Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has agreed to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Aug. 24 about the “sweeping operational and organizational changes he has been making to the Postal Service,” Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said Monday. “The American people want their mail, medicines and mail-in ballots delivered in a timely way, and…
Workers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) say changes being implemented by recently appointed postmaster general and major Donald Trump donor Louis DeJoy are causing major delays, with mail carriers struggling to keep up. DeJoy was appointed on 15 June, and has since made controversial changes at the USPS to cut costs, which critics…
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…