Jury trials begin again, carefully, as communities reopen
PORTLAND, Ore. — On a drizzly spring day in mid-May, potential grand jurors lined up 6 feet apart outside the Multnomah County Courthouse.Raincoats and umbrellas dripping, they filed one by one into the courthouse and through a metal detector, all the while maintaining appropriate social distance from court employees. Most visitors wore masks, which the court encouraged and made available for free but did not require. Nearly all court employees wore face coverings.Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, had issued a stay-at-home order to slow the spread of COVID-19 nearly two months before, and it…
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump delivered his daily coronavirus press briefing, which ended with him on the defensive about a number of topics, from his claims children are nearly "immune" to coronavirus, to his insistence that the Beirut explosion was an attack, to his continued lies about mail-in voting.
His performance drew scorn from commenters on social media.
Trump purposely walked out of the briefing without letting @weijia ask a question!!
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New York prosecutors issue ‘wide-ranging subpoena’ for Trump’s financial documents to Deutsche Bank
New York prosecutors are showing they're serious about the look into President Donald Trump's finances out of concern for fraud.
The New York Times reported Wednesday afternoon that this is part of the year-long legal battle between Trump and the Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance.
A subpoena was previously issued for Trump's tax returns last year, but Trump fought it all the way to the Supreme Court, where he was told to comply with subpoenas and hand over the documents.
Drugmakers will likely have tens of millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine in the early part of next year, with production ramping up so that it hits a billion doses by the end of 2021, Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. government official on infectious diseases, said in a Reuters interview on Wednesday.
Fauci said he has not seen any pressure from the White House to announce a vaccine close to the Nov. 3 election in the hopes of boosting President Donald Trump's re-election chances.
Lincoln Project ad burns ‘pampered princeling’ Jared Kushner as Trump’s ‘Secretary of Failure’
Republicans have a clear favorite for Biden’s running mate
Maddow reveals the ‘shocking sign’ the White House may be betting Trump is going to lose in 2020
Lindsey Graham scolded in Sally Yates hearing: ‘Just because it’s a woman testifying doesn’t mean she needs to be cut off’
Trump exposed his cluelessness during Axios interview — and gave Biden all the ammunition he needs: GOP operative
Trump buried in mockery for latest press briefing of ‘lies and nonsense’
New York prosecutors issue ‘wide-ranging subpoena’ for Trump’s financial documents to Deutsche Bank
Fauci expects tens of millions of COVID-19 vaccines ready in early 2021
Trump indicates he cares about money for the first time — saying a GOP convention at the White House is ‘cheaper’
Trump: ‘I’m doing the country a big favor’ with my conspiracy theories about voter fraud
Trump indicates he cares about money for the first time — saying a GOP convention at the White House is ‘cheaper’
Trump: ‘I’m doing the country a big favor’ with my conspiracy theories about voter fraud
WATCH: White House official grilled on Trump’s lie that children are ‘almost immune’ to COVID-19
Bill Barr has a ‘tell’ that reveals exactly what he will do to win Trump the election: Former Justice Department spokesperson
