The Treasury Secretary told lawmakers that the next phase of relief should be focused on industries that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus.Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin called on Congress to pass another round of stimulus aid as parts of the economy continue to struggle with the effects of the virus.Credit...Samuel Corum for The New…
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden speaks Tuesday at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden speaks Tuesday at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Friday released his plan for how schools…
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday defended his controversial decision to take legal action to block Atlanta's mask mandate claiming that it's up to communities to defeat the coronavirus and not the government.He also chided critics who "have decided to play politics by exploiting these difficult emotional moments for political gain."The Republican governor, an ally of President Trump,…
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane's wing emergency exit as the aircraft began to burn and fill with smoke before the retired race car driver and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to new details about the 2019 accident released by the National Transportation and…
Andrew Sullivan penned his last op-ed in New York Magazine on Friday after previously announcing that he would no longer be a columnist for the outlet.Sullivan began the column by stressing that the magazine "has every right to hire and fire anyone it wants when it comes to the content of what it wants 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…