California Wildfires Sparked by Thousands of Lightning Strikes Over Three Days
Firefighters are battling hundreds of wildfires in California sparked by what authorities are calling a historic lightning siege.
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Black Republican Kimberly Klacik’s campaign ad stuns public, goes viral
Kimberly Klacik is a young Black Republican woman now running for Congress in Maryland’s 7th District — seeking to occupy the seat once held by the late Elijah Cummings. She has emerged with an emphatic new campaign video shot on the streets of Baltimore City.
DNC delegates drop ‘under God’ from Pledge of Allegiance
At least two caucus meetings at this week’s Democratic National Convention began with recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance that omitted the phrase “under God.”
Supreme Court to hear Obamacare challenge one week after election
The Supreme Court will hear a constitutional challenge to the Obama-era Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
FBI Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Altering Document Used in Spy Operation Against Trump, Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison
Special Attorney John H. Durham, who is investigating the FBI’s 2016-17 spying operation against the Trump campaign, announced that former top FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, 38, pleaded guilty today to altering a document that was then used to obtain a secret FISA application and warrant to spy on a person working for the Trump campaign.
Senate report details ‘counterintelligence threat’ posed by Russian influence campaign in 2016 election
The Senate Intelligence Committee released the fifth and final volume of its report on Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election, revealing new details about Russia’s efforts and about flaws with the U.S. government’s response and investigations.
Obama: Trump will ‘tear our democracy down’ if not stopped
Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday said President Trump is a despot and a threat to American democracy, warning of dire and lasting consequences if voters don’t put a stop to him in November.
Sanders Urges Progressives to Keep Agenda Alive with Vote for Biden
For the second time in four years, progressive voters’ hopes to elevate Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to the top of the Democratic ticket were dashed this spring, when Sanders’ call for a social revolution and Medicare for All fell flat, and former Vice President Joe Biden surged to victory in the race for the presidential nomination.
Fauci says he doesn’t think there will be a coronavirus vaccine mandate
Dr. Anthony Fauci said he does not think the government will require people to get coronavirus inoculations.
Operation Legend: More than 200 charged with federal crimes, 1,000 arrested, AG Barr announces
At least 217 people have been charged with a federal crime, and more than 1,000 arrests have been made in major metropolitan cities since the Department of Justice launched Operation Legend in July, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced on Wednesday.
Black Lives Matter leader says US is like a looter because it “pillages” other countries
A leader of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization has said the US government is similar to a looter because it “pillages different countries,” Fox News reported. BLM of Greater New York Chair Hawk Newsome made his remarks in an interview on Fox News’ ‘The Story’ Tuesday, following former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s description a day earlier of BLM as a domestic terrorist organization.
Low TV viewer turnout for first night of 2020 Democratic convention
The first night of the virtual Democratic National Convention (DNC), which had been moved online due to COVID-19 concerns, has been described as a “media disaster.” TV viewership of Monday night’s event was reportedly down at least 25% from the live DNC convention of 2016.
Biden is officially the Democratic presidential nominee
Following the tradition of both political parties, Biden was officially named the Democratic Party presidential candidate after a roll call of his roughly 2,690 delegates collected in the various primary contests throughout the winter and spring.
Facing Durham interview, John Brennan lashes out over Trump-Russia ‘collusion’
Former CIA Director John Brennan fumed about the announcement that the Senate Intelligence Committee found no evidence of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
Democratic Party platform includes federal judiciary overhaul, court-packing agenda
Liberal activists made an overhaul of the federal judiciary, including court-packing, part of the 2020 platform adopted this week at the Democratic National Convention.
At US-Mexico border, Trump says 300 miles of wall nearly complete
In his second trip to the U.S.-Mexico border in two months, President Trump touted to supporters that his administration has completed nearly 300 miles of border fence since he took office.
Hurricane Genevieve strengthens to ‘beast’ Category 4 storm off Mexico, will brush Baja California
The third hurricane this season in the Eastern Pacific rapidly strengthened off Mexico’s western coast on Tuesday, becoming the season’s second major storm as it is forecast to swipe Baja California.
Series of quakes in Mexico were felt in San Diego, California
A series of earthquakes that struck Mexico on Monday morning were felt across San Diego County in California, Fox News reported. At least four quakes struck the Mexican state of Baja California, around 120 southeast of the US-Mexico border, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Milwaukee DNC opens with little fanfare; online speakers to focus on race, coronavirus
Milwaukee’s Democratic National Convention is opening to the kind of lackluster reception that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, was entirely predictable.
Pro-life Democrats call on party to moderate “extreme” stance on abortion
Calling on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to reintroduce moderate language on its abortion platform, pro-life Democrats are warning their party’s current “extreme” stance on the issue risks alienating voters who would otherwise vote for the Biden-Harris ticket, Fox News reports. A draft platform released by Politico shows that the DNC supports the codification of Roe v Wade and tax-payer funding of abortion.