An emboldened China and its leader, Xi Jinping, assert themselves on national security, in line with Mr. Xi’s vision for a “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”A screen showing President Xi Jinping of China on the first day of the National People’s Congress in Beijing on Friday.Credit...Pool photo by Roman PilipeyMay 22, 2020China’s leader, Xi…
WASHINGTON — As Congress passes trillions of dollars in coronavirus aid, Joe Biden has kept his distance from the unprecedented relief push and deferred to his allies on Capitol Hill to hash out solutions to the calamity, focusing instead on bashing President Donald Trump as a failed leader.It is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and…
The White House. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images The White House is on the cusp of negotiating another giant economic rescue package with Congress, but it’s weighing a new top congressional liaison. It’s facing numerous coronavirus-related domestic policy crises, from health care to immigration to education, yet is getting a new head of its Domestic Policy…
CLOSE When will it hit and what will it look like? Those are just a few unanswered questions about a possible second wave of COVID-19. USA TODAYCoronavirus has radically altered life in the United States at mind-bending speed in the past three months and our understanding of the virus is changing just as quickly. More than 2.5…
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján continues to hold a comfortable fundraising edge over his GOP opponents in a race for open Senate seat in New Mexico, federal records show. According to the Federal Election Commission, the Santa Fe Democrat raised more than $1 million in…
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…