The closing session of China's National People's Congress plays on a television in a Hong Kong restaurant Thursday. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption toggle caption Vincent Yu/AP The closing session of China's National People's Congress plays on a television in a Hong Kong restaurant Thursday. Vincent Yu/AP China's National People's Congress, the nation's rubber-stamp legislature, Thursday…
(CNN)President Donald Trump's loyalists in the administration and on Capitol Hill have opened up an all-out assault against the Obama administration and former Vice President Joe Biden, using committ…
Advocates for seniors and people with disabilities blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration last week for advising hospitals to prioritize younger people with greater life expectancy for care during the coronavirus outbreak, saying the state’s medical shortage guidelines were discriminatory and crafted without their input.“The disability, aging and older-adults community had reached out a number of…
Gov. Brian Kemp defended his handling of Georgia’s coronavirus outbreak on Monday, lashing out at the news media and others who questioned his decision to reopen segments of the state’s economy. But Kemp took no issue with his most vocal critic: President Donald Trump. Twice last week, Trump lambasted Kemp during White House briefings for…
identifying some New York nursing homes where residents have died of coronavirus.Most of the homes are in the New York City area. Cobble Hill Health Center in Brooklyn has had 55 deaths, the most of any nursing home in the state.The state said it is not identifying nursing homes with fewer than five deaths for…
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…