JUNE 14, 2020
A protester carries an injured counter-protester to safety, near the Waterloo station during a Black Lives Matter protest in London, Britain, on June 13, 2020. Dylan Martinez/Reuters
A powerful photo taken during anti-Black Lives Matter protests in London on Saturday shows a Black man carrying a white protester to safety after he got injured.
The...
JUNE 14, 2020
Activists Protest Eviction In Los Angeles Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Sada Jones anxiously paces inside her apartment every time she catches a glimpse of her building's maintenance workers through a damaged glass patio door half boarded up with scrap wood that she says her landlord refuses to repair.
Jones, 23, a hotel cook, has been unable to make rent payments...
JUNE 13, 2020
“China is to blame for this pandemic and the death of thousands of Americans,” said Senator Martha McSally, Republican of Arizona. - Anna Moneymaker/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Senator Martha McSally, one of the most politically endangered Republicans, was asked last month about reports that President Trump had brushed away warnings from his own aides about the...
JUNE 13, 2020
Second Lt. Lauren E. Karbler Anmol Narang said she mailed her application to West Point from a hotel in Hawaii immediately after visiting the Pearl Harbor memorial during her junior year in high school.
WASHINGTON , D.C.— When President Trump takes the stage on Saturday to deliver the commencement speech at West Point, one of the new...
JUNE 13, 2020
Image: Secret Service Lafayette Park. - Brendan Smialowski
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Secret Service said Saturday that one of their agents had used pepper spray to clear protesters from Lafayette Square ahead of President Donald Trump's photo op, reversing an earlier statement claiming that no one from the agency had done so.
"On June 5, the...
JUNE 13, 2020
This article is adapted from “The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump,” which will be published on June 16 by Simon and Schuster.
President Trump and Melania Trump are seen in the Oval Office in September 2017. - Jahi Chikwendiu/TWP
Melania Trump did not even like to be called by her new title at first.
“She...
JUNE 13, 2020
Roger Severino, head of the HHS civil rights office, disputed that new rules on LGBTQ patients would endanger patients during the pandemic. - Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images
The Trump administration on Friday formally rolled back an Obama-era policy that protected LGBTQ patients from discrimination and required robust language translation services, unnerving health experts who worry vulnerable populations...
JUNE 13, 2020
A nurse prepares to test patients for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in a clinic at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia, May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
Researchers in Florida say they believe they have shown that the new coronavirus has mutated in a way that makes it more easily infect human cells.
They say more research is needed...
JUNE 12, 2020
Photo President Donald Trump. - Patrick Semansky/AP
It’s another Charlottesville moment for some aides inside the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump’s handling of the nationwide anti-racism protests and the response to George Floyd’s killing is prompting a private reckoning, spurring sadness or soul-searching among some people of color who continue to serve in the administration after three and a...
JUNE 12, 2020
Erin Fangmann, whose husband is in the Air Force, said that she had voted Republican all her life, but that President Trump had “hurt the military.” - Bridget Bennett /NY Times
Erin Fangmann grew up in a military family, has been married to a captain in the Air Force for 18 years and has voted Republican all her...
