The coronavirus knows no party affiliation, but the response to the U.S. epidemic is increasingly splitting along political lines. In states with Democratic governors, Republicans are pushing to lift restrictions and reopen the economy while crying foul at gubernatorial executive orders. The opposite is occurring in states with GOP governors, who find themselves under mounting…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has split with Donald Trump over the president's threat to veto the annual defence spending bill if it includes a provision to rename military bases named for Confederate figureheads. “Well, I would hope the president really wouldn't veto the bill over this issue. ... I hope the president will reconsider…
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…