More than 100 nights of riots and other political unrest in Portland, Ore., appear to be having an effect on voters’ confidence in the mayor’s job performance, according to a new poll.Mayor Ted Wheeler is viewed negatively by 63% -- or nearly two-thirds – of the city’s voters, according to a poll paid for by…
Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday proposed a new offshoring tax penalty as part of a plan to try to slow the exodus of U.S.-based jobs overseas. Mr. Biden’s campaign said he would establish a 28% corporate tax rate, up from 21%, plus an additional surtax on profits U.S. companies earn overseas for…
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden walked back his own call for a national mask mandate, saying he wouldn’t issue any binding orders because he believes it would be unconstitutional.The former vice president was questioned by AZFamily’s “Politics Unplugged” Sunday about his repeated pledges to use the powers of the presidency to force Americans to wear masks when…
DENVER — A burst of wild September weather brought a “climate crisis” warning Tuesday from Al Gore as Californians struggled with heat and wildfires, Atlantic storm trackers raced through the alphabet and Coloradans traded their flip-flops for snow boots. California firefighters fought to contain 23 active fires that charred a record 2.3 million acres as…
closeVideoFirefighters work around clock battling dozens of wildfires in Western USCalifornia sets record with 2 million acres burned; Jeff Paul reports from Los Angeles.Massive fires continued to rage in California and Oregon into Wednesday morning.More than a dozen firefighters in California defended a fire station in the Los Padres National Forest on the state's central…
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…