Washington (CNN)A freshman Florida congressman embroiled in ethics issues lost a Republican primary challenge on Tuesday, CNN projects, making him the eighth incumbent to lose a House primary this ye…
Jill Biden on Tuesday tugged on America’s heartstrings in an emotional appeal for support for her husband, Joseph R. Biden. Addressing the Democratic National Convention in a livestream from a high school in Delaware, Mrs. Biden said she felt the same fears and uncertainty as most Americans feel about the coronavirus, and she vouched for…
The former campaign chairman Paul Manafort kept in close touch with a longtime colleague whom Senate investigators identified as a Russian intelligence officer.Paul Manafort, President Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016, created a “grave counterintelligence threat” by sharing inside information with a Russian intelligence officer, investigators said.Credit...Sam Hodgson for The New York TimesAug. 18, 2020Updated 9:41…
Former Vice President Joe Biden officially became the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nominee Tuesday night after an unconventional roll call vote of party delegates conducted virtually from landmarks across the country.Once he amassed the votes, a camera appeared on Biden from Delaware where he celebrated the moment with wife, Jill, and bundles of red, white and blue…
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…