Jeffrey Epstein’s confidant Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on Thursday morning on multiple sex abuse charges including conspiracy to entice minors to engage in sexual acts.Epstein’s former girlfriend and accused madam was taken into custody at 8:30 a.m. in Bedford, N.H., the FBI confirmed to Fox News. She had purportedly been hiding out in…
President Trump on Thursday celebrated the strong job gains in June as proof that “our economy is roaring back” from the coronavirus outbreak. “This is the largest monthly jobs gain in the history of our country,” Mr. Trump said in a hastily arranged announcement at the White House. Employers added 4.8 jobs in June, combined…
Nonfarm payrolls jumped by 4.8 million in June and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1% as the U.S. continued its reopening from the coronavirus pandemic, the Labor Department said Thursday.Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting a 2.9 million increase and a jobless rate of 12.4%. The report was released a day earlier than…
July 02, 2020 124 days to Nov 03, 2020 Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images. 1. The white-collar realignment It’s complete.One way to look at the outcome of the 2016 election was how differing rates of change in the nascent national political realignment secured the election for Trump. Working-class white Americans—the ancestral…
“You can’t chase the Trump clown car,” said Bradley Beychok, president of the progressive group American Bridge. “Him drinking water and throwing a glass is goofy and may make for a good meme, but it doesn’t matter in the scheme of things … What people care about is this outbreak.” Until recently, it wasn’t entirely…