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Vice President Mike Pence told Fox News Tuesday that he does not remember being told to be "on standby to take over the powers of the presidency temporarily" if President Trump had to undergo a procedure during a visit to Walter Reed Medical Center last year."I don't recall being told to be on standby," Pence told "Special Report" host Bret…
August 29, 2020 | 12:33pm Enlarge Image South Korean army soldiers spray disinfectant to help reduce the spread of the new coronavirus in a class at Cheondong elementary school AP Just as schools are reopening across the country, a new study is detailing how kids who have the coronavirus but don’t show symptoms can still…
Nicholas Wu, USA TODAY Published 12:20 p.m. ET Aug. 27, 2020 | Updated 1:08 p.m. ET Aug. 27, 2020CLOSE Vice President Mike Pence closed the third night of the RNC from Fort McHenry, Maryland by trumpeting the Trump administration's accomplishments. Associated PressWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has sunk so low that former Vice President Joe Biden should…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she lacks confidence in Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator and world-renowned public-health authority, because she was appointed by President Trump. “I think the president is spreading disinformation about the virus, and she is his appointee, and so I don’t have confidence there, no,”…
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…