SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listens as President Trump speaks to the media in April. (Jabin Botsford/TWP)
Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, is by all accounts a mild-mannered and well-respected government official, someone who has served at the pleasure of the last Democratic and current Republican presidents and who has generally...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden both marked the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Friday with visits to a memorial in Pennsylvania, a battleground state in the presidential race, although they didn't cross paths.
President Trump on stage Friday at a 19th anniversary observance of the 2001 terrorist attacks, at the Flight 93 National...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
If you are a coronavirus survivor and have days when you don’t feel like your normal self, you are not alone. More people are coming forward with reports of long-term symptoms and health issues.
Coronavirus survivors talk about symptoms following recovery
One survivor opened up about the unusual symptoms she is continues to experience. An expert from Johns Hopkins...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump meets with Turkish President Erdogan in Washington. - Reuters/Tom Brenner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A decision by the Trump administration earlier this year to move the flag honoring missing war veterans from a prominent position atop the White House to a less visible spot on the South Lawn has angered some veterans and...
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Passengers walks past thermal cameras, that check passenger's body temperatures, at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on June 23, 2020, after they were added as another layer of protection during the COVID-19 pandemic. - FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
The Trump administration intends to end coronavirus screenings of passengers arriving to the United States from...
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Joseph R. Biden Jr. during a campaign event in Detroit focusing on the economy and protecting American jobs. - Amr Alfiky/NY Times
The presidential contest took another acrimonious turn on Thursday as Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign amplified its denunciations of President Trump over revelations that he had knowingly minimized the risks of the coronavirus, and the...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Former director of national intelligence Dan Coats. Thomson Reuters
The US's former top intelligence official, Dan Coats, secretly believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin may have blackmail on US President Donald Trump, according to the veteran journalist Bob Woodward's upcoming book.
According to CNN, which obtained an early copy of the book, Woodward wrote...
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
E. Jean Carroll. - Photographer: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images
The U.S. Justice Department is seeking to take over the defense of President Donald Trump in a defamation suit brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who claims Trump raped her two decades ago.
The move could further delay a suit in which Carroll is demanding potentially damaging evidence...
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Clinical trials for Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine have been put on hold, drug maker AstraZeneca said Tuesday.
"Our standard review process was triggered and we voluntarily paused vaccination to allow review of safety data by an independent committee," the company said in a statement. "This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained...
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
The UK is preparing legislation which will "break international law in a very specific and limited way," a cabinet minister has said in the House of Commons.
Brandon Lewis, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made the comment Tuesday in response to a question concerning legislation to be published on Wednesday, which critics fear would alter the...
