US elections 2020 Intelligence director releases names in Flynn surveillance case Obama alumni dismiss ‘sideshow’ as distraction effort Opinion: Trump is seeking to distract from his failures Joe Biden’s name was on a list of Obama officials said to be involved in ‘unmasking’ Michael Flynn. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump has ratcheted […] More
US elections 2020 Mike Garcia will replace Hill, who resigned amid scandal in 2019 after securing the first Democratic victory in district in decades People vote at a voting station for the special election between the Democratic state assemblywoman Christy Smith and Republican businessman and ex-navy pilot Mike Garcia, in Santa Clarita, California. Photograph: Mark […] More
Play Video 0:37 The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said Barack Obama should have ‘kept his mouth shut’ instead of criticising Donald Trump, and called his intervention ‘classless’. McConnell was speaking to Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump in an online fundraiser on Monday night McConnell tells Obama to ‘keep his mouth shut’ after Trump criticism More
Play Video 1:01 Days after tweeting about ‘Obamagate’ and accusing his predecessor, Barack Obama, of committing crimes, US president Donald Trump was asked to specify what those exactly were. He replied: ‘Obamagate, it’s been going on for a long time, it’s being going on from even before I got elected and it’s a disgrace that […] More
Opinion Donald Trump Midwesterners were already doubting Trump. Covid could seal his political fate Art Cullen The genius may think we are suckers, but in Iowa we don’t ruin good corn liquor with Clorox An empty street in Perry, Iowa, home of a Tyson pork processing plant. Photograph: Jack Kurtz/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Drake Custer is a […] More
The fight to vote Missouri Lawmakers are sending a new ballot proposal that would undo 2018 protections against manipulation of electoral maps Members of the group Your Vote Matters place signs on an overpass in Saint Louis, Missouri on 6 November 2018. Photograph: Sid Hastings/EPA In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, Missouri Republicans are […] More
Joe Biden While high-profile Democrats voice support for the presumptive presidential nominee, some progressives call for a closer look at Tara Reade’s allegations Liberal grassroots activists have clashed with centrists and party leaders over the allegations against Biden. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The allegations of sexual misconduct by Tara Reade against the former […] More
Joe Biden Former staffer discusses allegation in in-depth interview with the former Fox News and NBC host Tara Reade detailed her sexual assault allegations in an interview with Megyn Kelly. Photograph: Donald Thompson/Associated Press Tara Reade repeated her allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden in an in-depth interview with Megyn Kelly released on Friday, […] More
