President Trump announced Thursday that he is canceling the Republican National Convention events that were scheduled to take place next month in Jacksonville, Fla. – citing the rising numbers of COVID-19 in the state.“The timing for this event is not right, it’s just not right,” Trump said during a press briefing at the White House.…
The Washington NFL franchise is one step closer to forming a new identity after retiring its former name and logo earlier this month, announcing on Thursday that it will now go by the “Washington Football Team.”The name will serve as a placeholder until the franchise can decide on an official team name but the classic…
Trump also used the occasion to rebuke the Democratic leaders of cities such as Minneapolis, Philadelphia and New York, where he linked a recent spike in violent crime to calls for drastic police reforms, including pushes to defund police departments and redirect more money toward social services. He cast the decision as a reluctant choice,…
President Donald Trump, who once bragged he could solve Chicago’s crime problem within a week, announced plans Wednesday to flood the city with a “surge of federal law enforcement” to address ongoing violence. Though agents will be sent across to cities across the country, Trump singled out Chicago as the one in most critical need…
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…