Hong Kong (CNN)China has ordered the closure of the United States consulate in Chengdu, days after Washington forced the Chinese consulate in Houston to cease operations. A statement from the Minis…
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WASHINGTON — With some school districts just weeks away from the start of the academic year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released long-awaited guidelines Thursday for reopening with a heavy emphasis on getting students back into the classroom.The guidelines lay out the social, emotional and mental risks of keeping students at home and…
Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz called on the press to pressure presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to "answer questions," saying it's his responsibility as a candidate and that "playing it safe" could backfire."Many Democrats seem convinced that while it's a great strategy for [Biden] not to talk to the press, the press, by…
It's becoming clear that Joe Biden is starting to listen to the "radicalized people" who backed Sen. Bernie Sanders' failed bid for the White House, and they're taking Biden "further left," President Trump said Thursday night."I think [Biden is] afraid of the people on his left," Trump said during a phone interview on Fox News' "Hannity.""These are very radicalized…
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…