Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden said Wednesday that he agrees with the Trump administration’s planned drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Yes, I do. As long as he has a plan to figure out how he’s going to deal with ISIS,” Mr. Biden said as he was traveling back from Michigan. Officials…
Image copyright Zak Stone via Reuters Image caption Oregon Governor Kate Brown says the state could see the greatest loss of life and property from wildfires in its history The US state of Oregon is battling record-breaking wildfires, which have destroyed at least five towns.Three deaths in Oregon have been blamed on the wildfires, with…
Beginning the college year during the coronavirus pandemic is difficult enough for millions of students. But the beginning of my freshman year at Transylvania University in Kentucky is being made even more difficult by an unwarranted attack against me by the cancel culture due to my conservative views.Even before starting college I was the subject…
Firefighter Laura Harris and other first responders were helping move people away from a now deadly wildfire in rural Oregon on Monday when she quickly realized she and dozens of others were trapped. “We were starting to see flames coming in pretty close to us and the winds were blowing it just right toward us," Harris told…
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…