The Daily Populous

The felt soles on the bottoms of the All Stars — and other imported soles — are a perfect example of "tariff engineering," explains the patent blog Gazetc.com.

Translation: The outsourced soles are specially designed to fetch a lower US import tax.

When you sell in the volume that Converse does, this adds up to a significant amount of savings. »

Authorities in Iowa are investigating the alleged beating of a black man who local civil rights activists say appears to be the victim of a hate crime.

"Why did it have to go this far, to where my life was almost taken?"

The men caught up with Jones, Middlebrooks said, dragging him to a creek and shoving his head underwater. »

As coronavirus infections in the country reached 1.6m and the number of deaths passed 96,000, the president made his way to the Trump National Golf Club at Sterling, Virginia.

One longtime correspondent said it was the president’s “185th golf outing spanning all or part of 247 days”.

Reports said the outing on Saturday lunchtime was the president’s first golf trip since 8 March, when he visited his club in West Palm Beach, Florida. »

The researchers analyzed over 200 million tweets discussing COVID-19 and found that roughly half the accounts were likely bots.

It's unclear who's behind the surge in bot activity or whether they're originating from the US or abroad.

The researchers identified bots using artificial-intelligence systems that analyze accounts' frequency of tweets, number of followers, and apparent location. »