Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionBoris Johnson: We followed scientific advice Boris Johnson has admitted the government did not understand coronavirus during the "first few weeks and months" of the UK outbreak.The PM told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg there were "very open questions" about whether the lockdown had started too late.Mr…
New York Daily News | Jul 24, 2020 at 1:12 PM Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler reacts after being exposed to tear gas fired by federal officers while attending a protest against police brutality and racial injustice. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images) President Trump called Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler “pathetic” after the Oregon politician was gassed by federal…
TOPLINE Republicans were set to unveil their proposal for a fifth coronavirus stimulus package on Thursday—the next step in a process that will ultimately decide the fate of relief payments affecting millions of Americans—but GOP lawmakers could not decide how to tweak unemployment payouts, delaying the draft until next week. President Donald Trump talks to…
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…