If Trump pushes to have Russian President Vladmir Putin attend, it could be the poison pill that ensures the event won’t take place this year.
Category: Politics
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Mitch McConnell got ‘rich’ the old-fashioned way
An attack ad misleadingly suggests the Senate Majority Leader became wealthy through backroom deals in government service. Not so.
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Justice Department has a tool to make police forces better. It’s not using it.
Consent decrees can change not just policies, but also entrenched cultures that lead to police abuse.
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In Pennsylvania, officials prepare for coronavirus, civil unrest to disrupt Tuesday primary
Eight states plus the District will hold primaries Tuesday. Several have struggled with demand for absentee ballots and poll worker shortages.
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GOP looks beyond North Carolina for convention as relations deteriorate with state leaders
The GOP chair said Tuesday that the party has an “obligation” to look beyond North Carolina for its August convention. The governor said he can’t provide the “guarantee” Republican officials seek for a full arena, given the pandemic.
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Trump mobilizes military, threatens to use troops to quell protests across U.S.
Military police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a peaceful protest near the White House while the president delivered a Rose Garden address on Monday.
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The Energy 202: Green groups back protesters. But they’re grappling with how best to address their own issues with race.
“As a predominantly white organization, we have an obligation to be fully and visibly committed to the fight against systemic racism,” one group said.
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No surprise here: Republican senators largely stand by Trump after his church photo op
Even now, there isn’t much incentive for Republicans to depart from Trump
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Cities brace for another night of chaotic protests against police violence
An autopsy finds George Floyd’s cause of death was “asphyxiation from sustained pressure,” family lawyers say.
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Election officials contradict Barr’s assertion that counterfeit mail ballots produced by a foreign country are a ‘real’ worry
The attorney general said in an interview that “it’d be very hard” to stop foreign governments from submitting phony ballots. Election officials said it would be virtually impossible for such fraud to succeed.
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Barr personally ordered removal of protesters near White House, leading to use of force against largely peaceful crowd
The show of aggression by federal law enforcement officers, which came shortly before President Trump made an appearance at a church nearby, drew widespread condemnation.
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George Floyd’s death was a homicide, according to two autopsies
The county’s autopsy determined Floyd died of “cardiopulmonary arrest,” but a family-commissioned autopsy found he died of “asphyxiation from sustained pressure.”