The silence is deafening.President Trump has gone in the past several weeks from racist dog whistles to an all-out Confederate bugle call with a rebel yell — and yet his Republican enablers in Congress continue determinedly to cover their ears.He retweets a video in which a man shouts “white power” and later deletes but never…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Trump administration health official said on Sunday it was not clear whether it will be safe to hold the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville next month, as Florida sees record numbers of coronavirus cases. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to attendees as he hosts a 4th of July…
The Trumpian rift in the Republican Party has deepened in recent days as allies of one of the GOP’s former presidents and former White House nominees have taken steps to endorse the enemy. Whether the defections to presumed Democratic nominee Joseph R. Biden are born of dismay over what they see as haphazard leadership in…
The Republican Attorneys General Association came Wednesday to the defense of presidential statues being vandalized by left-wing mobs with an ad warning of the dangers of the “cancel culture.” The one-minute ad called “Erasing History” shows the four faces on Mount Rushmore fading, juxtaposed with news footage showing attacks on statues of George Washington, Thomas…
Madison Cawthorn, a 24-year-old real estate investment CEO, won a Republican primary runoff election Tuesday in western North Carolina in the race to fill the congressional seat of former Rep. Mark Meadows, who stepped down in March to become President Trump’s chief of staff.And in winning the runoff contest, Cawthorn upset Lynda Bennett, who was…
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…