President Trump's niece, Mary Trump, offered a bleak picture of her family's purportedly toxic dynamic, telling ABC that her "sociopath" grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., taught his kids to treat other people as "expendable.""He had no empathy," she said in an interview that aired Wednesday. "He was incredibly driven in a way that turned other people, including his…
TOPLINE President Trump spoke out Wednesday against White House trade advisor Peter Navarro’s USA Today op-ed attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci that drew blistering criticism Wednesday morning, as academics, politicians and medical experts rallied behind the country’s top infectious diseases expert for the second time in under a week. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro and…
Apparent con artists on Wednesday hacked into the Twitter accounts of technology moguls, politicians and major companies in a bitcoin scam that has triggered an unprecedented and ongoing site-wide shutdown.The ruse included bogus tweets from Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Mike Bloomberg, Kanye West and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder…
A Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday found that for the first time a majority of voters have been — or know someone — infected by COVID-19. Fifty-three percent of respondents compared to 46% said they have been infected themselves, or they know someone who has had the virus. Voters are also apprehensive about sending children…
The National Association of Police Organizations endorsed President Trump’s reelection Wednesday, citing his “steadfast and very public support” for law enforcement. In a brief letter to Mr. Trump, obtained by The Washington Times, NAPO president Michael McHale said the president’s support was critical in the wake of the attacks on law enforcement following the death…
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…