Trump admitted last week that he opposed additional funding for the Postal Service and election security grants because those provisions would help facilitate voting by mail amid the coronavirus pandemic. Democratic lawmakers have also expressed concern over efforts by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump-appointed Republican donor, to implement substantial operational changes at the agency.…
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — One person is dead after several homes collapsed in a northwest Baltimore neighborhood Monday morning along Reisterstown Road after a gas explosion. The explosion happened along the 4200 block of Brookhill Road near the Reisterstown Road Plaza before 10 a.m. At least three homes collapsed and the debris blew out windows in…
But she soon lost support within swaths of the scientific and medical community for seeming to minimize the virus and to enable Trump’s overly rosy view of the pandemic. This past weekend, Birx lost the backing of the nation’s top Democrat, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who privately called Birx “the worst” and publicly said…
Colorado Springs COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- A stark warning was issued by the El Paso County Public Health Department nearly 14 days ago: if there isn't a slow in the rate of COVID-19, the county could have to re-evaluate variances and scale back business operations. "It's a pretty upward trend for the month of…
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…