Having contributed to another national cleavage over racial justice, a president who was elected to lead the nation through crises effectively retreated from the responsibility of doing so on this one.At the same time, Trump on Friday abdicated the traditional role of an American president abroad, ceding global leadership by announcing that he was “terminating”…
(CNN)A House vote to reauthorize national security surveillance authorities that have been expired since March was thrown into doubt on Wednesday following a tweet from President Donald Trump urging …
As Americans were engaged in the solemnly observing Memorial Day in the last weekend of May 2020, amidst the financial and social hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media users circulated a purported tweet from President Donald Trump (complete with spelling errors) in which he supposedly compared his personal sacrifices to those of service members…
April 21, 2020 | 11:01am | Updated April 21, 2020 | 11:54am A video mocking former President Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden tweeted out by President Trump quickly racked up more views than Obama’s original tweet in support of the former vice president. The meme on Trump’s Twitter account drew 10.3 million viewers within…
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…