WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pushing the sale of seven large packages of weapons to Taiwan, including long-range missiles that would allow Taiwanese jets to hit distant Chinese targets in the event of a conflict, say officials familiar with the proposals. If approved by Congress, the packages, valued in …...Read More

Carole Baskin, the animal rights activist who gained national attention while sparring with exotic tiger keepers on the popular Netflix documentary “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” is getting her own show. The new show will star Ms. Baskin and her husband, Howard Baskin, of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, …...Read More

A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as …...Read More

Ann Getty, a savvy former California farm girl who married into one of the world’s wealthiest families and transformed herself into a globe-trotting publisher, author, interior designer and philanthropist, died on Monday in San Francisco. She was 79. Her husband, Gordon Getty, said in a statement that she had a …...Read More

A lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday accused a for-profit jail in Texas of civil rights violations, including neglect and abuse, that led to the death of a woman with H.I.V. who was held for two months as a pretrial detainee. The woman, Holly Barlow-Austin, 46, was housed in …...Read More

“I haven’t read her comments in any detail,” Mr. Pence said. “But it reads to me like one more disgruntled employee that has decided to play politics during election year. My staff has indicated and she made no comments like that when she was serving under our team here at …...Read More

Dr. John S. Najarian, a groundbreaking transplant surgeon who made headlines for taking on difficult cases and who weathered a different type of headline when he was accused, and then exonerated, of improprieties related to a drug he had developed, died on Aug. 31 in Stillwater, Minn., east of Minneapolis. …...Read More

Richard Uihlein, a conservative packaging supplies magnate, plunged another $10 million into the 2020 election in August, donating to the Club for Growth just as the group began spending on the presidential campaign. The Club for Growth, a conservative political group, has spent more than $10 million since Mr. Uihlein’s …...Read More

This year’s presidential election will be the first for Patrik Frisk as a U.S. citizen, and the Swedish-born chief executive of Under Armour is marking it with a major get-out-the-vote initiative by the sports apparel business. Under Armour announced a number of initiatives on Thursday that include encouraging employees and …...Read More

In closing, the small business owner says what the Trump campaign has been hoping will hold true in polling: that she trusts Mr. Trump to rebuild the economy. Fact Check Mr. Biden will not raise taxes across the board. Rather, he is proposing raising taxes on people earning more than …...Read More