SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
Louis DeJoy, then-chief executive of New Breed Logistics, visits the company's Greensboro, N.C., warehouse in December 2004. - Kim Walker/Greensboro News & Record
Louis DeJoy’s prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head of the U.S. Postal Service, was bolstered for more than a decade by...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
Employees walk on May 20 in a passage at the headquarters of Russia's biotech company BIOCAD, which has been working on a vaccine against the coronavirus. - Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images
Vladimir Putin announced the approval of Russia's Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine on August 11 amid much fanfare, saying it works "quite effectively" in forming a stable immunity.
How would he...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) accepts the Democratic vice presidential nomination during an acceptance speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., August 19, 2020. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris slammed President Trump and Attorney General William Barr for denying that institutional...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on July 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that he's not sure what President Donald Trump meant when he said earlier that evening...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday President Trump is using "fright and fear" in efforts to discredit the integrity of the upcoming election in the eyes of voters.
MSNBC's María Teresa Kumar asked Pelosi about Trump's efforts to "stall the election."
"He's encouraging the voters to vote twice. He's making sure that the intelligence - you don't get the...
SEPTEMBER 6, 2020
An early taste of winter with record cold temperatures and snow -- yes, snow -- is on the way for the Rocky Mountains.
A strong September cold front is set to drop out of Canada in the beginning of the week, making its presence known from the Dakotas all the way down to Texas by Wednesday.
This will bring...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC ‐ SEPTEMBER 4: President Trump speaks during a press briefing at The White House in Washington D.C. September 4, 2020. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
President Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies’ racial sensitivity trainings, casting some of them “divisive” and “un-American,” according to a memo by the White House Office of Management...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump on Friday declined to condemn Russia over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, even though leaders from around the world, as well as other Trump...
September 4, 2020
Office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz/Office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Postal Inspection Service officers block Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) from entering the U.S. Postal Service Miami Processing and Distribution Center on Aug. 4.
U.S. Postal Service police officers barred a Florida congresswoman from scheduled tours at two mail processing complexes Friday, blocking entry to the facilities...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Lewis Howard Latimer, who improved Edison's light bulb. - Alamy Stock Photo
On Thursday, presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed that a Black man had invented the light bulb, not "a White guy named Edison."
Biden was at a community meeting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the site of the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake. He was addressing the ways in...
