Vice President Pence and other members of the coronavirus task force, here in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 29, are holding a briefing on Friday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP Vice President Pence and other members of the coronavirus task force, here in the Rose Garden of the…
More than a dozen people who attended a large family party in Northern California later tested positive for the coronavirus, a private gathering that state officials say is just one of many contribut…
“Frankly I didn’t really understand what they were thinking. … At a time cases are spiking, we’re gonna pull back?” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). | Carolyn Kaster - Pool/Getty Images As coronavirus cases spike across the country, President Donald Trump and his top officials say everything is mostly under control. But Senate Republicans are…
Sorry folks, the Justice Department is not in the business of issuing coronavirus mask exemption cards. A U.S. attorney in North Carolina issued an alert this week saying that the cards that have been popping up are bogus, and despite the wording on the card they are not official Justice Department documents. The cards purport…
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…