Sen. Cory A. Booker said Thursday that Democrats need to not only convince Americans to support presumptive presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden, but to also actually participate in the election. “I think the biggest persuasion we need is to convince people to come out and vote in the first place,” the New Jersey Democrat said…
As the Democratic primary between Amy McGrath and Charles Booker gets tighter, Mr. Booker has closed the gap in ad spending as both make a final push before Tuesday’s voting.Amy McGrath greeted a supporter outside a campaign office in Lexington, Ky., in 2018.Credit...Maddie McGarvey for The New York TimesPublished June 22, 2020Updated June 23, 2020,…
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…