Rep. Chris Smith speaks at the N.J. Chamber of Commerce congressional dinner in February 2020.Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance MediaDid the Pentagon look at using ticks with pathogens to infect America’s enemies during the Cold War? And did some of those ticks escape into the U.S., bringing Lyme disease with them?Those are the questions Rep.…
Republican Congressman Michael McCaul says that it's President Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who are the "power players behind the scenes" in the Trump campaign and its reshuffling. Kushner, he believes, was behind the decision to demote campaign manager Brad Parscale. "Jared really is the brains behind the machine in the campaign," McCaul…
Rep. Justin Amash is leaving the GOP Rep. Justin Amash is leaving the GOP 00:51 Five-term Michigan Congressman Justin Amash announced by tweet late Thursday night that he will not seek reelection in November. "I love representing our community in Congress. I always will," Amash wrote. "This is my choice, but I'm still going 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…