April 17, 2020 | 1:07pm | Updated April 17, 2020 | 3:21pm WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday called for a number of states under extended lockdown to be “liberated” after telling governors on Thursday “you’re going to call your shots” over when to reopen. In a series of Twitter missives, the president called for…
Joey Garrison, USA TODAY Published 7:46 p.m. ET April 17, 2020 CLOSE Words don't fade away for those involved in the college admission scandal. USA TODAYBOSTON — A federal judge Friday called allegations of law enforcement misconduct in the nation's college admissions scandal headlined by actress Lori Loughlin "serious and disturbing" as he ordered prosecutors to provide…
Covid-19 patients at Lenox Hill who are not on the verge of dying receive a five-day regimen of hydroxychloroquine, the long-used malaria drug that President Trump has repeatedly promoted as a “what have you got to lose” remedy. While his own top health officials are more cautious — noting there is limited evidence about the…
John Fritze and David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 12:29 p.m. ET April 17, 2020 | Updated 2:18 p.m. ET April 17, 2020CLOSE President Donald Trump says governors will decide on when to reopen their states based upon benchmarks he outlined. WochitWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump called on supporters Friday to "liberate" states that have experienced protests over…
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is calling for the Senate to unanimously pass new small-business aid amid a stalemate among leaders in the upper chamber over the scope of the package. "The PPP program is going to run out of funding soon — the Senate should approve add’l funding by unanimous consent ASAP. Small businesses need our help to…
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…