Democratic ...

A Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren’t necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus has become a star on the right-wing internet, garnering tens of millions of views on Facebook on Monday alone. Donald Trump Jr. declared the video of Stella Immanuel a “must watch,” while Donald Trump himself retweeted the video.

Before Trump and his supporters embrace Immanuel’s medical expertise, though, they should consider other ...

No one knew this celestial phenomenon would make an appearance until NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission first spotted it in late March. Measuring approximately three miles wide, the comet is visiting from the outer parts of the solar system. Its rare approach to Earth will bring it as close as 64 million miles away. The distance sounds far but is close enough to make the comet and its tail of gas and dust visible to the naked eye, at least until it ...

Visual artist Jesse Draxler—who has worked with Nine Inch Nails, Daughters, Zola Jesus, Alexander McQueen and many others—has put together a new collaborative art project with the likes of Chelsea Wolfe, Greg Puciato, Trentemøller, Jaye Jayle, Ghostemane and more, called Reigning ement.

Draxler gave each of his co-creators a set of 34 soundscape elements to assemble in any way they wanted. These recordings are industrial noises found in Draxler’s LA neighborhood and each artist was ...

Millions of Americans are grieving the loss of mothers, fathers, partners and siblings to an extremist conspiracy cult quickly gaining power in media and politics

A “Broadway Sings for Joe Kennedy III” fundraiser last week was canceled after theater stars scheduled to appear in the pre-taped event were met with online criticism from supporters of Markey’s.

As Boston Magazine points out, numerous theater stars that were scheduled to take part in the event were flooded with tweets from people who asked them not to support Kennedy and highlighted Markey’s voting and legislative record.

When Robert P. Jones turned in the manuscript for his latest book in September, he couldn’t have imagined how much America would shift in 10 months. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which comes out today, is a follow-up to his 2016 bestseller The End of White Christian America, which used sophisticated polling data to chart and explain white Christianity’s shrinking influence in the national conversation. (Donald Trump’s presidential election later ...

WarnerMedia is taking a few baby steps toward figuring out what the whole “be kind” thing might mean when applied to their actual employees. Variety reports that The Ellen DeGeneres show is the subject of an internal investigation from its parent company WarnerMedia after several former employees went public to describe a culture of “racism, fear and intimidation” on the show, while crew members also expressed frustration over Ellen hiring non-union workers while filming during lockdown.

One of the biggest staff rebellions in online media took place last year, when all of the journalists working at the irreverent, sports-centric website Deadspin resigned in protest after clashing with their bosses.

Now Deadspin’s former writers and editors — 18 of the roughly 20 who quit last year — have reunited to start a digital media company, Defector Media, that they will own and operate themselves.

The gigaleak. That’s the name retro enthusiast and amateur game developer Cosmo came up with when they realized the trove of secrets that had leaked out of Nintendo last week, which have dominated gaming’s attention ever since. Source code for games like F-Zero and Link to the Past. A full development history of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. Prototypes for Super Mario Kart and Yoshi’s Island, which Nintendo called Super Mario Bros. 5: Yoshi’s Island at some point. A cache of emails from ...

Senate Republicans copied key parts of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial corporate immunity law and pasted it word-for-word into their new coronavirus relief proposal released on Monday. The provision could shield health care industry CEOs, executives and corporate board members from COVID-related lawsuits in the event that their business decisions end up injuring or killing health care workers and patients. 

Among all federal lawmakers running for reelection in 2020, Republican ...

A Canberra landlord who sued her former tenant for almost $6,000 over a broken coffee plunger and alleged unpaid rent has been told to pay $2,629 to the tenant instead.

The owner of the Kingston "luxury apartment" had taken her former tenant to the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal (ACAT), seeking about two months' rent money she believed she was owed, as well as compensation for missing and broken items.

But the tenant claimed that money was not owed to the landlord, because the bank ...

Today, a Nova Scotia judge ordered that some of the redactions in search warrant documents related to the RCMP’s investigation in the mass murders of April 18/19 be un-redacted.

This was in response to an application to the court by a media coalition that includes the Halifax Examiner.

The Examiner has published the previously redacted documents here.

The new information comes primarily from people who spoke with police on April 19. One person spoke with Halifax police; the other ...

Robert O’Brien, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, tested positive for Covid-19 after attending a family event and has been self-isolating at his home while working remotely, according to reports.

The 54-year-old Republican is the fourth national security adviser to serve in the White House under Mr Trump, and has held the position since 2019. His diagnosis was first reported by Bloomberg News’ White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs.

He was the closest White House ...

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is still in the hospital undergoing oxygen treatment more than three weeks after first being hospitalized with the coronavirus on July 2, according to an update from his Twitter account on Monday.

Google will keep its employees home until at least next July, making the search-engine giant the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

The move will affect nearly all of the roughly 200,000 full-time and contract employees across Google parent Alphabet Inc., and is sure to pressure other technology giants that have slated staff to return as soon as January.

When the editor of a weekly paper approached me about writing a regular column about local politics, the first thing I asked her was: “Are you sure you know what you’d be getting yourself into?”

That was February. I had been live-tweeting Charlottesville city government meetings for a year and a half, ever since the deadly Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Entirely by accident, I had created a fairly large audience for what amounted to municipal meeting minutes narrated by a mouthy ...

The problem for Republicans, as Lindsey Graham pointed out this morning, is that “half the GOP will vote against whatever the leadership comes up with.” The leadership appears dimly aware that any failure on this bill will cause far more electoral pain for Republicans rather than Democrats. Yet this admission means that any bill will need substantial Democratic support in order to pass.

The White House has even floated on more than one occasion the idea of a stopgap bill just to extend ...

One of the longest-running and most interesting stories of 2020 has been the slow emergence of a ton of confidential, historic data contained within some big Nintendo leaks. Another round of stuff originating from this data spill landed over the weekend, and it covers everything from Super Mario 64 to Star Fox 2 to Super Mario World.