Trump also announced that he had signed an executive order ending U.S. preferential treatment of Hong Kong. It follows up on his announcement in May that he would take steps to revoke the former colony's status as a customs and travel territory separate from the rest of China. But an event that was billed as…
Following weeks of nationwide protests over a spate of police killings of Black people, President Donald Trump has claimed that “more white people” actually die at the hands of law enforcement.The president made the comment after appearing to briefly lose it when asked about the hot button topic in a CBS News interview.“Why are African-Americans…
CNN and MSNBC cut away from President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden remarks on Tuesday after he veered from an announcement about the situation in Hong Kong to a lengthy campaign attack on Joe Biden and his economic and energy proposals. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer explained that they network cut away because it was “deteriorating into a…
The Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer schools or leave the country if their colleges hold classes entirely online next semester because of the coronavirus pandemic. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the decision as a court hearing was getting under way on a challenge…
President Trump has dominated the TV ad wars but outside groups have flooded the zone to lift presumptive Democratic nominee Joseph R. Biden. The Biden strategy of laying low in the first half of 2020 meant outside groups were responsible for nearly 86% of all pro-Biden television spots between May 11 and June 28, according…
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…