Scientific American has been in circulation since Abraham Lincoln was a humble lawyer in Springfield, Ill. But the magazine had not formally endorsed a presidential candidate until Tuesday, when it urged its readers to vote for Joseph R. Biden Jr. in a scathing editorial that condemned President Trump’s handling of …...Read More
Scientific American, backing Biden, makes its first ever presidential endorsement.
The Justice Department is investigating whether John Bolton’s book unlawfully disclosed classified information.
The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether President Trump’s former national security adviser John R. Bolton unlawfully disclosed classified information when he published a memoir this summer, a case that the department opened after it failed to stop the book’s publication, according to three people familiar with …...Read More
Inside a Nursing Home Devoted to Treating Those With Covid-19
Nursing homes have been extremely hard hit by the coronavirus, with more than 40 percent of deaths in the United States linked to these facilities. To limit the spread, states like New Mexico have established dedicated homes to treat long-term care patients infected with the virus. Inside these new facilities, …...Read More
Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into John Bolton’s Book
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether President Trump’s former national security adviser John R. Bolton unlawfully disclosed classified information in a memoir this summer, an inquiry that the department began after it failed to stop the book’s publication, according to three people familiar with …...Read More
Diversity Push Barely Budges Corporate Boards to 12.5%, Survey Finds
Corporations in the United States have pledged for years to increase the number of Hispanic, Black, Asian-American and other underrepresented members on their boards, which make decisions that affect the livelihoods of millions. Yet a comprehensive new survey finds that they have made little progress. The boards of the 3,000 …...Read More
Trump claims he wanted to kill Assad, contradicting earlier denials.
President Trump claimed on Tuesday that he wanted to assassinate President Bashar al-Assad of Syria early in his presidency, at the height of that country’s bloody civil war, but James N. Mattis, then the secretary of defense, stopped him. “I would’ve rather taken him out. I had him all set,” …...Read More
Citing New Security Law, U.S. Warns of Hong Kong Travel Risk
HONG KONG — The United States is warning citizens of the risk of arbitrary “police and security power” in Hong Kong and urging Americans to reconsider travel to the city now that the Chinese government has imposed a sweeping security law there. The advisory, which was posted on the State …...Read More
A ‘Crossroads’ for Humanity: Earth’s Biodiversity Is Still Collapsing
The world is failing to address a catastrophic biodiversity collapse that not only threatens to wipe out beloved species and invaluable genetic diversity, but endangers humanity’s food supply, health and security, according to a sweeping United Nations report issued on Tuesday. When governments act to protect and restore nature, the …...Read More
Trump cheered a decision striking down Pennsylvania pandemic restrictions.
President Trump enthusiastically hailed a federal judge’s decision striking down coronavirus restrictions in Pennsylvania that had been imposed by the state’s Democratic governor, Tom Wolf. Within an hour of the ruling being handed down on Monday, the president had retweeted no fewer than a dozen celebratory posts, including one that …...Read More
More Than Five Million Acres Have Burned in West Coast’s Wildfires
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California met with President Trump on Monday in McClellan Park, near Sacramento, thanking him for federal help and agreeing that forest management could be better — while also noting that 3 percent of land in California is under state control, compared with 57 percent under federal …...Read More
