JULY 28, 2020
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. released the fourth piece of his “Build Back Better” proposal in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday. Michelle V. Agins/NY Times
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE — Joseph R. Biden Jr. unveiled wide-ranging plans on Tuesday to address systemic racism in the nation’s economy, saying this year’s election was about “understanding people’s struggles” and pledging to...
JULY 28, 2020
Portrait of a young Caucasian girl wearing a white medical mask on a background of nature and cityscape, coronavirus, air pollution concept
Health experts have been recommending wearing protective face coverings for many months, primarily because they can prevent the spread of COVID-19 from you to others. However, there has been a little confusion as to the...
JULY 28, 2020
Attorney General William Barr appears before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post/POOL)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General William P. Barr testified for the first time in his tenure in front of a critical congressional audience — a House Judiciary Committee with a Democratic majority — as the Justice Department faces questions from critics...
JULY 28, 2020
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center says the Trump campaign is violating federal election transparency rules by masking the true sources of campaign expenditures.
The Trump campaign says it 'complies with all campaign finance laws' and Federal Election Commission regulations.
Trump has previously declared himself 'the most transparent president, probably, in the history of this country.'
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JULY 28, 2020
Sen. Marco Rubio says including undocumented immigrants in the census results “dilutes the representation of people that are here legally and eligible to vote.”
President Donald Trump’s memorandum to exclude undocumented immigrants from congressional apportionment may be bittersweet to dozens of Hill Republicans — it’s been a party priority for years but may hurt the states they...
JULY 28, 2020
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, said early Tuesday that he had not misled Americans "under any circumstances" after President Trump suggested that he had.
Asked on ABC's "Good Morning America" about Trump retweeting a post claiming Fauci has "misled the American public on many issues," Fauci responded: "'I have not been misleading the American public...
JULY 28, 2020
Pedestrians wearing face masks walk across a road in Hong Kong on July 27, 2020. - Everyone in Hong Kong will have to wear masks in public from this week, authorities said on July 27, as they unveiled the city's toughest social distancing measures yet to combat a new wave of COVID-19 coronavirus infections. (Photo by Anthony...
JULY 27, 2020
Executives at pharmaceutical firms tasked with developing lifesaving drugs for the coronavirus — and receiving billions of dollars in federal funding — are taking home multimillion-dollar compensation packages even before their companies produce a working treatment.
The companies are part of President Donald Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed" initiative, which aims to deploy 300 million doses of the COVID-19...
JULY 27, 2020
A airport employee performs an aircraft disinfecting demonstration during a media preview at the Ronald Reagan National Airport on July 22, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. / Credit: Michael A. McCoy/Getty
GENEVA — Keeping borders closed to halt the spread of COVID-19 is unsustainable, the World Health Organization said Monday, urging countries to adopt comprehensive strategies based on...
JULY 27, 2020
In this photo illustration the Garmin logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Garmin, the GPS and wearable fitness gadgets giant, revealed Monday that it was the victim of a cyber attack last week but assured customers that there is no indication their data was compromised.
The company said Monday the cyber attack...
