Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden. | Joshua Roberts/Getty Images Joe Biden is centering racial justice in his Fourth of July message, deepening the contrast with President Donald Trump. “We have a chance to rip the roots of systemic racism out of this country,” Biden says in the Independence Day video shared with…
TOPLINE In a Twitter rant Saturday morning—his only reaction so far to a night of rioting in various U.S. cities—President Trump thanked Secret Service agents for responding to protesters outside the White House on Friday and warned demonstrators they would have been met with “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” had they breached a protective fence.…
Sheryl Crow, Rufus Wainwright, Jimmy Buffett, Joe Walsh and David Crosby performed for Joe Biden at a virtual fundraiser on Thursday, but the presumptive Democratic nominee turned his focus to the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis. “We can’t ignore that we are in a country with an open wound right now,” Biden said, according to…
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…