Month: July 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus response news briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 21, 2020. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is “in the process of developing a strategy” to combat the coronavirus pandemic, adding that that plan of action has “developed as
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Big Brother: All-Stars 2 has yet to be officially announced by CBS, but it is still very much alive. In fact, several contestants have arrived in Los Angeles to be tested for COVID-19 ahead of sequestering, according to TMZ. What’s more, the first wave of contestants has seemingly been confirmed by the outlet. Big Brother
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Confessions from the Stranger at the End of the Bar Peter Cameron Author of What Happens At Night  Share article Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . An Excerpt from
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Shareholders watch the stock market in a securities business hall. Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, 6 July 2020. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images China’s recent stock market rally is raising fears that it’s being driven by retail investors indulging in leverage-fueled risky trading which caused a spectacular crash back in 2015. Analysts say they
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Microfluidics maestro: Cellular Highways chief executive Samson Rogers poses with a prototype of the company’s first commercial sell-sorting instrument. (Courtesy: Cellular Highways) Companies that use physics to unlock next-generation drugs for respiratory disorders and enable advanced cancer treatments are the first recipients of a new award for early-stage companies in healthcare and medicine. Nebu~Flow, a
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A new work by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage will join Second Stage Theater’s Broadway line-up for 2021, joining the company’s postponed revival of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out starring Patrick J. Adams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams. The newly announced, as-yet-untitled production of Nottage’s new play will be directed by Kate
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered kind words to Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite criminally charged with procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by the late investor Jeffrey Epstein. “I just wish her well, frankly,” Trump said of Maxwell, during a White House press conference on the coronavirus pandemic. Maxwell, 58, last week was ordered held
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Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. I have always been supremely jealous of people who slumber like the proverbial log. I’ve never been able to, but especially not now. Not when my brain is an arid desert and my dreams are peopled with a Robert Altman-sized
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