AUGUST 18, 2020
During her career teaching at the Communist Party’s top academy, Cai Xia cheered on signs that China’s leaders might ease their political grip, making her an uncommonly prominent voice for democratic change near the heart of the party.
Now Cai has turned her back on such hopes, and the party has turned against her. She has become the...
AUGUST 18, 2020
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is escorted into court for his arraignment in June. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo)
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released its fifth and final report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and the notably bipartisan report raises plenty of new questions about that effort’s links to the Trump campaign.
The report, like...
AUGUST 18, 2020
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. - Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday credited public pressure for spurring Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's decision to roll back reforms at the U.S. Postal Service that prompted fears of election interference.
The news that the Postal Service was suspending its “operational initiatives” broke moments before Pelosi’s interview with POLITICO...
AUGUST 18, 2020
Nancy Pelosi - Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated that Democrats might cut their stimulus proposal to seal a deal with Republicans and speed Covid-19 relief, then come back after the November elections with additional agenda items.
Pelosi said she doesn’t want to wait until the end of September when Congress will be attempting to pass a...
AUGUST 18, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican and Democratic chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis to federal prosecutors in 2019, passing along their suspicions that the men may have misled the committee during their testimony, an official familiar with the matter told NBC...
AUGUST 18, 2020
President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Group of 20 summit in Japan last year. - Erin Schaff/NY Times
A Republican-controlled Senate panel that has spent three years investigating Russia’s 2016 election interference and possible ties to the Trump campaign released its final, sprawling report on Tuesday, drawing to a close one of the...
AUGUST 18, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 17: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he leaves the White House for a trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin August 17, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump said he may travel to Iowa to survey damage from last week's powerful storms and that a memorial service will be held at the White...
AUGUST 18, 2020
Miles Taylor called himself the "opening salvo" on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Miles Taylor accompanies Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen during a trip to Honduras to meet with President Juan Hernandez and security ministers in Tegycugalpa, Honduras, March 27, 2018. - Dept. of Homeland Security/Flickr.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff at the Department of...
AUGUST 17, 2020
Democrats plan to use the first night of their virtual convention to preview their general-election argument against President Trump, criticizing his response to the coronavirus pandemic and handling of recent protests against police, excerpts of Monday’s speeches show.
The four-day, mostly virtual event comes as former Vice President Joe Biden—who is expected to be formally nominated this week...
AUGUST 17, 2020
In this January 27, 2019, file photo, Sen. Kamala Harris launches her own campaign for president at a rally in her hometown of Oakland, California. - Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters
Presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris has chosen "Pioneer" as her Secret Service code name, a law enforcement official told CNN on Monday.
Harris was put under Secret Service protection...
