May 4, 2020 | 2:26pm Enlarge Image Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump Getty Images House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy broke with Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who turned down President Trump’s offer to provide rapid-result coronavirus testing for lawmakers returning to work on Capitol Hill, according to a report.…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said during an exclusive interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” that the World Health Organization is acting “more like the Wuhan Health Organization” -- a reason, he said, for Congress to return to work to conduct oversight.McCarthy, R-Calif., made…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Even those who are not Trump devotees but would like to see the government function properly should sympathize with the president’s frustration over the way Senate Democrats have slow-walked his appointments.To be sure, this is not the exclusive reason why there…
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Friday that negotiators are making progress on stalled talks over emergency aid for small businesses, which comes one day after a small business loans program has run out of cash and as unemployment numbers continue to climb. “I think we…
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…