Update by Kos: Clearly sensing the damage this is doing to him politically, Trump issued a three-tweet denial Thursday night.
..Country, had to be approved by me, as President, & I did so without hesitation or complaint. Quite the contrary, I felt it was well deserved. I even sent Air Force One to bring his body, in casket, from Arizona to Washington. It was my honor to do so. Also, I never called..— Donald J.
Charles McMillon Jr., his 10-year-old son, and Kendrick Clemons had just dropped off a U-Haul van at Fountain Plaza parking lot, in Tallahassee, Florida, when suddenly bullets began whizzing around them. McMillon and the two others were reportedly sitting in the truck, typing in mileage onto the app, the way rentals like this work, when Wallace Fountain and his wife, Beverly Fountain, began shooting at them. Luckily, McMillon quickly drove off before anyone got hurt.
More than two months after he was shot five times in the back by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the family of 18-year-old Andrés Guardado has filed a wrongful death suit against the county, the sheriff’s department, and deputies Miguel Vega and partner Chris Hernandez, alleging they “not only used unreasonable and excessive force in fatally shooting the young man but were possibly acting in connection and in agreement with member
Facebook, the gargantuan and nation-bending social media behemoth, today announced a collection of new actions intended to make it look Slightly Less Bad in the final weeks of the 2020 elections. Facebook has been harshly criticized as one of the top venues, in any medium, for fake news and propaganda dissemination from political campaigns, from professional hoaxers seeking quick advertising revenue, and from your own particularly gullible relatives.
Happy almost-Labor Day!
I know we’re all anxious to get on with our holiday weekend (for those lucky enough to get to enjoy it), so I’m going to get right to the point.
Two months from today, Democrats across the country have their very last chance to prevent Republicans from controlling the next round of redistricting.
In most states, the legislators elected in November will play a role in drawing congressional and state legislative district lines.
The president allegedly made the comments in France in 2018 while speaking to his staff about U.S. service members who’d died in World War I.
This scandal has no winners.
A total of 14 states and New York City supplied POLITICO contact tracing results showing widespread public reluctance to participate in disease tracking.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTYThe president disparaged Americans who died in war as “losers” and “suckers,” multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
Yet again, Trump officials are using deceptively altered imagery to attack the former vice president.
The attorney general claimed not to know whether it’s legal for Americans to try to vote twice. The California lawmaker offered facetious help.
This week, NBC’s Peacock Channel will begin streaming the feature-length documentary A Most Beautiful Thing. A trailer of the film is on Vimeo here, and the main site for the project is here. I saw a preview version last week and recommend it. The film’s story would be surprising and engrossing at any time, but it has a current power and relevance its producers could not have foreseen when they began making it.
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
It didn’t have to be this way.
Plus, getting a clingy preteen off your back.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the first lady’s longtime confidant, has written a book full of allegations about the president’s wife.
Alex Azar’s remarks come as three vaccine candidates have entered late-stage Phase 3 clinical trials.
To have a job without a workplace, you must build an office of the mind. Structure, routine, focus, socialization, networking, stress relief—their creation is almost entirely up to you, alone in a spare bedroom or on your couch, where your laptop might vie for attention at any given moment with your pets or kids. If the coffeepot runs dry, there is no one to blame but yourself.The first time I undertook this construction process was in 2009, and it was an abject failure.
As Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden heads to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to meet with the family of Jacob Blake, we speak with Congressmember Mark Pocan, who was born and raised in Kenosha. “Clearly, what happened — someone shot in the back seven times, close range, in front of their children, by the police — was another example of the policing problem we have in this country,” Pocan says.
Mass protests entered their fourth week in Belarus to demand the ouster of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who claimed victory in the country’s August 9 election that critics say was rigged. But Lukashenko shows no sign of backing down, and authorities have responded to protests with violence and arrests. Sadakat Kadri, a human rights lawyer and writer, says Russian President Vladimir Putin is invested in keeping Lukashenko in power.
The top commander at Fort Hood is removed from his post, and the U.S. Army has launched an investigation, after a series of murders and accusations of sexual abuse at the base, with 23 deaths at Fort Hood this year and 13 soldiers disappeared, killed or who died by suicide. In April, the remains of soldier Vanessa Guillén were found near the base, and the main suspect in that case killed himself in July shortly after he was accused of her murder.
I want her to challenge herself, even a little.
She blew up at me when I asked her to hook me up with her “friends.
Think CSI, but with birth charts instead of fingerprints.
It won’t exactly be an October surprise, but it could still be a shock: a wave of business failures hitting during the campaign season.
If they want to meaningfully expand coverage, they should boot Rep. Richard Neal.
It’s a surprisingly principled stand by a multibillionaire.
AstraZeneca announced Monday its vaccine candidate has entered the final testing stage in the U.S.
The proposed communications contract comes as the agency faces growing questions about its independence from the Trump White House.
