Joseph R. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, endorsed Sara Gideon Friday in her bid to challenge Sen. Susan Collins in Maine. “Ending the Trump nightmare is not enough. We can’t just go back to the way things were,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. “We need to make progress on health care, the climate…
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III endorsed Jeff Sessions, who held the same position under President Trump, for U.S. Senate, in a new radio ad unveiled Tuesday. Mr. Meese, who served as attorney general during President Ronald Reagan’s second term, also defended Mr. Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from the Russian collusion probe. “Let me…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., endorsed Joe Biden for president on Monday morning, becoming yet another high-profile Democrat to publicly back the party's presumptive nominee amid claims he sexually assaulted an aide in the 1990s. Biden's campaign has denied the claim."I'm proud to endorse Joe Biden for president of the United States because he will be an…
What a difference a few months make. Joseph R. Biden’s top rivals for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination have gone from criticizing the former vice president’s record and vision for the future to casting him as the Superman of empathy — ready to comfort and heal a divided nation. Jay Inslee is the latest 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…