President Trump took aim at Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala D. Harris on Tuesday night, saying it would be “an insult to our country” if she someday became president. At a campaign rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the president Ms. Harris’ dismal performance in the Democratic presidential primaries proves that “nobody likes her.” “She…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, introduced a targeted coronavirus relief bill and said he planned a vote this week on it. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, introduced a targeted coronavirus relief bill and said he planned a vote this week on…
A new poll in the biggest of the general election battleground states shows the race for the White House all tied up between Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump.With less than 2 months until Election Day on Nov. 3, Biden and the president are deadlocked at 48% among likely votes in Florida, according to…
GULFPORT, Miss. — Tempers flared and guns were drawn in a face off in the courthouse square over Black Lives Matter, ancestry and the fate of a 100-plus-year-old statue memorializing Confederate war dead that carries the inscription “Lest We Forget.” And yet this wasn’t a mob spontaneously tearing down statues linked to the Confederacy or…
September 8, 2020 | 4:53pm | Updated September 8, 2020 | 5:28pm President Trump on Tuesday banned oil drilling off the coasts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina — dramatically expanding a more narrow expiring moratorium covering Florida’s Gulf Coast. Trump compared himself to conservationist President Teddy Roosevelt during a speech in swing-state Florida, which…
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…