AUGUST 5, 2020
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks to reporters as he leaves a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. as negotiations continue on a coronavirus relief package on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After more than a week’s worth of meetings, at least some clarity...
AUGUST 5, 2020
Historian Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984 has announced his pick for 2020: Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden
Lichtman's prediction model looks at 13 different categories, dubbed the "Keys to the White House," that have more to do with the record of the incumbent party occupying the White House than the...
AUGUST 5, 2020
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) lashed out at Oprah Winfrey for saying white privilege is an "advantage," accusing the Black media mogul of spewing "utter, racist BS."
"Billionaire Oprah lectures the rest of us: 'You still have your whiteness. That's what the term "white privilege" is. It means that whiteness still gives you an advantage, no matter,'" the senator...
AUGUST 4, 2020
The Off-Facebook Activity tool addresses privacy concerns. Angela Lang/CNET
Facebook can see your web activity. Here's how to stop it
Facebook wants you to be able to trust what you read about the coronavirus, Mark Zuckerberg said.
With the privacy feature, you can clear the history of apps and websites that have shared your data. You can also turn off future...
AUGUST 4, 2020
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speak to reporters in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo
The White House and Democratic leaders agreed to try and finalize a deal to address lapsed unemployment benefits and eviction restrictions by the end of this...
AUGUST 4, 2020
Children, who have missed online classes due to a lack of Internet access, listen to prerecorded lessons over loudspeakers, in Maharashtra, India, on July 28. (Prashant Waydande/Reuters)
The world is facing a “generational catastrophe” due to ongoing school closures, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres warned Tuesday, calling the coronavirus pandemic “the largest disruption of education ever.”
Allowing students...
AUGUST 3, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden holds campaign event in Wilmington, Delaware. - Reuters/JONATHAN ERNST
Wilmington, Delaware - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Monday that President Donald Trump was telling "bald-faced lies" about voting by mail to distract from his own failures, after Trump last week suggested it could be cause to delay the election.
Biden's remarks...
AUGUST 3, 2020
Signage for ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok app is displayed on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. In a bid to salvage a deal for the U.S. operations of TikTok, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella spoke with President Donald Trump by phone about how to secure the...
AUGUST 3, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, speaks to reporters following a meeting at the Capitol on a COVID-19 relief bill, Aug. 1, 2020, in Washington. - Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
As Congress continues to flounder on a path forward for the next phase of coronavirus relief, President Donald Trump said Monday that he was considering...
AUGUST 3, 2020
NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, launched on Thursday.
The rover’s on its way to Mars, but there’s one thing binding it to the DMV – its name.
Perseverance was named by Fairfax County middle schooler Alex Mather.
Alex submitted the winning entry to NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest last year, beating out 28,000 entries from students across the U.S.
“As...
