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...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference the White House on Friday. Trump took questions on a variety of topics, including a recent magazine article in The Atlantic accusing him of making disparaging remarks about American soldiers. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
President Donald Trump is once again fending off a fresh set of attacks from the military,...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Spread of coronavirus .- Simon MALFATTO
The World Health Organization says it does not expect widespread immunisation against Covid-19 until mid-2021, despite growing expectations in the United States, the worst-hit nation, that a vaccine could be released within weeks.
The Geneva-based WHO also insisted it would never endorse a vaccine that has not proven safe and effective, amid concerns...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
In this Aug. 28, 2020, photo provided by the USDA Forest Service, is an 11-year-old Belgian Malinois named Ice, a highly decorated U.S. Forest Service police dog, the day after he suffered nine stab wounds during a marijuana raid in Northern California. Ice was wounded in the Klamath National Forest south of the Oregon border when he...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Joseph R. Biden Jr. criticized President Trump in a speech that was otherwise focused on the economy. - Michelle V. Agins/NY Times
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE — A visibly angry Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Friday lashed President Trump over reporting that Mr. Trump had made extraordinarily disrespectful remarks about fallen soldiers, suggesting that such words further confirm his view...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 16, 2020 at Wall Street in New York City.
Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 159 points
The Dow fell 159.42 points, or 0.6%, to 28,133.31. The S&P 500 dipped 0.81% to 3,426.96. The Nasdaq Composite slid 1.3%. Stocks gyrated wildly throughout Friday's...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One.
America’s state health officials pushed back on the Trump administration’s suggestion that a Covid-19 vaccine could be cleared for use before clinical trials are complete.
Days after the federal government told states to prepare for distributing a vaccine as early as Nov. 1, the group representing state public-health leaders...
