In a letter to Alex M. Azar II, the health secretary, House Democrats detailed how a $265 million public relations campaign tried to bolster President Trump. By Noah Weiland and Sharon LaFraniere WASHINGTON — A $265 million public campaign to “defeat despair” around the coronavirus was planned partly around the politically tinged theme that “helping the president will help the […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. A total of 113 people were moved between March 1 and May 31 although they had not received a negative test before they were transferred, the Public Health Scotland study shows. A further 243 who had tested […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. A leading official in the EU’s steel industry has warned a no deal Brexit would be hugely destructive for business. The expert warned the impact of Britain leaving on WTO terms would be exacerbated by the coronavirus […]
Read moreHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick has acknowledged that coronavirus rates are in a “bad place in all parts of the country” but has said the government does not want a second national lockdown. He said the government is taking advice from the scientists “on an almost daily basis” but that there is no plan to move on from the localised tiered approach. […]
Read moreWe will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Frontbench MP Jon Ashworth said the inquiry marked the most “shameful” moment in the history of the party. The Equality and Human Rights Commission investigated whether Labour “unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are […]
Read moreVoluntary euthanasia is likely to become legal in New Zealand, according to a post-election poll. The poll of voters showed 61 per cent of Kiwis said they voted “yes” in the binding referendum on the End of Life Choice Act, with 29 per cent against and 10 per cent unsure or refused to say. The Curia Market Research poll was […]
Read moreWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to nine days after Election Day, in a win for Democrats. The justices, by a 5-3 vote Wednesday, refused to disturb a decision by the State Board of Elections to lengthen the period from three to nine days because of the […]
Read moreA lifelong Republican and a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Taylor took a leave of absence from his job at Google this summer to campaign for Joseph R. Biden Jr. By Michael D. Shear WASHINGTON — Miles Taylor, who revealed on Wednesday that he was the anonymous author of a New York Times Op-Ed article […]
Read moreThe total cost of the races for the White House, the Senate and the House is expected to hit nearly $14 billion. By Shane Goldmacher The 2020 election has blown past previous records to become the most expensive campaign in American history, with the final tally for the battle for the White House and control of the Senate and the […]
Read moreBenjamin Cole, a Ph.D. student in Germany, had no problem voting from abroad in 2016 and 2018 for elections in Georgia, where he lived before moving overseas. But this year, concerned about mail delays in the pandemic, he took his completed ballot to the post office in Cologne the same day he received it on Sept. 16. Over the next […]
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