The federal government is scheduled to carry out its seventh execution since July at the Terre Haute prison on Thursday.SOPA Images via Getty ImagesThe federal government executed 50-year-old William LeCroy on Tuesday ni...
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Donald Trump’s administration has yet to repay the U.S. Postal Service for a postcard it sent out in March prominently displaying the president’s name alongside a series of guidelines for combating COVID-19, according ...
The latest stimulus offer from the White House comes with one-time $600 payments for most Americans and a lump of coal for the unemployed. The new proposal offered by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin swapped the $300 une...
As a pandemic raged and workers faced unprecedented hazards last year, the Trump administration dramatically scaled back the number of health and safety investigations taking place on worksites across the country.New dat...
The Trump administration announced Friday afternoon that employers outside of the health care industry generally won’t be required to record coronavirus cases among their workers, a decision that left some workplace saf...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Saturday ripped the Trump administration’s Small Business Association for failing to provide any information about outgoing funds in the second round of the increasingly controversial Payche...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A set of detailed documents created by the nation’s top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places such as mass trans...
As states lift lockdowns, workers called back to their jobs have little recourse if they think their workplace is unsafe. The Trump administration has encouraged states to terminate unemployment benefits for people who r...
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday said the Trump administration plans to “lengthen” the four-month federal eviction moratorium that is set to expire Friday.Kudlow abruptly announced the decision durin...
Earlier this week, critical data about the availability of ICU and hospital beds around the country vanished from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. Independent researchers who rely on the data to...
Four former heads of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration is needlessly risking lives by undermining science and public health officials.In an op-ed ...
The Trump administration filed a brief Thursday night calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act — which allows millions of Americans to get health insurance coverage — just as the nation s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine because it does not want to be constrained by multilate...
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) lashed the Trump administration’s poor record on handling COVID-19, saying there was no way to spin the high number of deaths.“I don’t think we really distinguished ourselves in a very positi...
In a conversation with Bloomberg on Tuesday, billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been hijacked by politics and is clearly facing pressure to speedily appr...
President Donald Trump’s administration has given up on its yearslong battle to stop or place burdens on undocumented teenagers in government custody seeking abortions.The fight at the intersection of two issues Trump h...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An obscure South Carolina company may be in line for millions of dollars in U.S. government funding to produce a coronavirus treatment after a former Republican senator with a financial stake in the bu...
In a rare political statement from a scientific journal, the New England Journal of Medicine released an editorial Wednesday lambasting the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and calling on America...
The Trump administration declined an offer from Pfizer to buy more doses of its COVID-19 vaccine at the end of the summer, according to several reports.The New York Times first reported Monday that Pfizer offered to sell...
Andrew Cuomo Seeks Direct Vaccine Purchases After Trump Administration's Botched Distribution
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has reached out to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Pfizer in a bid to arrange direct purchases in the wake of botched distribution by the Trump administration.Only a fraction of Americans who...
