President Trump’s national security adviser on Friday repeated his claim that the United States would cut its troop strength in Afghanistan to 2,500 by early next year, rebutting comments from the nation’s top military officer that this represented “speculation.” In webcast comments to the Aspen Institute, Robert O’Brien added that Trump’s recent tweet about bringing […]
With just under three weeks until Election Day, the crucial swing state of Wisconsin is showing an alarming rate of COVID-19 cases, according to an internal government report. The Oct. 11 document from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services indicates a large majority of Wisconsin’s 72 counties are […]
Joe Biden bested Donald Trump on Thursday night in a category sure to grab the president’s attention: television ratings. Figures released Friday from Nielsen show that Biden’s town hall on ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers, while Trump’s averaged 10.6 million on NBC. But even when viewership figures are added for MSNBC and CNBC, cable networks […]
The due date for the birth of Deja Stallings’s first child, a girl she will be naming Dsyre, is Oct. 19. But Stallings says that her unborn child has already been the victim of police brutality, after the pregnant Black woman was thrown to the ground two weeks ago and held with a knee to […]
President Trump “attempts to hijack our faith for votes,” the writer Jerusha Duford — Billy Graham’s granddaughter — said Thursday in a Zoom call sponsored by one of a growing number of evangelical groups that have formed to encourage Christians to vote for Joe Biden. Trump’s “attempts to hijack our faith for votes, and evangelical […]
Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference at the White House on Sept. 27. Getty Images President Donald Trump was told last year by U.S. intelligence officials that his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, had been targeted by a Russian intelligence influence operation, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Citing four unnamed former officials, the Post reported […]
Twitter also suffered an outage Thursday. AFP/Getty Images Twitter Inc. will change its hacked materials policy after causing an uproar Wednesday by blocking an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Hunter Biden. That caused a cry of outrage from conservatives, who claimed Twitter TWTR, +0.10% was biased and censoring the article. In a series of […]
Joe Biden kept up his attacks on President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as the Democratic presidential nominee at a town hall on Thursday night also addressed packing the Supreme Court. “The words of a president matter,” Biden said during the event in Philadelphia that was hosted by ABC News. “When a president […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content]President Donald Trump used a Florida town-hall meeting Thursday night to call for a middle-class tax cut if he’s re-elected, appealing to voters’ pocketbooks as he lags his rival Joe Biden in Sunshine State polls.
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images Twitter Inc. shares were little changed in after-hours trading Thursday as the social-media platform experienced a massive and as-yet-unexplained outage. Twitter’s feed went down around 5:30 p.m. Eastern, with users unable to post new tweets or see anything posted past that time. Service was restored for most users […]