On a call with the nation’s governors Tuesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos chastised local officials for doing “next to nothing” to provide academic services to students and demanded they reopen schools in the fall regardless of the state of the COVID pandemic. The issue, DeVos stressed at one point, was merely a matter of calculated…
New York Daily News | Jul 07, 2020 at 6:23 PM President Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Trump threatened Tuesday to strong-arm governors reluctant to let students return to their classrooms, declaring “it’s time” to reopen all schools in the fall no matter what despite the worsening coronavirus pandemic. Trump delivered the aggressive ultimatum…
WASHINGTON—President Trump is signaling that a focus on racial and cultural divides will be a key theme of his re-election campaign. But with the nation in the midst of a racial justice movement and polls showing a growing portion of the population supportive of change, some Republicans fear his strategy won’t work. Over the past…
Robert Redford chooses the veep over the creep. The Academy Award-winning director backed former vice president Joe Biden for president on Tuesday in a lengthy, impassioned essay. The 83-year-old Hollywood heavyweight prefaced his endorsement by asserting that he prefers not to make public political proclamations, but felt compelled to in the Donald Trump era. “This…
CLOSE Donald Trump's push to reopen schools comes amid a nationwide debate over whether it's safe for children to return to the classroom amid coronavirus. USA TODAYWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump called again Tuesday for the nation's schools to reopen this fall and warned that his administration would put "a lot of pressure" on governors and…
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…