Monthly Archives: May, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top White House official on Sunday likened China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak to the Soviet Union’s cover-up of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. National security adviser Robert O’Brien said Beijing knew what was happening with the virus, which originated in Wuhan, from November but lied…

The whopper hailstones punched holes through roofs and left craters in the ground Five-inch hail fell on Burkburnett, Tex., on May 22. (Rick Smith/NWS Norman) There’s hail, there’s big hail, and then there’s what fell on Burkburnett, Tex., about 10 miles north of Wichita Falls, on Friday afternoon. Hail topping five inches in diameter crashed…

I voted stickers | AP Photo OAKLAND, Calif. — The Republican Party has thrown its full weight behind challenging California’s move to a mail-ballot November election during the coronavirus pandemic. A lawsuit from the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the California Republican Party seeks to invalidate Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order that…

A tour bus, sponsored by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, pulls up to a Miami-Dade County courthouse ahead of a hearing aimed at restoring the right to vote under Florida's Amendment 4 on Nov. 8, 2019. Zak Bennett/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Zak Bennett/AFP via Getty Images A tour bus, sponsored by…

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