Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the House’s most influential liberal voices, has been tapped to co-chair a “unity task force” on climate change as part of a partnership between presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden and Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont. The Biden campaign announced on Wednesday that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, will…
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu told “America’s Newsroom” on Monday that “Democrats are beginning to understand” that the sexual assault allegation made by Tara Reade against former Vice President Joe Biden is not “just a Joe Biden problem, it's a Democratic Party problem.”Sununu was responding to comments by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who told National Public Radio last week that while the…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Two theories are circulating about the origin of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The media are still selling the idea that it probably arose from an infected bat at an outdoor live-animal food market in Wuhan. That’s also the Chinese Communist Party’s line. The media don’t want people thinking that communist researchers at the Wuhan Virology…
A New York Democrat has advice for Americans dealing with job insecurity during the coronavirus crisis: Don’t go back to work. “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for a national work boycott. The congresswoman says Americans should refuse to go back to work,” said Vice TV, which will include her commentary on the premiere of “A Seat…
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said Monday that she "will not support" the interim coronavirus package if it doesn't include more relief for states and individuals than negotiators have been considering as Congress remained short of a deal."As the person who's representing the most impacted district in the country, my constituents are upset. My…
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…