Smoke from the wildfires in the West was spotted high in the skies over Washington, D.C. Firefighters continued to battle blazes that were still spreading.Firefighters battled the El Dorado Fire in Angelus Oaks, Calif., on Tuesday.Credit...Eric Thayer for The New York TimesSept. 15, 2020Updated 8:02 p.m. ETSEATTLE — The billowing wildfire smoke that has blanketed…
Los Angeles-area authorities worked Tuesday to apprehend a suspected armed carjacker in a standoff amid suspicions he could be connected to the shooting of two sheriff's deputies over the weekend, according to media reports.Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told several news outlets that the suspect is not linked to the ambush shooting of two transit deputies in…
Joseph R. Biden traveled to Florida on Tuesday to muster support among Hispanic voters, a key constituency where he is struggling to match Hillary Clinton’s 2016 numbers. Mr. Biden said it’s an “easy” case to make that Latinos would be better off on issues like education, health care, immigration, and the coronavirus pandemic if President…
(CNN)Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Michael Caputo on Tuesday apologized to staffers for a rant in which he accused career government scientists of "sedition" and working to underm…
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…