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...
AUGUST 24, 2020
The House voted this weekend to block the Trump administration’s handpicked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy from continuing changes to Postal Service operations that have contributed to widespread delays in mail delivery this summer. The House bill would infuse $25 billion into postal coffers, in part to handle the crush of mail-in ballots expected this fall. Senate leaders...
AUGUST 23, 2020
An eruption of scandals and dysfunction last week in some ways encapsulates the volatile Trump presidency and the baggage the president brings into the fall contest. - Anna Moneymaker / NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When President Trump’s strategists mapped out their plans for the critical week leading to the Republican National Convention that would nominate him for...
AUGUST 23, 2020
The Food and Drug Administration authorized use of convalescent plasma, the antibody-rich blood component taken from recovered Covid-19 patients, for the treatment of serious coronavirus cases.
The agency’s action Sunday, called an emergency-use authorization, permits use of the treatment on hospitalized Covid-19 patients. The Wall Street Journal reported last month the move was coming.
For Covid-19 patients and the...
AUGUST 23, 2020
Anthony Scaramucci speaks to reporters during his brief tenure as White House communications director in 2017. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
Anthony Scaramucci, who served as the White House communications director for 11 days in 2017, called President Donald Trump's decision to speak all four nights of the Republican National Convention "beyond ridiculous" during...
AUGUST 23, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Houston, Texas. - Reuters/CALLAGHAN O'HARE
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday said the number of deaths due to the new coronavirus had risen by 1,006 to 175,651 and reported 5,643,812 cases, an increase of 45,265 cases from its previous count.
The CDC reported its tally...
AUGUST 23, 2020
2020 MotoGP: Miguel Oliveira
A dramatic Styria GP saw Portugal get its first premier class race winner as Miguel Oliveira flipped the cards in his favour at the very last corner in the final lap. With this, Oliveira grabbed himself and his team (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) their first MotoGP race win, in his 150th Grand Prix....
