House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday President Trump’s “playbook” relies on voter suppression. “Don’t pay any attention to what the President is saying, because it is all designed to suppress the vote,” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, told reporters. “He’s going to have law enforcement — that’s in their playbook.” “It’s in their playbook that they’ll…
Screen image from video showing groom being airlifted to the hospital after being shot in the chest on his wedding day in Texas. (Harris County Sheriff's Office)A Texas couple’s wedding day ended with a guest shooting the groom in the chest and the bride refusing to cooperate with authorities, according to reports.It happened at a…
Republican delegates were arriving on Friday for their scaled-back convention in Charlotte, N.C.Credit...Travis Dove for The New York TimesOn to Charlotte!OK, not really. But with the Democrats’ virtual convention behind us, and drawing generally strong reviews, attention is turning to what the Republicans might do with their time in the spotlight, which starts on Monday.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…