“I say he [Trump] basically did a full hostile takeover of the Republican Party. And I don't think it's even as much about the issues. I think it's about the attitude.” — Jared Kushner, April 18, 2020.
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Editorial: Please don’t mail your ballots now. Drop them off instead. It’s the only way to be sure they’ll get there in time.
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country 'back from the doctors'. “Trump's now back in charge. It's not the doctors." Calling political parties a "collection of tribes," Kushner dismissed GOP activists who help craft the party's platform of policy ideas and aspirations as out of touch with regular voters. "You know, parties as they grow tend to be more about being exclusive than inclusive," Kushner mused. "And so, you know, you look at, like, the Republican Party platform, it's a document meant to, like, piss people off basically. Because it's done by activists."
Trump's unhappy warrior pitch to voters includes insults and highly specific grievances. -- Seriously. How does anyone continue to support him when he insults them and their community? When he makes it so blatantly clear that he doesn’t want to be there with them? He literally despises the people who make up his base.
The Supreme Court refused Wednesday to take another look on a lightning-fast track at the issue of late-arriving mail ballots in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, leaving intact a lower court ruling that said the state must count ballots that arrive up to three days after the election.
North Carolina can count votes received 9 days after Election Day, Supreme Court says.
Republican former U.S. attorneys endorse Biden, call Trump threat to rule of law.
USPS mail delivery is getting worse, putting ballots at risk. — Drop off ballots. Don’t mail them.
Millions of mail ballots not yet returned in key states. Just days before the presidential election, millions of mail ballots have yet to be returned in key battleground states, and election officials warn that time is running out for voters who want to avoid a polling place on Election Day.
Trump wants credit for 'fastest GDP growth in history.' Here's a reality check. But the reality is more complicated. The economy was recovering from a 31.4 percent drop in the previous quarter, the worst decline ever recorded, amid mass stay-at-home orders. And experts say the path to fully making up the losses is rocky — particularly with coronavirus case numbers rising faster than ever before in the U.S. and a lack of a stimulus package.
The anonymous Trump official who wrote a New York Times op-ed has come forward. People are upset. Overall, though, this late revelation is unlikely to do much to affect the election — except for making the president angry.
Trump Has Weaponized Masculinity As President. Here's Why It Matters.
Biden shuns easy virus answers; Trump vows to ‘vanquish’ it. Joe Biden vowed Wednesday not to campaign “on the false promises of being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch,” pledging instead to prioritize science, even as President Donald Trump used the race’s final days to maintain a whirlwind schedule aimed at focusing on anything but the coronavirus.
Europe and US facing new round of shutdowns amid virus surge.
The second highest ranking officer in the US Space Force has tested positive for coronavirus, the US Air Force says.
US may not be back to normal until 2022, Fauci says.
The next vaccine challenge: Nationalism. As scientists edge closer to a vaccine for Covid-19, a more vexing exercise may be ahead: overcoming the mounting forces of nationalism to get all those doses around the world.
Family says Walter Wallace Jr., killed by Philadelphia police, needed mental health treatment.
Officers didn't have body cameras on during fatal shooting of Black teen, attorneys say. Police officers did not have their body cameras turned on during the fatal shooting of Illinois teen Marcellis Stinnette, his family's attorneys said Wednesday after viewing police video of the incident. Stinnette, 19, was killed by police on October 20 in a shooting that also left his girlfriend hospitalized with injuries.
Woman injured in police shooting says cops let boyfriend die. A woman who was shot by police last week in suburban Chicago said Tuesday that officers did nothing more than cover her boyfriend with a blanket after he was shot and left him on the ground to die.
A Black woman says she was racially harassed for years. Police acted only after her story went viral. Jennifer McLeggan said her neighbors told her she could be "erased." When she called police in her suburban New York town, she said they told her to stop calling 911.
Dow plunges more than 900 points as COVID-19 cases spike.
The CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced another grilling from politicians on Wednesday, as Republican senators made the case for stripping long-standing legal protections for internet companies.
Trump campaign event use of Marine Corps helicopter to hover over crowd of supporters raises ethics questions. -- Ethics questions are only ever “raised” with Trump. They die shortly thereafter.
Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally; 7 taken to hospitals.
The longest trail of fossilized human footprints hints at a risky Ice Age trek. On a day during the late Ice Age, a young adult or teen carrying a toddler hustled across a muddy flat where mammoths and giant sloths roamed. Now, over 10,000 years later, fossilized footprints reveal that possibly perilous journey. The tracks, found in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, stretch for nearly 1.5 kilometers across the plain and back, making them the longest set ever found
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