House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows made clear in separate interviews Sunday that they remain far apart on a coronavirus relief deal that would restore expired unemployment benefits for millions of Americans.The three spoke a day after a rare weekend meeting at the Capitol yielded…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo supported President Trump's proposed ban of social media phenomenon TikTok, explaining to Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" just how use of the app exposes Americans to having their personal information sent straight to the Chinese government.Trump's call for a ban came amid concerns over the national security risk posed by…
Trump campaign officials are convinced that polls showing Joseph R. Biden with a big lead are tilted left by undercounting Republican voters and are missing a hidden cache of the president’s supporters who are leery of pollsters. President Trump and his campaign staff are not under the illusion that he is winning at this stage,…
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 8:48 a.m. ET Aug. 2, 2020 | Updated 11:57 a.m. ET Aug. 2, 2020CLOSE A timelapse captured along the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, shows clouds from Isaias sweeping through the area. AccuweatherBands of rain from Isaias soaked portions of Florida’s east coast and wind gusts of up to 60 mph were…
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…