Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton slammed New York Attorney General Letitia James for trying to dissolve the National Rifle Association and welcomed the organization to his state saying that “in Texas we care about what the founders put in the Constitution.” Paxton made the comment Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” three days after James announced that her office has filed a lawsuit…
The state provides a case study in how the president’s impulsive and insulting statements can undermine his push for re-election.President Trump touring a Ford plant in Ypsilanti, Mich. Polls show him trailing in his efforts to hold the state.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesWASHINGTON — A day before his visit in May to Michigan, where unemployment…
By the end of primary season, the Democratic Party had all but settled on a conventional center-left agenda. But the pandemic is forcing the Biden campaign and other leaders to redraw plans for 2021.Mr. Biden’s campaign has been rapidly expanding its policy-drafting apparatus, with an uphill economic recovery waiting if he wins in November.Credit...Courtland Wells…
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…