Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Rep. Michael Waltz called out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday for keeping Congress closed for “almost a month” when their services are critical during the coronavirus pandemic.“I don’t understand why Speaker Pelosi has had us out of session for…
Harvard University has rejected President Donald Trump's demand that it repay an $8 million check it received to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus."They have to pay it back, I don't like it," the president said Tuesday. "This is meant for workers — this isn't meant for one of the richest institutions."Trump also suggested…
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said the coronavirus pandemic was placing "unprecedented burdens" on Americans' civil liberties during a Tuesday radio interview with broadcast journalist Hugh Hewitt.Though Barr said the stay-at-home orders that states issued to contain the outbreak were necessary as the virus began spreading across the U.S., he described them as "disturbingly close…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.With the coronavirus crisis hitting state budgets hard, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday that he is open to allowing states to declare bankruptcy -- rather than sending governors more federal money to deal with their own ballooning…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Nothing can keep this surfer from the sport she loves.CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGEYasemin Özer decided to get creative while stuck in quarantine and missing her beloved waves. The 28-year-old put up the hammock and then balanced her surfboard…
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…