China accused the U.S. of meddling in relations between China and Southeast Asian countries Tuesday, saying the U.S. “deliberately stokes territorial and maritime disputes.”The comment by a spokesperson for the Chinese government came one day after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said China’s pursuit of offshore resources is “completely unlawful.”Pompeo also accused China of carrying…
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, on Saturday joined Democrats in criticizing President Trump’s decision to commute Roger Stone’s prison sentence, decrying it as an act of “historic corruption” -- just as Trump said Stone was the victim of an “illegal witch hunt.”“Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury…
Trump did not specify what parts of Biden’s economic plans were plagiarized. Biden’s “Build Back Better” economic plan features a “Buy American” component that would invest $400 billion in government procurement that the campaign says would boost demand for U.S.-made products. The plan also calls for a $300 billion investment in research and development over…
The president’s niece, Mary L. Trump, is the first to break ranks with the family and release a tell-all memoir.President Trump has long been estranged from his niece, Mary L. Trump.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York TimesJuly 7, 2020Updated 12:24 p.m. ETMary L. Trump, President Trump’s niece, plans to publish a tell-all family memoir next week, describing…
The Republican Attorneys General Association came Wednesday to the defense of presidential statues being vandalized by left-wing mobs with an ad warning of the dangers of the “cancel culture.” The one-minute ad called “Erasing History” shows the four faces on Mount Rushmore fading, juxtaposed with news footage showing attacks on statues of George Washington, Thomas…
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…