CLOSE President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will pressure governors to reopen schools and colleges this fall, arguing that some want to keep schools closed for political reasons against the will of families. (July 7) AP DomesticPresident Donald Trump's advantage on the economy over presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has largely disappeared since the COVID-19 pandemic…
A gunman – who dressed as a FedEx delivery driver—shot the husband and 20-year-old son of a federal judge on Sunday at the family's New Jersey home and the FBI said it has taken the lead in the investigation, reports said.The shooting occurred at the North Brunswick home of Judge Esther Salas, a source told the…
The seat of the late Rep. John Lewis has drawn the interest of more than 100 potential successors. The Democratic Party of Georgia completed Sunday night the first phase of replacing Mr. Lewis’s name on the November ballot — he already had won the Democratic primary, but state law allows a party to replace a…
Americans pining for better COVID-19 tests should see relief by the fall thanks to a $500 million federal effort to deliver rapid and portable tests, including a lunchbox-sized machine that reads pop-in cartridges and sample tubes that plug into computer tablets and spit out results. The National Institutes of Health is shepherding thousand of applicants…
Federal judge's son, 20, is shot dead and her criminal defense attorney husband is critically injured after a gunman dressed as a FedEx driver ambushed their home - four days after she was assigned a case linked to Jeffrey EpsteinA man dressed as a FedEx driver opened fire at the home of judge Esther Salas The attack…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…