WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Nearly a dozen US Senate Democrats have sponsored new legislation to fund efforts to counter China's edge in areas such as manufacturing, technology, and science.

A controversial recommendation by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released last month about who should be tested for COVID-19 has been revealed to have not been written by CDC scientists and to have been posted to the agency’s website over their objections.

The former aide said she resigned because she was not happy with how the administration has been handling the pandemic, claiming that Trump is only focused on his re-election efforts.

Osaka, who pulled out of Western and Southern Open, said that her hamstring injury is still bad, so she has no opportunity to get prepared for the tournament.

The United States has indicted Assange on a total of 18 counts, related mostly to violations under the Espionage Act for disclosing classified information that revealed US war crimes and included the 2016 hacked e-mails of Hillary Clinton.

At this time, Hurricane Sally is graded as a post-tropical cyclone and is producing heavy rains over the Eastern Carolinas and Southeast Virginia, according to the National Hurricane Centre's public advisory.

WASHINGTON, September 18 (Sputnik) - Former FBI Director James Comey will appear before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on September 30, panel chairman Lindsey Graham said in an interview.

The CEO of Moderna, the first company to conduct large-scale human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the US, says the firm will likely have enough data to announce in November whether its novel coronavirus vaccine is sufficiently effective for broader use.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A small leak of ammonia has been detected at the US segment of the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos confirmed to Sputnik, adding that the incident poses no threat to crew members.

Conservative lawmakers said that Wray was carelessly diminishing the role of Antifa, which, according to them, has an organised structure and coordinates its work on all three levels - local, regional, and federal.

Noam Chomsky, 91, is a renowned US linguist, philosopher, and political activist and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is also a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The former House speaker and now Fox News contributor, Newt Gingrich, claimed on-air that the "Soros-elected, left-wing" were the reason for the continuing riots in the United States, triggering unease among the two hosts he was speaking to.

WASHINGTON, September 18 (Sputnik) - US Space and Cyber Forces must be able to disrupt adversaries' efforts disrupt to terrestrial forces through their own space forces, US Space Command Chief Architect Michael Dickey told the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) AscentX Conference on National Security Space.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Twitter announced in a press release that it is boosting security for accounts belonging to high-profile US politicians ahead of the upcoming November elections.

The statement came as criticism ahead of Mike Pompeo's visit to Boa Vista city, on the border with Venezuela, where he is set to meet with his Brazilian counterpart Ernesto Araujo.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during his visit to Suriname on Thursday that China is leveraging economic investment to exact political influence inconsistent with the best interests of the people.

As of 17 September, Kootenai County, where the pastor resides, has registered 2,400 cases of the novel coronavirus, while 33 people have died from the disease, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention data shows.

Lev Parnas and David Correia, two associates of US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have been charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to defraud investors.

The president's patriotic plan is opposed to the current "left-wing" curriculum in American schools, which, according to him, indoctrinates children to view all subjects through the lens of race, sowing "a new segregation".

WASHINGTON, September 17 (Sputnik) - The indictment represents the third set of charges against Iranian hackers in the past three days, the release said.