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...
AUGUST 3, 2020
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft, speaks during a launch event for the new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 smartphone at Barclays Center on August 7, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10 Plus go on sale August 23 starting at $949. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)...
AUGUST 3, 2020
When infected when COVID-19, some people remain completely asymptomatic while others suffer a variety of symptoms—ranging from the most common (fever, dry cough, and shortness of breath) to others like COVID toes and loss of sense of smell and taste. Of those who do get sick, most recover within a few weeks. However, according to a new...
AUGUST 1, 2020
Parker Smith and Chloe Lenox, front, stand at a distance from others outside an Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office on June 30. The state is at risk of a new surge in cases.
The coronavirus is spreading at dangerous levels across much of the United States, and public health experts are demanding a dramatic reset in...
AUGUST 1, 2020
FILE PHOTO: People wear masks to protect themselves from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), while listening to the annual general meeting at the lobby of Foxconn's office in Taipei, Taiwan, June 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo
NEW DELHI, INDIA - Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) Taiwan contract manufacturers Foxconn (2317.TW), Wistron Corp (3231.TW) and Pegatron Corp (4938.TW) have applied for funds from...
