Five weeks from from polling day, two days from the first presidential candidates’ debate, and moments after the New York Times published bombshell revelations about Donald Trump’s taxes, the US president took aim at his Democratic opponent Joe Biden with a series of wild and unproven accusations. In an unfocussed White House briefing, the president…
President Trump was just three days into his tenure in 2017 when, with the stroke of a pen, he nixed America’s participation in the world’s biggest trade deal. In canceling the Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership and later rewriting the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mr. Trump has drafted a new script for negotiating trade deals.…
Donald and Melania Trump were booed by crowds at the Supreme Court on Thursday when they paid their respects to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.'Honor her wish,' the crowd yelled as the first couple stood at the top of the steps at Ginsburg's flag-draped coffin, their heads bowed and faces covered by masks.'Vote him out,'…
Joseph R. Biden had a narrow lead in Iowa over President Trump, the two candidates were tied in Georgia, and Mr. Trump had a similarly tiny edge in Texas, according to polling released on Thursday. The Democratic presidential nominee had a 3-point, 45% to 42% lead over Mr. Trump in Iowa, the two candidates were…
President Trump and Joseph R. Biden are in a dead heat in Iowa, according to polling released Tuesday six weeks out from election day. Forty-seven percent of likely voters said they would support Mr. Trump and 47% said they would support Mr. Biden, according to the Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll. Mr. Trump carried Iowa by…
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…