Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced Thursday she was removing herself as a candidate to be former Vice President Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick.Klobuchar told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell she called Biden Wednesday evening with her decision, saying she believes “this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket."Biden pledged earlier this year to pick…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Thursday evening that she will not be Joseph R. Biden’s vice-presidential nominee. In an interview on MSNBC, the white Minnesota Democrat said she thinks Mr. Biden should pick a minority woman for the No. 2 slot on the party’s ticket. “I think this is a moment to put a woman of…
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is in the running to be presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden’s running mate, found herself under fire Thursday for not prosecuting years ago a Minneapolis police officer who this week was videotaped kneeling on the neck of an African-American suspect who died in custody. The attention on Ms.…
FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2020 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks during a campaign event in Charleston, S.C. As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden begins the process of choosing a running mate amid ... more > By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Updated: 5:17 p.m. on…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., defended White House coronavirus task force response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx Tuesday when "The View" co-host Sunny Hostin suggested the doctor was helping to President Trump's "misinformation.""Senator, I said yesterday that Dr. Birx is part of the problem because she’s legitimizing his misinformation by sort of providing him this veneer of credibility," Hostin told Klobuchar, "and the GOP, in…
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…