The coronavirus pandemic has been criminally handled by the Trump administration. In recent weeks, Texas has surged past California to become the state with the most cases of confirmed COVID-19 infection. Texas has also had a much higher rate of infection than California has. Now its rate of death is increasing as well.
There’s a reason why Black women have been so enthusiastically highlighting our own contributions in the presidential race netting President-elect Joe Biden the election, and it’s not only that his running mate, Kamala Harris, is slated to make history as the first Black and South Asian American woman to serve as vice president. Granted, the new historical precedence is a large part of the reason why, but that’s hardly the whole story.
The attorney general’s memo to federal prosecutors seems poised to aid the narrative that there are questions about President-elect Joe Biden’s win.
“One of our customers said, there’s something happening, it looks kind of crazy out there.
The drug, known as a monoclonal antibody, mimics the body’s natural defenses against the virus.
Anchor Neil Cavuto said he “can’t in good countenance continue showing you this,” cutting into a presser led by White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.MARK MAKELA / GETTYDonald Trump isn’t going away. A majority of Americans served the 45th president an electoral rebuke, denying him a second term in the White House.But don’t expect him to quietly recede from public life, our White House correspondent Peter Nicholas warns.
The Kentucky Republican declined to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
“We have close family friends with a beautiful and charming 19-year-old daughter. She is like a niece to us.
I’ve already been surprised once.
Alex Trebek at a book signing in New York City in 1990 (Ron Galella / Getty)When Alex Trebek began hosting Jeopardy, Ronald Reagan was in his first term, Ghostbusters was a recent box-office hit, and most Millennials hadn’t been born yet. Now, after nearly four decades, his time behind the podium is done. Trebek, a TV icon, died over the weekend from pancreatic cancer that he was diagnosed with a year and a half ago.
The president-elect capped off his victory with a hat that threw shade on the current office-holder.
The milestone comes as the U.S. over the weekend set new records for daily number of cases and more than 1,000 deaths.
The waiting is over. Now comes … the waiting.The first stage of the presidential interregnum, from Tuesday night through Saturday, was the slow but inexorable march toward Joe Biden being declared the winner of the presidential race. No one knew quite when that would happen, but there was an objective end point: whenever enough votes were counted for the outcome to be clear.The second stage is stranger and more open-ended.
The screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz is an odd sight on a glamorous Old Hollywood movie set. As played by Gary Oldman in David Fincher’s new biographical film, Mank, he’s a disheveled figure on the sidelines, an acclaimed New York wordsmith brought to serve as a cog in a giant Los Angeles machine.
Latinos are not a uniform voting bloc. We are spread across the country and have wildly different backgrounds. Over the years, Latinos ourselves have struggled to articulate what unites and divides us. The first question I ask in my Latino History course at Northwestern University is “Who, or what, is a ‘Latino’ anyway?” The class never resolves the question, but the students go back to it over and over as they study the evolving conceptions of Latinos.
Parenting advice on peeing outside, vacation disagreements, and childhood trauma.
The president-elect’s statement came shortly after he announced a Covid-19 transition advisory board.
As President-elect Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris prepare to take power, we continue to look at the growing debate over the direction of the Democratic Party. House Majority Whip James Clyburn went on several Sunday talk shows to criticize calls to “defund the police” and argued the phrase hurt Democratic congressional candidates.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris are set to take power, after a projected more than 150 million ballots were cast in the 2020 election. A debate is growing over the future of the Democratic Party as progressive lawmakers push back on Biden’s centrist policy proposals and consideration of Republicans for Cabinet positions.
The Trump presidency is coming to an end. Former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to have won the election after pulling ahead in Pennsylvania, giving him more than the 270 electoral votes needed to become president. Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris will make history as the first female vice president, as well as the first African American, Indian American and Asian American elected to the office.
The better-than-expected result is the first Phase III data from any of the four candidates now in the final stage of testing in the U.S.
Some poor souls are spending their entire workdays on Zoom. This is not OK.
The country’s health care system is already buckling under the load of the resurgent outbreak that’s approaching 10 million cases nationwide.
Even where they don’t elect Democrats, voters love minimum-wage hikes, marijuana, and Medicaid expansions.
UPPAbaby cornered the U.S. market with the safe, affordable luxury you might look for when shopping for a car. But now a target may be on its back.
What we know, what we don’t, and whether it could have affected the vote.
President-elect Joe Biden’s incremental approach will face opposition from Republicans and powerful health care lobbies.
The order would strip certain civil service and due process protections from career federal employees who make policy.
