Puritan Medical Products said it will have to discard the swabs, a company spokeswoman told USA TODAY in response to questions about the visit.
On Friday morning, five GOP county chairs were facing backlash for sharing racist social media posts. The Texas Tribune identified seven other GOP county chairs across the state who shared similar posts.
"In publishing the Tom Cotton piece, haven't we effectively validated depictions of Black Americans as terrorists in exercising their First Amendment rights to protest police brutality?"
Former Vice President Joe Biden has earned enough delegates to officially secure the Democratic nomination for president, CNN projected on Saturday.
Members of the White House press corps became the latest political prop in President Trump's quest to reopen the country on Friday.
Two dozen experts explain why.
While the left has flowed to Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg has laid out the welcome mat to the Trump legions.
Lessons from Frederick Douglass on the tortured relationship between protest and change.
"He's a gentle person who really believes that he must stand up for what he thinks is right."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has asked contractors for help making President Trump's border wall more difficult to climb over and cut through, an acknowledgment that the design currently being installed across hundreds of miles of the U.S.-Mexico boundary remains vulnerable.
As national protesters call for defunding police, a movement for anti-racist "people's budgets" is spreading from LA to Nashville to Grand Rapids.
Inside the Times newsroom in the hours after Tom Cotton's op-ed went live.
"Good Morning Britain" host Piers Morgan clashed with Rudy Giuliani in a fiery dispute over Donald Trump's handling of the George Floyd protests.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said on Wednesday that he does not support using active duty troops to quell the large-scale protests across the United States triggered by the death of George Floyd.
The officers staggered across the steps, blocking the protesters from what has long been the symbolic center of public protest in America. Wearing army fatigues and body armor, they looked like what they were: an army occupying ground.
Ambitious proposals from House Democrats are likely to run into a wall in the Republican-led Senate.
One week after the start of demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, protests in cities and towns across the United States have been growing, despite curfews and aggressive policing methods in some places.
Military commanders are finally speaking out against Trump.
I want white people to stop killing us. I also want white people to stop watching us get killed.
Bloomberg showed us money can take you pretty far, but it takes more to win an election.
On Monday evening, over the course of 48 minutes, Donald Trump put on a show that may have changed America, yet again.
Elected officials need to do more than throw good reform dollars at bad agencies.
The president's photo op outside St John's Church was emblematic of his appeal to the religious right.
Democrats are making a serious play for Montana's congressional seats this year.
A pioneering universal basic income pilot in the low-income California city was scheduled to expire soon. But the coronavirus crisis made the case to extend it.
We still don't know how this chaos will turn out, but if you take a hard look at America 52 years ago, it was a grimmer place.
The president is stuck in a vicious downward spiral.
The government cannot strip all Americans of their right to assemble, even if some demonstrations are violent.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked by a reporter about his opinion on Donald Trump and, perhaps searching his thoughts for the most diplomatic response, paused for 21 seconds.
Protests against police violence are calling for reform. Here are eight concrete ideas.
"'I can't breathe. I can't breathe.' George Floyd's last words, but they didn't die with him. They're still being heard, echoing all across this nation."
As demonstrations continue in cities across the country, the president uses Twitter to divide its citizens.
New information from the Indian Health Service calls into question why the agency purchased expensive medical gear that it now cannot use as intended.
The nationwide protests against police killings have been called un-American by critics, but rebellion has always been used to defend liberty.
The plaza between St. John's Church and Lafayette Park was full of people nonviolently protesting police brutality late Monday afternoon when U.S. Park Police and National Guard troops, with the use of tear gas, suddenly started pushing them away for no apparent reason.
Connecting the world online feels essential in moments of history. Is it a package deal with all of the horribles?
How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party.
Nobody in Congress likes to give other politicians money. But the track record shows that writing checks directly to states could keep the recession from becoming way worse.
Some conservatives want Trump to speak on the protests. They should be careful what they wish for.
A wave of protests and riots have followed successive deaths of black civilians at the hands of police in 2020. Here's how to safely participate and support racial justice movements during the coronavirus pandemic.
A weekend of violence forces a new perspective on his peaceful protest. Imagine if he first knelt today. And try to imagine what happens next
When the movement for black lives began, I did not have children. Now the fight means more to me — coupled with fears that are even deeper.
Patriotism isn't just the blind love of our flag. It is the work we do to improve our country for every American.
The perpetual scapegoat for unrest.
As protesters gathered outside the White House Friday night in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump was briefly taken to the underground bunker for a period of time.
The 2016 election was an off year for state-level polls of the presidential race. But for polls of US Senate races, it was a perfectly ordinary year — better than average, even. What does that mean for us now?
Donald Trump has spent decades spreading and sowing dangerous misinformation about disease outbreaks — from falsely suggesting AIDS can be transmitted through kissing to warning Americans not to get vaccinated and falsely suggesting vaccines can cause autism.
The Twitter-famous Krassenstein brothers are surging back a year after being banned from the site—with help from one of their wives.
It doesn't stem from a love of floral prints or Don Ho records.
"If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly."
Valerie Plame worked for the CIA and tangled with Bush. Now she wants to fight Trump from Congress.
In Baltimore, why an ex-politician who resigned in scandal just might be the mayor the city is looking for.
"We've taken action in the interest of preventing others from being inspired to commit violent acts, but have kept the tweet on Twitter," the company said.
Trump defenders, here's your chance: Tell us why this response to Covid-19 merits a second term.
All he has to do is embrace the consensus that's waiting for him.
Trump's ongoing tantrum about about Twitter fact checking has led to an executive order that seeks to clarify section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
"Big Tech is doing everything in their very considerable power to CENSOR in advance of the 2020 Election," Trump tweeted late Wednesday.
Instead of pressing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for answers, the cable network had his younger sibling ask him questions.
A new platform aims for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while benefiting unions and fossil fuel workers.
You can hear the sound of a fart midway through the conversation between Biden and Wolf at the 20:45 time mark.
