Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says the winner of November's presidential election should be the person to nominate a successor to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday.“There is no doubt, let me be clear, that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider,”…
September 5, 2020, 4:57PM Updated 5 hours ago For only the seventh time since the first case of coronavirus was detected in Sonoma County six months ago, a person under the age of 65 has been killed by complications from COVID-19, county officials said Friday. The death was among four reported late Thursday night, bringing…
WASHINGTON — Presidents and those who would be president often boast of their qualifications — their education, their experience, their achievements. And then there is President Trump, who is boasting about his dementia test.Even for a president who has rewritten the political rule book so many times before, the spectacle of a commander in chief…
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…