As states across the country see their budgets decimated by the coronavirus pandemic, attempts by President Trump and top Republican lawmakers to paint the issue in partisan terms have been directly challenged by a growing cast of voices from across the political spectrum.Republican and Democratic governors are warning of financial calamity if Washington doesn’t provide…
The World Health Organization's top official said Monday that partisan politics and lack of global solidarity are helping to fuel the coronavirus pandemic.He urged countries to work together as Covid-19 continues to spread throughout the world."The cracks between people and the cracks between parties is fueling it," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. "Don't use this…
Amid the partisan clash over an interim relief package for small businesses, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats are now insisting on $30 billion for a national testing plan. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo Republicans and Democrats agree coronavirus testing is a huge hurdle for President Donald Trump's vaunted reopening of the economy. But…
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…