WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged that the Trump administration will continue to support Iraq as it confronts the threat posed by the Islamic State group, but he also called for the Baghdad government to redouble efforts to rein in pro-Iran militias. Pompeo, who spoke Wednesday after […]
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Guided by a public relations firm, DeJoy and the US Postal Service are now scrambling to clean up after weeks of criticism and allegations that the Trump administration was using the agency to meddle in November’s election. DeJoy’s efforts at two congressional hearings and other public appearances will be critical. […]
A coronavirus vaccine could be widely available to much of the American public as early as April of next year, Operation Warp Speed chief Dr Moncef Slaoui told Business Insider in an exclusive interview. His program aims to have a shot anytime between then and June, which Dr Slaoui believes […]
“We thought maybe we were a record as a couple,” Norman Lear said, which they technically are, edging the tandem of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, who received acting nominations as octogenarians for a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie in 1994. (Cronyn was nominated again a few years after Tandy’s […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump said late on Tuesday that he would support Oracle buying TikTok, the Chinese-owned viral video app that his administration says must to be sold in the next few weeks. In comments to reporters at an event in Arizona, Mr. Trump called Oracle a “great company” and […]
Welcome to the Climate Fwd: newsletter. The New York Times climate team emails readers once a week with stories and insights about climate change. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Saturday is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity will have used “all the biological resources that […]
Michael Lauer, deputy director for Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health By Meredith WadmanAug. 19, 2020 , 10:55 AM Science‘s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is requiring a small nonprofit research organization […]
Apple declined further comment. Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, have also continued raking in billions of dollars amid the pandemic. Their outsized influence has attracted intense scrutiny over the past year, including a bipartisan grilling of four of the companies’ chief executives in Congress last […]