Author: Jonathan Lemire
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Biden wins Michigan, Wisconsin, now on brink of White House
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WASHINGTON Democrat Joe Biden was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing President Donald Trump’s path. With a handful of states still up for grabs, Trump tried to press his case in court in some key swing…
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Bitter debate taunts overpower Trump’s, Biden’s visions
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CLEVELAND • The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden deteriorated into a bitter showdown Tuesday as the president repeatedly interrupted his opponent with angry — and personal — taunts that sometimes overshadowed the sharply different visions each man has of a nation facing historic crises. In the most chaotic presidential…
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Trump: Israeli pacts with 2 Arab states signal ‘new’ Mideast
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WASHINGTON • Israel on Tuesday signed historic diplomatic pacts with two Gulf Arab states at a White House ceremony that President Donald Trump declared will mark the “dawn of a new Middle East,” casting himself as an international peacemaker at the height of his reelection campaign. The bilateral agreements formalize the normalization of Israel’s thawing…
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Trump visits Kenosha, calls violence ‘domestic terrorism’
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KENOSHA, Wis. • President Donald Trump stood at the epicenter of the latest eruption over racial injustice Tuesday and came down on the side of law enforcement, blaming “domestic terror” for the violence in Kenosha. Trump declared the violence “anti-American.” He did not mention Jacob Blake, a Black man left paralyzed after being shot in…
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My ‘decision to make’: Trump defends criticized use of drug
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WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump defended himself Tuesday against criticism from medical experts and others that his announced use of a malaria drug against the coronavirus could spark wide misuse by Americans of the unproven treatment with potentially fatal side effects. Trump’s bland statement a day earlier that he was taking hydroxychloroquine caught many in…
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India: Trump defends Modi, refuses to weigh in on citizenship law
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NEW DELHI • Defending the host who has showered him with pageantry, President Donald Trump refused Tuesday to speak out publicly against an Indian citizenship law pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that has sparked deadly protests over discrimination against Muslims during the president’s visit. With at least 10 people killed in violent protests during…
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Bloomberg embraces stop and frisk in 2015 Colorado audio
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WASHINGTON • Michael Bloomberg is under fire for resurfaced comments in which the Democratic presidential candidate says the way to bring down murder rates is to “put a lot of cops” in minority neighborhoods because that’s where “all the crime is.” The billionaire and former New York City mayor made the comments at a 2015…
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Trump’s White House fighting impeachment by stalling and attacking
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WASHINGTON — As House Democrats fire off more subpoenas, the White House has launched a high-stakes strategy to counter the impeachment threat to President Donald Trump: Stall. Obfuscate. Attack. Repeat. One of the administration’s first moves: the State Department on Tuesday barred Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, from appearing before a House panel…
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Democrats answer Trump’s ire and name-calling with subpoenas
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WASHINGTON — Agitated and angry, President Donald Trump squared off against House Democrats, packing his increasingly aggressive impeachment defense with name-calling and expletives. Quietly but just as resolutely, lawmakers expanded their inquiry, promising a broad new subpoena for documents and witnesses. Democratic leaders put the White House on notice that the wide-ranging subpoena would be…
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Pompeo, Dems trade intimidation charges
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WASHINGTON • Setting a defiant tone, the Trump administration resisted Congress’ access to impeachment witnesses Tuesday, even as House Democrats warned such efforts themselves could amount to an impeachable offense. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried to delay five current and former officials from providing documents and testimony in the impeachment inquiry that could lead…