Many of the 1,100 graduating cadets slept in barracks named for Lee, who also served as superintendent of West Point before breaking with the Union. And Fort Lee in Virginia is one of the 10 Army bases that Trump this week said he would “not even consider” renaming after Pentagon leaders said they were open…
Susan Rice, a former White House national security adviser, wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Tuesday that Washington, D.C., was powerless to stop President Trump from ordering federal forces into the city in response to protests because it lacks statehood.In her piece, Rice criticized Trump for deploying thousands of federal forces into the city against…
We're now more than a week into the White House's attempts to rationalize Donald Trump's choice to tear gas peaceful protesters in order to clear the way for a photo op, and the excuses aren't getting any better. Officials can't even decide on one lie to tell, ping-ponging between denying the violence against protesters was that serious — the event…
President Trump’s claim that he was merely inspecting the White House bunker last month as protests swelled outside was contradicted Monday by his attorney general, William P. Barr. Mr. Barr said during an interview that the U.S. Secret Service advised securing Mr. Trump beneath the White House in response to protests sparked by the killing…
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…