2800 years ago, the Romans flocked to Circus Maximus to laugh at car racing. Today, the old site has been remodeled to make it a place for the summer season of the Rome Opera. Chris Livesay talks to soprano Rosa Feola about how Circus Maximus is the savior of Italian opera.
Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images billionaire Peter Thiel donated $850,000 to a super PAC supporting the U.S. Senate in Kris Kobach, Kansas, Recode reported Tuesday. Thiel already donated cash to pro-Kobach teams when he did not run for governor in 2018, and is strongly aligned with his anti-immigration policies, according to Recode. Thiel has been for Congressional applicants to invest their cash since Trump’s re-election crusade fell this month, saying the president had few clients in November.
A Facebook viral post in July contributed to the misinformation by reiterating the position that more tests cause the increase in cases: “There is an increase in coronavirus cases because there is an increase in testing. If we provided more IQ tests, it would have been an increase in idiots as well,” the publication said. But the concept has been widely shared in social media posts.
An outdoor Black Lives Matter mural at Trump Tower in Manhattan, which has been the subject of extensive acts of vandalism since it was unveiled this month, has been demoted for the fourth time in weeks, according to police. Mark David Hutt was accused of evil after authorities said they threw white paint at a segment of the mural on Sunday morning. The suspect began covering the mural with the painting shortly after 10 a.m., New York Police Detective Carrie Reilly told CNN.
Joe Biden unusually quiet Tuesday on the final stretch of his search for a vice president. But the so-called Democratic presidential nominee seemed willing to talk about at least one primary candidate: California Sen. Kamala Harris. While answering journalists’ questions tuesday, Biden took notes captured through an Associated Press photographer.
A Chinese scientist accused of visa fraud after the government said she had concealed her military ties to China so that paintings in the United States first appeared Monday in a video of a federal court. Juan Tang, 37, has been appointed a federal public defender and U.S. Justice of The Peace Deborah Barnes ordered Tang to remain in custody, saying he poses a flight risk, while his attorney prepares an argument to authorize his release on bail. Last week, the Justice Department announced honors opposed to Tang and three other scientists living in the United States, claiming that they had lied about their prestige as members of China’s People’s Liberation Army.
Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, perhaps more than any other Supreme Court judge in fashion history, are strongly connected to the president who appointed them. Gorsuch won his seat after Republicans blocked Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination, and then Trump prevailed in the 2016 election. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh know very well that Trump’s term is limited.
Unemployment assistance, deportation protections, and other relief for millions of Americans are on the table when White House officials agreed Monday to begin negotiations with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a new virus assistance program that is failing Congress before she approaches.
The United States and Europe have called on Turkey to release imprisoned businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who on Monday served a thousand days in prison without conviction and despite the acquittal of a past case. Kavala has been in criminal situation since November 2017. First, he was charged with protests for investments across the country in 2013, but was acquitted of the fees in February and ordered to be released.
The last European dictator, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, said Tuesday that he had COVID-19 but had already recovered. In the past, Lukashenko has ignored fears about COVID-19 as a “psychosis” and has taken vodka to stay healthy. The Belarusian leader, who has been in force for 25 years, recently faced mass protests after his war split parties were imprisoned and prevented from running for the next presidential election on August 8.
Shared on Sunday via social media, the video shows strong winds hitting several sections of an upper wall under the eyes of the structure staff and other staff. The video originally posted on Twitter through Yadith Valdez, a multimedia television journalist founded in Monterrey, Mexico; Valdez claimed the hurricane responsible. Fact Verification: A viral photo shows Obama and Fauci visiting the NIH lab in 2014, not an ‘Wuhan Lab’ in 2015 “And so Array’Hanna ‘ knocked down a component of the border wall being built between the United States and Mexico.” it said the caption’s caption, translated from Spanish into English.
Two women turned themselves in to police after assaulting a Wisconsin state official at a protest on June 23. Samantha Hamer, 26, and Kerida O’Reilly, 33, were arrested Monday in Madison after turning he into authorities. State Senator Tim Carpenter was on his way to his workplace at the state Capitol around midnight on June 23 when he stopped to film the ongoing protest.
For the editor: I’ve been here a long time and Rep. Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) is the top proactive congressional representative I’ve had. For the editor-in-chief: Earl Ofari Hutchinson assessed the strengths and weaknesses of black vice presidential candidates without any contrast to the strengths of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who can be the most powerful candidate overall. She is not a fighter, but she also wins battles, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau being the most prominent example.
One of the country’s largest teachers’ unions allows its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without sufficient security measures amid the global pandemic. The American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million school employees, issued a solution Tuesday saying that any premises make the decision to strike due to plans to reopen. By giving their blessing, the union also provides locals with access to their monetary and legal resources when they return to classes.
Minneapolis police suspect that the notorious “Umbrella Man” who was noticed breaking windows in nonviolent protests is a white supremacist seeking to incite riots. The guy is a member of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang who sought to raise racial tensions after the murder of George Floyd, police told the Star Tribune. Photos and videos taken amid the night riots in Minneapolis showed a user dressed in a black-clad fuel mask and an umbrella smashing the windows of an automatic domain with a hammer.
Judge Andrew Napolitano, a senior forensic analyst at Fox News, presented a stark contrast to Fox’s recent policy on the Portland protests, calling federal agents Tuesday for inciting violence with demonstrators through “indiscriminate” tear fuel and “shaking things up” with the demonstrators. In his testimony in the House on Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr justified the Trump administration’s use of federal agents to crack down on protesters who oppose police brutality, describing The Portland protests as “an assault” on the U.S. government.
Chicago’s tragically incompetent mayor, Lori Lightfoot, gave the impression this weekend in CNN’s State of the Union to divert attention from the horror exhibition unfolding in her city by blaming the intruders for their rising homicide rate: “We are inundated with weapons from states that have virtually no gun control , there is no background check. They do not prohibit attack weapons; this hurts cities like Chicago. Although these accusations have been made through Chicago politicians for decades, they are a myth. On the one hand, there is no state in the country with “virtually no gun control” or “no background check.”
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to force in 2015, he promised a new kind of policy. In June, Canada announced that it had asked WE Charity, widely known for its celebrity-filled WE Day meetings, to organize a new program for academics hard hit by the economic crisis. How did this resolution lead to accusations of cronyism and conflicts of interest, two federal ethics investigations, a highlight in Mr. Trudeau’s family circle, and a call to resign?
On Tuesday, the Iranian military fired a missile from a helicopter at an American aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, an imitation, that Iranian paraarmist revolutionary guards had towed to the strategic waterway as a component of war games and army training illustrating the risk of clashes between Tehran and Washington. The images transmitted by Iranian state television showed reproduction of the impact sent through the projectile as a component of an Iranian training called “Great Prophet 14”. Iranian commandos then temporarily descended from the helicopter on the fake Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, which resembles a shipment navigating the U.S. Navy. In the Persian Gulf, while other Iranian military shipments turned the shipment, probably a barge, raising white waves in its awakening.