Coronavirus Cases Skyrocket at Bay Area Prison After Inmate Transfers
Justin Sullivan/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On April 13, 1918, a prisoner from the Los Angeles County Jail was sent north to the California State Prison at San Quentin. The prisoner was sick at the time he was transferred; he had suffered “pains over his body…
K-Pop Stans and TikTok Teens Mobilized to Derail Trump’s Tulsa Rally
TikTok For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.If you believe President Donald Trump, nearly one million people registered for his June 20 campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But come Saturday, fewer than 6,200 people showed up, according to the Tulsa fire department. Large swaths of the 19,000-seat arena…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: June 20 Update
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Climate Change Poses Serious Risks for Pregnancy
A 7 month pregnant environmental activist protests.Ollie Millington/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in the Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. More than a decade of overwhelming evidence links air pollution and heat exposure with negative pregnancy outcomes…
The Trump Administration Paid Millions for Test Tubes—and Got Unusable Mini Soda Bottles
President Donald Trump holds a medical testing swab near his nose as he tours Puritan Medical Products, a medical swab manufacturer, in early June.Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up…
Trump Says He Ordered That Coronavirus Testing Be Slowed
Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Riffing about the coronavirus during a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to reboot his reelection campaign, President Trump said he asked for less testing to track the coronavirus pandemic for fear the increase in positives might make him look bad. The…