Sen. Kamala Harris, running mate of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, attends a coronavirus briefing Thursday in Wilmington, Del. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Sen. Kamala Harris, running mate of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, attends a coronavirus briefing Thursday in Wilmington, Del. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Updated at…
The Trump administration on Thursday weakened Obama-era regulations designed to reduce climate-warming methane gas emissions from oil and gas fields. The Environmental Protection Agency's new rule, which has been in progress for over a year, would eliminate federal requirements for oil and gas companies to monitor and repair methane leaks from pipelines, storage facilities and wells. EPA…
Following President Trump's increasingly hard-line stance on China, numerous fake Chinese accounts have taken shots at the president over a number of issues on social media, including the coronavirus pandemic, according to newly published research.The research, put together by Graphika, details the actions taken by a network dubbed "Spamoflauge Dragon," a pro-Chinese spam network. Prior…
President Trump has defended his response to the coronavirus, and has pursued a range of sometimes contradictory attacks against Joseph R. Biden Jr.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesPresident Trump and his allies have spent the months since Joseph R. Biden Jr. emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee cycling through a variety of messages in hopes of…
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…