President Trump’s re-election campaign launched a new television ad Wednesday titled “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America,” accusing the presumptive Democratic nominee and his allies of undermining law enforcement. The spot, which campaign officials said is being rolled into its existing ad buy, is airing nationally and in key battleground states. The ad…
They mess you up, your mom and dad, particularly when they are running for president. Which is why, in the all-or-nothing mudslinging battlefield of campaign politics, one rule has remained sacrosanct: the kids are off-limits.But like so many other norms in the Trump era, that low standard of campaign conduct, too, has been dismantled and…
A Trump campaign lawyer who has been critical of mail-in voting has done so three times, CNN reported Tuesday, citing public records it had obtained.The outlet reported that Jenna Ellis, who has said expanded mail-in voting creates "wide opportunity for fraud," voted by mail in Colorado in 2012, 2013 and 2014.Colorado is one of five states in the country…
As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden delivers a major speech Tuesday on his plans for a “clean energy future,” the Trump campaign is pointing to his ties to the Solyndra solar-power debacle as an example of how Mr. Biden would wreck the U.S. energy market. Noting Mr. Biden’s embrace of Democrats so-called “Green…
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…