Friday's Headlines: Trump skips mask in public tour of Ford plant
Trump subverts ritual of political photo op; Trump uses official trip to Ford factory to make case for reelection; Virus 'does not spread easily' from surfaces or animals, revised CDC website states; Prince Charles wants furloughed workers to pick berries. Farmers wonder if Brits are up to the task.; More evidence emerges on why covid-19 is so much worse than the flu; We have to reopen — for our health; The 'us and them' pandemic shows America is impervious to black pain; The state budget crisis is not just a blue-state crisis. It's an every-state crisis.; Some Americans thought this kind of test was behind them ; Would-be Americans are being kept from becoming citizens — and from voting; Are we seeing a tactical tilt toward Russia?; Beijing to implement security laws in Hong Kong by fiat, bypassing region's legislature; Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery's death arrested on murder charges, authorities say; Facebook will now let some employees work from anywhere, but their paychecks could get cut; Being a pig farmer was already hard. Then came coronavirus. ; Legacy retail begins its collapse
The president said he donned a mask in another area of the plant, "where they preferred it," but told reporters he didn't want to give them the satisfaction of seeing him wearing it.
The refusal to wear a mask publicly in Michigan was the latest example of President Trump upstaging the intended image of a president doing presidential things.
As the president plans to visit a Ford factory in Michigan today, his trips have taken on clear campaign overtones as pushes for states to restart their economies despite continuing public health concerns and the rising death toll.
CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said Thursday that the revisions were the product of an internal review and "usability testing." The revised guidance now states, in headline-size type, "The virus spreads easily between people."
Picking soft berries and leafy greens requires considerable skill and backbreaking physical toil for low pay. Farm owners worry that many of the thousands of Brits who applied for the jobs won't show up or won't last the season after they get their hands dirty.
China's top Hong Kong officials plan to implement the laws unilaterally, a Hong Kong delegate to Beijing's legislature told The Washington Post, in a move that will allow Beijing to override the region's constitutional autonomy over local affairs whenever it chooses.
By Shibani Mahtani, Anna Fifield, Tiffany Liang and Timothy McLaughlin ●Read more »
William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. is the third man to be charged in connection with the death of the 25-year-old black man. Arbery's family says he was out jogging when two white men with guns in a pickup truck accosted him.
Covid-19's disruption to the meatpacking industry has left a roughly two-month backlog of pigs in Iowa and surrounding states, hundreds of thousands of animals that were ready to be slaughtered weeks ago but increasingly have nowhere to go.
Bankruptcies rattle the retail industry. SpaceX is poised to send two astronauts into orbit for the first time. And an online community breaks the fast together, each night of Ramadan.
Post Reports | Listen Now●By The Washington Post ●Read more »
No comments:
Post a Comment