Vice President Mike Pence says Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden’s willingness to shut the economy down again because of the coronavirus pandemic demonstrates that Mr. Biden is out of touch with reality. “You have President Trump who said that we’re not going to shut this economy down again and [to hear] Joe Biden actually…
Former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., defended his decision to publicly endorse Democratic candidate Joe Biden for president on "The Story" Monday, prompting host Martha MacCallum to ask Flake to name an "actual policy" of Biden's that he supports.At one point, MacCallum asked Flake how, as a lifelong Republican, he is supporting a candidate who has promised to…
CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Sudan on Tuesday, the top U.S. official to visit the African country since last year’s ouster of its autocratic leader, Omar al-Bashir. Pompeo’s visit on Tuesday is meant to discuss the normalization of ties between Sudan and Israel and also show U.S. support for…
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…