Joesph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill Biden, attended a Sept. 11 commemoration in New York on Friday.Credit...Amr Alfiky/The New York TimesThe presidential candidates and their running mates are spending the day commemorating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a reminder of a time when a fractured nation came together in a moment of national…
Congressional Republicans demanded answers on Friday as to whether there “was a widespread intentional effort” to wipe the mobile devices of multiple people on former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team during the Russia probe, and suggested this could amount to "anticipatory obstruction of justice."The calls come after newly released records from the Justice Department showed that…
The mayor of Portland declared a state of emergency as fires burned toward the city. California and Washington State are battling growing fires, too.Right NowGov. Greg Abbott of Texas said the state would send 190 more firefighters and 50 more fire trucks to help fight wildfires in California.VideoMore than three million acres have burned in…
More than 13,000 Americans were born into a world of turmoil on Sept. 11, 2001.Members of Generation Z — those born in 1996 or later -- were initially dubbed "Homelanders," a moniker associated with their birth, the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the more-than-a-decade-long “War on Terror.”Now, 19 years later, many of those children…
The staff of special counsel Robert Mueller turned in 27 government smartphones that had been “wiped” of all data, including the iPhone of Andrew Weissmann, according to new Justice Department numbers. Of over 100 relinquished iPhone 6s and 7s in 2017-19, 12 were cleansed of any texts, emails, photos and notes due to password failures.…
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…