Top Democrats who cheered on "Black Lives Matter" crowds across the U.S. are now criticizing President Trump for planning to restart his campaign rallies, saying the events -- which are scheduled to kick off June 19 in Tulsa, Okla. -- could help spread the coronavirus.The apparent hypocrisy comes just weeks after big-city Democrats who once insisted…
Democrats accused President Trump of racism Thursday for scheduling his next campaign rally on the “Juneteenth” anniversary of slavery’s end, in Tulsa, Oklahoma — site of one of the worst massacres of blacks in U.S. history. “This isn’t just a wink to white supremacists—he’s throwing them a welcome home party,” tweeted Sen. Kamala D. Harris,…
(CNN)Republicans and Democrats may be working on separate tracks right now on policing reform, but there is some overlap, in principle, in what is being proposed on both sides of the Capitol. It's …
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks via video link at the funeral service for George Floyd in Houston. | David J. Phillip, Pool via AP Photo As protests over racism and police brutality roil the country, Democrats are putting more importance in Joe Biden choosing a woman of color as his running…
With protests and racial unrest gripping the country, more Democrats want presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden to pick a woman of color to be the party’s vice presidential candidate, according to polling released on Wednesday. Forty-six percent of Democrats said it’s important for Mr. Biden to pick a vice presidential candidate of color,…
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…