8/12: Biden adds Harris to 2020 ticket. Big Ten and Pac-12 postpone college football season.
Former Vice President Joe Biden's landmark choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate marks the first time a woman of color has been on a major party ticket. President Trump wasted no time go...
12 Aug 202014min
8/11: The Midwest was pummeled by storm with hurricane-force winds. Putin claims Russia has developed a coronavirus vaccine.
Half a dozen states in the Midwest are cleaning up this morning after a rare storm with 100 mile an hour winds tore across hundreds of miles. Russian President Vladimir Putin claims this morning that ...
11 Aug 202014min
8/10: U.S. surpasses 5 million coronavirus cases. Georgia school temporarily closes after cluster of COVID cases.
The U.S. has now recorded more than 5 million coronavirus cases — one quarter of all the confirmed infections in the world. A Georgia high school is closing its doors today and tomorrow after reportin...
10 Aug 202015min
'The Atlantic' Science Writer on How the U.S. Failed in its Response to COVID-19
An article from the September issue of "The Atlantic" aims to understand how the United States managed to find itself with a disproportionate amount of the world's coronavirus cases and deaths. A sta...
10 Aug 202023min
8/7: New projection suggests coronavirus death toll could double by December. New stimulus bill stalls on Capitol Hill.
A new effort to break the deadlock on a massive new stimulus package on Capitol Hill ended in failure overnight. Job creation slowed to nearly 1.8 million in July and the unemployment rate was 10.2 pe...
7 Aug 202015min
Chefs Tom Colicchio and Nina Compton Call for Relief to Save the Restaurant Industry
Restaurants have been some of the hardest hit businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Chef and television host Tom Colicchio discusses why he supports the Restaurants Act, a bipartisan proposal to p...
7 Aug 202032min
8/6: America's largest cities instate new precautions against coronavirus. Facebook takes action against misinformation from Trump.
America's three most heavily-populate cities are enacting sweeping new measures to try and slow the coronavirus. Chicago, the third largest school district in the nation, has announced plans to make i...
6 Aug 202015min
8/5: At least 100 are killed by explosion in Lebanon's capital. Isaias spreads destruction over hundreds of miles.
Tropical Storm Isaias knocked out power to millions of homes and businesses and is blamed for at lease six deaths from North Carolina to New York City. The death toll has risen overnight in a massive ...
5 Aug 202015min
