Voters pressed President Donald Trump on his response to the coronavirus, racial tensions and health care at an ABC News town hall in Philadelphia. Trump deflected criticism of how he has handled the pandemic. Even as the death toll — about 200,000 — moves toward the higher end of initial forecasts, Trump said he took […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden evokes President Donald Trump’s response to violence in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 as the catalyst for his decision to run for president. After clashes in Charlottesville between white supremacists and counter-protesters, Trump “assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And […]
The first time Joe Biden appeared with his pick for vice president, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, he said that a Biden-Harris administration would aggressively fight COVID-19. Trump on the other hand, Biden claimed, has been golfing and unwilling to lead or take responsibility. “We have an economic crisis and more than 16 million Americans — […]
President Donald Trump is distancing himself from a private border wall project after federal prosecutors allege that some of those involved defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors and used the money on lavish purchases and personal expenses. “I know nothing about the project other than I didn’t like when I read about it, I didn’t […]
Joe Biden picked U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris to run as vice president on the Democratic ticket against President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, announced his decision Aug. 11. “I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, […]
As Republicans and Democrats in Congress debate what should be included in new legislation to counter the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, many Americans are wondering whether a new stimulus check will be part of the deal. And if it will be, when will it arrive, and how much will it offer? Negotiations are still […]
U.S. Attorney General William Barr battled Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee as they questioned him over the administration’s response to the coronavirus, election security, excessive use of force in policing, and his conversations with President Donald Trump. Throughout the five-hour hearing, Democrats and Barr interrupted one another with frustration and disappointment. Republicans on […]
Donald Trump entered the White House promising tough enforcement of immigration laws and a southern border wall to stop illegal crossings. He said he’d work with Congress to pass laws that accomplished his priorities. But it didn’t work out exactly as he envisioned. During Trump’s presidency, Congress has not passed any bill to revamp the […]
President Donald Trump listed scores of what he called “extreme” recommendations that emerged from weeks of meetings between advisers to Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and Sanders, the leading voice for the most progressive Democrats, released a sweeping 110-page document covering platform positions on immigration, health care, climate […]
Politicians and the American public seem to agree that immigrants known as “Dreamers” should be given a chance to stay in the country permanently and legally. For nearly two decades, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have crafted versions of legislation that would offer immigrants who came here as children a path to U.S. citizenship. Presidents […]
President Donald Trump in a Fox News interview criticized local officials who he believes have lost control of protesters, defended his controversial tweet that evoked use of excessive force by police and stood by his decision to stage a Bible-hoisting photo op at a church in Washington, D.C. Host Harris Faulkner told Trump he frightened […]
For more than a week, Americans across the country have been out on the streets calling for justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Activists protesting police brutality and racial discrimination are now raising specific demands they want communities […]