Both the White House and the Trump campaign on Sunday said unequivocally that Sen. Kamala Harris is eligible to serve as vice president and blamed the media for fomenting unfounded questions about the issue. “Yeah,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This is not something that we’re…
President Trump is continuing to defend Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s changes to the U.S. Postal Service, which are resulting in mail delays, but says he can’t speak to the specifics of what DeJoy has done since taking office in June.“He’s a fantastic man. He wants to make the post office great again,” Trump said during…
Likely Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden held a 9-point lead over President Trump among registered voters, according to a national poll released on Sunday ahead of Democrats’ modified convention this week. The 9-point, 50% to 41% lead for Mr. Biden in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is down slightly from an 11-point lead…
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…