A view of the Motiva refinery looking over the rooftops of home in Port Arthur, Texas, in April.Credit...Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York TimesJuly 15, 2020Updated 11:04 a.m. ETWASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday is set to unilaterally weaken one of the nation’s bedrock conservation laws, the National Environmental Policy Act, limiting public review of…
(CNN)White House adviser and President's daughter Ivanka Trump may have violated a government ethics rule when she posted a photo of herself holding a can of black beans Tuesday night. "If it's Goy…
Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY Published 9:27 a.m. ET July 15, 2020 | Updated 11:39 a.m. ET July 15, 2020CLOSE The president and the CDC disagree on the guidelines for reopening schools. USA TODAYThe Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all COVID-19 patient information to a…
The governor of Missouri says President Trump has promised to "do everything he could within his powers" to shield a St. Louis couple who wielded guns at protesters in their gated community from prosecution, even as an attorney for the client says charges are imminent.Gov. Mike Parson said he spoke to Trump Tuesday and was…
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…