assault

A media campaign has erupted against Amy Coney Barrett, even though President Trump hasn’t actually nominated her to the Supreme Court.Barrett is clearly the front-runner, having spent a second straight day at the White House as the president moves toward his Saturday announcement. And of course there should be substantial scrutiny of her record if…

“What the president is doing is willfully and wantonly undermining confidence in the most basic democratic process we have,” said William A. Galston, chair of the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. “Words almost fail me — it’s so deeply irresponsible. He’s arousing his core supporters for a truly damaging crisis in the days and weeks…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An assault on a biracial woman in Madison was being investigated as a hate crime after the woman told police she was burned by lighter fluid thrown at her and ignited by a white man, just a few blocks from violent protests at the state Capitol. Althea Bernstein told police she…

Tests for Covid-19 antibodies are now available, but news reports suggest—and some physicians are advising their patients—that antibodies may not provide immunity. This assertion defies generations of immunology research and is a political attack on reliable tests. Here’s how the immune system works: On viral infection, it reacts with two surges, “innate” and “adaptive” immunity.…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Tara Reade could save the Democratic Party.Reade, a former aide for then-Sen. Joe Biden, has accused the presumed Democrat candidate of sexual assault. Evidence has surfaced that appears to bolster Reade’s allegations.In this #MeToo era, Democrat officials could use that accusation to get Uncle Joe to withdraw from…