ANALYSIS/OPINION: To many people in Wisconsin, the faux-revolutionary insanity we’ve seen unfold in our state capital and dozens of other places across the country didn’t seem to make sense. We reached something of a turning point in public perception recently, when the people who vandalized our capital, assaulted a state senator, and tore down and…
Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday formally embraced citizenship rights for 11 million illegal immigrants and a full erasure of all of President Trump’s get-tough border policies, as part of the party’s new unity platform. He would expand sanctuary locations, limit ICE’s ability to deport criminals in local jails, and reverse deportations for…
Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday that some funding should “absolutely” be redirected from police, amid calls from some in his party to "defund the police" in the wake of the protests across the country.Biden's campaign has said he does not support defunding the police. But in a Now This interview with activist Ady Barkan,…
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden said Wednesday that if he is elected president this fall, he will be “hollering” for unions and said the labor movement can rest assured they will have a seat at the table in his White House. Speaking to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Mr. Biden, the presumptive…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Biden has a healthy lead in the polls, with just four months to go till the election US Democratic challenger Joe Biden has said he will reverse President Donald Trump's move to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) "on day one" if he wins November's election.Mr Trump formally…
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…