“With three weeks to go until Election Day, and millions of votes already cast, coronavirus remains the top issue for America,” Trevor Noah said on Thursday’s episode of The Daily Show. “And any normal president would be laser-focused on getting corona under control, helping businesses stay afloat, keeping schools open. But Donald Trump is not a normal president.” Instead, Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani are counting on their “October surprise” of a secret laptop that allegedly contains Hunter Biden’s emails to change the momentum of the race. “Honestly, it’s insane that Trump’s people are even going after Biden by targeting […]
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Donald Trump may be feuding with Dr. Anthony Fauci. But at least, as Trevor Noah put it Tuesday night, the president did get “a very real endorsement from another top scientist” this week. The Daily Show host was referring to Eric Trump, who appeared on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday and boasted about the “vaccine” that supposedly saved his father’s life. “It goes to speak how good some of these vaccines that are being created are and what my father’s done on the vaccine front no one could have done,” the president’s deeply confused son told host Jonathan Karl. “My […]
What sound does a crossword puzzle make? Sounds are very useful for crossword writers, especially since their spelling is often so flexible. Some of the sounds crossword writers put in their puzzles can be a bit dubious. Has anyone ever actually shrieked “Eek!” upon spotting a mouse? More people have surely written EEK into a crossword grid than have shouted that while standing on a chair in the kitchen, since you see it in puzzles all the time. Let’s look at some other examples, including from last week’s Daily Beast puzzles. On Thursday we had TEE-HEE clued as [Laugher’s sound], plus […]
More than 100,000 new Covid cases have been reported across Europe in one 24-hour period for the first time, as the continent struggles with the second wave of the virus and many nations record their highest-ever infection rates. The second wave of the novel coronavirus appears to be hitting Europe harder than the first, at least when it comes to the spread of the virus. Statistics presented by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control on Friday suggest that the infection rates throughout the continent have been higher than at the spring peak in late March and April, since at […]
With just a few more weeks to go until Election Day, Jordan Klepper is still putting his life on the line to make fun of Trump supporters at the president’s increasingly irresponsible rallies. After checking out one of Trump’s infamous boat parades over the summer, the Daily Show correspondent strapped on his mask and headed to Pennsylvania where he trolled the parking lot outside Harrisburg International Airport for the most embarrassing people he could find. “On the day Donald Trump most likely contracted COVID at an event in the Rose Garden, he hosted another, slightly different kind of superspreader event,” Klepper […]
Lewis Black is the only Daily Show contributor to appear alongside every host past and present: Craig Kilborn, Jon Stewart, and Trevor Noah. “And whoever they want to bring in next,” he jokes on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. The comedian has delivered his signature “Back in Black” segment hundreds of times over the past two and a half decades, most recently roasting New Yorkers—like himself—who have escaped the city during the pandemic. Currently, Black is holed up in North Carolina and driving himself stir crazy. It’s been just about seven months since he last got on stage […]
Thursday, October 01, 2020 *AVAILABLE FROM 8 AM ET 1. Debate Rules Will Change After Acrimonious First Round After a U.S. presidential debate that abandoned all decorous norms seen in previous election cycles and amounted to a series of belligerent interruptions decried by many on both sides of the aisle as useless and disturbing, the Commission on Presidential Debates says it will announce rule changes before the next matchup on Oct. 15. President Donald Trump’s campaign objected to any change. Meanwhile, with early voting already begun, Trump used the debate to urge supporters to go to polling places and “watch very carefully,” […]
As Western European countries, such as the UK and France, face a likely second wave of Covid-19, Eastern Europe – less severely hit in spring – may be following in tow. Russia and Ukraine are now seeing an uptick in infections. In Ukraine, doctors over the last 24 hours confirmed 3,833 new cases of Covid-19, a record figure since the beginning of the pandemic. According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his country is being hit by a second wave. Europe’s poorest state is especially vulnerable given the dire state of its health service. “Cases are spiking all around the world now, […]
The UK and France have both reported their highest-ever daily total of coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, confirming that the ‘second wave’ of the deadly virus is well and truly in full swing. The UK recorded some 6,634 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest daily figure yet. The country’s total Covid-19 tally has surpassed 400,000 cases, with nearly 42 thousand deaths. The vast majority of the new cases – 5,632 – come from England, the official figures show. Scotland has reported 465 new patients, Wales 348 and Northern Ireland only 189. Some 40 people succumbed to the […]
Grid patterns aren’t the most important aspect of a crossword, but it’s nice when they have a nice look to them. “Grid art” is also a thing in puzzles, where the black square pattern makes some identifiable formation that relates to the puzzle’s theme. A noteworthy recent example is this grid from January , where the black squares form the new year 2020. Here’s another example, where the writer put SWISS ROLL in the grid at 16-Down, and then the black square pattern forms the shape of one in the grid. My favorite grid pattern for a 10×10 puzzle, hands down, […]
Bitcoin is trending upward and volume on decentralized exchange Uniswap is soaring to an astounding new high. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,724 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 0.61% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,575-$11,784 BTC above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since August 29. Read More: Huobi and OKEx Battle for Supremacy in China Bitcoin jumped as high as $11,784 on spot exchanges like Coinbase on Monday. Adding fuel to the fire was the derivatives market; short sellers were liquidated on BitMEX during bitcoin’s […]
India has reported 78,761 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, marking the biggest-ever daily increase for a nation. The number of coronavirus infections in the world passed the 25 million mark on Sunday. Before Sunday’s update, which pushed the total number of infections in India to more than 2.5 million, the US held the record with 77,638 daily infections reported on July 17. The surge in India comes shortly after the government eased lockdown restrictions, to alleviate pressure on the economy. The disease is continuing to spread globally and even countries that have fared better so far like New Zealand and […]
Student journalists Anna Pogarcic and Brandon Standley of UNC’s Daily Tar Heel review a recent issue at their offices off campus. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption toggle caption Elissa Nadworny/NPR Student journalists Anna Pogarcic and Brandon Standley of UNC’s Daily Tar Heel review a recent issue at their offices off campus. Elissa Nadworny/NPR On the morning of Friday, Aug. 14, The Daily Tar Heel newsroom got a tip: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was about to announce clusters of positive coronavirus cases in student housing, after only a week of in-person classes. The student-led independent newspaper broke the news […]
President Trump keeps rising more and more the longer the Democrat National Convention (DNC) goes on. As former Obama Vice President Joe Biden performs his acceptance speech somewhere in Delaware in this year’s virtual DNC, his opponent President Trump reaches a 50% job approval rating in the daily poll by Rasmussen Reports. Advertisement – story continues below #ICYMI: #Trump‘s daily job approval ratings for today, sponsored by @libertynation broke 50%! … https://t.co/mazBCWoIMy @POTUS pic.twitter.com/DlXaRMUf2k — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 20, 2020 Reports also show that the President is now in a dead heat in the state of Minnesota. The Hill reports: […]
The British socialite’s legal team has referred to her pre-trial treatment as “onerous”, insisting she has difficulties in studying her court case and designing her line of defence while being constantly kept tabs on. A team of prison psychologists have been watching Jeffrey Epstein’s suspected “madam” in her solitary Brooklyn confinement for hours every day, conducting undercover checks of her mental health, the one-time socialite’s lawyers complained in a letter to US District Court Judge Alison Nathan, blasting the “onerous conditions” their client is being kept in. “The defence recently learned that some of these guards were, in fact [Bureau of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/06/1080087649_0:0:3070:1727_1200x675_80_0_0_7c0161042d212f39563b5bf9744d9b2c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202008181080209859-us-reports-lowest-daily-covid-19-case-count-in-almost-two-months/ The United States on Monday reported around 35,000 new COVID-19 cases, which is the lowest daily count in almost two months. According to Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering database, there were 35,100 new cases reported in the US on Monday, which is the lowest figure since June 25, when almost 40,000 new cases were reported. The latest Johns Hopkins data shows that almost 5.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in the US, with more than 171,000 related deaths. On Monday, there were 445 new fatalities, one […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden is expected to make his highly anticipated running-mate pick any day now. But before he does, The Daily Show made the case for one more out-of-left-field candidate. “All of those candidates are definitely qualified to be Biden’s VP,” Trevor Noah said Monday night of the presumed shortlist. “But when making his choice, Biden has to consider all of their potential landmines for him.” Susan Rice? “Benghazi baggage.” Kamala Harris? “Strict prosecutor.” Elizabeth Warren? “Could turn off moderates.” Gretchen Whitmer? “Is white.” The host joked that Biden’s decision is “like The Bachelor, but here there’s a chance […]
Billionaire media tycoon and Hong Kong protest-backer Jimmy Lai has been arrested on suspicion of “collusion with foreign powers.” Police also searched the offices of his Apple Daily tabloid, under the new national security law. According to a senior executive at Lai’s media company Next Digital, Mark Simon, the prominent 71yo mogul and supporter of the anti-Beijing movement in Hong Hong was arrested Monday morning. “Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time,” Simon said. Hong Kong police confirmed the arrest of seven suspects, on offences including collusion with foreign powers, but did not name them. […]
99% of crossword solvers begin a puzzle at 1-Across. That’s not wrong, but here’s a super-secret pro tip: there’s an even better strategy. Spend a few seconds scanning the puzzle for fill-in-the-blank (FITB) clues, and write in any of those that are obvious. Then go back to 1-Across and proceed; you’ll be solving the same puzzle, but with a few “freebie” answers already filled in. FITB clues are just what they sound like: those clues where, instead of getting a synonym, description, or other hint at the answer, you’re given a blank space in which you must, as Taylor Swift sings, […]
We had ANG LEE in Thursday’s puzzle, which makes a crossword writer feel good. Why? Because I was able to use both the director’s first *and* last names in the grid. You see first *or* last names all the time in crosswords, of course, so it’s fun to surprise the solver with a full name. It wasn’t that tough to fit ANG LEE in there, however, since it’s only six letters long, plus it’s full of common, easy-to-use letters. Six-letter celebs appear a lot in crosswords, notably AL GORE, AMY TAN, YO-YO MA, and ED KOCH. No full-name credit for sneaking […]
Days after announcing an expected $200 billion IPO, the Alibaba affiliate has rebranded its enterprise blockchain to AntChain. Source link
The pandemic has made it nearly impossible for Jordan Klepper to do the type of Daily Show field pieces like the one he filed from a Trump rally in Iowa back in February. But the “beautiful boaters” who have hit the high seas to show support for the president have changed all of that. “It was nice to get out on the road again, of course now the road is a body of water but that’s 2020 for you,” Klepper wrote me in a direct message on Wednesday after before his latest piece aired. Klepper chartered a boat in New Jersey […]
In recent comments to the press, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu claimed Chinese aircraft flying close to the island’s areas of control is “virtually a daily occurrence.” However, he failed to mention the US is also sending planes near Chinese airspace close to Taiwan on a daily basis. “What it is doing now is unceasingly preparing to use force to resolve the Taiwan problem,” Wu told reporters on Tuesday about Chinese foreign policy, AP reported. He noted that not every encounter between Chinese and Taiwanese aircraft is reported in the media. “If international society does not give China a sufficiently clear […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/14/1079939193_0:-1:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_da6233c72832b91deb5fb0ab130131d3.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202007201079939279-too-cool-for-you-posh-husky-picks-up-daily-puppuccino-/ Much of the world is trying to stay cool amid a series of intense summer heat waves. This includes our pets, as a lavish canine recently demonstrated. Footage shared on YouTube captures a Siberian husky residing in Omaha, Nebraska, sitting in a car at a Starbucks drive-thru with his head poking out of a window. The pup waits patiently for his refreshing frozen beverage. An employee is then seen handing him the drink, with the thirsty pup happily taking it inside the car. “The dog, Max, loves getting his daily puppuccino from Starbucks,” the […]
The grids I used on four of last week’s five puzzles all had something in common: they contained eight six-letter entries, which is a lot for a small crossword grid. This was on purpose. Why? Because six letters is what I call “breakout length” in crosswords. Entries of three, four, and five letters are extremely common, of course, and there are relatively few of these words in the language due to their short length. This means the same ones get repeated all the time in puzzles – ERA and ERE, ERIE and ARIA, EERIE and ARENA – you know the ones […]
The Daily Show host Trevor Noah checked in on Tuesday with Tucker Carlson, “Fox News primetime star and mom haircut model.” The previous night, Carlson finally addressed the controversy surrounding his show’s top writer, Blake Neff, who was fired by Fox for a history of racist, misogynistic and homophobic online posts. “So Fox News got rid of the guy,” Noah said, “but it appears Tucker Carlson might have some mixed feelings about how it all went down.” After telling viewers that he does not “endorse” Neff’s comments, Carlson said, “we should also point out to the ghouls now beating their chests […]
The World Health Organization has registered a record increase in coronavirus cases worldwide. The confirmed-cases number has jumped by nearly a quarter million over the past 24 hours. The record increase of 230,370 was registered by the global health watchdog on Sunday, with the largest number of new cases coming from the US, Brazil, India, and South Africa. It is the highest daily spike since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. The first three countries, which contributed most to the spike, amount to nearly half of all the cases registered worldwide. The US remains by far the worst-hit nation, with […]
What do IDINA Menzel, ANI DiFranco, NAS, Kelly RIPA, IRA Madison III, RIC Ocasek, Peter O’TOOLE, and Rita ORA all have in common? That’s easy, if you’re a puzzler: they all appear in crosswords much more commonly than do other celebrities of equal fame. In fact, all of these celebs appeared in last week’s Daily Beast puzzles (ANI even showed up twice!). Why are these stars so “crossword famous”? Because their names have letters that crossword writers find very useful. Lots of vowels and lots of common letters — think 1-pointers in Scrabble like R, S, T, N, L, E, and […]
US President Donald Trump has argued that the recent surge in coronavirus cases is explained by “massive” and ramped up screenings for the illness, while celebrating the fall in daily fatalities as “great news.” The president took to Twitter late on Thursday night to repurpose what has been widely deemed gloomy news about the course of the pandemic, saying the case spike is, in fact, a function of expanded testing around the country. “There is a rise in coronavirus cases because our testing is so massive and so good, far bigger and better than any other country. This is great news, […]
__________Asia TimesUS virus cases smash daily record Global infections soar as the WHO warned the pandemic is ‘not even close to being over’ New daily coronavirus cases in the United States soared past 50,000 for the first time Wednesday, as the World Health Organization delivered a grave warning that the global pandemic is accelerating. Restaurants, bars and beaches in the world’s worst-hit nation closed from California to Florida, as states reeling from yet another surge in the deadly virus braced for Independence Day festivities. Global infections have hit their highest level in the past week, WHO data showed, with chief Tedros […]
CNN contributor Van Jones has responded to a Daily Beast article accusing him of secretly working with President Donald Trump on a police reform executive order, saying he had nothing to do with it and demanding a retraction. The article is based on “false, sensational charges – apparently designed to get clicks, shares, and likes,” Jones tweeted on Monday. He added that he had visited neither Washington, DC nor the White House since the Covid-19 pandemic started, or been included in any meetings about police reform. “I didn’t know what was in the [executive order] until the day it was released,” […]
The New York Times on Friday published a story claiming that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban forces to kill US troops, citing “officials briefed on the matter.” President Trump early Sunday morning dismissed the New York Times report on the GRU-Taliban allegations. “Nobody briefed or told me, VP Pence, or Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an “anonymous source” by the Fake News New York Times.” Trump said in a pair of tweets Sunday morning. …Nobody’s been tougher on Russia than the Trump Administration. With Corrupt Joe […]
When federal prosecutors charged Jack Abramoff on Thursday with an illicit conspiracy to promote a cryptocurrency, they alleged that the disgraced lobbyist hired writers to help him with his scheme. The indictment did not name names. But new court documents point squarely to an employee of The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets. Abramoff, who served almost four years in prison for his wide-ranging Washington influence peddling schemes, found himself in legal hot water again this week for his attempts to promote AML Bitcoin, a supposedly “anti-money laundering” cryptocurrency created by Texan businessman Marcus Andrade. As part of his duties, Abramoff […]
As several states move to reintroduce containment measures, the US has again topped its one-day record for new Covid-19 cases. Tallying more than 45,000 infections, the spike could undo a falling trend in fatalities. Friday saw the US case count jump by 45,242, according to data collected by Reuters, putting the total number of infections in the country at nearly 2.5 million. The spike in cases comes as a handful of states see their outbreaks accelerate, prompting local officials to scale back moves to lift lockdown measures imposed to contain the virus. Also on rt.com Florida and Texas close bars and […]
When federal prosecutors charged Jack Abramoff on Thursday with an illicit conspiracy to promote a cryptocurrency, they alleged that the disgraced lobbyist hired writers to help him with his scheme. The indictment did not name names. But new court documents point squarely to an employee of The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets. Abramoff, who served almost four years in prison for his wide-ranging Washington influence peddling schemes, found himself in legal hot water again this week for his attempts to promote AML Bitcoin, a supposedly “anti-money laundering” cryptocurrency created by Texan businessman Marcus Andrade. As part of his duties, Abramoff […]
Daily Caller reporter Shelby Talcott was accused of being an undercover cop and assaulted by the “peaceful protesters” in DC on Monday evening. In a video of the incident, filmed by her colleague Matthew Miller, Talcott is surrounded by the Black Lives Matter activists and interrogated about who she is and why she was filming. Miller tweeted that she was “surrounded by BLM protesters and assaulted tonight in front of the WH. She is okay and was saved by a cop grabbing her out of the mob. I couldn’t get full altercation because we had to jump in. This is right […]
Deep State attempts to hide the fact that Trump and Barr are criminally insane. Good luck with that one. (CNN)The Trump administration asked a federal judge on Tuesday to order former national security adviser John Bolton to stop the publication of his upcoming book on his White House tenure, arguing in a lawsuit that Bolton had breached a contract and was risking the exposure of classified information. And there it is: Trump’s Department of Justice is suing to stop John Bolton from publishing his book on Trump. The lawsuit references possible “criminal penalties” for any “unauthorized disclosure of classified information.” pic.twitter.com/3glJ9SiYKT […]
A former Gawker editor suing The Daily Beast is getting help from a set of right-wing trolls, including a Trumpy conspiracy site, white nationalist sympathizer Michelle Malkin, and a company tied to far-right agitator Charles Johnson. In 2019, The Daily Beast published a story about how the relaunch of Gawker collapsed after two full-time writers resigned in protest for what they claimed were offensive comments made by then-editorial director Carson Griffith. After Splinter published a story that included Griffith’s old tweets using gay slurs and racial stereotypes about Asians, the two writers, Maya Kosoff and Anna Breslaw, went to Bustle Digital […]
On Thursday night, The Daily Show’s team of correspondents spoofed the incredibly cringeworthy “I Take Responsibility” (for Racism) Hollywood PSA that was rudely foisted upon us like a U2 album with one of their own. Only theirs was a bit…different. “What if I told you about a country in crisis…a country ravaged by disease…where the economy has collapsed…where soldiers patrol the streets…a government gasses its own people…and the lines to vote are longer than the bathroom line at Coachella. Now, what if I told you that that country is America?” Roy Wood Jr., Jaboukie Young-White, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic and Dulcé […]
Joe Biden’s campaign has made it clear that the former vice president does not support the campaign to “defund the police.” On Wednesday night, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah tried to see if he could get him there. “You know, many activists and organizers have come out saying, there have been repeated attempts to reform many police departments,” Noah said. “Were it not for civilian cameras, we wouldn’t know the truth oftentimes.” As police departments continue to be “contradicted” by video evidence, the host asked Biden directly, “If you were to become president, do you think that there would be […]
It’s been 10 days since Trevor Noah delivered a sobering 18-minute monologue on the police killing of George Floyd that quickly racked up tens of millions of views across various social platforms and helped change the conversation about the “social contract” between black people and cops. After taking last week off, he was back hosting The Daily Show from home Monday night and the story has only become bigger. “Never before in American history has there been an uprising like this, exactly like this, where you have huge numbers of people coming out every single day, in every single state in […]
Mexico hits new virus record of over 500 deaths per day by Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s health department reported 501 deaths from the coronavirus Tuesday, a new one-day high and the first time the figure exceeded 500. The number of new cases also set a daily high, with 3,455 additional infections confirmed. Mexico has so far recorded nearly 74,560 confirmed cases and 8,134 deaths, though officials acknowledge the number of cases is probably several times higher due to Mexico’s extremely low rate of testing. Mexico’s daily death toll is now approaching that of the United States, at around 620, though Brazil leads […]
Trevor Noah is horrified that President Donald Trump is apparently taking hydroxychloroquine against the recommendation of the FDA. But he seemed equally appalled Tuesday night at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reaction to that news. “I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists,” Pelosi said on CNN this week, “especially in his age group and in his, shall we say, weight group, morbidly obese, they say. So I think it’s not a good idea.” “Oh no, Nancy!” the Daily Show host said with his head in his hands after playing the clip. “‘Morbidly obese?’ […]