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As COVID-19 soars ahead of election, tapes reveal Kushner bragging about how Trump wrestled response 'back from the doctors'
Nov 01, 2020 17:45US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner bragged about Trump “getting the country back from the doctors” in an April interview with journalist Bob Woodward, a report says. The senior White House advisor boasted that the president was ignoring scientists and medical experts as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded, according to audio obtained by CNN.
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Trump may fire Barr and FBI director for not investigating Biden
Oct 28, 2020 11:17US President Donald Trump has been unhappy that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Bill Barr have not publicly announced an investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, or his associates. He has repeatedly discussed firing Wray after the election — and officials are concerned he may also oust Barr.
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Trump aims to convince supporters that a loss means election is “rigged”
Oct 28, 2020 11:01According to Reuters-Ipsos poll, more than four in 10 voters on Republican and Democrat sides will not accept the results of the US 2020 Presidential election. It doesn’t go into details, except to say that 22% of Biden supporters and 16% of Trump supporters say they would engage in street protests or violence if the other side prevailed.
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Trump’s lawyers want Trump’s judges to limit voting
Oct 27, 2020 18:17The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee (RNC) have pushed one narrative in a raft of nearly identical lawsuits from California to Pennsylvania all tied around limiting mail-in voting. The central theme: claims, without evidence, that widely used mail-in voting would lead to massive voter fraud.
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Lawyers can’t find parents of 545 kids separated by Trump’s immigration policies
Oct 26, 2020 12:43Lawyers appointed to represent the interests of migrant children and parents who were separated from one another as a result of a program established by the Trump administration, say that the whereabouts of hundreds of parents affected by that policy remain unknown.
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Trump plans to vote early on Saturday in Florida
Oct 23, 2020 03:41US President Donald Trump will cast an early vote in the presidential election while he is visiting Florida this weekend, White House Spokesman Judd Deere said on Thursday.
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Poll shows voters prefer Biden over Trump on almost all major issues
Oct 22, 2020 10:48According to a national poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, former US Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a nine-point lead over President Donald Trump amid widespread public alarm about the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic and demand among voters for large-scale government action to right the economy.
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Intimidating emails sent to Democratic voters in US swing states,
Oct 21, 2020 12:59Domocraitc voters in different US states have received intimidating emails claiming to be from the "Proud Boys," warning them to vote for President Donald Trump in the upcoming election.
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As White House embraces dangerous 'herd immunity' strategy, COVID-19 deaths predicted to spike 80% in US by February
Oct 20, 2020 18:12As the Trump administration ignores the pleas of its own health experts and embraces a "herd immunity" strategy that scientists have condemned as fringe and dangerous, researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine are predicting an 80% spike in U.S. coronavirus deaths by February as cases continue to rise across the nation.
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A four-year timeline of Trump’s impact on science
Oct 15, 2020 11:13From travel bans to human spaceflight to the coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump’s policies and actions have changed science. Since he took office in January 2017, Trump has not made science a priority; he has proposed massive cuts to many science agencies and took 19 months to nominate a science adviser. But his policies and actions have had strong impacts – many of them harmful – on researchers and issues related to science.