“He’s wearing a mask and canceling the convention,” said Mark McKinnon, who was in charge of advertising for President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004. “That’s a head-snapping reversal for a guy who hates to be wrong, hates to back down and, worst of all, hates to be perceived …...Read More

“What I experienced was a complete meltdown,” Jacoria Borders, a Fulton County poll worker hired the day before the election, testified at a legislative hearing. Questions have also emerged about the accuracy of the vote count. County officials, good-government groups and elections experts expressed concern that Georgia’s new system failed …...Read More

Federal officers in military gear … … clouds of tear gas … … crowd control munitions … [shots fired] … and locals who want those officers gone. “What are you guys protecting?” “Get the [expletive] out of our city!” In just over a week, the chaotic scenes in Portland grabbed …...Read More

Eventually, he returned to medicine, finishing his residency last year. He is already full of stories about public-policy failures that make patients sick. He speaks with passion about the 19-year-old woman who came in twice in one week with a life-threatening condition related to diabetes. In medical school they called …...Read More

Welcome to our weekly analysis of the state of the 2020 campaign. The week in numbers Fox News released polls from Michigan, Pennsylvania and Minnesota showing President Trump trailing Joe Biden by anywhere from 9 to 13 percentage points. A Quinnipiac University poll of Florida registered voters found Biden leading …...Read More

We hear a lot about creating spaces: the family snug, the open-plan kitchen, the home office, the gallery walls of a cloakroom. But, when it comes to makeovers, the staircase often seems to be neglected. However, the functional spine of the home is finally being used to make bold design …...Read More

WASHINGTON — Not long after the early 2017 publication of a notorious dossier about President Trump jolted Washington, an expert in Russian politics told the F.B.I. he had been one of its key sources, drawing on his contacts to deliver information that would make up some of the most salacious …...Read More

MIAMI — For Jacksonville, it wasn’t all that fun while it lasted. Over 43 long days, Florida’s largest city insisted it could play host to the Republican National Convention in the middle of a pandemic. Republicans bowed out of Charlotte, N.C., the previous host city, after the state’s Democratic governor …...Read More

Grimes tweeted at her boyfriend Elon Musk with a somewhat scolding message on Friday, which was soon deleted. The trippy Canadian singer, 32, wrote her message in response to one of the 49-year-old SpaceX CEO's typical online rants in which he said: 'Pronouns suck,' shortly after writing 'Twitter sucks'. She …...Read More

Doctors are posting selfies posing in bikinis with beers in their hands amid a backlash against a 'sexist' study by male researchers that claimed medics look 'unprofessional' sharing such images on social media. Female medical professionals have been flooding social media with snaps of themselves in their swimwear, lounging in …...Read More