Nearly four years into his wild and unlikely presidency, Donald Trump managed to shock the world again. An interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday included a claim not to care what the military has to say about renaming its bases, and an argument about whether identifying an elephant was strong evidence of mental…
In her latest interview about her bestselling book, Mary Trump told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday that she has heard her uncle, Donald Trump, use racial and anti-semitic slurs. After Maddow asked her whether she had heard Trump use the language, she responded, “Oh yeah, of course I did. And I don’t think that should…
President Trump has dominated the TV ad wars but outside groups have flooded the zone to lift presumptive Democratic nominee Joseph R. Biden. The Biden strategy of laying low in the first half of 2020 meant outside groups were responsible for nearly 86% of all pro-Biden television spots between May 11 and June 28, according…
President Trump signed legislation Tuesday to sanction Chinese officials and entities for China’s “repressive actions” against Hong Kong, and issued an executive order ending Hong Kong’s preferential treatment by the U.S. “No administration has been tougher on China than this administration,” the president said in an event in the White House Rose Garden. The president…
President Trump slammed Jeff Sessions, his former attorney general, on an election-eve conference call on behalf of Mr. Sessions’ political rival Tommy Tuberville in Alabama. Mr. Trump said he made a “mistake” when he put Mr. Sessions in place as his attorney general, only to see him recuse himself from the probe into Russian interference…
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…