Monthly Archives: August, 2020

For a brief moment, Hunter Biden filled the screen of the virtual Democratic National Convention. The youngest son of pending Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden has been mostly out of sight during the campaign but popped up at the convention in a video tribute to his step-mother Jill Biden. “Mom, it is your strength…

A widespread coronavirus outbreak aboard a Seattle-based fishing boat may wield the first direct evidence that antibodies can offer protective immunity from the virus, according to a report on Tuesday.Crewmembers of the vessel were studied before and after its 18-day voyage in May that would eventually see more than 85 percent of the crew infected with the virus in…

As Joe Biden formally becomes the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, convention speakers are making a clear and repeated effort to draw a contrast between Biden and President Trump not just on policy, but on empathy.Starting with former first lady Michelle Obama on opening night and continuing with former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday, speaker after speaker hammered Trump for remarking…

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Tuesday rallied supporters behind Democratic nominee Joe Biden, telling them that the day after Biden is elected they will “mobilize our people” to bring about “transformative change.”“Let’s get going, let’s defeat Trump, let’s elect Biden, let’s elect some great candidates around the country,” he said at a “United Against Trump”…

WILMINGTON, Del. — She was last seen blurting “I love you” to Joe Biden as she escorted him in an elevator to an editorial board meeting at the New York Times last December, part of an exchange that went viral as the Biden campaign cast her adulation as a bigger deal than the news organization’s…