Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that hospitalizations from COVID-19 grew 16% over the last two weeks as the state reported more than 46,000 new cases of the virus, marking significant increases as more Californians begin to return to a sense of normalcy. The Democratic governor started easing his stay-at-home order roughly six weeks ago and…
The New York Police Department (NYPD) commissioner on Monday defended the officers who drove into protesters against police brutality late last month, saying they did not violate the department’s use-of-force policy.Commissioner Dermot Shea testified in an online public hearing on the police response to the George Floyd protests, saying the officers shown in videos to…
US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman became the latest Justice Department official to run afoul of the Trump administration this weekend — and ended up being fired for it after an unusual public showdown. Late on Friday night, Attorney General Bill Barr announced that Berman was “stepping down” from his…
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany sparred with reporters on Monday over President Trump’s use of the term “Kung Flu” when referring to the coronavirus, declaring that the moniker was meant to link COVID-19 to its place of origin.Trump referred to COVID-19 as “Kung Flu” on Saturday night during his campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla. McEnany was asked about the…
Germany, Brazil and the United States are among the nations grappling with a recent spike in coronavirus cases as the World Health Organization reported the highest one-day increase in cases globally on Sunday.Despite a successful streak in containing the spread of the virus in Germany, an outbreak among workers at the Toennies meat processing plant…