WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday he does not believe opinion polls that show his apparent Democratic presidential opponent, Joe Biden, leading in the 2020 race for the White House.During an interview in the Oval Office, the Republican president said he did not expect the election to be a referendum on his…
The economic crisis is coming for GOP strongholds, too. He’s got nothing. Mandel Ngam/Getty Images Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. Subscribe to support our journalism. Start your free trial. With the coronavirus crisis threatening to choke state budgets and force massive, economically damaging spending cuts, Republicans have responded in their time-honored…
Whenever baseball does return and fans are allowed back at stadiums, Anthony S. Fauci has an open invitation to drop in the clubhouse at Nationals Park, home of his beloved World Series champions.“If you need any tickets, you got a hookup now,” Washington Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman told Fauci, the longtime director of the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A Spanish news anchor was accused of cheating on his TV star girlfriend when viewers spotted a semi-naked woman saunter behind him while he was filming a live segment, according to a report.Alfonso Merlos, 41, was hosting the Estado de…
Madeline Holcombe and Paul Vercammen, CNNPublished 30th April 2020 (CNN) California Gov. Gavin Newsom intends to order the closure of all state beaches and parks starting Friday, according to a copy of a memo provided to CNN by a senior law enforcement offic…
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…