Category: Politics

The Minnesota senator and potential vice presidential pick for Joe Biden addressed her record, lessons she’s learned and what she thinks has to happen next.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers see the same events noticeably differently.

One huge facility, built after 9/11, remains an object of speculation.

The Republican National Committee and allied groups plan to spend tens of millions of dollars fighting efforts to loosen mail-balloting rules amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“He has to meet the moment,” one African American pollster said.

The Minnesota senator and potential vice presidential pick for Joe Biden addressed her record, lessons she’s learned and what she thinks has to happen next.

The president, in consultation with some aides, decided not to give a speech Sunday about the violent protests over what many see as systemic racial injustice by law enforcement.

In this edition: Why the fire’s different this time, what the Libertarian Party has to say about the riots and the virus, and a new poll that shows why the president is an underdog.

In increasingly urgent terms, demonstrators called for an end to violence against black Americans.

Facing in the virus an enemy he could not tweet into submission, the president was desperate to change the subject, from pressing bogus conspiracy theories to inflaming tensions over the death of George Floyd.

The pandemic, the economic collapse, the killing of George Floyd and the cities aflame — all are battering the country with pain and destruction.