Day 2 of the Greatest Reality Show on Earth didn’t disappoint. From start to finish, Donald Trump’s Republican convention team once again unveiled a smart program that skillfully stitched together people, policies and politics.Every good convention needs to tell a story and the Trumpers know what their story is and how they want to tell…
Black power has arrived. For the first time in modern memory, both of America’s major political parties are making an all-out push for the votes of African Americans.Good for them, and good for our country.The hunt for Black votes is a given with Democrats, but the first night of the Republican Convention showed that two…
The great Peggy Lee song comes to mind: “Is that all there is?”Sen. Kamala Harris checks off two big boxes for 2020 Dems — gender and race. But the moment, if not the actual choice, feels underwhelming because of the amateurish way Joe Biden and his team let the process spin out of control.PENCE TELLS HARRIS…
Sydney Powell, the lawyer for FBI perjury-trap target Michael Flynn, used to think she was on the same side as the judge who now refuses to let FBI misconduct stand in the way of prosecuting her client. In her 2014 book “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice,” she praised District Judge…
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…