President Trump and Republican allies are seizing on the defense of monuments and statues as a campaign strategy aimed at portraying Democrats as tolerating “mob rule,” even hoping that the issue of lawlessness and crime in cities across the U.S. will serve as a wedge between Black voters and the Democratic Party. Speaking about the…
President Trump has called anti-racism protestors 'vandals' and 'anarchists' and has promised to reinforce the law to protect statues and monuments. It came ...
President Trump told cheering conservative students Tuesday that America “will never surrender to mob violence,” warning that Democratic rival Joseph R. Biden would be a caretaker president who would allow leftist activists to control the streets. “We will never cave to the left wing and the left-wing intolerance,” Mr. Trump told the crowd of about…
President Trump on Tuesday said people caught destroying or defacing statues or monuments on federal property will face up to 10 years behind bars and that he’s planning an executive order to clarify existing criminal statutes on the issue. “We are looking at long-term jail sentences for these vandals and these hoodlums and these anarchists…
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden said Tuesday President Trump’s decision to hold a rally in Arizona amid an uptick in coronavirus cases is “reckless and irresponsible.” The former vice president said Mr. Trump is trying to shift the spotlight away from his failings. “Make no mistake: This visit is a distraction,” Mr. Biden…
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…