US President Donald Trump says he has authorised the government to arrest anyone caught trying to tear down monuments or statues, threatening they could be jailed for 10 years. Trump said on Tuesday the new order applies "retroactively" so those who previously participated in bringing down memorials could be arrested. "I have authorised the federal…
President Trump told cheering conservative students Tuesday that America “will never surrender to mob violence,” warning that Democratic rival Joseph R. Biden would be a caretaker president who would allow leftist activists to control the streets. “We will never cave to the left wing and the left-wing intolerance,” Mr. Trump told the crowd of about…
President Trump on Tuesday said people caught destroying or defacing statues or monuments on federal property will face up to 10 years behind bars and that he’s planning an executive order to clarify existing criminal statutes on the issue. “We are looking at long-term jail sentences for these vandals and these hoodlums and these anarchists…
The White House on Monday blocked the entry of several categories of foreign workers in a new presidential proclamation that will extend through the end of 2020. The measures also expand President Trump’s April 22 executive order denying green cards to applicants in several immigrant visa categories.Trump administration officials also piled on new regulatory changes…
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…