Page 26 - Fourth State News Today

Letter collection boxes off the streets. These photos were taken at a Bronx Post Office facility, although its unclear whether all these boxes were removed recently. Now, today there are protesters gathering outside the home of the postmaster general, accusing him of trying to sabotage the mail system to benefit the president , who continued his relentless and baseless attacks on mailin voting. He tweeted that the election will be a fraudulent mess and that we may never know who won. Kristen hol...

Keynote speech last night for the Democratic National convention. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, august 18th, along with joe, willie welcome back and me, we have white house reported for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. Politics and journalism professor and msnbc political contributor jason johnson. And senior opinion writer at the boston globe, Kimberly Atkins is with us. Good to have you all. Its good to have willie back. It is. Youre not going to be talking abil...

Coronavirus outbreak, the students are going back to Remote Learning on campus. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, august 18th, and im yasmin vossoughian. Were going to begin with the latest developments regarding the u. S. Postal service. The House Oversight committee saying postmaster general louis dejoy has agreed to testify before the panel on monday to address the sweeping changes that democrats say are meant to undermine the fall election. So at the same time the president rails again...

Of looting and unrest. Kathy park is live in chicago with the latest. Kathy, what are you seeing there . Hey, garrett, good afternoon to you. So the demonstrators are gathering right now about seven miles away from where we are. And we are actually told from Law Enforcement officials that if this crowd doesnt grow to about 500, theyre actually not going to be let on to the dan ryan expressway, one of the major expressways here in the city. Were still monitoring the situation there. But here is w...

He said that while he believes significant reforms are needed, quote, to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail, im suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded. He said the Postal Service is ready today to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this mail. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learning of that Decision Just moments ago live in an interview with politico. Watch. Somebody handed me a note that, re 2ushgs reuters reports that the postmaster...

Outfront tonight, that grim new projection. The model off cited by the white house now predicts the United States death toll could reach 310,000 deaths by the beginning of december. Thats up 15,000 from its previous forecast just two weeks ago, 15,000 individual lives lost. Experts say that number could the number could be cut by almost 70,000, okay, from 300,000 if people just wore masks. And yet today, this was the message from the president. In everything we do, my administration is fighting ...

Recordings released by bob woodward. There right now is a massive effort under way by the white house and the administration to recast what the president clearly said on those calls. Hindsight is 20 20. Recriminations, what the president was communicating, i believe what you hear in that february tape was the seriousness with which he took this from day one. Heres what he actually said, that he, the president , deliberately misled the American Public about what he knew about the coronavirus, the...

Energize suburban women and which party has seen a spike in Campaign Donations . A heartbreaking milestone, the u. S. Death toll about to pass 200,000. Plus new confusion from the c. D. C. Why it suddenly took down new guidance on how the virus is spread. A state of emergency as Tropical Storm beta makes landfall bringing more torrential rain to the gulf coast. Ellen returns with an apology after allegations of a toxic wrk environment at her show. And Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words on figh...

Mother telling the paper her two kids, one 11 and the other 5 were hit. They held a proper protocol and they needed pepper spray when the crowd refused to disburse. They said the chemicals were sprayed on the ground and not directly at anyone but some of the crowd said that was not the case. Today was the final day of early voting in the state. New hampshire, for one, ballots are being processed. In others, theyre being challenged in the court. Subject of judicial over sight because theyre getti...

Joe biden adds to his lead in the u. S. Election. Cnn predicts he will win arizona, the first time a democrat has done that in decades. President trump still refusing to accept defeat, but it looks like more and more republicans are. And coronavirus continues to rampage across the United States. More than 150,000 people test positive in the last 24 hours. Yet another new record. Hello, and welcome to cnn newsroom, everyone. Im michael holmes. Welcome, everyone, joe bidens lock on the white house...