Cadillac Frank and his cronies knew a thing or two about apt monikersI like nothing better than a good obituary and last week the Times carried an absolute belter devoted to Francis Salemme, a mafioso boss, who had the wonderful nickname “Cadillac Frank”. Among his associates and family were Stephen “the Rifleman” Flemmi, Frank “Frankie Boy” Salemme and Robert “the Cigar” DeLuca.It reminded me of one of the best lines ever written. It was in a biography of Al Capone and the time he was banged up. The governor, clearly a tolerant type, allowed Capone to form a band. And the line? “Sitting in on drums was Machine Gun Kelly.” Perfect. The mob does have the best nicknames.Jonathan Bouquet is an Observer columnist Continue reading...
Having forced draconian lockdowns on his people, China’s supreme leader is now expecting them to believe that the virus is no worse than a coldIn the chaos of China’s Covid exit wave, China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, has been curiously absent. His last public pronouncement on China’s “dynamic zero”-Covid policy was in his speech to the 20th party congress in October: “We have adhered to the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life, adhered to dynamic zero-Covid,” he told delegates, “... and achieved major positive results in the overall prevention and control of the epidemic and economic and social development.” It was, he insisted, overwhelming evidence that the policy was correct and that the party cared deeply for the people.Xi used his New Year Address yesterday to urge more effort and unity as the country enters a “new phase” in its approach to the pandemic. Until his remarks, the defence of his policy U-turn had been left to others. As distressing images of body bags stacked in hospital corridors, patients on intravenous drips by the roadside and hearses queueing outside crematoriums circulated on social media, hapless officials indignantly denied “rumours” of pandemic deaths, repeating claims that China managed the virus better than other countries, demonstrating the superiority of China’s political system, and insisting anyone who says otherwise is either an ill-intentioned foreigner, a traitor to the people or a paid provocateur. They insisted that the reversal was a rational, science-based and well-prepared decision or, as the nationalist mouthpiece Global Times put it last week: “The changing virus variant, accelerated mass vaccination and enhanced medical resources all laid out the foundation for a long planned and orderly Covid response adjustment.” Continue reading...
Fresh evidence shows how the lives of terminally ill people can be wrongfully cut shortWe inhabit a world in which the answers to thorny moral questions are too often cast in black and white. Nuance is for losers: stray too far from your tribe and you’re accused of aligning yourself with rightwing religious fundamentalists or lefty woke warriors.Very little truly fits these social media-driven straitjackets. So it is in the case of assisted dying.Sonia Sodha is an Observer columnist Continue reading...
Taiwan, North Korea, Iran and Palestine are all potential flashpoints that could distract western attention from the invasion in 2023It was a good year to bury bad news – and bad deeds – as a clutch of dictators, assorted killers and repressive or anti-democratic regimes can testify. In Myanmar, Yemen, Mali, Nicaragua, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and Afghanistan, to name a few crisis zones, egregious abuses and unrelieved misery attracted relatively scant, perfunctory international scrutiny.The main reason for 2022’s blinkered perspectives is, of course, Ukraine, Europe’s biggest conflict since 1945. This is not to say war-torn Tigray or Guatemala, strangled slowly by corruption, would otherwise have made global headline news. Hard truth: western interest in developing-world conflicts is generally limited.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...
Leaked messages show an unhealthy link between social media and state securityHalf the room is jumping up and down, screaming “Gotcha!”. The other half shrugs its shoulders, muttering “So what’s new?”. Welcome to the war over the so-called Twitter Files.Over the past month, Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, has made available to a handpicked group of journalists internal documents and conversations that took place before his takeover. They are mainly discussions about who and what should be moderated or banned, ranging from the Hunter Biden laptop story to the question of whether to remove Donald Trump from the platform. The journalists have made public selected slices of the data through a drip feed of Twitter threads.Kenan Malik is an Observer columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...
Suspect, 28, accused of killing four students will waive his extradition hearing and will be brought to Idaho to face chargesBryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old criminology graduate student charged first-degree murder in the macabre killings of four University of Idaho students, plans to waive an appearance in court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday where Idaho prosecutors will request his extradition, his lawyer indicated on Saturday.Pennsylvania’s Monroe county chief public defender, Jason LaBar, said on Saturday that he plans to tell a judge there on Tuesday that Kohberger will waive his extradition hearing there so that he can be quickly brought to Idaho to face the charges and is eager to be exonerated. Continue reading...
Can the US revitalise its infrastructure? Is the US ready for a gay president? And does Buttigieg still plan to run one day?From Pete Buttigieg’s old office in South Bend, Indiana, you could see the hospital where he was born, churches built for Irish and Polish immigrants and a factory that made cabinets for Singer sewing machines. “This was the Silicon Valley of its day,” the then mayor told the Guardian in February 2019.Nearly four years later, Buttigieg is occupying a loftier perch. As America’s transportation secretary, his framed photograph sits alongside those of Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris in the lobby of the Department of Transportation. Continue reading...
The former Brazil international came to know Pelé the man, his patience and humility: ‘He was warm, close’Pelé called me his idol once. That was the day I played with him, the only time I did, and it was my most emotional moment with him. It was a benefit match at the Maracanã in April 1979, with 140,000 people there after flooding in Minas Gerais. Flamengo against Atlético Mineiro. “My idol!” he called me; that was him, that was his humour, his character, always embracing you. He played with us – Zico and I were in the Flamengo team – and playing with him was like a dream, especially when I played him a pass. I mean, caramba, I gave the ball to Pelé!Pelé was the greatest for everyone from our generation. It’s hard to express what he meant to us. He had been the best for me from an early age, and thinking of him always brings to mind my grandmother. Santos used to play their big games at the Maracanã rather than in São Paulo: games against teams such as Garrincha’s Botafogo, or Milan. Continue reading...
Women say banks enabled and ignored red flags about the financier’s sex traffickingJPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank have asked a US judge to dismiss lawsuits by women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse and said the banks enabled and ignored red flags about the late financier’s sex trafficking.The banks, in papers filed on Friday night in Manhattan federal court in New York, said they did not participate in or benefit from sex trafficking by their former client, and that the unnamed women failed to allege violations of a federal anti-trafficking law. Continue reading...
2022 saw a stunning reverse on reproductive rights in the US but there were also victories for women – and the plain bizarreLet’s start on a positive note, eh? Because there were a few victories. 2022 was a crummy year in many respects for women but it wasn’t all bad. In terms of reproductive rights, for example, Colombia decriminalized abortion and India’s supreme court extended access to abortion to unmarried women.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Thunberg’s funny exchange is a reminder of the connection between machismo, misogyny and hostility to climate actionOn 27 December, former kickboxer, professional misogynist and online entrepreneur Andrew Tate, 36, sent a boastfully hostile tweet to climate activist Greta Thunberg, 19, about his sports car collection. “Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions,” he wrote. He was probably hoping to enhance his status by mocking her climate commitment. Instead, she burned the macho guy to a crisp in nine words.Cars are routinely tokens of virility and status for men, and the image accompanying his tweet of him pumping gas into one of his vehicles, coupled with his claims about their “enormous emissions”, had unsolicited dick pic energy. Thunberg seemed aware of that when she replied: “yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com.”Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. Her most recent books are Recollections of My Nonexistence and Orwell’s Roses Continue reading...
A ‘cost of living crisis’ is a sign our society has gone fundamentally wrong. It’s time we stopped reducing people to calculations of costA few weeks ago, a friend reminded me of that old song, All My Trials: “If living were a thing that money could buy / The rich would live and the poor would die.” Which, of course, they do. Just how many unnecessary deaths will result from the lethal combination of extreme cold and soaring energy costs this winter remains to be seen, but no one needs an economics degree to work out that the figures will be weighted towards those who lack choices and resources.It is not just that insecurity literally threatens lives; it is also that all those things financial security makes possible – the freedom to celebrate, to plan for your children, to give gifts to people you love – become monstrously complicated. Living with any fullness or imagination recedes over the horizon when choices are all about survival. Who goes hungry – you, or your child? How many jobs can you take on to keep the family fed without wrecking your physical and mental health?Rowan Williams is a former archbishop of Canterbury Continue reading...
Clarence Thomas’s wife says couple did not discuss challenges to Biden’s election victory, in testimony released by January 6 panelThe conservative activist Ginni Thomas has “no memory” of what she discussed with her husband, the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, during the heat of the battle to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to congressional testimony released on Friday.Thomas, 65, recalled “an emotional time” in which her mood was lifted by her husband and Mark Meadows, then Donald Trump’s chief of staff, a transcript of her deposition with the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol showed. Continue reading...
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Suspect, 28, reportedly apprehended in Monroe county in relation to stabbing deaths of four young people at University of IdahoA criminology graduate student has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death in their beds more than a month ago, police said on Friday.Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested early on Friday morning by the Pennsylvania state police at a home in Chestnuthill Township, authorities said. The Latah county prosecutor, Bill Thompson, said investigators believe Kohberger broke into the students’ home “with the intent to commit murder”. Continue reading...
The former president had a bank account in China, failed to donate in 2020 and claims Democrats ‘weaponized’ his taxesIn one of its last acts under Democratic control, the House of Representatives on Friday released six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, dating to 2015, the year he announced his presidential bid.The thousands of pages of returns were the subject of a prolonged legal battle after Trump broke precedent by not releasing his tax returns while running for, and then occupying, the White House. Continue reading...
Police came to hospital room after staff called them about patient’s marijuana vape pen use to alleviate disease symptomsAfter news of the case sparked public backlash, police in Kansas moved to rescind a drug possession ticket which officers gave to a terminally ill cancer patient after they found him with cannabis paste he was using to ease his pain during the last few weeks he is expected to live.Greg Bretz, a 69-year-old cancer patient in Hays, Kansas, had been using a vape pen as well as eating THC paste on bread to cope with his symptoms since being hospitalized about three weeks ago. Continue reading...
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Returns date from 2015 to 2020 and span nearly 6,000 pages as former president rails against effort by ‘radical left Democrats’Six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns were made public by a congressional committee on Friday, ending the former president’s long-running effort to break precedent and keep them secret.The documents, dating from 2015 to 2020, offer insights into the complex finances and foreign bank accounts of a man who was accused of abusing the presidency for personal profit and who has already announced another bid for the White House. Continue reading...
President issues six full pardons, mostly for minor drug offenses but including one for Beverly Ann Ibn-Tamas over 1977 deathJoe Biden on Friday announced six full pardons, most for minor drug offenses but including a pardon for an 80-year-old woman from Columbus, Ohio, who killed her abusive husband when she was 33.In a statement, a White House official said the president was granting pardons to “individuals who have served their sentences and have demonstrated a commitment to improving their communities and the lives of those around them. Continue reading...
The state held a mandatory recount that saw Mayes beat her Republican opponent Abraham Hamadeh by 280 votesDemocrats won the race for attorney general of Arizona by a razor-thin 280 votes, a mandatory statewide recount confirmed on Thursday.Going into the recount, Democrat Kris Mayes led her Republican opponent, Abraham Hamadeh, by 511 votes. Continue reading...
Christopher Lazazzaro alleges mass-market chocolatier failed to reveal lead and cadmium in dark chocolate products to consumersA lawsuit filed in New York state alleges that the confectionary giant Hershey “fails to disclose” that some of its chocolate products “contain unsafe levels of lead and cadmium”.A New York man, Christopher Lazazzaro, filed the suit in Long Island federal court on 28 December. The suit against the mass-market chocolatier, which in 1988 acquired the license to produce Cadbury products in the US, seeks class-action status. Continue reading...
Too many designers are unable – or unwilling – to make clothes for women with breasts and bums. Westwood embraced the curvesThe first time I saw a Vivienne Westwood dress in the wild was while shopping for my best friend’s wedding, almost 10 years ago. She told me she wanted something black, not white, something in the sale, something she could wear after the wedding and – turning to face me on the middle of London’s Regent Street, added: “something that will stretch because I’m six weeks pregnant”. So off we went to the Vivienne Westwood store on Conduit Street in London, and left half an hour later with a loose black silk sleeveless pencil dress, with a draped neckline and ruched waist with plenty of give. She successfully wore it, five weeks later and 11 weeks pregnant, to her wedding.Vivienne Westwood, who died on Thursday night, could pack more contradictions into one collection than most designers could in a lifetime. But in her clothes, she did the one thing designers are unable – or rather unwilling – to do. That is, make fancy stuff for real people with real bodies, making her truly the mother of all fashion contradictions. Continue reading...
Congressman who won narrowly in New York denounced as ‘complete and utter fraud’ for fabricating swaths of biographyWeeks after winning a district that helped Republicans secure a razor-thin majority in the US House of Representatives, the congressman-elect George Santos is under investigation in New York after acknowledging lying about his heritage, education and professional pedigree as he campaigned for office.Santos has conceded he lied about his background, but there is also growing scrutiny over his campaign spending and whether it ran afoul of campaign finance laws. Continue reading...
The greatest heartbreak that comes with extreme wealth is not being able to trust even your friendsAs a therapist to “ultra high net worth individuals”, for me the new Netflix sensation, Glass Onion, A Knives Out Mystery, hits a little too close to home. While the average person naturally finds it hard to muster any sympathy for billionaires, the sequel to the 2019 murder mystery film Knives Out perfectly illustrates why I would never choose to enter the complicated world of my clients. Trust me when I say you’ll never see me buying a lottery ticket.Director Rian Johnson sets his sequel on a lavish private Greek island owned by billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton). Miles’ closest friends gather to play a murder mystery game over the course of a glamorous weekend – along with the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). While this might seem like a far-fetched storyline, it is not entirely unusual. Continue reading...
Alyssa Farah Griffin, once Trump’s communications director, criticizes ex-White House press chief in January 6 testimonyKayleigh McEnany, Donald Trump’s final White House press secretary, is “a liar and an opportunist”, according to testimony to the House January 6 committee by Alyssa Farah Griffin, formerly communications director to Trump.In testimony released on Thursday, Griffin was asked where McEnany “fell” after the 2020 election, “either, ‘Hey, we lost, let’s gracefully exit’ versus ‘let’s facilitate the big lie’” that Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden was caused by electoral fraud. Continue reading...
John Yarmuth, outgoing House budget committee chair, sounds alarm about GOP going into ‘blow-it-up mode’ on Capitol HillA leading Democratic lawmaker has warned that the Republican party is now so extreme it could cause the world’s largest economy to default on its debt for the first time ever in its quest to extract concessions from the Biden administration.“My guess is that whoever is speaker of the House will be so in a vice from the extreme members of their caucus, that they won’t be able to get anything done here. I really worry about defaulting,” John Yarmuth, Kentucky Democrat and chair of the powerful House budget committee, told the Guardian. Continue reading...
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From neighborhood heatmaps to banana diagrams, the visuals we used to tell this year’s storiesIn 2022, the Guardian US visuals team used data to tell stories ranging from the effects of our warming planet to voter disenfranchisement and abortion deserts. When our reporting led us to a point too complex for words we crafted data graphics to simplify and inform. Below are nine stories that represent our best work of the year.
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On the heels of another sports year that was chock full of surprises, Guardian US contributors make their bold predictions for the months to comeHere are our bold predictions for 2023 in sports. Please note the bold (or should that be bold?) in bold predictions: these are to be taken with a pinch of salt. Continue reading...
China is still regarded as a threat, although not an immediate one and Taiwan’s military faces an image problemOn Tuesday, less than two days after the largest deployment of Chinese military craft into Taiwanese airspace this year, Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, announced an extension of military conscription, lengthening the period for men born after 2005 from four months to one year.It was expected that Tsai would make the announcement before the end of the year, so this was not a direct reaction to China’s most recent military threats. Tsai cited China’s August live-fire exercises around Taiwan, which took place after Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the country. Tsai also brought up the invasion of Ukraine as offering lessons for Taiwan. Continue reading...
Clerk allegedly drenched unhoused woman sitting in parking lot of store where Alton Sterling was killed by police in 2016A worker at a convenience store in Louisiana’s capital has lost her job and is facing criminal charges after she dumped water on an unhoused woman who was outside the shop during the Christmas weekend’s freezing weather.The dismissed employee – identified by authorities as 33-year-old Kasey Weber – purportedly posted video of the 26 December encounter on social media herself before police arrested her in a case containing one of the most extreme examples of alleged mistreatment against a neighbor at a time when community leaders called on Americans to band together to survive the dangerous Arctic weather that gripped much of the US recently. Continue reading...
I was far from alone in going through a major breakup. Perhaps others, too, found romantic love was not enough to fulfil themRumours swirled last week that alternative pin-up couple Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal had parted ways. The pairing of singer and actor over two-and-a-bit years was the stuff of internet legend: he was the sensitive hunk with a star-making turn in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People. She was the sorrowful indie-crooner who, it turned out, was one of Mescal’s favourite musicians. They met over Zoom, in a public interview as the pandemic raged. Soon they were dating and seemed destined to live happily ever after, until suddenly gossipy reports suggested it was all over.In my circle of friends, this story felt like a fitting culmination to a year marked by the end of long-term relationships. “Wow, the season finale of breakup season,” one tweeted in response to the maybe-news. It doesn’t really matter whether these two celebrities, entirely separate from my social milieu, are no longer together – we saw what we wanted to see: 2022, the year of big breakups, may have claimed yet more scalps. Continue reading...
Airline says it will also reimburse related expenses as other carriers are capping fares to assist stranded travelersSouthwest Airlines has promised to refund tickets and reimburse passengers for hotels, car rentals and other expenses after its mass cancelations left thousands of people stranded across the country.The airline’s chief commercial officer, Ryan Green, told reporters on Thursday that it would take several weeks to repay customers, but that the airline would cover costs people incurred when they were forced to make alternative travel arrangements, including paying for meals and gas. The company said it would also pay to ship people’s baggage to them. Continue reading...
Heartbreaking stories pour in about people missing a heart transplant or dying inside a carOne man never came home from a grocery run. Another man missed a chance at a new heart. A woman died after getting trapped in her car.The human toll that the winter blast which gripped much of the US last week has continued to mount. Since the “blizzard of the century” swept through multiple parts of the nation last week, at least 60 people have died countrywide, and details about the heartbreak their families are enduring have been trickling out. Continue reading...
House of Representatives’ report details ‘corporate greed’ and ‘atypical review process’ preceding agency’s approval of Biogen’s drugUS drug regulators failed to follow their own guidance and practices when they approved the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, a congressional report said on Thursday.The US food and drug administration’s (FDA) process of approval, it said, had been “rife with irregularities”, and the FDA’s interactions with maker Biogen had been “atypical”. Continue reading...
Mayor Eric Adams hails ‘major milestone’ as former Gap store in Lower Manhattan sells variety of cannabis-related productsFrom the long-empty husk of a Manhattan retail chain, new life blooms – in the form of the state of New York’s first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana, which was set to open on Thursday at 4.20pm.Housing Works Cannabis Company will roll out retail adult-use weed sales at a shop on Broadway and Astor Place in Lower Manhattan – a former Gap outpost – with items such as edibles priced from $20 and flowers from $40, according to NBC New York. Continue reading...
Former first lady says caring for their young daughters put strain on their marriage in Revolt TV interview promoting latest bookFormer first lady Michelle Obama has said she “couldn’t stand” her husband for a decade while the couple’s children were young.In frank comments to the Black news station Revolt TV last week, Obama – one of the most popular women in America – said that raising children had put strains on her three-decade marriage to Barack Obama, the US president for two four-year terms beginning in 2009. Continue reading...
Nearly 700 bats have been released in Houston, Texas, after undergoing one week of rehabilitation from exposure to frigid temperatures. The Houston Humane Society and Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition announced the Mexican free-tailed bats would be released back to their colony.
Banned from schools, streets, universities and even working for NGOs, women and girls are now nothing more than prisoners in their homes in my home countryIn the past 15 months or so, life has changed unrecognisably for Afghanistan’s women and girls. Speak to secondary school pupils, their parents and education activists, and you will hear just how devastating the impact of the Taliban’s school closures have been. It is hard to fathom the depth of the darkness that has emerged as a consequence of this action.Girls are dealing with the psychological fallout of being cut off from their classmates and social networks. Many are struggling with severe depression. Since secondary schools were closed, child marriage has increased dramatically. Suicide rates among women and girls have been steadily rising since the Taliban’s return to power. Women protesting against the Taliban’s closure of universities in Kabul this week have been beaten and whipped.Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist living in London and the editor-in-chief and founder of Rukhshana Media, a news agency reporting on life for women and girls in AfghanistanDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Opinion comes in ruling barring man charged with role in Capitol attack from arguing former president authorized his actionsDonald Trump may have been telling his supporters he wanted them “to do something more” than simply protest against his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race when he told a mob of them to “fight like hell” on the day of the Capitol attack, according to findings from a federal judge on Wednesday.The opinion from Judge John Bates came in the form of a ruling barring one man charged with having a hand in staging the Capitol assault on January 6 2021 – Alexander Sheppard – from arguing that Trump, as president at the time, had authorized his actions. Continue reading...
Documents accuse bank of ‘turning a blind eye’ to illegal activities committed by their clientThe US Virgin Islands is suing the bank JPMorgan Chase, accusing it of helping Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and girls, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York.The documents submitted by the US Virgin Islands’ (USVI) attorney general accuse JPMorgan of “turning a blind eye” to illegal activities committed by Epstein – a client of the bank – on his private island, Little St James, which is part of the Caribbean US territory. Continue reading...
Statistics are often likened to a minefield – and frequent reader complaints highlight the need to tread with cautionImagine this newspaper reports that cuts in the dairy industry mean there will now be “four times fewer” maids a-milking on the eighth day of Christmas. How many do you imagine will be at work? We’ll come back to that question later.The handling of numbers is something that readers regularly make contact about, and 2022 has been no different. But with the bountiful optimism of an approaching new year, we can hope that a review of some repeat offences brings down the 2023 tally by a fraction.Elisabeth Ribbans is the Guardian and Observer’s global readers’ editor. She can be contacted at this email addressDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Niagara Falls partially froze because of extreme cold weather in Canada and the north-east of the US.Drone footage shows thick layers of ice and snow around the waterfall.Major storms brought blizzard-likeconditions south across much of the US, including record snowfalls and hurricane-force winds Continue reading...
Civil rights leader says party must step up its appeal or risk Trump or other Republicans making inroadsThe Rev Al Sharpton has warned Democratic leaders that they must step up the party’s appeal to African American voters or risk Donald Trump or other Republican leaders making greater inroads with the Black electorate in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.Speaking to the Guardian from the Harlem headquarters of his civil rights group, National Action Network (NAN), in New York City, Sharpton, 68, said that Trump’s small but notable support in 2020 among voters in certain minority demographics should set off alarm bells for Democratic strategists. Continue reading...
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