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IU Health CEO calls for external review after doctor dies from COVID-19 and claims mistreatment due to race
INDIANAPOLIS — The president and CEO of IU Health is calling for an external review after a Carmel doctor, who died after testing positive for COVID-19, claimed mistreatment on account of her race in a video released prior to her death. In an over 7-minute Facebook video posted on Dec. 4, Dr. Moore detailed her …
Unemployment Claims Show Toll of Rising Covid Cases: Live Updates
Vacant retail shops in Columbus, Ohio. The rate of jobless claims has been rising as coronavirus cases remain high across the country.Credit…Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times Rising Covid-19 cases are taking a steep toll on economic activity, battering the labor market even as new vaccines offer a ray of hope for next year. …
Weekly jobless claims rise more than expected after break from holiday
The pace of weekly jobless claims jumped last week after filings caught up with a decline due in part to the Thanksgiving holiday. First-time claims for unemployment insurance totaled 853,000, an increase from the upwardly revised 716,000 total a week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting 730,000. …
Trump, GOP raise over $200M on claims Biden won election by voter fraud
President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters in October that if he really wanted to overcome Joe Biden’s fundraising supremacy, he could call the heads of any major company and they would come to his aid. “All I have to do is call up the head of every Wall Street firm, head of every …
Trump lawyer falsely claims voting technology companies were created for changing election results
A member of President Donald Trump’s legal team is falsely claiming that voting machines rigged the presidential race in favor of Joe Biden. In a Nov. 16 interview with Mark Levin, a conservative radio personality, Sidney Powell, a lawyer for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, said the machines that many Americans used to cast …
Barr Hands Prosecutors the Authority to Investigate Voter Fraud Claims
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr, wading into President Trump’s unfounded accusations of widespread election irregularities, told federal prosecutors on Monday that they were allowed to investigate “specific allegations” of voter fraud before the results of the presidential race are certified. Mr. Barr’s authorization prompted the Justice Department official who oversees investigations of voter …
Claims that dead people voted went viral. These are the facts | Technology
Others, like Juan Andres Caro, a White House policy adviser, made their own videos replicating Fletcher’s search. Grenell retweeted Caro’s video, which has more than a million views on Twitter. CNN reached out to Fletcher and Caro for comment. Fletcher did not respond and Caro did not comment. Tracy Wimmer, the director of media relations …
How Claims of Dead Michigan Voters Spread Faster Than the Facts
The tweets began to arrive Wednesday night, carrying explosive claims that people in Michigan were voting under the names of dead people. Austen Fletcher, a former Ivy League football player turned right-wing internet journalist, said in videos posted to Twitter that he had discovered registration documents on a State of Michigan website that showed that …
Fact check: Breaking down the barrage of false election claims from Trump and his allies
The President was no more factual on Thursday. As of 4 PM, Twitter had affixed a fact-check warning label to three of his tweets that day, making it nine labels since Wednesday. Trump’s allies also flooded the zone with so much misinformation that it was hard to know where a fact checker should begin. We …
Some in GOP break with Trump over baseless vote-fraud claims | PA Power and Policy: Pennsylvania State News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Republican lawmakers on Thursday criticized President Donald Trump’s unsupported claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election, saying Trump’s comments undermine the U.S. political process and the bedrock notion that all Americans should have their vote counted. Trump, who has complained for weeks about mail-in ballots, escalated his allegations late …
