Attorney General Bill Barr speaks during a roundtable meeting with President Donald Trump in the Cabinet Room at the White House on June 15. Saul Loeb/Getty Images On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on corruption at the Department of Justice that included damning testimony from two department attorneys about alleged political interference…
With state and local governments allowing more businesses to re-open, employers and employees have questions about what they should — and shouldn’t — expect in the workplace. The state has issued guidelines for various types of business, but little has prepared most of us for navigating a return to work during a pandemic, when missteps could kill. We…
The Office of Special Counsel has determined there are “reasonable grounds” to believe a former top vaccine official was removed from his post last month for retaliatory reasons and plans to recommend the Department of Health and Human Services reinstate him while it investigates, the official’s lawyers said Friday.Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical…
Published: May 5, 2020 at 8:38 a.m. ET The U.K. Office for National Statistics said Tuesday the death toll from COVID-19 has climbed above 32,000, placing it above Italy's and making the U.K. the worst hit in Europe from the deadly illness, the Guardian reported. The ONS said it registered 29,648 deaths in England and…
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…