President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, prepares to testify before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2. | Rey Del Rio/Getty Images He’s one of more than a dozen in Trump’s orbit to contract the coronavirus since October. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Sunday afternoon that his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has tested [more]
The US embassy in Havana, Cuba, in 2017. | Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images Experts offer more clarity on what might be behind “Havana syndrome” symptoms. A new report from the National Academy of Sciences has found “directed” radio frequency energy to be the most plausible explanation for mysterious and debilitating neurological symptoms experienced by dozens of [more]
Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images Kate McKinnon plays Giuliani overseeing a ridiculous roster of witnesses alleging fraud in the election. In its December 5 cold open, Saturday Night Live parodied the testimony of Rudy Giuliani’s roster of witnesses at a widely-panned hearing before Michigan lawmakers last week, in which President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer tried [more]
Trump on stage during Saturday’s rally in Valdosta, Georgia. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Trump paid lip service to the importance of voting while at the same time insisting the election was stolen from him. Outgoing President Donald Trump traveled to Valdosta, Georgia, on Saturday for a rally that was ostensibly meant to pump up voters [more]
Somali forces at Sanguuni military base, where an American soldier was killed in 2018. | Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images Trump is pulling troops out of the country, but many are staying in the region. The Trump administration will pull virtually all of the US’s roughly 700 troops in Somalia out of the country just five days [more]
More people in the US are hospitalized with the coronavirus than at any other time. More Americans are currently hospitalized with Covid-19 than at any other point in the pandemic, a grim indicator that the third big wave of cases in the US may be the worst wave to date. On November 11, 65,368 people [more]
Signs supporting President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are seen near the security fence surrounding the White House on November 8, 2020. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images For now, they’re focused on the future Joe Biden administration. Before the election, activists around the country prepared for the possibility that President Donald Trump would refuse [more]
The General Services Administration building in Washington on Monday, November 9, 2020. | Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The General Services Administration hasn’t “ascertained” an election winner. Here’s what that means. President-elect Joe Biden has named the members of his agency review team, the people on his transition team who are supposed to [more]