Labor Day Fun as Coronavirus Rages Could Doom the Fall

By Pilar Melendez

Officials are begging Americans to heed public-health warnings ahead of the Labor Day weekend, as travel and alcohol-fueled gatherings could result in yet another COVID-19 surge.

By Hanna Trudo

Service members “have asked us if the president is simply waiting for them to die,” Rep. Conor Lamb, a former Marine and a Biden ally, said Friday.

By Kevin Fallon

Movie theaters are opening. You can finally see “Tenet.” Fall TV is gearing up. Film festivals are happening. Everything seems so normal. But remember that pandemic?

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By The Daily Beast

In this episode of The New Abnormal, CNN’s Brian Stelter predicts which Murdoch kid will take over the empire and imagines a world with Tucker Carlson on a presidential ticket.

By Matt Lewis

The 2016 election was full of occasions when smart observers thought Trump had finally gone too far. This time could be different; here’s why.

By Alexandra Marvar

Lockdown means songwriting sessions on Zoom, live shows on YouTube, jam sessions uploaded to SoundCloud—and some odd jobs.

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By Justin Baragona

After Fox News spent the whole morning slamming The Atlantic for relying on unnamed sources, the network cited two unnamed sources to slap down the allegations.

By Laura Bradley

Show-runner Jessica Goldberg grounded her gripping ode to space exploration in realism—so the cast went to space camp and the show is, at times, a slow-simmering body horror.

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DEEP DISDAIN

The president reportedly told aides that he didn’t understand why finding missing soldiers was a big deal.

 ‘WORST NIGHTMARE’

Marjorie Taylor Greene declared conservatives need to go “on the offense” against the “socialists” in the since-deleted post.

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 SUSPICIOUS TIMING

Trump vowed on Friday that funding wouldn’t be cut after a leaked memo revealed that the Pentagon had inexplicably ordered Stars and Stripes to close.

 BUSTED

A criminal complaint says the pair are part of a Missouri militia and attended President Trump’s rally in Kenosha.

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