New York|Trump’s Warm Words for Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘I Just Wish Her Well’The president’s comments about Ms. Maxwell, who is charged with luring girls into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, drew new attention to Mr. Trump’s friendship with Mr. Epstein.Jeffrey Epstein and Donald J. Trump at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in 1997. Credit...Davidoff Studios, via Getty ImagesJuly…
President Trump on Monday said coronavirus briefings are making a comeback, in part because they were so popular. "I was doing them and we had a lot of people watching, record numbers watching," Mr. Trump said.But the president stopped holding them at the end of April as polls showed they were hurting him politically. He…
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wished alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell "well" after he was asked about her case during a news briefing at the White House largely focused on the coronavirus."I haven't really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly," Trump said when asked for his thoughts on whether…
President Donald Trump on Monday tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask, saying, "many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can't socially distance" and "There is nobody more Patriotic than me, your favorite President." It wasn't clear what message, if any, he might be sending his nearly…
As President Trump deploys federal agents to Portland, Ore., and threatens to dispatch more to other cities, his re-election campaign is spending millions of dollars on several ominous television ads that promote fear and dovetail with his political message of “law and order.”The influx of agents in Portland has led to scenes of confrontations and…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…