Washington, DC (CNN)Kentucky's governor on Saturday said he "strongly disagrees" with Mitch McConnell on the Senate Majority Leader's comments that declaring bankruptcy might be best for state and local governments. Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, in an inter…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin predicted that the trillions of dollars Congress has poured into the economy in coronavirus relief packages will pay off as states slowly begin to allow businesses to reopen.Mnuchin told "Fox News Sunday" that he believes the steps…
Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said Sunday that news coverage of President TrumpDonald John TrumpWH officials discuss HHS secretary replacement following criticism of pandemic response: WSJ Pentagon leaders at impasse about next steps for Capt. Brett Crozier: report Trump forgoes WH press briefing for the first time since Easter weekend MORE's comments about…
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks next to President Donald Trump during a tour of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 6, 2020. JIM WATSON/Getty Images Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. The White…
| April 26, 2020 12:00 AM President Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell are on a collision course after the Senate majority leader declared that the next round of coronavirus relief sought by the White House must address the exploding federal debt. Trump supports another massive rescue package as the pandemic takes a sledgehammer to the…
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…