Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday said he may “very well” request a classified briefing from the Trump administration on reports that Russian intelligence agents had issued bounties on U.S. troops and coalition forces in Afghanistan. Mr. Biden said the White House has not yet offered him a briefing, which he will be…
The government’s disease fighters told Americans on Tuesday to wear masks and take “personal responsibility” for stamping out the pandemic, warning the nation is heading in the wrong direction as hospitalizations rise in a dozen states and Arizona sees more deaths per day. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who leads infectious disease research at the National Institutes…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: If statues of Washington and Jefferson are going to be defaced and toppled from their pedestals because they depict slave-owners, I think that it is appropriate on this Fourth of July to ask someone who had actually been a slave to speak on their behalf. So I invoke an 1852 speech by the great…
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…