Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden said Tuesday President Trump has “squandered” the economic expansion created during the Obama-Biden administration, causing an economic recession. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s comment came after the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee noted the U.S. economy peaked in February and has hit a downturn. Mr.…
President Donald Trump attacked the 75-year-old Buffalo protester who was shoved by police last week, igniting a furor that led to the prosecution of two officers on charges of felony assault. Trump on Tuesday tweeted a wild and, to say the least, unsubstantiated and unproven conspiracy theory about the man, Martin Gugino. “Buffalo protester shoved…
Donald Trump Jr. on Monday called out Democrats looking to defund police departments in the wake of George Floyd protests should start by cutting their own security detail.Trump said that the entire country has called for the end of police brutality but said calls to cut funding for police departments would do little to stop abuses…
President Trump said Monday he is mobilizing all civilian and military forces to end looting and property destruction after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, saying his “first and highest duty” is to defend the country and he won’t allow “anarchists” to upend the country. As he spoke, police forces appeared to clash with…
Donald Trump went to war with social media platforms last week, threatening to "shut down" the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Trump signed an executive order targeting social media companies just days after Twitter tagged two of his tweets with fact-check warnings. The move could strip social media giants of their "platforms"-rather-than-"publishers" privileges and further…
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…