Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, center and Vice Adm. Jerome Adams, arrive wearing protective masks to a 'Wear A Mask' tour stop in Dalton, Georgia, U.S., on Thursday, July 2, 2020.Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp urged residents Friday to wear a face mask when in public, two days after he blocked…
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf renewed the federal government’s office of help in quashing violent riots in Portland but said Wednesday local leaders in the Oregon city appear more interested in trying to appease a mob. As rioters have attacked the federal courthouse in the city, sparking clashes with federal authorities on the scene,…
President Trump on Tuesday urged the nation’s public schools to reopen “quickly and beautifully” and jabbed at districts like Los Angeles’ that remain uncertain, again injecting politics into the pandemic response.As the nation’s death toll from COVID-19 surged past 130,000 this week, cases are rising in 38 states, including an outbreak at childcare facilities in…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told "The Daily Briefing" Wednesday that President Trump should "reconsider" his threat to veto a bill to fund the military for the 2021 fiscal year if it includes a provision to rename military bases named after Confederate military leaders."I would hope the president really wouldn't veto the bill over this issue," McConnell told host Dana Perino. "In the bill, there’s a requirement of a three-year study…
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…