Pfizer will provide 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine if and when it is approved later this year under a “historic” deal with the government, President Trump said Wednesday, as three states and D.C. scrambled in the meantime to stanch the virus by mandating masks outside the home. Mr. Trump used a White House…
Even as Democrats lambast President Trump for sending in officers to protect the federal buildings in Portland, Republicans are increasingly asking: Where are Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Mayor Ted Wheeler? As the city braced Wednesday for a 56th straight night of protest chaos, Oregon Senate Minority Leader Fred Giron cheered the recent arrival of…
Forget slave holders like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Never mind Indian deporters like Andrew Jackson. And who ever heard of segregationists Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt? Joe Biden said Donald Trump is the first racist America has ever elected president. The 77-year-old presumed Democratic presidential nominee made that remarkable claim at a Wednesday virtual…
President Donald Trump, who once bragged he could solve Chicago’s crime problem within a week, announced plans Wednesday to flood the city with a “surge of federal law enforcement” to address ongoing violence. Though agents will be sent across to cities across the country, Trump singled out Chicago as the one in most critical need…
(CNN)Republicans in the Senate are roundly dismissing President Donald Trump's call to withhold more federal aid from schools that remain shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic, the latest sign of…
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…