Joseph R. Biden has started to receive classified intelligence briefings, which are typically reserved for presidential candidates only once they become their party’s nominee. His campaign confirmed Friday that Mr. Biden was briefed this week. Mr. Biden, a Democrat, made a reference to the briefings during a fundraiser on Thursday. “It’s not an exaggeration to…
Military chiefs of the new U.S. Space Force presented President Trump with the service branch’s official flag on Friday in the Oval Office, where it will stand with the flags of the five other armed services. “It’s a great honor. That’s a beautiful flag, too,” Mr. Trump said as the banner was unfurled. The flag…
April 16 (Reuters) - Moderna Inc said on Thursday that it received a $483 million contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to accelerate the development of its vaccine candidate for the novel coronavirus.The experimental vaccine is being tested in an early-stage trial conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and…
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…