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Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY Published 9:54 a.m. ET July 14, 2020 | Updated 1:17 p.m. ET July 14, 2020CLOSE President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime confidant Roger Stone. WochitWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's executive order granting clemency for his longtime ally, Roger Stone, wiped away not only his prison sentence, but also…
Florida's Miami-Dade County Public Schools — touted as a model by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for its comprehensive reopening plan — is offering up to five days of in-person learning, along with an online option. But the superintendent now is casting doubt on the possibility of kids returning to classrooms on the first day of…
July 13, 2020 | 1:35pm | Updated July 13, 2020 | 2:36pm Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday claimed that President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis was worse than the Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon from office. “Trump’s COVID scandal makes Nixon’s Watergate look innocent,” Cuomo said during a news conference in Manhattan.…
Trump's reelection team canceled a planned rally in New Hampshire on Saturday over low attendance concerns, campaign advisers told NBC News. The campaign blamed a forecasted storm for the cancellation in a statement Friday. Campaign officials are reportedly desperate to avoid a repeat of the Tulsa rally debacle, where after being promised a sell-out, Trump spoke to…
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…