AUGUST 21, 2020
Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state and ally of President Trump, said in a 2019 interview that he'd spoken with Trump three times about the private border wall construction effort that is now at the heart of a federal fraud investigation.
Kobach said on an episode of the "We Build The Wall" show in May 2019...
AUGUST 21, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hillary Clinton expressed exasperation Friday with Republicans she previously worked with who have refused to stand up to President Donald Trump and have instead remained silent.
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Clinton was asked how she feels about her former GOP colleagues with whom she served in the Senate in the early 2000s...
AUGUST 20, 2020
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - AUGUST 20: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks on the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center on August 20, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. The convention, which was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is now taking place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Win...
AUGUST 20, 2020
n her vice presidential acceptance speech Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Kamala Harris of California acknowledged her husband, her children, her sister, her nieces, her godchildren, her uncles and her "chitthis." And it's her use of the Tamil word for "aunts" that created an emotional stir on social media.
Many praised Harris' use of "chitthi,"...
AUGUST 20, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo participates in a press briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. Secretary Pompeo and Secretary Mnuchin held the press briefing to discuss the new sanctions against Iranian officials. - Alex Wong/Getty Images
The Trump administration was left isolated on...
AUGUST 20, 2020
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 06: Steve Bannon speaks during a Taskforce session at 2019 New York Times Dealbook on November 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times)
Two months ago, Attorney General William P. Barr launched a hasty, questionable and haphazard effort to get rid of...
AUGUST 20, 2020
BERLIN, GERMANY - An ambulance aircraft with a team specialized in treating coma patients is due to leave Germany to pick up stricken Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on Thursday evening, the Berlin-based Cinema for Peace Foundation said.
Navalny was taken ill earlier on Thursday with suspected poisoning and is currently in a coma in a hospital in the...
AUGUST 20, 2020
The number of new U.S. coronavirus cases edged up to more than 46,000, while countries including India and South Korea faced a rise in new infections.
Total U.S. coronavirus cases passed 5.5 million—just under a quarter of the global tally—as the nation’s death toll topped 173,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins’s data showed California...
AUGUST 20, 2020
US President Donald Trump is fighting a subpoena to turn his financial records over to a grand jury in New York. - Brendan Smialowski
A US federal judge rejected on Thursday President Donald Trump's effort to block the release of his financial records subpoenaed by a New York grand jury in a case focused on hush money...
AUGUST 20, 2020
A mailbox stands in Fox Point, Wis., on Aug. 18, 2020. Facing public pressure and state lawsuits, the Postmaster general announced Tuesday he is halting some operational changes until after the November election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
This week, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pulled back on a host of cost-saving measures at the U.S. Postal Service after a...
