AUGUST 24, 2020
Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, the F.D.A. commissioner, erroneously said on Sunday that convalescent plasma would have saved 35 percent of coronavirus patients this year. - Oliver Contreras/ NY Times
At a news conference on Sunday announcing the emergency approval of blood plasma for hospitalized Covid-19 patients, President Trump and two of his top health officials cited the same...
AUGUST 24, 2020
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer to President Donald Trump, slammed his former boss as a liar while appearing in a pro-Democrat group's attack ad that is set to air during this week's Republican National Convention.
"Later this week, he's going to stand up and blatantly lie to you," Cohen said in the ad...
AUGUST 24, 2020
Drugmaker AstraZeneca's potential coronavirus vaccine is now in advanced trials, and the company says it has the capacity to make three billion doses when the vaccine is ready. But even before the final phase of testing and government approval, the vaccine is on a massive manufacturing drive.
"In that particular process you will be making millions of vaccines,"...
AUGUST 24, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a joint statement to the press with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after their meeting, in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. - Debbie Hill/Pool/AP
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will address the Republican National Convention this week, despite just a month earlier reminding employees to "not improperly engage the Department...
AUGUST 24, 2020
The global pandemic put quite the damper on travel. Suddenly, a simple trip to New York City or Los Angeles seems like a lifetime away.
That's why Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 couldn't have come at a better time. It's the one game this year that removes all boundaries, difficulties and concerns about seeing the world, no matter where...
AUGUST 24, 2020
As a lock's pins pass across the teeth of key, they make a telltale clicking sound
By recording and analyzing this sound, it is possible to gain information on a key
From this, experts demonstrated they can narrow a lock down to one of five keys
This is from the more than 330,000 possible key designs for...
AUGUST 24, 2020
Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway said in an interview done before he took a leave of absence from the group that the Trump presidency was akin to "a practical joke that got out of hand."
Conway announced Sunday he was leaving the group just as his wife, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, announced that she would be leaving...
AUGUST 24, 2020
President Trump and Alex M. Azar II, the U.S. health secretary in May. The new policy says the F.D.A. can no longer require that certain tests be vetted by the agency. - Samuel Corum / NY Times
The Trump administration this week ordered the Food and Drug Administration to allow the use of a certain class of laboratory...
AUGUST 24, 2020
Danielle Fuentes Morgan, left, said she was asked to show identification in her own home by campus police officers who had apprehended her brother, Carlos Fuentes.
It was still early on Saturday when Danielle Fuentes Morgan, a Black assistant professor at Santa Clara University, heard her brother knock on the door.
“I’m so sorry about this,” said Carlos...
AUGUST 24, 2020
China is claiming the dubious honor of the first nation to roll out an experimental coronavirus vaccine for public use, saying it began inoculating high-risk groups in late July.
For those keeping score, that would put Beijing’s civilian rollout three weeks earlier than Russia’s, with neither vaccine having yet passed standard clinical trials. Beijing health officials said Saturday...
