DENVER — Once viewed as a can’t-miss candidate, former Gov. John Hickenlooper enters Tuesday’s Senate primary as damaged goods after a series of gaffes and missteps that have forced national Democrats to spend big to prop up his teetering campaign. Mr. Hickenlooper faced calls over the weekend to drop out of the primary race from…
In this May 28, 2020, photo, processing work on mail-in ballots for the Pennsylvania Primary election is being done by Tim Vernick at the Butler County Bureau of Elections, in Butler, Pa. The civic ritual of casting a ballot has ... more > By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times - Updated: 1:44 p.m. on…
Thirty-five percent of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign operation are people of color and just over half are women, according to figures released Saturday under public prodding, after months in which his campaign declined to make that information public.At least 60 percent of the staff is white, a number in line with the…
Those who are senior staff include senior advisers, deputy campaign managers, senior consultants and department heads. The campaign said it is still hiring and will add additional leaders across the campaign. Biden was pressed by Amna Nawaz, a correspondent for “PBS NewsHour” during a presidential town hall Saturday on the diversity of his campaign. Biden…
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…