NEW YORK • President Donald Trump’s refusal to hold a virtual town hall debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden after his hospitalisation for the coronavirus has created one of the stranger events of the 2020 campaign – two town halls, each featuring a candidate, before different audiences in different cities at the same time. […]
MEXICO CITY — A former Mexican defense minister was arrested on Thursday night after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport with his family, according to the Mexican government, becoming the first high-ranking military official to be taken into custody in the United States in connection with drug-related corruption in his country. The former official, Gen. […]
MEXICO CITY — A former Mexican defense minister was arrested on Thursday night after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport with his family, according to the Mexican government, becoming the first high-ranking military official to be taken into custody in the United States in connection with drug-related corruption in his country. The former official, Gen. […]
Savannah Guthrie spent most of the NBC News town hall tearing into President Trump with a series of quick-paced, conversational questions that managed to put the president on the spot and successfully reveal his evasions in a way that few of his interlocutors have managed. Ms. Guthrie asked the president simple questions that one might […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A former fundraiser for US President Donald Trump is expected to plead guilty next week to charges of illegally lobbying Trump to drop an investigation into a massive Malaysian embezzlement scandal, according to court documents filed Thursday (Oct 15). The former fundraiser, Elliot Broidy, is due in federal court in Washington, DC, […]
There are still people who remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg not just as a Supreme Court justice and champion of women’s rights, but as a Brooklyn native who grew up in Flatbush, attended the Hebrew school at the East Midwood Jewish Center and graduated from James Madison High School in 1950. Now, nearly a month after […]
Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, berated President Trump in a telephone town hall with constituents on Wednesday, accusing the president of cozying up to dictators and white supremacists, mistreating women and United States allies, and failing to adequately confront the coronavirus pandemic. “I don’t think the way he’s led through Covid has been reasonable […]
An illegal Sweet 16 birthday party in the US turned into a “super-spreader event” and has been linked to at least 37 cases of coronavirus, authorities say. The party was held in Long Island, New York, on 25 September and was attended by 81 people. Some 29 of them have since tested positive for COVID-19. Seven of their […]
A legislator in New Hampshire called it constricting. A Michigan man said it messed up his look. A sailor in Massachusetts argued the government has no right to force him to wear it. Though they might sound familiar, those were not the refrains of people rebelling against face masks during the pandemic. Instead, they came […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Four years ago, United States President Donald Trump rode a wave of late-deciding voters to a shocking election victory. But those voters are unlikely to rescue him again, new Reuters/Ipsos polling shows. With less than three weeks to go until the Nov 3 vote, and Republican Trump trailing his Democratic rival Joe […]