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Image: Instagram Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice is the latest to go at President Trump. The president was recently criticized for how he attacked and berated PBS correspondent Yamiche Alcindor in a White House coronavirus media briefing. President Trump told Alcindor at the meeting to “be nice” and to …

Graphic: Atlus Games So recent events have left a good chunk of us with an ungodly amount of free time. Weeks have felt like years. You’ve probably gotten through Tiger King, caught up on your shows and you might have already even finally beat those games you got over Christmas …

Just before the 2016 election, and then again after its results became clear, I did a series of Atlantic items on a challenge I thought the press was not prepared for. The challenge was dealing with a major political figure—Donald Trump—who fit no previous pattern of how presidents or other …

(Image: Twitter) The retail giant Amazon has announced that it will roll out temperature checks and face masks for staff at all its U.S. and European warehouses plus Whole Foods stores by early next week. According to Reuters, Amazon said it would start testing hundreds of thousands of employees a …

Niecy Nash turned to the church earlier in her life to help her through some tough times. But, in a new documentary series about faith, she admits she didn’t always find what she needed. In an interview for UMC.tv’s four-part docuseries Behind Her Faith, Nash, 50, admits, “I ran from …

Mario Salerno (Credit: screenshot) One landlord in New York – which has widely been called the epicenter of the coronavirus in this country – has decided to forego the rent of the 80 apartments he owns for the month of April. According to a local NBC affiliate, on March 30, …

Google HQ in Mountain View, CA (iStock/SpVVK) California governor Gavin Newsom announced this week that schools K-12 through college statewide would remain closed for the rest of the academic year due to a mandatory stay-at-home order to stop the spread of COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus. As a result of …

Image: Instagram The 2020 presidential race is still going. While some political commentators already have predicted their pick for a candidate, some are considering running for office this year. Conservative activist and commentator Candace Owens is one of them. Owens told Fox News Thursday that she had decided to look …

Ellis Marsalis, legendary jazz pianist and teacher, died on Wednesday (April 1) at 85 years old due to the coronavirus. “It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of my father, Ellis Marsalis Jr.” his son Branford Marsalis said in a statement. “He was admitted to the hospital …

(Image: National Action Network) There are some churches that aren’t adhering to the call to avoid large crowds to slow down the novel coronavirus pandemic. Rev. Al Sharpton has put out a call to faith leaders to discontinue church services leading into Easter. The civil rights leader has convened a …