Delta intensified into a Category 3 hurricane on Tuesday and was expected to become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm by the time it reaches Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The storm, which is the ninth named hurricane of the season, was about 320 miles east-southeast of Cozumel, …...Read More
Hurricane Delta Intensifies to Category 3
Michelle Obama expresses empathy for White House staff ‘touched by this virus’ and urges Americans to vote.
The former first lady Michelle Obama, one of the Democratic Party’s most respected figures, delivered what the Biden campaign called her “closing argument” for Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s candidacy on Tuesday, speaking in deeply personal terms to Americans disillusioned by politics about the need to vote. In a 24-minute video, …...Read More
Oscar Grant’s Killing Will Be Investigated Again, D.A. Says
The district attorney in Alameda County, Calif., said on Monday that she would reopen an investigation into the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant III, an event that spurred mass protests in Oakland and more than a decade of calls for justice after he was fatally shot in the back by …...Read More
A CNN poll taken after the debate finds Biden leading Trump by 16 points nationally.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. increased his steady national lead over President Trump to 16 points in a poll released by CNN on Tuesday, another sign that Mr. Trump’s re-election chances were damaged by his debate performance last week. The poll, conducted from last Thursday to Monday — entirely after the …...Read More
An Update on a Crucial District Attorney Race
Good morning. If you haven’t already gotten your ballot, you will soon. And if you live in Los Angeles County, it will ask you to weigh in on one of the most consequential races in the country. No, again, I’m not talking about the presidential race. Los Angeles County District …...Read More
Trump’s ‘don’t be afraid of Covid’ exhortation is denounced by Democrats and disease experts.
“‘Don’t be afraid of Covid’ is an evil thing to say to those of us who lost our loved ones to Covid 19,” Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota whose father died from complications of the virus, wrote on Twitter. “This man is unfit to be President, he …...Read More
Trump flouts health guidelines as Biden questions his ‘macho’ refusal to wear masks.
President Trump and Joseph R. Biden Jr. interpreted leading by example very differently on Monday. Mr. Trump, infected with the contagious and sometimes lethal coronavirus, returned by helicopter to the White House in a nationally televised hospital departure. Once back, he climbed to a White House balcony, removed the mask …...Read More
Biden says those who don’t take virus precautions seriously are ‘responsible for what happens to them.’
Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Monday suggested President Trump bore some responsibility for his positive coronavirus test because of the way he has flouted public health guidelines for months. “Anybody who contracts the virus by essentially saying masks don’t matter, social distancing doesn’t matter, I think, is responsible for what …...Read More
In a campaign-style video, Trump says contracting Covid-19 was a risk he had to take as ‘your leader.’
President Trump on Monday night sought to reframe his battle with Covid-19 in political rather than medical terms, suggesting that his recent diagnosis was not a mortal threat to his health or an indictment about his handling of the pandemic but instead an exhibition of presidential leadership. “As your leader, …...Read More
Kamala Harris’s doubleheader: A debate and confirmation hearings with sky-high stakes.
The last time Kamala Harris stepped onto a debate stage, her Democratic primary campaign was sputtering to a close — running out of money, trailing badly in the polls and fading as a force on policy issues. She dropped out of the race two weeks later. Now, as Ms. Harris …...Read More
