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Three months. That’s as long as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, is willing to wait to get a vaccine candidate against the latest coronavirus that he can start testing in people.Since the virus was identified for the first time in people…
Jon Favreau is on a mission to figure out how the Democratic Party can defeat President Donald Trump. So for the second season of his Crooked Media podcast, The Wilderness, Barack Obama’s former top speechwriter gathered the types of voters Democrats need to win in 2020 and asked them what they wanted. The goal was…
The wreckage of a U.S. military plane that crashed and burned in a snowy mountainous region in Afghanistan on Monday was still fresh when Iranian state TV ran a story claiming a top CIA officer was among the dead. Like all good propaganda, the story was mostly false, but with a scintilla of truth. Two…
In a 51-49 vote, Senate Republicans on Friday evening succeeded in blocking new witnesses and documents from being considered in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, paving the way for a likely speedy acquittal. Throughout the Senate trial, Democrats have forcefully pushed to hear from additional witnesses and to include new internal documents and communications that…
Just days before the first-in-the-nation caucus in Iowa, two dozen Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar fans gather at a supporter’s two-story house in Prole, Iowa to tuck into steaming plates of hot dish, a Minnesota speciality that involves ground beef, cream of mushroom soup and tater tots. With the candidate herself stuck in Washington for the…
As a new strain of coronavirus moves from the Wuhan province of China to other parts of the world, including the United States, public health leaders are advising government officials to embrace a deliberate, measured response. But with President Donald Trump at the helm of an often unpredictable administration, infectious disease and epidemic experts tell…
The Trump Administration on Friday declared an outbreak of novel coronavirus a public health emergency in the U.S. and announced that it will temporarily deny entry to any foreign national who “poses a risk” of transmitting the virus. Specifically, the Administration will temporarily deny entry to any foreign national who has been in China, members…
The Trump administration has rejected a proposed tax on managed care organizations in CaliforniaBy ADAM BEAM Associated PressFebruary 1, 2020, 3:16 AM3 min readSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Trump administration says it will not allow California to collect a key health care tax on managed care organizations, a decision that could cost the state nearly $2…
NEW YORK — Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning “Queen of Suspense” whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world’s most popular writers, died Friday at age 92. Her publisher, Simon & Schuster, announced that she died of natural causes in Naples, Florida. “Nobody ever bonded more completely with…
One of the strangest places to experience Brexit was aboard the Cote des Dunes ferryBy JOHN LEICESTER Associated PressFebruary 1, 2020, 2:44 AM3 min readIN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL — As the lumbering ferry left behind the coast of France, its bow cutting through the inky darkness of the English Channel, the United Kingdom — its…