The television audience for the Democratic National Convention held steady on Tuesday with about 19.2 million people tuning in live for the second night, down only slightly from Monday’s opener, according to Nielsen. Those numbers will be reassuring to the Democrats producing a highly unusual televised spectacle without the customary …...Read More

In his speech on Wednesday night, Mr. Obama offered validation for Mr. Biden, portraying him as “a brother” to him and “a man who learned early on to treat every person he meets with respect and dignity.” And in praising Mr. Biden’s record, Mr. Obama managed to frame his own …...Read More

Gavin Williamson is 'on his last life' after his humiliating exams fiasco and will be sacked if Boris Johnson's schools reopening is botched, ministers claimed today. The under-fire Education Secretary has defied calls to resign from MPs across the board following his disastrously mishandled A-level grading debacle. Cabinet colleagues now …...Read More

A woman has died after she became trapped under a boat which crashed in Great Yarmouth today. Paramedics, RNLI lifeboats, HM Coastguard patrol officers and Norfolk Police rushed to the scene following reports of a collision involving two vessels in the River Bure in North Quay, Norfolk, at 1.35pm. Despite …...Read More

Walk around late at night in Okinawa, Japan, and you may stumble upon drinkers snoring in flowerbeds, pavements - and in the middle of the road. Local police counted more than 7,000 cases of the phenomenon known as rojo-ne - literally sleeping in the road - last year. And lockdown …...Read More

When Geraldine Ferraro was picked to run on Walter Mondale’s presidential ticket, in 1984, the media did not know quite what to do with her. The political press experienced a female vice-presidential candidate as a kind of processing error. Journalists expressed suspicion of Ms. Ferraro’s use of her maiden name …...Read More

Democrats officially approved a new party platform on Tuesday night, outlining a sweeping set of policies on key issues including health care, climate change and the economy. But the platform also reinforced divisions among the party’s moderates and its liberal wing, which has expressed disappointment that the official Democratic agenda …...Read More

Doug Emhoff, who emerged as a fervent professional spouse during Senator Kamala Harris’s thwarted campaign for the Democratic nomination for president, is a serious contender to be the country’s first-ever Second Gentleman. Only two women besides Ms. Harris have ever been nominated for the vice presidency from major parties, so …...Read More

“People have been so worried about the titers, and the titers going down,” Dr. Alexander Greninger, a virologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, said. The results indicate even moderate titers prevented reinfection in a situation in which exposure to the virus was high, he said: “These are attainable …...Read More

Former HMP Wormwood Scrubs officer Pamela Belonwu, 51, entered into the six month 'inappropriate' relationship with inmate Clifton Thomas, a court heard A prison diversity officer had an 'inappropriate' relationship with an inmate at a London prison and failed to report he had a phone with him, a court heard …...Read More