Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers his acceptance speech on the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivers his acceptance speech on the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention from the…
The 2020 Democratic Convention, mercifully, is over, and former Vice President Joe Biden is officially the party’s candidate.Four days of dreary virtual programming interspersed with even drearier musical interludes were brought to a welcome finale by the emergence, finally, of the candidate himself from his basement.Against all odds, Biden read prepared remarks from a TelePrompter quite…
Joe Biden promised to restore the "soul of America" and deliver the nation from "darkness" as he accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday night, a crowning achievement in Biden's five decades in politics where he was counted out more than once.Speaking from Wilmington, Del., Biden said President Trump has failed in his basic duties to protect Americans as…
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…