WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton will rip President Donald Trump's handling of the job he once held on the second night Tuesday of the all-virtual Democratic National Convention.Paraphrasing Harry Truman's famous maxim that the buck stops with the presidency, Clinton will say Trump's only consistent goal during his almost four years in office is trying to…
President Trump's posthumous pardon of Susan B. Anthony did not receive the warmest welcome from Democrats and members of the media.On Tuesday, the president marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave the women the right to vote, by granting a pardon of the famed suffragette, who was arrested in 1872 for violating laws…
Liberal activists made an overhaul of the federal judiciary, including court-packing, part of the 2020 platform adopted this week at the Democratic National Convention. The platform’s call for “structural court reforms” is short on specifics, but advocacy groups have begun recruiting liberal judicial candidates for a court-packing agenda in a potential Biden administration next year.…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Politics ain’t beanbag, as the old saying goes. But what occurred on Day One of the Democratic National Convention was beyond detestable. No, it wasn’t when former first lady Michelle Obama claimed that “right now, kids in this country … watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages”…
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…