President Trump went virtual – and it paid off.The president raised a massive $20 million as he held the first virtual fundraiser of his 2020 reelection campaign on Tuesday evening.The eye-popping haul is nearly double the $11 million raised last month by Democratic challenger Joe Biden at a fundraiser co-hosted by his one-time boss, former President…
Rep. Ted Yoho apologized to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the House floor Wednesday, while denying profane language was directed at the freshman congresswoman. “I rise to apologize for the abrupt manner of the conversations I had with my colleague from New York. It is true that we disagree on policies and visions for this country,…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins announced Wednesday that he’s jumping into Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race, trying to unseat Republican incumbent Bill Cassidy in a last-minute entrance into the competition as the candidate signup period begins. The Democratic mayor of the northwest Louisiana city, in office since December 2018, launched his campaign…
Antibodies everywhere — Random sampling paints a picture of where the pandemic was in late spring. John Timmer - Jul 22, 2020 2:27 pm UTC Enlarge / A nurse at the Miami Beach Convention Center Community Based Testing Site conducts a COVID-19 antibody test. The Florida Guard is providing support at the Miami Beach hybrid…
A small study has found potential hope in the treatment of COVID-19.Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who received an inhaled form of interferon beta, a medicine often used in its injected form to treat diseases like multiple sclerosis, had a 79 percent lower risk of developing more debilitating symptoms, according to study results announced Monday by the British…
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…