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BuzzFeed News reports the 72-year-old man had been jailed at Immigration Centers of America (ICA) in Virginia, which has reported nearly 300 COVID-19 cases. Detainees at the Farmville facility have said that they’ve been in fear for their lives, disputing claims from the for-profit facility that they have room to social distance. “We think we’re going to die at any time,” one man told Daily Beast.…

“Declassify this information,” he urged in a tweet. “Americans deserve & need to know about ongoing foreign interference (even sabotage) in our election system.” Now three of his Democratic colleagues have written to FBI Director Chris Wray, urging him to go public with the attacks being leveled at U.S. elections by foreign actors. The Democrats—Sen.…

“Unless the federal government invests in eviction prevention, we are not only risking widespread eviction and homelessness, we are guaranteeing negative health outcomes, greater unemployment, educational decline, and long-term harm for renters, property owners and communities,” Emily Benfer, a Wake Forest University law professor and co-author of the Aspen Institute report, told CNN. If and…

As the league came closer and closer to reopening, stories began to come out of various players who had yet to report to camp. In many cases, these players had received a positive COVID-19 test and were staying away. Some players had symptoms; others did not. Some players spoke openly about dealing with COVID-19 and warned others…

Devin Nunes has always represented the ragged edge of support for Donald Trump. From the moment he jumped from an Uber and sneaked into the White House in an attempt to derail the Russia investigation, to his stint in front of the House Ethics Committee, Nunes made it clear that his loyalty to Trump exceeded…

The rally is scheduled for noon at the courthouse. “We are going to voice our concern,” Bundy explained in a Facebook video, claiming that the deputies were at fault for the shooting: “A just, rational officer would never let it escalate.” Maybe there is more to the story,” Bundy shared in an accompanying post. “Remember…

When Trump first made the announcement, Mecklenburg County, where Charlotte is situated, was averaging 188 new cases a day, as The Washington Post‘s Philip Bump points out. At the same time, Jacksonville’s Duval County was posting just 27 new cases a day. A little over a month earlier, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, had famously flown…

In video from TCRP, Andrew Udelsman, an attorney with the organization, is confronted by three unidentified men after exiting an elevator onto one of the upper floors of Hampton Inn & Suites hotel in McAllen, a hotel chain owned by Hilton. It’s a normal hotel, but what’s happening inside the rooms isn’t normal. Children are being held by…

Campaign Action Economists point to the obvious. “It was the wrong bet. This wasn’t just a transitory event,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton and an advisor to small businesses. The National Federation of Independent Business, a trade association for small businesses, is the source for the estimate of 22% of loan recipients…

Nine points is the widest lead since September 2017, in the wake of Republican attempts to eliminate the Affordable Care Act. The Democratic advantage for most of this 2020 cycle has hovered around 6-7 points, which is exactly where Civiqs tracking left off in the 2018 version of this question. That November 2018, Civiqs spotted…