The Trump campaign launched a new ad nationwide on Monday attacking Democrat Joseph R. Biden over police funding, depicting an older woman whose frantic 9-1-1 call goes unanswered as an intruder breaks into her home. The ad, which is also running in battleground states, emphasizes that police “would be unable to respond to emergency calls…
The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding, on how the president might try to rule by decree. John Yoo told Axios he has been talking to White House officials about his view that a recent supreme court ruling on immigration would allow Trump to issue…
TOPLINE As Congress returned to Washington Monday facing a three-week crunch to pass the next stimulus package before they break for an August recess, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) met with President Trump to discuss the GOP’s proposed bill, slated to be released this week. Here’s what…
July 20, 2020 | 1:19pm | Updated July 20, 2020 | 3:15pm Reacting to The Post’s front page Monday, President Trump said Gov. Andrew Cuomo must squash a spike in violent crime in New York City — or he will send in federal authorities to restore order. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he…
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…