For the first time in modern history, the vote by 336 delegates in North Carolina on August 24 will be held privately. The Republican Party vote to nominate President Donald Trump will be conducted in private later this month, without members of the press present, a spokeswoman for the party’s …
Read More »Analysis | Donald Trump Needs Florida. Does Florida Still Want Trump?
Donald Trump needs Florida. The purple state has voted for the winner in all but one presidential election since 1964, and no Republican has won the presidency without Florida in nearly 100 years. Trump won the battleground state by about 112,000 votes in 2016. Now several recent major polls show …
Read More »Chicago homicides and shootings rise sharply in 2020
Homicides and shootings have surged in Chicago during the first seven months of the year. From Jan. 1 through the end of July, there were 440 homicides in Chicago and 2,240 people shot, including many of those who were killed, according to statistics released Saturday by the police department. There …
Read More »WATCH Portland protesters burn Bible & flag
Demonstrators in Portland set Bibles and US flags on fire amid protests that have spanned nearly 2 months. The day before, protesters torched a pig’s head with police clothing. Footage published news media shows a group of protesters on Friday night gathered around a burning Bible, with several individuals mockingly …
Read More »Pelosi: Trump trying ‘to suppress the vote’
US President Donald Trump’s attacks on voting by mail during the coronavirus crisis and his suggestion to delay the November presidential election are part of an effort to sow confusion and suppress voter turnout, according to Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. “The reason he does it …
Read More »TikTok’s Chinese owner offered to sell the app’s US operations to avoid being banned in the United States
China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app, two people familiar with the matter said on Saturday. U.S. officials …
Read More »Video resurfaces of Trump struggling to vote in person in 2004 as he ramps up attacks on mail-in voting
Video of then-businessman Donald Trump struggling to vote in-person before declaring he would fill out an absentee ballot in 2004 has resurfaced this week amid a new round of unfounded attacks on mail-in voting from the President. The “Access Hollywood” segment, filmed as Trump was attempting to vote in the …
Read More »Trump in trouble as nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of his handling of COVID-19, protests, Russia: POLL
Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of three major challenges facing the country — the coronavirus pandemic, nationwide unrest over racial inequality and relations with Russia — in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, a sign of the obstacles that his reelection bid faces just three months …
Read More »Feds won’t leave Portland ‘until there is safety’: Trump rejects Oregon governor’s claim that ‘occupying force’ is leaving city
Less than a day after Oregon’s governor claimed federal agents would leave Portland and let local officials handle Black Lives Matter protesters, President Donald Trump said they are going nowhere until things are under control. In a Thursday morning tweet, Trump said Governor Kate Brown “isn’t doing her job” and …
Read More »Trump suggests delaying November election
In a remarkable move by a sitting president, US President Donald Trump for the first time Thursday morning suggested delaying the presidential election over his persistent false attacks that mail-in voting would lead to the “most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history.” “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which …
Read More »Federal agents fire tear gas at Portland protesters after Oregon Gov. says they’re leaving (Videos)
Federal agents in Portland tear-gassed and kettled protesters on Wednesday night, hours after Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said the Trump administration had agreed to withdraw federal forces from the city. Around 500 people arrived in downtown Portland for a 63rd consecutive night of protests after Brown’s announcement, The Oregonian reported. …
Read More »Why Trump’s tough-on-crime message is not breaking through in suburban America
As President Donald Trump’s support in the U.S. suburbs erodes amid concerns about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, he has returned to a familiar campaign theme: trying to scare voters away from backing Democrat Joe Biden in November. From deploying federal agents to confront protesters in cities such as …
Read More »US agents in Portland to pull back, but tensions remain
The Trump administration and Oregon leaders declared victory after it was announced that U.S. agents guarding a federal courthouse during violent demonstrations in Portland will pull back, but it wasn’t clear the agreement will reduce tensions that have led to more than two months of protests. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown …
Read More »Trump once again defends using unproven hydroxychloroquine as covid-19 cure
US President Donald Trump has once again defended his decision to promote using an anti-Malaria drug, called hydroxychloroquine, as a treatment for covid-19. On Tuesday, the EU agreed to a proposal made by France and Germany to restrict the export of technology to Hong Kong that might be used for …
Read More »Watchdog accuses Trump campaign of hiding $170m in spending
US President Donald Trump’s re-election effort allegedly hid nearly $170m in spending from mandatory public disclosure by routing payments through companies tied to his former campaign manager, a government oversight group claimed on Tuesday. The use of firms linked to former campaign manager Brad Parscale masked the ultimate recipients of …
Read More »Barr testifies Portland protests have been ‘hijacked,’ defends federal response
“In the wake of George Floyd’s death, violent rioters and anarchists have hijacked legitimate protests to wreak senseless havoc and destruction on innocent victims,” Barr said. Attorney General William Barr faced a grilling from Democrats at a contentious congressional hearing Tuesday as he spoke about the protests following George Floyd’s …
Read More »Trump administration to undertake DACA review in new bid to end program
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration plans to allow so-called ‘Dreamer’ immigrants to renew deportation protections for a year while it reviews a Supreme Court ruling, a senior administration official said on Tuesday. The administration is preparing a fresh attempt to end the program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands …
Read More »Twitter limits Donald Trump Jr’s account over COVID-19 video
Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had reined in access to Donald Trump Jr’s account for 12 hours because a tweet he had posted violated the social media site’s misinformation policy on COVID-19. The eldest son of U.S. President Donald Trump had posted a video on Monday of doctors talking …
Read More »Six US mayors urge Congress to block Trump federal deployment
Six U.S. mayors, all Democrats, urged Congress on Monday to halt President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal forces to their cities, saying the move has escalated tensions at anti-racism protests spreading across the country. The request came on the same day the U.S. attorney for Oregon announced the arrest of …
Read More »Eight in 10 Americans believe country headed in wrong direction: Poll
More Americans view negatively the direction of their country than at any point during Republican Donald Trump’s tenure as president, a new poll shows. According to the poll from the Associated Press and the NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research, almost eight in 10 Americans believe the country is going …
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