Former President Donald Trump was desperate to beat then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election, telling aides, “I can’t lose to this f—— guy,” according to a new book excerpt published in The Washington Post.In “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” The Post’s Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a call to “save American democracy,” the Biden administration on Thursday unveiled new efforts to help protect voting rights amid growing complaints from civil rights activists and other Democrats that the White House has not done enough to fight attempts by Republican-led state legislatures to restrict access to the ballot.President Joe…
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced at a press conference Wednesday that the death toll in the Surfside, Fla., apartment collapse had increased to 46 people, after 10 more bodies were found.Video Transcript- Through these efforts and since our last briefing, the US teams recovered an additional 10 victims bringing the total confirmed deaths to…
Tropical Storm Elsa is made landfall in Taylor County, along Florida’s northern Gulf Coast, at 11 a.m. local time.The National Hurricane Center measured the storm’s sustained wind speeds at 65 mph, which is below the threshold for a Category 1 hurricane.The storm is still expected to bring heavy rainfall and flash flooding. Parts of northern…
A goldfish once small enough to flush down someone’s toilet has achieved greatness in Virginia, by landing in the record books.Jeremy Fortner from Chesterfield, Virginia, caught the “trophy fish” in Hunting Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River, and set an official state record in the process, according to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources.…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — When 16-year-old rising volleyball star Deven Gonzalez was pulled from the rubble of her Miami condo building, her initial reaction amid the shock was to tell firefighters that she had to compete in a major tournament in a few days.The teen’s entire world revolved around volleyball. She played beach volleyball,…
Former President Donald Trump questioned his successor’s patriotism during an Independence Day celebration in Florida.Trump said President Joe Biden “is perhaps the most unpatriotic president in American history” because his administration canceled a planned Fourth of July fireworks celebration at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota due to concerns about the transmission of COVID-19.”We had fireworks…
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden, reprising his role as comforter-in-chief, highlighted Thursday the “life and death” situation that has brought together all levels of the government as he visits a south Florida community reeling from the collapse of a 12-story condo building that left 18 people dead and dozens missing.A week after disaster in Surfside,…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison for defying a court order to appear before an inquiry probing wide-ranging allegations of corruption during his tenure from 2009 to 2018.Zuma was not in court for the ruling on Tuesday…
Joe Manchin is the last conservative Democrat serving in the U.S. Senate. He’s also Washington’s most powerful politician whose single vote, as we’ve learned the past few weeks, can derail President Biden’s most progressive plans to expand the federal government.And the reason for the West Virginia’s senator’s newfound power – and Biden’s frustration – likely…