The dire remarks from one of the Republican Party’s most revered political minds — who POLITICO reported last week is now advising the Trump campaign — come amid escalating concerns within the GOP regarding the president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and widespread racial unrest. Trump’s erratic handling of those twin crises and increasingly incendiary…
Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus first struck the U.S., a law enforcement official said.Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his…
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…