A series of high-profile changes at the U.S. Postal Service and warning letters about delivering ballots on time for the November election have touched off a nationwide firestorm about the viability of the USPS during the coronavirus pandemic.Democrats and activists have accused President Trump and new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a GOP donor and friend, of slowing down…
(CNN)Representatives at the United States Postal Service's national headquarters in Washington were still unable to confirm whether they would stop removing letter collection boxes as of Saturday aft…
The New York Police Department (NYPD) union faced blowback from local Democrats after it endorsed President Trump’s reelection amid budget cuts and tensions between police and city lawmakers.On Friday night, Trump spoke to members of the New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA), an organization that represents 24,000 officers, at his golf club in Bedminster,…
Newsweek apologized Friday over an editorial it published recently about Sen. Kamala D. Harris and the California Democrat’s eligibility to run on the party’s presidential ticket. An editor’s note was added to the article days after its publication quickly propelled conspiracy theories about Mr. Harris, the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee. “This op-ed is being…
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…