The buzzy idea is impractical, critics said. And there isn’t yet real-world data to show it will work.Rapid antigen tests aren’t very good at picking up low-level infections, but they’re cheap, convenient and fast.Credit...Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSept. 6, 2020, 8:00 a.m. ETOver the past few weeks, a Harvard scientist has made headlines for…

If it feels like you're seeing way too many campaign commercials for this time of year, it's not just you.

President Trump said Sunday that the Department of Education is examining the use of the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project in schools, and warned that institutions that teach this alternative narrative of American history could lose federal funding.The project is based on the premise that American history began in 1619 -- cited as the…

Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said Sunday that Republicans intend to begin working this week on a continuing resolution to keep the government from shutting down and will separately advance a “targeted” coronavirus-related stimulus package this week. While Republicans and Democrats remain at odds over the right approach to coronavirus-related stimulus, Mr. Mnuchin told Fox…

In a 2013 video, Donald Trump "fires" an actor playing President Barack Obama YouTube Extracts from Michael Cohen's new memoir allege that Trump was consumed by an obsessive hatred for Barack Obama, the US' first Black president.  In one bizarre incident, Trump hired an Obama lookalike and "ritualistically belittled the first black president and then…