Monthly Archives: May, 2020

The measures Gov. Gavin Newsom enacted to slow the spread of the coronavirus and his plans to unwind them may discriminate against religious groups and violate their constitutional rights, the U.S. Justice Department warned in a letter Tuesday.In a three-page letter to the governor, Eric S. Dreiband, an assistant attorney general and the head of…

Jim Salter, Associated Press Published 10:03 p.m. ET May 19, 2020 CLOSEBONNE TERRE, Mo. — A Missouri man was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday for fatally stabbing an 81-year-old woman nearly three decades ago, the first U.S. execution since the coronavirus pandemic took hold.Walter Barton, 64, had long maintained he was innocent of killing…

A three-year-old interview clip of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice resurfaced Tuesday after the declassified email she sent to herself on the final day of the Obama administration was released.During an April 2017 appearance on PBS News Hour, Rice was asked about the then-breaking revelations about members of President Trump's transition team having been surveilled before he…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, said Tuesday that his office would appeal a federal court’s preliminary injunction that allows all registered voters in the state to apply to vote by mail while the country fights the coronavirus pandemic.CLICK FOR THE…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Nearly 108 million people in China's Jilin province could be forced back into lockdown after a growing group of new coronavirus infections triggered a backslide in the nation's push to return to normal.The abrupt reversal in China's northeast region has once again cut off public…