Republican Voters Against Trump released a new attack ad against President Trump on Thursday prominently featuring the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona. The minute-long video casts the president in a divisive light by juxtaposing his comments about those critical of America with McCain’s message of unity. “If they’re not happy here, they can leave,”…
Hurricane Laura slammed southern Louisiana early Thursday as a Category 4 storm, one of the most powerful to strike the Gulf Coast in decades. The storm made landfall at 1 a.m. near Cameron, La., about 35 miles east of the Texas border.Images from downtown Lake Charles, La., showed flying debris and buildings with their windows…
Heavy rains and winds battered Louisiana Thursday morning as a weakening Hurricane Laura roared northward, threatening to spread further damage well inland after slamming the Lake Charles area.The historic Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday in Cameron, about 45 miles south of Lake Charles, as a dangerous Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 150 mph."This…
Vice President Mike Pence accepted renomination Wednesday night in a “Star-Spangled” address to the Republican National Convention, calling for an end to violent street protests and warning that Democrats would destroy the economic gains from President Trump’s proven formula of slashing taxes and red tape. “The choice in this election has never been clearer, and…
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…