Democrats on Tuesday formally nominated Joseph R. Biden to be their party’s 2020 presidential nominee - a nomination Mr. Biden will accept in a speech on Thursday. At the end of the modified roll call vote, the camera cut to Mr. Biden and his family in a library surrounded by balloons as Kool & the…
13m ago Democratic Party formally nominates Joe Biden for president Democratic delegates formally nominated Biden for president on Tuesday evening, in what DNC chair Tom Perez called a "decidedly unconventional roll call." The roll call was hosted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the convention was initially set to be held.Delegates from all 57 states and…
At the Democratic National Convention, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Tuesday promised to accomplish a long list of Democratic priorities with Joseph R. Biden in the White House, from fighting systemic racism to ending coronavirus and putting broadband in every American home. Mr. Schumer, speaking in a video from his hometown New York…
The Senate committee report says that President Trump may have had a relationship with a Russian beauty pageant winner. But investigators say they “did not establish” that Russia had compromising information on Mr. Trump.A section in the bipartisan report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee presented potentially compromising information that the Russians may have on…
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…