Image copyright Getty Images/AFP A Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the US to working as an agent of China, the latest incident in a growing stand-off between Washington and Beijing.Jun Wei Yeo was charged with using his political consultancy in America as a front to collect information for Chinese intelligence, US officials say. Separately,…
President Trump made a rare admission that his Twitter activity at times gets him "into trouble."During an interview that was released Friday by Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, the two discussed the powerful platform Trump has on Twitter.The president told Portnoy there are times when he "loves" using Twitter "too much sometimes," touting the "voice" he has that…
President Trump made a rare admission that his Twitter activity at times gets him "into trouble."During an interview that was released Friday by Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy, the two discussed the powerful platform Trump has on Twitter.The president told Portnoy there are times when he "loves" using Twitter "too much sometimes," touting the "voice" he has…
President Trump has now done what his critics have been demanding, focusing squarely on the pandemic, offering a downbeat assessment and no longer insisting it will magically disappear.And he still got pounded for it.Now the return of the coronavirus briefings was hardly flawless. It had the feel of an intervention by presidential advisers who wanted…
President Trump tried to seize control of the coronavirus narrative Tuesday, returning to the White House podium to acknowledge surging cases while trumpeting progress on treatments and a vaccine that would soothe his election-year nightmare. Mr. Trump said Americans are far less likely to die from the disease than they had been in March 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…