Kamala Harris made history, and Obama made his own history by unloading on President Trump
Category: Politics
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Trump just validated a key Stormy Daniels affair allegation — by complaining about sharks
Speaking in Scranton, Pa., he repeated an anecdote that Daniels attributed to him in a previous interview.
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‘Family is my chittis’: Kamala Harris puts her Tamil roots on the prime-time stage like never before
The Tamil term of endearment, used for the younger sisters of one’s mother, was a small but significant way for Harris to acknowledge her family’s ethnicity.
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Steve Bannon charged with defrauding donors in private effort to raise money for Trump’s border wall
The president’s former chief strategist was arrested Thursday along with three others.
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Democratic convention live updates: Biden poised to accept nomination; Trump to stage event beforehand
Hours prior to Biden’s biggest speech of his long political career, Trump will travel to Pennsylvania to detail “a half century of Joe Biden failing America.”
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Disinformation campaign stokes fears about mail voting, using LeBron James image and boosted by Trump-aligned group
The deceptive operation on Facebook, drawing on tactics used by Russian actors in 2016, is promoted by FreedomWorks, which helped launch tea-party protests a decade ago.
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Calamari, Rhode Island’s controversial state appetizer, becomes an unexpected star of the DNC
The Rhode Island chef holding a plate of calamari wanted to show off his state’s seafood, he said, even if he isn’t sure he will vote for Biden in November.
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Postal Service blocked lawmakers from key evidence on DeJoy’s selection, Schumer says
The U.S. Postal Service blocked congressional lawmakers from interrogating the firm that helped select Louis DeJoy as the country’s postmaster general, prompting a sharp rebuke from Senate Democratic Leader Charles E.Schumer.
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Democratic convention live updates: Harris poised to accept historic nomination as vice president
Harris, who will be the first Black woman and the first Asian American to appear on a major-party ticket, is part of a two-hour schedule packed with other party luminaries — most of them women.
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McEnany: Trump will ‘see what happens’ before accepting the results of the election
The president’s willingness to dismiss the results depends on his lies about voter fraud.
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The four issues besides coronavirus that Democrats are hammering in their convention
Health care, yes, but also women’s rights, racial justice and gun control
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Trump demands restoration of ‘snapback’ sanctions on Iran
The U.S. argues that even though it has left the nuclear deal, it retains the right as an original “JCPOA participant” to trigger the “snapback” of sanctions over any issue that violates the agreement.
