The FBI has rung up a striking record of falsehoods and misleading testimony during the bureau’s Russia investigation of Donald Trump, according to a public records examination. The stakes on FBI misconduct hit a new high last week when Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, denounced the agency. He said…
Pete D’Alessandro counters with what could be called the Stalin test when liberal activists question how he justifies supporting Joseph R. Biden after being all-in for Sen. Bernard Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary. The former Sanders campaign adviser points out that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin put aside their differences…
Likely Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden held a 9-point lead over President Trump among registered voters, according to a national poll released on Sunday ahead of Democrats’ modified convention this week. The 9-point, 50% to 41% lead for Mr. Biden in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is down slightly from an 11-point lead…
The news media has launched a persistent effort to portray Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden as a moderate in an effort to boost his appeal among moderates, or centrists, who make up the largest portion of the voting public. Time magazine described Mr. Biden as the “middle of the road” candidate on Saturday, while the…
LAS VEGAS — As President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign challenged Nevada’s new voting law in court, the president and Republicans argued the rules would facilitate fraud and illegal voting. Chief among their criticisms was a provision allowing “ballot harvesting.” The Nevada lawsuit highlighted a practice that has long fueled Republicans’ suspicions about mail-in voting. Although…
President Trump on Saturday said Democrats aren’t getting money for widespread mail-in voting because they are insisting on funding for states and localities as part of coronavirus relief deliberations. Mr. Trump has characterized the local money as a bailout for poorly managed blue states, while Democrats say states and towns across the board are suffering…
Newsweek apologized Friday over an editorial it published recently about Sen. Kamala D. Harris and the California Democrat’s eligibility to run on the party’s presidential ticket. An editor’s note was added to the article days after its publication quickly propelled conspiracy theories about Mr. Harris, the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee. “This op-ed is being…
The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency approval Saturday to a saliva test for COVID-19 that doesn’t require swabs or chemicals that have been prone to shortages, alleviating the strain on diagnostic capacity the U.S. fights the deadly pandemic. SalivaDirect was developed by the Yale School of Public Health in partnership with a program that…
President Trump and legal scholars say the first prosecution from U.S. Attorney John Durham’s review of the Russian collusion probe has set the stage for more dramatic revelations, though the guilty plea in the first case didn’t add much to what was already known about the Obama administration’s Justice Department. Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith…
Rep. Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, called Friday for prosecutors to investigate President Trump’s actions in office after his administration comes to an end. Mr. Swalwell, who previously sought the Democratic nod to challenge Mr. Trump this November, proposed the idea amid growing concerns about the status of the U.S. Postal Service. “I don’t say this…
