A Philadelphia elections judge and Democratic Party official pleaded guilty Thursday to stuffing ballot boxes in favor of Democratic candidates in elections in 2014, 2015 and 2016, while collecting thousands of dollars in cash to make the changes. Prosecutors hinted at an even broader conspiracy by an unnamed “political consultant” who charged his clients “consulting…
Rep. Pete KingPeter (Pete) KingGOP Rep. Pete King to buck party, vote for Democrats' coronavirus relief bill Bipartisan lawmakers call for Postal Service relief State funding fight underscores Schumer-McConnell war MORE (R-N.Y.) said he plans to buck party lines and vote in favor of the $3 trillion coronavirus relief package proposed by House Democrats and…
TODAY'S L.A. NEWS Never miss a morning briefing, subscribe today to get our A.M. newsletter delivered to your inbox. As we’ve heard from many of you, the coronavirus is forcing everyone to alter their day-to-day lives in very particular ways. In today’s Mis Ángeles column, Erick Galindo examines how his 60-year-old mother went from scoffing…
New York City police busted a party of 40 people on Monday celebrating the unofficial holiday for marijuana on 4/20, a senior police official told NBC News.Police on patrol were flagged down by a concerned citizen for what seemed like a lot of people in a building on the third floor of a Manhattan commercial…
Senator Bernie Sanders sent his supporters an email Friday urging them donate to the Democratic National Committee (DNC).Sanders endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday after dropping out of the race for president the previous week. The independent senator who twice sought the Democratic nomination asked supporters to donate to the DNC in the…
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…