The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus checks to more than one million dead people, totaling $1.4 billion in bogus payments, according to a new audit Thursday. IRS lawyers said the way the law was written, the agency didn’t have the power to stop payments to people who filed 2018 or 2019 tax returns, even if…

Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec on Thursday hit back at House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s threat to potentially seek impeachment against Attorney General Bill Barr, slamming the suggestion as simply a “political thing.”Nadler, D-N.Y., suggested this week that his committee “may very well” initiate impeachment proceedings, amid his panel’s broad investigation into the alleged “unprecedented politicization”…

The World Health Organization called the end of the country’s 10th outbreak, the second deadliest in history, “a victory for science.” Health workers had faced mistrust and treatment centers were attacked.Ebola responders carrying the body of a young victim at an Ebola treatment center in the town of Beni, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,…

Any policy changes that hot spot states like Texas and Florida decide to implement now likely won't affect the spread of the coronavirus for weeks to come, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Thursday.Due to the lag in how long it takes once someone is infected to develop symptoms, get tested…

Dr. Dillon Barron is a frontline emergency room doctor on Chicago's North Side. He's also a recovered COVID-19 patient. But when he tried to donate his plasma to help save others, he was flat-out denied the chance because he's gay, he says. Barron and his partner sat down with CBS Chicago.Blood donation guidelines have been…