WHO expands coronavirus guidance after pressure from scientists over airborne spread
Source: NBC News The World Health Organization expanded its coronavirus guidance on Thursday to include the possibility in certain circumstances of…
Supreme Court keeps hold on secret Russia investigation material
Source: Los Angeles Times The Supreme Court is denying Congress access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s…
Jeffrey Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested, Sources Say
Source: NBC New York Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and heiress who became a confidante of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein…
Global COVID-19 Deaths Top 500,000
Source: NPR The coronavirus pandemic reached a new milestone on Sunday, with confirmed deaths surpassing half a million around the world…
Health secretary says “window is closing” to get coronavirus under control
Source: Axios Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that the “Window…
Facebook just lost one of the biggest advertisers in the world for the rest of 2020
Source: NBC News Global consumer packaged goods company Unilever, whose brands include Lipton tea and Dove beauty products, announced Friday that…
Feds sent more than 1 million stimulus checks to dead people, totaling $1.4 billion
Source: NBC News More than a million Americans who had died received COVID-19 stimulus payments totaling $1.4 billion, a government watchdog said Thursday in…
Senate Democrats block GOP policing bill, calling it ‘irrevocably flawed’ and ‘partisan’
Source: NBC News Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked Republicans from taking up a bill to overhaul policing in a 55-45 vote,…
Justice Department exerted political influence to push for lighter sentence in Roger Stone case, former prosecutor says
Source: NBC News A government lawyer says he resigned from the team prosecuting longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone because the Justice Department inappropriately…
WHO Says Coronavirus is ‘Accelerating’ as CDC Predicts Up to 145,000 U.S. Deaths by July 11
Source: US News and World Report THE World Health Organization on Friday said the previous day saw the most new…
Retail Sales Bounce Up 17.7% After Record Drop As States Reopen
Source: NPR As more states and cities reopened restaurants and shopping centers, U.S. retail spending swung big in May, climbing 17.7%,…
North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South in Kaesong
Source: BBC North Korea has blown up its joint liaison office with the South near the border town of Kaesong, South…
Why face-recognition technology has a bias problem
Source: CBS NEWS Ongoing U.S. protests over racially biased policing are also putting a spotlight on the tools of law…
75-year-old man shoved to ground by Buffalo police suffered brain injury, lawyer says
Source: NBC News Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old activist who was shoved to the ground by police at a protest in Buffalo, New…
Congressional Democrats unveil sweeping police reform bill that would ban chokeholds, no-knock warrants in drug cases
Source: NBC News House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Monday unveiled far-reaching legislation to overhaul…