President Trump urged Florida residents Tuesday to vote by mail, after months of criticizing mail-in voting as susceptible to fraud. “Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True,” Mr. Trump tweeted. “Florida’s Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats…
President Trump, who has resisted wearing a face mask in almost all situations, asked supporters in a campaign email Monday to wear them, saying it might help the country “get back to our American way of life.” “I don’t love wearing them, either,” Mr. Trump said. “Masks may be good, they may be just okay,…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday released a long-awaited update to guidelines for getting children back into the classroom this fall, but it left many details of how to do so safely up to officials at the local level."Let the individual jurisdictions see how the different strategies that we've put out can…
July 24, 2020 | 12:04pm | Updated July 24, 2020 | 12:29pm Enlarge Image Fairfax County Public School buses parked at a middle school in Falls Church, Virginia. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday night released long-awaited guidance on reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic, urging masks, diligent cleaning…
SAN FRANCISCO — Responding to calls for Trader Joe’s to stop labeling its international food products with ethnic-sounding names, the grocery store chain said it has been in a yearslong process of repackaging those products and will soon complete the work.In the latest call to rename brands and logos, nearly 1,000 people have signed an…
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…