Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.For those of you still wiping down groceries and other packages amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, breathe a sigh of relief: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now say that the novel virus “does not spread easily” from touching…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The U.S. Senate has passed a bill boosting oversight of companies based in China and other nations that could lead to their removal from American stock exchanges.The vote on the measure, introduced more than a year ago by Sens. John…
A Senate committee on Wednesday voted to authorize a subpoena as it probes the business ties of Hunter Biden, the son of likely Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden. The 8-6 party-line vote in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee gives Chairman Ron Johnson the authority to subpoena Blue Star Strategies, a PR…
Pelosi sounds off on Trump during Capitol press conferenceSpeaker Pelosi says President Trump's behavior is 'completely inappropriate in so many ways that it's almost a given' and it's like a child who 'comes in with doggy doo on his shoes and everybody who works with him has that on their shoes, too' during her weekly…
U.S.|2 Dams Fail in Michigan, Forcing Thousands to EvacuateThe failure of the dams was expected to bring record-setting flooding, with the response complicated by the coronavirus.A dam on Wixom Lake in Edenville, Mich., on Tuesday.Credit...Kaytie Boomer/The Bay City Times, via Associated PressPublished May 19, 2020Updated May 20, 2020, 10:57 a.m. ETSevere flooding struck central Michigan…
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…