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Senate rejects Joe Biden’s request to search for records on Tara Reade
Senate secretary said legal counsel advised that ‘the secretary has no discretion to disclose any such information’
The US Senate has rejected a request from Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, to search for and release any records of a 1993 complaint against him from an aide who has accused him of sexual assault.
The former vice-president gave his first TV interview on the matter on Friday, flatly denying former aide Tara Reade’s allegation that when he was a senator from Delaware he pushed her against a wall and assaulted her.
Continue reading...Gretchen Whitmer backs Joe Biden on alleged assault: ‘not every claim is equal’
- Michigan governor responds to Tara Reade sexual assault claim
- Whitmer says ‘we have a duty to vet’ allegations
Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan has spoken out in support of Joe Biden, telling CNN that when it comes to accusations of sexual assault, “not every claim is equal”.
Related: Tara Reade says she didn't explicitly accuse Biden of assault in Senate report
Continue reading...Tara Reade says she didn’t explicitly accuse Biden of assault in Senate report
- Reade said she was ‘too scared to write about the sexual assault’
- AP interviewed Reade in 2019 after accusation over touching
- Who is Tara Reade and what are her allegations against Biden?
- Opinion: downplaying Biden allegations will damage #MeToo
Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, has said she filed a limited report with a congressional personnel office that did not explicitly accuse him of sexual assault or harassment.
“I remember talking about him wanting me to serve drinks because he liked my legs and thought I was pretty and it made me uncomfortable,” Reade said. “I know that I was too scared to write about the sexual assault.”
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Donald Trump appears to have revised upward to 100,000 his expectations for the number of Americans who will die of Covid-19.
“Hopefully we’re going to come in below that 100,000 lives lost, which is a horrible number nevertheless,” Trump said at a White House event to honor people who are doing work related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Reuters.
The last patient has left the field hospital that was erected in New York City’s Javits convention center, the AP reports.
The emergency facility was erected by the members of the US military to alleviate strain on the city’s hospital system at the height of the outbreak. It ultimately treated 1,095 patients, the last 8 of whom left the hospital today.
Continue reading...Joe Biden denies sexual assault allegation from former staffer Tara Reade
- Biden says in interview ‘it never, never happened’
- Reade accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1993
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Joe Biden has categorically denied allegations from a former Senate aide that he sexually assaulted her in 1993.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s first public comment on the allegation came at a delicate moment for his campaign.
Continue reading...Joe Biden to break his silence on Tara Reade’s sexual assault claim Friday
The presumptive nominee has come under pressure to address the allegation from fellow Democrats and progressive activists
Joe Biden will publicly address for the first time a sexual assault claim against him during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday morning, after weeks of silence on the subject.
Biden, the presumptive nominee, will “respond for the first time to the recent allegation of sexual assault”, the network announced in a tweet on Thursday.
Continue reading...Pressure mounts on Joe Biden to address sexual assault claim
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has remained silent amid new reporting on allegation of 1993 assault
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is facing growing pressure to publicly address an allegation of sexual assault made by Tara Reade, a former aide to his Senate office.
The former vice-president has remained silent about the accusation, a position that is seen as increasingly untenable in the wake of new reporting. Many major Democratic women’s organizations and prominent feminists have also declined to comment publicly on Reade’s claim that Biden, then a senator from Delaware, assaulted her in 1993.
Biden’s deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, said in a statement this month that “this absolutely did not happen”, but she has not commented further.
Continue reading...Hillary Clinton endorses Joe Biden for president – video
Former Democratic presidential nominee and secretary of state Hillary Clinton has endorsed Joe Biden for president, saying the former vice-president has 'been preparing for this moment his whole life'
Continue reading...Could Trump delay the 2020 US election due to coronavirus? – video explainer
Tuesday, 3 November is the date set by federal government for the 2020 US presidential elections, but amid the pandemic this has been called into question.
America has the world's highest number of coronavirus-related deaths, with many states struggling to contain the outbreak; primary contests have been disrupted, conventions delayed and the two candidates, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have both been prevented from holding rallies.
Could Trump delay the vote, and if so what would that mean for 2021? The Guardian's Adam Gabbatt explains
Continue reading...Coronavirus US live: Cuomo says New York cases ‘coming down’ but warns against rush to reopen
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo said it would be a “major, major undertaking” to develop a plan on reopening the state’s schools.
Cuomo emphasized no school district was allowed to reopen at the moment, as the state has mandated schools to remain closed for now.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo said some hospitals in the state would send the results of its hydroxychloroquine trials to federal health officials today.
Cuomo declined to describe the results of the trials, focused on whether the anti-malaria drug can help treat coronavirus patients.
Continue reading...Sanders warns his loyalists it would be ‘irresponsible’ not to support Biden
Sanders criticizes his supporters who have so far resisted his vow to do whatever it takes to help Biden win the presidency
Bernie Sanders has warned that it would be “irresponsible” for his loyalists not to support Joe Biden, warning that progressives who “sit on their hands” in the months ahead would simply enable Donald Trump’s re-election in November.
Sanders endorsed Biden on Monday and was quickly followed by the crucial endorsement on Tuesday by Barack Obama of his former vice-president.
Continue reading...Obama endorses Biden for president in attempt to unite Democratic party
Former president announces support for presumptive nominee, his former VP, in statement
Barack Obama has endorsed Joe Biden for president, casting his former vice-president as the experienced statesman and unifying leader that will be needed to confront the public health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic that will probably be the defining issue of the 2020 presidential election.
Related: Stage set for Biden v Trump as Democrats seek return to Obama era
Continue reading...Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden for president – video
Barack Obama has endorsed Joe Biden for president, coming off the electoral sidelines to help unite the Democratic party before what will almost certainly be a historically divisive election campaign
Continue reading...Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president: ‘We need you in the White House’ – video
Former campaign rival Bernie Sanders on Monday endorsed Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden as the next president of the United States as he made a joint online appearance with the former vice-president. 'We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president,' Sanders said. 'I will do all that I can to make that happen'
Continue reading...Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president
- Sanders says: ‘We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president’
- Biden all but confirmed as Democratic challenger to Trump
Bernie Sanders endorsed his former rival Joe Biden for president on Monday, during a surprise appearance on a live stream related to the US response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Related: Coronavirus US live: Andrew Cuomo details 'horrific level of pain' as deaths pass 10,000 in New York
Continue reading...Coronavirus US live: Trump says he’s ‘not determined’ to open the country in May
- Cuomo ‘cautiously optimistic’ infection rate is slowing in New York
- Trump wants to reopen the country next month
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What does protest look like under a stay-at-home order?
This evening, activists are lighting a candle in solidarity with more than 90,000 people typically incarcerated in state prisons and jails in New York state, as coronavirus threatens to turn crowded, unsanitary prisons into death traps.
Lighting a candle for all incarcerated people tonight in solidarity with #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth pic.twitter.com/fzWJZ8O7Yj
It is inhumane to let people die in cages. That has always been true, and it is especially true now in the midst of a global pandemic.
6 y/o and I are joining the @FreeThemAll2020 campaign in calling on @NYGovCuomo to #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth. pic.twitter.com/vrAjImhUAe
#FreeThemAll4PublicHealth #FreeThemAll because people don't belong in cages pic.twitter.com/bWZGnmQQar
Advocates have been pleading for weeks that San Francisco move people out of homeless shelters and into hotel rooms, given that the conditions inside these facilities are often unsanitary and crowded, making it easy for a virus to quickly spread.
Now, there has been a major coronavirus outbreak inside a homeless shelter in San Francisco: nearly 70 residents at MSC South have tested positive, which is roughly half of all the people who were tested.
After 70 residents of a San Francisco homeless shelter test positive for Covid-19, advocates say others are trapped in lockdown in shelters with restrictions. "Telling them they cannot leave is not protecting them"-@Leahfsw. "People need to be moved to hotels, not just locked up" pic.twitter.com/YTfxVaMIGg
Continue reading...Biden finally has an open field. Now he faces a deeply uncertain election
Contest will unfold in a political landscape transformed by pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives and millions of jobs
Democrats made their choice and on Wednesday Bernie Sanders made it official. His withdrawal from the Democratic primary race leaves Joe Biden with only one opponent: Donald Trump.
Now the stage is set for a November general election battle between two candidates with radically different visions of presidential leadership and America’s role in the world. The contest will unfold in a political landscape transformed beyond all recognition by the coronavirus pandemic that has already claimed at least 14,000 American lives and nearly 10m jobs.
Continue reading...Coronavirus US live: 400,000 cases confirmed in America as Cuomo says New York is flattening curve
- Bernie Sanders ends 2020 presidential run
- US sees highest one-day death toll
- Black Americans dying in greater numbers from Covid-19
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The White House is reportedly having discussions about reopening the economy next month, which could cause friction with health experts who have warned against lifting “stay at home” orders too quickly.
CNN reports:
Officials said the options being discussed on reopening the country vary widely in scope, from recommendations on benchmarks for when individual states can begin easing restrictions to a nationwide ‘big bang’ that Trump previewed Tuesday evening on Fox News. The officials said the conversations were still preliminary and would likely evolve over the course of the next weeks.
Still, some officials have even begun mulling the type of event Trump may want to mark the day when nationwide restrictions are lifted after he suggested a ‘big celebration’ when the crisis is over. ...
At some point, the president is going to have to look at Drs. Fauci and Birx and say, we're opening on May 1. Give me your best guidance on protocols, but we cannot deny our people their basic freedoms any longer.
Barack Obama called for a “robust system of testing and monitoring” to confront the coronavirus crisis.
Social distancing bends the curve and relieves some pressure on our heroic medical professionals. But in order to shift off current policies, the key will be a robust system of testing and monitoring – something we have yet to put in place nationwide. https://t.co/evkTSrzReB
Continue reading...Bernie Sanders, who reshaped US politics, ends 2020 presidential run
Inspirational senator’s youth-led movement pushed for sweeping social change but fell far behind Joe Biden in bid for nomination
Bernie Sanders, the 78-year-old senator from Vermont who reshaped American politics with his youth-led movement for sweeping social change, announced on Wednesday that he was ending his presidential campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination.
Sanders informed staff he was suspending his presidential campaign during a conference call on Wednesday morning, capping what has been an extraordinary rise from relative obscurity to standard-bearer of the American left as an unabashed democratic socialist who championed the working class and called for political revolution.
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