Eco-friendly outdoor brand Patagonia has a colorful and timely message stitched into the tags of its latest line of shorts. “VOTE THE A**HOLES,” it reads. PATAGONIA’s New Tag! pic.twitter.com/llY71SwsQG — Outlander Magazine (@StreetFashion01) September 12, 2020 The new tags are already a hit online. They became a trending topic on Twitter after a photo of […]
In a news conference on Sunday, President Trump alongside Stephen Hahn, the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Alex Azar, the secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS), touted the efficacy of blood plasma in treating COVID-19 as they announced its approval for a treatment. And yet, the data they cited was […]
President Donald Trump wanted to cut off wildfire relief money to California because the state did not support his political goals, a former administration staffer has claimed. In a scathing campaign ad released Monday by Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT), former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Miles Taylor said that […]
The Trump administration continued its war on appliance efficiency Wednesday with a proposal to increase the water that can flow from showerheads. The latest Department of Energy (DOE) plan follows its rollbacks on lightbulb and dishwasher standards, as well as President Donald Trump‘s repeated complaints about water-saving appliances. But consumer advocates say the changes are […]
The U.S. passed five million coronavirus cases on Sunday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, just 17 days after it hit the four-million case mark. The number means the U.S. now has more confirmed coronavirus cases than Ireland and Alabama have people, CNN pointed out. “This is such a sobering number,” Vanderbilt University infectious […]
The Great American Outdoors Act is now the law of the land. President Donald Trump signed the bill, which passed the Senate and House with bipartisan support, on Tuesday. It is considered a major U.S. conservation milestone. “You cannot overstate the importance of this bill and what it will mean for national parks, public lands […]
The second largest teachers union in the U.S. announced Tuesday it would support strikes if schools reopened without proper safety measures in place to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The announcement comes as the Trump administration has called for schools to reopen in the fall for in-person instruction amid a nationwide surge in […]
The U.S. surpassed four million coronavirus cases on Thursday, a little more than two weeks after it hit three million confirmed cases. The number of hospitalizations is also on the rise. Around 59,600 people were hospitalized with the virus on Wednesday, according to COVID Tracking Project data reported by CNN. That’s only around 300 fewer […]
President Donald Trump continued to downplay the severity of the coronavirus pandemic one day after the U.S. death toll passed 140,000, according to a Reuters tally. “Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News Sunday, as NPR reported. “They have the sniffles, […]