Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden said Thursday he will accept the outcome of November’s election. “Sure, the full results. Count every vote,” Mr. Biden said at a CNN town hall. Mr. Biden said President Trump is casting doubt on the legitimacy of the election with his warnings on mail-in voting. Mr. Trump said on…
FILE PHOTO: Tik Tok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoSHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will not accept the “theft” of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to Washington’s move to push ByteDance to sell short-video app TikTok’s…
President Trump pointedly said Sunday that he wouldn’t necessarily accept a loss in the upcoming election as he continues to rail against the use of absentee ballots amid the coronavirus pandemic. Citing unfounded concerns about voting by mail, Trump asserted that he shouldn’t be under any obligation to say in advance that he will concede…
Democrats will hold an almost entirely virtual presidential nominating convention in Milwaukee using live broadcasts and online streaming, party officials said Wednesday.Joe Biden plans to accept the presidential nomination in person during the 17-20 August convention, but it remains to be seen whether there will be a significant in-person audience there to see it. The…
Former Vice President Joe Biden will accept the Democratic presidential nomination at a nearly all-virtual convention in Milwaukee in August, but delegates were told to stay home because of health concerns, the Democratic National Committee said Wednesday."After consulting with public health officials about the COVID-19 pandemic, convention organizers are announcing today that they have determined…
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…