Новости за 11.05.2024

As the November election nears, journalists work to counter false and misleading information aimed at Spanish-speaking voters.

A massive trove of tax information obtained by ProPublica, covering thousands of America’s wealthiest individuals, reveals what’s inside the billionaires’ bag of tricks for minimizing their personal tax bills — sometimes to nothing.

Cartoon by Clay Bennett.

Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of “abortion aftercare kits,” Kimra Luna got a text. A woman who’d taken abortion pills three weeks earlier was worried about bleeding—and disclosing the cause to a doctor.

In today’s episode of eating the poor: Have you noticed your city’s bus terminal lately? No? That’s because it may no longer be there. Greyhound and other major private bus services are quietly vacating their terminals. Already the bus terminals in cities like Cincinnati, Louisville, Philadelphia, Houston, Portland, Charlottesville, and Tampa have shut down. Even ones that act as major hubs like Chicago and Dallas have disappeared. Hedge funds have been buying up the centrally located transit hubs for redevelopment purposes. Читать дальше...

Four years ago this week, Donald Trump claimed that the U.S. had "met the moment and … prevailed," not over COVID-19, but over the test shortage that had hobbled the nation's response for over four months as the virus spread around the world and across the country. As with most things Trump said about the pandemic, that was a lie. 

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

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Donald Trump’s hush money trial has put a lot of words in our mouths that we wouldn’t normally say, and stoic cable news anchors are no exception.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott has bitter complaints about the alleged persecution of Donald Trump, and he’s using his own trials and tribulations to illustrate his point. Trump himself loves to claim he’s been treated more unfairly than any politician ever, including Abraham Lincoln, whose reward for freeing millions of brutally enslaved men, women, and children was being shot in the back of the head by a Confederate jabroni.

Cartoon by Brian McFadden.

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On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Juan Merchan for two favors in Trump’s ongoing New York criminal trial, where he is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to protect his 2016 campaign.