The White House ordered the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday to extend farm bailout aid to the U.S. lobster industry, which has suffered under strained trade relations with China and tit-for-tat tariffs that significantly reduced exports to one of its biggest foreign markets.The order, signed by President Trump on Wednesday, comes weeks after a group…
A white female protester was filmed yelling in the faces of two black male police officers in Washington, D.C., Tuesday in a viral video that has been viewed more than 2.1 million times, telling them that "they're a part of the problem."The video was tweeted by Henry Rodgers, a senior congressional correspondent for The Daily Caller, who has been…
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Published 7:34 a.m. ET June 24, 2020 CLOSE President Donald Trump spoke to an enthusiastic audience of hundreds of young conservatives at a Phoenix church on Monday. His address was full of typical Trump lines including ridicule of his likely Democratic presidential opponent Joe Biden. (June 23) AP DomesticWASHINGTON – The…
White House deputy press secretary J. Hogan Gidley is moving over to President Trump’s reelection campaign team to serve as a top spokesman, campaign officials said Tuesday. The president himself hinted at the move Tuesday, mentioning Mr. Gidley when asked by reporters whether he planned any changes in his campaign team. Mr. Trump later called…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has not directed any slowdown in coronavirus testing and does not regret using the term “kung flu,” which many consider to be offensive, to describe the virus, the White House said on Monday. The Republican president said at a political rally in Oklahoma on Saturday that he had directed…
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…