As President Trump deploys federal agents to Portland, Ore., and threatens to dispatch more to other cities, his re-election campaign is spending millions of dollars on several ominous television ads that promote fear and dovetail with his political message of “law and order.”The influx of agents in Portland has led to scenes of confrontations and…
Politics|Trump Administration Balks at Funding for Testing and C.D.C. in Virus Relief BillSenate Republicans were infuriated after the Trump administration objected to provisions in a draft proposal, including allocating $25 billion to testing and contact tracing.Wisconsin National Guard personnel at a drive-through testing site in Milwaukee yesterday.Credit...Joshua Lott for The New York TimesPublished July 18,…
President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, challenged his critics on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, threatened a veto for the defense bill, and speculated on whether he will accept the results if his Democratic challenger wins the presidency in November.Trump, in a contentious sitdown that aired Sunday, told "Fox News Sunday"…
TOPLINE Dr. Anthony Fauci pushed back on President Trump's claim that 99% of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless," and confirmed that a post-viral syndrome associated with Covid-19 has incapacitated some patients for prolonged periods and as the ongoing debate over the seriousness of the pandemic, between the president and the country's top doctors, continues to…
SCRANTON, PA -- Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden returned to his childhoold hometown in Pennsylvania on Thursday during a trip where he proposed spending $700 billion on American products and research - in the hopes of bringing back millions of jobs lost by an economy flattened by the coronavirus pandemic.The former vice president unveiled his populist plan during…
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…