June 11, 2020 | 11:34am | Updated June 11, 2020 | 12:05pm An Ohio state senator sparked outrage after asking a black health expert if “the colored population” gets hit harder by the coronavirus because they “do not wash their hands as well.” Sen. Stephen Huffman — who is also a doctor — shocked the…
Stephen Colbert opened his Late Show monologue Monday night with the day’s “startling admission” from President Donald Trump. “I’m taking it, hydroxychloroquine,” Trump told reporters. “A couple weeks ago I started taking it.” Asked why he’s taking it, the president added, “Because I think it’s good. I’ve heard a lot of good stories.” “Of course,…
On Thursday’s A Late Show, Stephen Colbert digs deeper into a surprising stat from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily COVID briefing. At his briefing earlier Thursday, Cuomo announced some “amazingly good news.” The infection rate of health care workers, as revealed by the governor, is less than and in some cases “about half of…
Miller, the chief architect of the president’s immigration agenda and one of his longest-serving and most trusted advisers, spoke to a group of Trump surrogates Thursday in an off-the-record call about the new executive order, which had been signed the night before. Although the White House had seen the move as something that would resonate…
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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…