The ShiftSteve Huffman, Reddit’s co-founder and chief executive, says new rule changes will help the company fulfill its mission.“The current events certainly added more urgency to it,” Steve Huffman, who runs Reddit, said of its decision to ban a pro-Trump group that had nearly 800,000 subscribers.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York TimesJune 30, 2020Updated 2:20…
Democratic mayors in some of the nation's largest cities have been encouraging "lawlessness" as they push for defunding police departments in the wake of George Floyd's death, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said Saturday night."Some of these mayors ... have allowed or even encouraged lawlessness, flat-out lawlessness in their street," Scalise said during an…
| June 26, 2020 12:00 AM Among the allies urging the Trump campaign to change tack or risk defeat is someone who knows a thing or two about winning populist elections. Former White House chief strategist and Trump 2016 campaign chief Steve Bannon has raised the alarm this week over a faltering campaign, speaking out…
The 2020 presidential election will be a referendum on the country's commitment to "reform the police with Trump, or abolish the police with Democrats," Steve Hilton argued Sunday."My great fear is that because the Democrats have been shouting the loudest about justice and equality, people who support the right causes, equal opportunity for Americans of all races, will vote the wrong party," Hilton said on "The Next…
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…