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Editors Trump impeachment trial: House prosecutors will wrap up arguments House prosecutors will complete opening arguments Thursday in the Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, after a full day of presentations in which they played harrowing video of rioters clashing violently with Capitol Police officers. The nine House Democratic prosecutors, known as managers, said they thought their evidence was compelling enough to convince more Senate Republicans to vote to convi...

The Lancet Commission described the former president's COVID-19 response as “inept and insufficient" and advocated for a single-payer health system.

The Lancet Commission described the former presidents COVID-19 response as “inept and insufficient" and advocated for a single-payer health system.

A new study faults former President Donald Trump for failing to properly address COVID-19 in the United States and says his response to the pandemic was followed by thousands of deaths that were likely preventable.

About 40% of the nation’s coronavirus deaths could have been prevented if the United States’ average death rate matched other industrialized nations, a new Lancet Commission report has found.

Christopher Wilson February 11, 2021, 2:00 AM A damning new study by the Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, found that Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic while he was president exacerbated problems that had been accruing over four decades of government neglect, leading to Americans dying of COVID-19 at a higher rate than people in other high-income nations. The report commissioned by The Lancet, a British publication, laid out how years of declining spendi...

Trump impeachment trial, coronavirus pandemic, NBA national anthem controversy: 5 things to know Thursday Editors, USA TODAY © Hannah Gaber, Hannah Gaber-USA TODAY Jan 6, 2021; Washington, DC, USA; Scenes from Capitol Hill, after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building while Congress met to certify electoral votes confirming Joe Biden as president in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021. Mandatory Credit: Hannah Gaber-USA TODAY ORG XMIT: USATODAY-445864 (Via OlyDrop) Trump i...

“Trump’s disastrous actions compounded longstanding failures in health policy in the USA. We know what it will take to create a healthy society. We just need the political will to do it.”

A report from one of the UKs most respected medical journals said on Wednesday that nearly 40 years of healthcare and economic rollbacks had led to severe shortcomings...

Will Biden’s Surprise VA Pick Halt the Slide Toward Privatization? Denis McDonough has a choice: continue the outsourcing of the VA health system, or rebuild its in-house capacity. Democratic National Convention via AP Veterans Affairs nominee Denis McDonough, seen speaking during the second night of the Democratic National Convention this past August Media speculation about Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of veterans affairs followed the expectation that the nominee would be a forme...