The email, most of which was already declassified, describes a Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting that followed up on an intelligence briefing about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Attendees included then-President Barack Obama; Comey; Sally Yates, who was the acting attorney general; Vice President Joe Biden; and Rice, who was Flynn's predecessor in…
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 19: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White ... [+] House May 19, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images An early proposal for a student debt relief plan called for cancelling $30,000 dollars worth of debt. The current…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt will return to sea later this week before Memorial Day after a coronavirus outbreak sidelined the massive warship for nearly two months after more than 1,000 sailors tested positive, Navy officials said Tuesday. Since…
Jasmine Arbery, sister of Ahmaud Arbery, and Wanda Cooper-Jones, Ahmaud’s mother, comfort each other while people gather to honor Ahmaud at Sidney Lanier Park on May 9 in Brunswick, Georgia. Sean Rayford/Getty Images As the details of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder and the initial refusal of local authorities to prosecute his killers have come further to…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.President Trump announced an executive order Tuesday that aims to make hundreds of deregulations in the age of coronavirus permanent, something that would amount to a massive overhaul of regulatory policy."We've done far more regulation cutting than any president in history,"…
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…