Latest Stories By Miriam Valverde

During a 90-minute press conference led by Rudy Giuliani, lawyers representing President Donald Trump made their best case to overturn an election Trump lost to Joe Biden. Their case invoked the TV show “Law & Order,” the movie “My Cousin Vinny,” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Mickey Mouse, antifa, and the Philadelphia Eagles football team. Tying it […]

President Donald Trump says he and his administration’s Operation Warp Speed deserve credit for the promising news from biotech companies about vaccines to prevent COVID-19. Drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna announced that preliminary data for their vaccines show they are 95% and 94.5% effective, respectively, against COVID-19. The companies plan to request emergency-use authorization from the […]

The U.S. Senate race in Arizona is a contest between two military veterans who say they can get things done for Arizona despite the partisanship in Washington — an astronaut who is seeking elective office for the first time, and an appointed senator trying to win an election to keep her seat. The incumbent is […]

With Election Day getting closer, President Donald Trump is traveling from one swing state to the other making his last in-person pitch to voters. Trump frames the election through an economic angle, telling supporters that they have a choice between “a Trump super recovery” and “a Biden depression.” “If he gets in, you’re going to […]

President Donald Trump says that Americans are tired of COVID-19, the contagious disease that has killed more than 220,000 Americans. So he continues to hold in-person campaign rallies with large crowds and scolds those who urge safety precautions he doesn’t like. Trump’s grievances haven’t been limited to Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee who holds […]

According to President Donald Trump’s storyline, Joe Biden and his allies want to ban or destroy many things that matter to Americans, like health care protections, the Second Amendment and churches. “The radical left is hell bent on destroying everything we love and cherish,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Sanford, Fla., Oct 12, […]

It was supposed to be the second presidential debate. Instead, President Donald Trump refused a virtual debate and followed Joe Biden’s lead of doing a town hall on network television. NBC host Savannah Guthrie started the Trump town hall by trying to nail down his last negative test for the coronavirus. He said he couldn’t […]

A mega contact tracing effort is underway after President Donald Trump announced that he and his wife Melania both tested positive for the coronavirus. Contact tracing will determine who was around them and who potentially is also infected with the virus. The Sept. 29 debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is the highest profile […]

In the early morning hours after Donald Trump tweeted that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the coronavirus, misinformation about the president’s condition ballooned on social media. Facebook users falsely claimed that “The Simpsons” predicted Trump’s death. A screenshot of a fake fundraising plea from the Trump campaign circulated on Twitter. […]

On Sep. 23, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced that a grand jury wouldn’t charge Louisville police officers with killing Breonna Taylor.  Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman who was shot to death by police in her apartment, has become an icon of racial injustice, and the grief over the attorney general’s announcement sparked more protests […]

From an outdoor stage erected in the middle of a baseball field parking lot, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sept. 17 pitched himself to voters as a leader equipped to really look out for American workers. Biden took the spotlight in his birth state of Pennsylvania during a socially distant drive-in town hall event […]

In a Spanish-language ad, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden casts President Donald Trump as inept in his response to the coronavirus pandemic and void of a plan to control the virus. The 30-second ad, titled “Ignoró a los expertos” (“Ignored the experts” in English), features an image of Trump speaking at the White House and […]