New York (CNN)Michael Cohen will be released to home confinement, a judge ruled on Thursday, finding that the government acted in a retaliatory manner when it took President Donald Trump's former per…
California TodayThursday: But New York has recorded far more deaths. None of it is good.July 23, 2020, 8:48 a.m. ETImagePeople visiting Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles this week.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York TimesGood morning.(This article is part of the California Today newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.)First, we…
President Trump touted his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic Wednesday afternoon, telling reporters, "It's all going to work out, and it is working out." In his second news conference in two days after announcing on Monday that he would be resuming daily briefings previously led by the White House coronavirus task force, the president offered an…
The virus has heightened long-simmering friction in the largest Republican-led state in the country, with Gov. Greg Abbott under attack from within his own party.Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas gave an update on hospital bed capacity and virus strategy last month in Houston. Texas has become one of the largest coronavirus hot spots in the…
Social media and livestream feeds are being monitored and used against protesters in Portland, Oregon, as federal agents continue to patrol the city despite requests from local and state officials that they leave. As President Trump threatens to send feds to protests across the country, what’s happening in Portland is a possible future for other…
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…