JULY 17, 2020
How much money are we really looking at with a second stimulus check? Angela Lang/CNET
Next week, Washington lawmakers will finally return from recess and set the wheels in motion for another stimulus package, which is expected to include a second stimulus check. At least another round of payments will be part of the discussion, according to Senate Majority...
JULY 17, 2020
Former US President Bill Clinton (L) and Senator Hillary Clinton (2nd-L) stand by their offical White House portraits during the unveiling event hosted by President George W. Bush (R) and First Lady Laura Bush (2nd-R) 14 June, 2004 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. - Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
The official portraits of former...
JULY 17, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden removes a face mask to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as he arrives to speak at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont says a president Joe Biden would handle a pandemic far differently than...
JULY 17, 2020
Hospital braces for long haul flighting coronaviru. - AP
The United States reported at least 70,000 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, a record daily increase for the seventh time this month, according to a Reuters tally.
U.S. deaths are also rising and have recently reached the highest levels since early June, led by Arizona, California, Florida and Texas,...
JULY 17, 2020
A woman walks along a deserted lane in the Queen Victoria Village precinct in Melbourne, Australia, on Thursday, July 16, 2020. Victoria state last week enforced a six-week lockdown after health authorities identified breaches in hotel quarantine procedures as the catalyst for outbreaks. An additional 1,000 defense force personnel will be sent to Victoria over the next...
JULY 16, 2020
This image, provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), July 16, 2020, shows the Sun, taken by the ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft. - Solar Orbiter/EUI Team/ESA NASA via AP
NASA and the European Space Agency on Thursday released the closest pictures ever taken of the sun that were snapped just a mere 48 million miles away from earth's...
JULY 16, 2020
FILE PHOTO: The Twitter logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the NYSE. Reuters/Brendan McDermid
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hacking, two sources familiar with the situation said, after hackers seized control of accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian and others in...
JULY 16, 2020
This combination photo shows the cover of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” and a portrait of author Mary L. Trump.- AP
Mary L. Trump, President’s Trump’s niece, said that watching the country’s leadership devolve into “a macro version of my incredibly dysfunctional family” was one of the factors that...
JULY 16, 2020
An envelope containing a 2020 Census letter. - Matt Rourke/AP
The Census Bureau is facing mounting criticism over the Trump administration’s addition of two political appointees last month to its senior staff even as it scrambles to complete the decennial census in the midst of a pandemic.
In letters this week to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Senate and House...
JULY 16, 2020
Joe Biden speaking in Wilmington, Del., this week. - Kriston Jae Bethel/NY Times
With Joe Biden claiming almost a double-digit lead in national polls, one question still seems to loom over the race: Can we trust the polls after 2016?
It’s a good question. But for now, it’s not as important as you might guess. If the election were...
