People walk down a sidewalk on Friday in St. Simons Island, Ga. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made an order earlier in the week that forbade municipal officials from setting mandatory face-covering policies. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images On its face, the legal showdown between Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms over the…
The public’s distrust of the news media continues, though it is far more pronounced among Republicans than it is among Democrats, according to a new poll. Almost two-thirds of likely U.S. voters — 63% — believe most major news organizations in America have their own political agenda according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey, which…
Joe Biden will run campaign ads during Donald Trump’s eagerly awaited interview with Fox News Sunday. The president sat down with Chris Wallace, one of the most respected US political interviewers, at the White House on Friday, for his first Sunday show interview in more than a year. A clip showed Trump claiming Biden wanted…
The roots of the nation’s current inability to control the pandemic can be traced to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly rosy projections to proclaim victory and move on.President Trump speaking during a televised news conference this week, as seen from a coronavirus ward at Houston Methodist Hospital.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesJuly 18, 2020Updated…
Former President Barack Obama: "I first met John when I was in law school, and I told him then that he was one of my heroes. Years later, when I was elected a U.S. Senator, I told him that I stood on his shoulders." "Not many of us get to live to see our own…
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…