During the campaign event, Biden began playing Fonsi’s hit 2017 song “Despacito” from what appeared to be his mobile phone, raising the device to his lectern’s microphones and bobbing his head along to the music.
But in the edited video retweeted by the president which Twitter labeled as “manipulated media” — the song played by Biden is the 1988 protest rap “F--- tha Police” by the hip hop group N.W.A. “What is this all about?” Trump wrote in an accompanying message.
In recent months, Trump’s preferred social media platform has taken a more aggressive approach to countering posts by the president that promote misleading information or violate the platform’s content policies.
Twitter appended fact-check warnings to a pair of Trump’s tweets in May about mail-in voting, prompting the president to sign an executive order targeting social media companies.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that his entire office, including himself, will be furloughed for a week to help fight the city's multibillion-dollar budget crisis.
The mayor’s office budget will be 12% less this fiscal year compared to last year's. De Blasio, wife Chirlane McCray and 493 others will take unpaid furlough at some point.
With a mayoral salary of $258,541 per year, de Blasio is expected to miss out on around $4,972 in a week-long furlough.
The mayor’s office found $12 million in savings over previous budgets, he said.
The mayor's office have 500 employees with a salary of 300 million dollars in addition to the cost. What a performance. Just a thought.
The hope for free stuff will not reach the people who need it. The poor will become poorer. Those who lives in NYSH will see more difficulties they haven't seen before. Those who have been sardines in the subway will suffer mire... Just look around you.
Vanity Fair contributor Peter Hamby cited Trump's weak polling among independents and women, insisting that a "fundamental shifting" among voters "would take something overwhelmingly dramatic."
It's just not 2016," Hamby insisted. "People have had four years of Donald Trump. ... and Joe Biden is just not Hillary Clinton. He's not."
Bill Maher responded. "I know, But what we're seeing, it doesn't matter. Because 5 or 6 percent is a lot in this country. That's a big, big, big victory. And if Biden doesn't get that -- and races tighten at the end!
You sound like the panels I used to have on right before the last election. ... You guys are whistling past the graveyard."
Model Bar Refaeli was sentenced by an Israeli court on Sunday to nine months of community service along with her mother, who received 16 months in prison for tax evasion, putting an end to a prolonged court battle.
The 35-year-old Refaeli and her mother were convicted in July on offenses of evading paying taxes on income nearing $10 million in a case that sullied the name of the once-beloved national icon.
Refaeli entered the Tel Aviv courthouse in a beige T-shirt and wearing a light blue surgical face mask. She was accompanied by her father, Raffi, her mother, Zipi, and flanked by lawyers. This is outrages. Just a thought.
Two Los Angeles sheriff's deputies were "fighting for their lives" on Saturday night after being shot multiple times in an ambush-style attack. The suspect was still at-large late Saturday.
One male officer and one female officer were injured in the shooting, which took place at about 7 p.m. local time.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the deputies were sitting in their patrol car at the time of the attack and both were shot multiple times.
The department shared surveillance video of the shooting on Twitter just hours after it happened. In the video, a person in black shorts and a black jacket walks up to the passenger side of the patrol vehicle and opens fire multiple times into the window without warning. The suspect then runs away.
