Show captionThe director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe. Democrats have criticised his office’s decision to stop in-person briefings about election security to Congress. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AFP/Getty ImagesUS elections 2020Decision to provide only updates in writing means oversight panels will not be quiz intelligence officialsReutersSat 29 Aug 2020 22.48 EDTThe United States’ top intelligence office has…
Pro-Second Amendment and Christian crowdfunding groups have started initiatives to raise funds for Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting two men Tuesday night in Kenosha, Wis.Rittenhouse has been charged as an adult with two counts of first-degree homicide and one count of attempted homicide, for incidents that occurred during protests sparked by the police…
The recently concluded U.S. political conventions offered American voters two separate and distinct views of the world – one based on authenticity and another on artifice, a member of the European Parliament said this week.“Looking at the Republican Convention for the past two days, you can see such a huge difference,” Jerome Riviere of France,…
Anti-vaccine doctor Andrew Wakefield could now wed his supermodel girlfriend Elle Macpherson after officially divorcing wife Carmel WakefieldCarmel Wakefield, 62, filed for divorce from doctor Andrew Wakefield in 2019The Mail on Sunday can reveal it has now been granted by court in Austin, Texas Carmel and Andrew were married for 32 years before splitting in 2017Same…
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…