A supervising video producer for Joe Biden's presidential campaign tweeted a meme in June that urged people to stop calling the police "pigs" -- but only because unlike the police, pigs are "highly intelligent and empathetic animals who would never racially profile you."The videographer, Sara Pearl, also retweeted a user's comment that while "pigs are sweet, intelligent and compassionate," police…
In Trump’s orbit and Republican circles, there is growing unease and even panic over Trump’s conduct as allies fret that the president, who lags behind presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in both public and private polling, is free-falling into a political abyss.Republicans have long accustomed themselves to the mayhem that seems to accompany Trump everywhere,…
President Trump’s outgoing reelection campaign manager and his successor met Thursday with staffers at the campaign’s headquarters in Arlington, Va., for a transfer-of-power type of ceremony.Hours later new campaign manager Bill Stepien said the person he replaced – Brad Parscale – "will remain heavily involved."PARSCALE REMOVAL 'SHOCKED' TRUMP CAMPAIGN STAFFERSAnd in a message to Trump campaign staffers, Stepien…
The new campaign manager’s elevation followed weeks of angst inside the White House about Trump’s reelection prospects, with the typically self-assured president privately expressing concern about his plummeting poll numbers. The president’s lightly attended rally in Tulsa, Okla., last month piled anger on top of his anxiety, with Trump pointedly blaming Parscale for the fiasco.…
Twenty campaign finance-focused advocacy groups are calling on the presidential campaigns of Joseph R. Biden and President Trump to disclose information identifying their bundlers. The coalition wrote to both Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden’s campaigns to request that they voluntarily disclose the names, locations of residence, and occupations of their bundlers, which are the campaigns’…
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…