Pence and Harris prep for a debate with suddenly higher stakes
WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris are expected to take the debate stage Wednesday night against an extraordinary backdrop that has raised the stakes of an event that for decades has been a routine, inconsequential fixture of presidential elections. No vice...
Trump’s allies defend drive-by as doctors consider hospital discharge
President Donald Trump was up and tweeting Monday morning as his doctors prepare to evaluate him and weigh whether he should be discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The president’s allies, meanwhile, defended his drive-by outside the hospital late Sunday afternoon. Trump briefly...
He may have survived Covid-19 twice. His symptoms were different
Covid-19 first struck Jordan Josey around St. Patrick’s Day, right as social distancing guidelines were rolling out across the country. The 29-year-old lawyer from Macon, Georgia, was sick through Easter, before eventually clearing the coronavirus, developing antibodies and gradually building up his stamina again by...
White House press secretary tests positive for coronavirus
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has tested positive for Covid-19, she tweeted in a statement Monday morning. McEnany emphasized that she had previously tested negatively “consistently” and is experiencing no symptoms. McEnany is the latest White House staffer to test positive for the virus,...
Experts are warning of a coming surge of Covid-19 cases in US
he US could see an explosion of Covid-19 cases as fall and winter set in, one expert says, joining a chorus of health officials who have warned about the challenges of the coming months. Two things will likely help drive that expected winter surge, according...
WHAT DEMS CAN DO TO DELAY AND DERAIL
President Donald Trump on Saturday announced Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Now Democrats have less than 40 days to try to stop her appointment before the Nov. 3 election. Trump has...
Biden says Senate should not act on Trump’s Supreme Court nomination until after election
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Saturday said the Senate should not act on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court until after “the American people select their next president and the next Congress.” “Supreme Court decisions affect our everyday lives, and the...
Breonna Taylor updates: Louisville protesters disperse, car burned
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hundreds of people who took to the streets of Louisville on Saturday ran to churches and other indoor spaces as curfew fell across the city on the fourth night of nationwide protests after a grand jury did not indict three police officers...
Trump picks Barrett as he moves to tilt U.S. Supreme Court rightward
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and she pledged to become a justice in the mold of the late staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, setting another milestone in Trump’s rightward shift of the top U.S. judicial...
Trump signals to supporters how to react if Biden wins
President Donald Trump’s refusal on Wednesday to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power if he loses to Joe Biden in November is leading America towards a dark place during a year of incendiary political tensions. Trump’s intransigence, included in his latest assault on perfectly legitimate...
HOW LOUISVILLE CAN STILL GET JUSTICE
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday that a grand jury decided against murder charges for three Louisville Metro Police Department officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, in her home. After more than 100 days of protests since the March...
McConnell, other Republicans split with Trump on peaceful transfer of power
The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792,” McConnell wrote in a tweet. Several other lawmakers came out strongly in favor of a peaceful...
Trump says he might reject stricter FDA vaccine guidelines
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the White House may not approve tougher FDA guidelines for authorizing the emergency use of any coronavirus vaccines. “That has to be approved by the White House,” Trump said. “We may or may not approve it.” Trump also suggested...
Judge’s faith becomes early flashpoint in Supreme Court fight
Before President Donald Trump has even announced his Supreme Court pick, conservatives are fighting to make the conservative Christian views of one of the leading contenders, 7th Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, off-limits in any potential confirmation hearing. Some critics of Barrett are invoking “The...
Breonna Taylor Protesters March Down Highway in Milwaukee
Protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, marched down a highway and blocked traffic on Wednesday night following the announcement of no murder charges against Louisville officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. Video footage published by SV News appears to show protesters marching in Milwaukee...
Biden campaign retires for the day at 9 a.m. as election looms
He’s giving a whole new meaning to “Morning Joe.” With just 40 days until the presidential election, Joe Biden’s campaign called a lid at the early hour of 9 a.m. on Thursday — meaning the Democratic nominee won’t be holding any public events for the...
Major player in NYC mayoral race has already dropped out
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has ended his bid for mayor — saying he is doing so to focus on the city and his own mental health issues. The decision, which followed a rough summer for the speaker, was announced in a statement Thursday. “It...
Trump booed while visiting Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s casket at Supreme Court
President Donald Trump was loudly booed by members of the public on Thursday while visiting the casket of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has been lying in repose outside the Supreme Court. Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, stood behind the court’s massive columns...
McConnell pushes back at Trump’s refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power
While not mentioning him by name, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday morning pushed back on President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election. McConnell tweeted, “The winner of the November 3rd election will be...
Staying away from NYC, Trump praises ‘true heroes’ of Flight 93 in 9/11 speech from Shanksville
President Trump marked Friday’s 19th anniversary of 9/11 by visiting the rural Pennsylvania field where Flight 93 crashed, as most of the nation’s other prominent politicians gathered in New York City to remember and honor the victims of the worst terror attack in American history....
Six months after pandemic was declared, a look inside the vaccine race
March 16: Seattle, Washington Worldwide: 183,677 confirmed cases, 7,153 deaths US: 4,354 confirmed cases, 97 deaths SOURCE: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY The patient’s shoulder was exposed. A syringe quickly injected the candidate vaccine, mRNA-1273, developed by Moderna and the federal government. The vaccine, like others, takes...
Minorities lacking in vaccine trials, despite being hit hardest
A new study released on COVID-19 research and clinical trials found in all cases that African Americans are underrepresented, despite being disproportionately affected by the virus. While some blame it on mistrust in the health care system, the doctor who performed the study said outreach...
NYT Reporter Booted From Trump Rally After Posting About Maskless Attendees
A reporter for The New York Times was kicked out of a rally for President Donald Trump in Freeland, Michigan, on Thursday after noting on social media that many of the president’s supporters were not wearing masks or keeping their distance despite the COVID-19 pandemic....
Wildfire north of Sacramento is now the largest in California history
California has never before seen a fire as large as the one burning now on federal land north of Sacramento. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, on Thursday put the August Complex Fire in Mendocino National Forest atop its list...
Trump is finding it all but impossible to change the subject away from coronavirus
(CNN)President Donald Trump is now not just downplaying the coronavirus — he’s resorting to absurd historical allusions about great World War II leaders to try to disguise his culpability in 190,000 American deaths. Trump ridiculously invoked the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the...
Why experts are concerned about India’s low death toll
The country of 1.3 billion people has the second-highest number of cases globally (more than 4.4 million), and the third highest number of deaths (over 75,000), according to Johns Hopkins University — and the outbreak shows no sign of abating. But India’s reported mortality rate...
China test fires so-called ‘carrier killer’ missiles into South China Sea
Hong Kong (CNN)China launched a series of ballistic missiles into the South China Sea this week, according to United States defense officials, part of a flurry of military exercises extending thousands of miles along the country’s coastline, as tensions with Washington over the disputed waterway...
March on Washington: ‘We have only just begun to fight’
Fifty-seven years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, a new generation of leaders in the racial justice movement spoke at the same spot on Friday and committed themselves anew to pursuing King’s vision....
Trump attacks Biden, Democratic leaders at rally, says DC police took ‘tremendous abuse’
President Trump jumped right into his rally Friday by blaming Democrats, first for harassment aimed at attendees of his White House nomination acceptance speech the night before, then at opponent Joe Biden. “The mayor should be ashamed for that kind of display of incompetence,” Trump...
Donald Trump’s Speech Offers a Blueprint For His Campaign
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. With the Republican National Convention now under our belts, it’s pretty clear which themes President Donald Trump plans to...