AUGUST 11, 2020
The U.S. Postal Service, especially essential during coronavirus lockdowns, has been in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump as he looks to undermine mail-in voting. - Alexi Rosenfeld via Getty Images
Voters don’t like Donald Trump, and he knows it. Faced with historically low approval in an election year, he’s doing everything he can to make sure voters...
AUGUST 11, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow Tuesday. - Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
MOSCOW, RUSSIA — Russia on Tuesday became the first country to officially register a coronavirus vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. President Vladimir Putin said that one of his daughters...
AUGUST 11, 2020
Former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are in the lineup for next week's nominating convention, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced Tuesday. - Scott Olson/Getty Images
The Democratic National Convention Committee announced a lineup on Tuesday for next week's nominating convention that will feature at least seven of the women under consideration to be...
AUGUST 9, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a signing event for an executive order on "hiring American" in a darkened Cabinet Room of the White House with curtains drawn and the lights low in Washington, U.S., August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Trump’s new executive actions to disburse coronavirus relief without Congress sparked confusion and frustration on Sunday...
AUGUST 9, 2020
Top Democrats on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump's executive actions on coronavirus relief as "absurdly unconstitutional" and "way off base."
The measures, which Trump signed on Saturday and sidestep Congress after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on Friday, provide an additional $400 per week unemployment benefits among other relief measures such as a temporary payroll tax cut.
Trump...
AUGUST 8, 2020
India's external affairs minister on Saturday termed technology as "new parameter" to measure "power and influence" while adding that it can never be "politically neutral".
"Today there are new parameters and technology is certainly one of them because what they do is they create relationships, in some case dependencies, convergencies...technology has never been politically neutral, how one approaches...
AUGUST 8, 2020
President Trump on Saturday attempted to bypass Congress and make dramatic changes to tax and spending policy, signing executive actions that challenge the boundaries of power that separate the White House and Capitol Hill.
At a news event in Bedminster, N.J., Trump said the actions would provide economic relief to millions of Americans by deferring taxes and, he...
AUGUST 8, 2020
Muslim pilgrims wearing face masks and keeping social distance last week during the annual Haj pilgrimage in Mecca. - Saudi Press Agency/Via Reuters
When researcher Monica Gandhi began digging deeper into outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, she was struck by the extraordinarily high number of infected people who had no symptoms.
A Boston homeless shelter had 147...
AUGUST 8, 2020
Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, has donated tens of millions of dollars to pro-Trump efforts. - John Locher/AP Photo
When President Donald Trump connected by phone last week with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson — perhaps the only person in the party who can cut a nine-figure check to aid his reelection — the...
AUGUST 7, 2020
As if 2020 couldn't get any worse, President Donald Trump is depriving us of the last happy place on the internet: TikTok .
Well, maybe. The president on Thursday issued an executive order that blocks people and companies from making transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok. It's not 100% clear what this entails, but it...
