DONALD Trump spoke early on at the coronavirus task force briefing to say that CDC Director Robert Redfield had been misquoted in a recent headline by the Washington Post.He hit out at the 'ridiculous' headline, calling it 'fake news' and slamming CNN's coverage of the story.Read more:Trump Press Sec Kayleigh McEnany disputes report quoting CDC…
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the need for strong restrictions to stop the spread of the coronavirus may be passing and that the Justice Department might consider taking legal action against states that go too far."There are very, very burdensome impingements on liberty," he told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt,…
shelter-at-home order enacted by the governor and state health officer Dr. Scott Harris that went into effect April 4 and expires April 30.“Alabama has two options," Brooks said in a statement accompanying the report. "We can live under government dictate, where a burgeoning nanny state regulates, ‘for our own good, because we are not smart…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A Harvard law professor is under fire for her comments in an article about the "risks" of homeschooling as parents face closed public schools because of the coronavirus pandemic.In Harvard Magazine's May-June issue, Elizabeth Bartholet, a law professor and faculty director of the…
President Donald Trump was not the only member of his administration's Coronavirus Task Force on Saturday to question China's very low death rate from the COVID-19 pandemic. His task force response coordinator had questions, even calling China's rate "basically unrealistic."Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, displayed a graph that shows the mortality…
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…