US President Donald Trump (Getty Images) After hours of widespread backlash, the president finally deleted the tweet Tom Boggioni June 28, 2020 3:50PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on Raw Story Donald Trump saw fit on Sunday morning to retweet a viral video of fans of his in the Villages in Florida driving in golf…
President Trump, confronted with a damaging report that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and allied troops in Afghanistan, declared Sunday on Twitter that he was never briefed about the finding by U.S. intelligence.Democrats including Trump’s prospective presidential rival, Joe Biden, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized Trump’s seeming indifference to…
Former Vice President Joe Biden and former Guam Gov. Eddie Baza Calvo, a President Donald Trump campaign surrogate, participated in a digital presidential town hall Saturday focusing on Asian American and Pacific Islander issues.Biden and Calvo offered strikingly different perspectives on the issues facing the AAPI community in the United States. Both campaigns addressed topics…
President Trump is beating Joseph R. Biden in voter enthusiasm, and media-sponsored polls that show the Democrat with a big lead are flawed and wrong, a top Trump campaign official said Sunday. With a little more than four months to go before Election Day, Trump deputy campaign manager Bill Stepien said in a memo that…
5.00pm EDT 17:00 We’re closing down the blog now. Here’s a round-up of today’s main events: Trump deletes tweet of supporter shouting ‘white power’ after outrage. Deputy press secretary claims Trump had not heard the racist language of video he tweeted that was posted for nearly four hours US health secretary: ‘Window is closing’ to…
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…