President Trump attacked Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, for “wasting” her dead husband’s money. Ms. Jobs, a liberal billionaire philanthropist, is the co-owner of the Atlantic magazine that recently published an article by editor Jeffrey Goldberg claiming Mr. Trump disparaged U.S. war dead. Ms. Jobs has also funded efforts aiming…
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is set to be featured in a video touting Joseph R. Biden on the second night of the modified Democratic National Convention. “Our country needs a commander-in-chief who takes care of our troops in the same way he would his own family,” Mr. Powell said. “For Joe Biden, that…
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell indicated on Thursday that media figures overreacted to a recent report that Russian officials placed bounties on the lives of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan."What I know is that our military commanders on the ground did not think that it was as serious a problem as the newspapers were reporting and television was reporting," Powell told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell. "It got…
Retired four-star general and Secretary of State Colin Powell will be voting for former Vice President Joe Biden, saying they are close on social and political issues. “I will be speaking for him but I don’t plan to make campaign trips,” he told CNN. Mr. Powell, who served under Republican Presidents George W. Bush, George…
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…