July 6, 2020 | 10:33pm Enlarge Image Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Paul Martinka Accused Jeffrey Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell was quietly transferred on Monday from New Hampshire to a Brooklyn federal prison where she’ll await trial pending a bail hearing. Maxwell, who was arrested in a million-dollar rural mansion last week, was moved by…
The court's decision was unanimous. July 6, 2020, 4:54 PM3 min read A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require their presidential electors to support the candidate chosen by a majority of voters and punish electors who go rogue. The decision, just five months before the 2020 presidential election, reduces the chance of…
The Trump and Biden presidential campaigns now see the coronavirus response as the preeminent force shaping the results of November’s election, prompting both camps to try to refocus their campaigns more heavily on the pandemic, according to officials and advisers of both campaigns.Advisers to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden see the covid-19 crisis as perhaps…
The national atmosphere is toxic enough that Senate Republicans, who currently hold a three-seat majority, no longer have a significant edge in their quest to retain control of the chamber next year. Democrats have both built leads in states that were previously considered up-for-grabs and put new states firmly on the map, expanding their path…
Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY Published 10:28 p.m. ET July 6, 2020 | Updated 11:13 p.m. ET July 6, 2020CLOSE Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks to how personal responsibility and social distancing is the key to ending the spread of the coronavirus. USA TODAYWASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,…
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…