Cai said Beijing has asked the U.S. to rescind its Tuesday order to close the consulate, which China argues runs afoul of international agreements governing diplomatic relations. “We think that the demand from the U.S. side … is not according to the Vienna convention on consular affairs and also is not according to international practice…
CLOSE Hospital braces for long haul flighting coronavirus AP DomesticThe USA hit the latest bleak milestone Thursday in the historic pandemic: 4 million confirmed cases of infections.Experts agree the number of cases is actually much greater – potentially 10 times higher than what's been reported, according to federal data. More than 143,000 people have died from the coronavirus in…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Michael Cohen was released initially to home confinement in May President Trump's ex-lawyer will return to home confinement after a judge ruled he was sent back to jail in retaliation for writing a tell-all book. Michael Cohen had been released in May over Covid-19 concerns from a three-year sentence…
(Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama blasted Republican President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in a video aired on Thursday, as the Biden campaign tapped the star power of America’s first Black president. FILE PHOTO: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walk through the Crypt…
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…