The claim: Image shows Hunter Biden painting ‘Trump won Democrats cheated’It’s been eight months since Election Day, and some Republicans are still falsely asserting the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump via widespread voter fraud in states he lost.Following Trump’s address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas – in which…
Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, was arrested Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol while protesting in favor of voting rights legislation.Beatty, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was part of a small group urging the Senate to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, federal legislation that would curtail…
The wife of the assassinated president of Haiti has spoken out from her hospital bed in Miami, Florida, posting two images of herself as she recovers from gunshot wounds to her arms and leg.“I still don’t believe that my husband has gone like this before my eyes without saying a last word to me. This…
The February winter storm that nearly brought the Texas electricity grid to its knees likely stressed the state’s natural gas infrastructure “more than any time in history,” according to the authors of a new UT Austin report analyzing the power outages and their financial implications.The report includes previously undisclosed data about how the Electric Reliability…
Fort Worth police asked for help Wednesday to identify four robbery suspects accused of attacking a 64-year-old Newark man while he was pumping gas at a QuikTrip on Northside Drive.One of the suspects sprayed the man with a unknown chemical, which caused him extreme pain, and the other three suspects opened the doors to the…
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.…