Facing up to 60 years for killing her 5-year-old, mom tells court: 'I miss him and there's nothing I wouldn't do to bring him back'

CHICAGO - Near the top of a small hill in a Palatine cemetery rests the remains of a 5-year-old boy buried in Superman pajamas and in a casket handmade and blessed by Trappist monks. Etched in the flat marker is the image of a praying angel and the words, "Loving Brother Andrew Freund." The nickname "AJ" appears in the center of a Superman emblem on the top right side. There is no mention on ...

Cuomo slams Trump over coronavirus response, says CDC report shows 'terrible failing on behalf of the federal government'

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, citing a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, took President Donald Trump to task Thursday over the federal coronavirus response. The governor touted the report because it backs his argument that the virus came to New York through Europe, not China. "It will be a double-barreled shotgun of incompetence," Cuomo told ...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme court justice will not retire after cancer diagnosis

The court's most senior liberal justice has a recurrence of cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Minister: Iraq to face severe shortages as river flows drop

Iraq's minister of water resources says his country will face severe water shortages if agreements are not forged with neighboring Turkey over Ankara's irrigation and dam projects that have decreased river inflows to Iraq's parched plains. Descending from the mountains of southeast Turkey and coursing through Syria and then Iraq before emptying out in the Persian Gulf, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are Iraq's main water source and essential to for agriculture.

Three white men charged in killing of Black jogger in Georgia plead not guilty

Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was killed on Feb. 23 just outside the coastal town of Brunswick, became a touchstone in cross-country protests over racial and social justice in the United States. A former law enforcement officer, Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34, are charged with murder and aggravated assault. Police say Gregory McMichael saw Arbery jogging through his neighborhood outside of Brunswick and believed he looked like a burglary suspect.

Anthony Fauci said New York is an example of how to 'correctly' confront soaring coronavirus cases

New York City is slated to enter Phase 4 of its reopening on July 20, three months after the city counted a peak of 10,000 new cases per day.

India-Pakistan fighting in Kashmir kills 3, wounds 2

Portland Mayor Accuses Trump of ‘Absolute Abuse’ of Federal Law Enforcement, Demands Officers Leave as City’s Nightly Violence Continues

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Friday accused President Trump of abusing the use of federal law enforcement officers, whose presence he said has "ratcheted up the tension" rather than quelled the nightly violence taking place across the city."Last week, we were seeing the deescalation of the violence. We were seeing things calm down. But the intervention of federal officers reignited tensions," Wheeler said Friday afternoon during a joint online press conference with Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell. "I think we would have seen the end of this nightly engagement by now."Protests and rioting in Portland have been nearly constant since the May 25 death of George Floyd that sparked national outrage and demonstrations across the country. On Tuesday, more than 200 people marched downtown for a mostly peaceful protest against police brutality, but some demonstrators who remain on the streets after dark have engaged in property destruction, throwing rocks at police, marking buildings with graffiti, and earlier this month briefly set a courthouse on fire.As the violence continued, President Trump sent federal law enforcement agents to handle the situation, which he described as "out of control." One demonstrator was critically injured and underwent facial reconstructive surgery after a federal officer fired an impact munition at his head, an incident that the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General is investigating.Lovell appeared to suggest that city police officers are not coordinating with federal law enforcement as the local officers work to prevent crime and "establish order.""The federal officers have their objectives, and the Portland police has our objectives. We don't direct federal officers' actions, and they do not direct ours," Lovell said Friday.The president praised the work of federal authorities earlier this week at the White House, promising that the violence Portland would continue to be quelled.“Portland was totally out of control, and they went in, and I guess we have many people right now in jail, and we very much quelled it, and if it starts again, we’ll quell it again very easily,” Trump said Monday. “It’s not hard to do, if you know what you’re doing.”The city is now "demanding" that Trump remove the federal officers, Wheeler said."When we have Donald Trump sending troops into our streets who are not accountable to me or to the city council or to the public at large, we don't know what they are doing or why they are doing it," Wheeler said, calling the deployment of federal officers in Portland an "attack on our democracy."The mayor added that the president must be "held accountable," for using federal agencies as his "personal army" for political purposes to "bolster his sagging polling data.""Take your troops out of Portland," Wheeler said, directing his remarks to Trump. "We can handle better than they can what's going on in our streets."

Death of John Lewis Fuels Movement to Rename Edmund Pettus Bridge

By BY ALLYSON WALLER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2DS2P3H

Trump Administration Balks at Funding for Testing and C.D.C. in Virus Relief Bill

By BY EMILY COCHRANE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2OFAjEC

Amid a Pandemic, Supporters Hope John Lewis Can Still Lie in State in the Capitol

By BY LUKE BROADWATER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2CtgPR7

NYPD union chief appears on Fox News with far-right conspiracy theory QAnon symbol in background

A New York Police Department union chief made an appearance on Fox News with a QAnon mug featured in the background.Ed Mullins, president of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association, appeared on Fox News to discuss the increased gun violence in New York City and other parts of the US.

Iowa drug kingpin who killed 5 set for execution Friday

Dustin Honken, 52, was sentenced to death for killing government informants and children in his effort to thwart his drug trafficking prosecution in 1993.

It's too late for masks alone to turn the tide on coronavirus. Why the U.S. needs to lock down hot spots right away.

Masks are necessary to combat America’s resurgent coronavirus pandemic. But they may no longer be enough. Patterns from countries that are faring much better than the U.S. suggest we won’t bring the virus to heel until we start locking down hot spots as well.

Details released in crash of plane carrying Earnhardt Jr.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane's wing emergency exit as the aircraft began to burn and fill with smoke before the race car driver and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to new details about the 2019 accident released by the National Transportation Safety Board. Documents released Thursday by the NTSB provide pilot, passenger and witness statements about the Aug. 15, 2019 plane crash at an airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Earnhardt was with wife Amy, 15-month-old daughter Isla, two pilots and the family dog when their Cessna Citation Latitude crashed.

Powerful House chair Eliot Engel defeated by progressive newcomer Jamaal Bowman in stunning upset

Rep. Eliot Engel, who served decades in Congress, was defeated by a political newcomer in a stunning upset showing the power of the progressive wing.

Prosecutor in Jodi Arias murder case agrees to be disbarred

A former Arizona prosecutor known for winning a conviction in the Jodi Arias murder case agreed on Friday to be disbarred in an ethics case in which he was accused of sharing the identity of an Arias juror and sexually harassing female law clerks in his office.

Republicans eye sweeping shield from coronavirus liability

A new plan from Senate Republicans to award businesses, schools, and universities sweeping exemptions from lawsuits arising from inadequate coronavirus safeguards is putting Republicans and Democrats at loggerheads as Congress reconvenes next week to negotiate another relief package. The liability proposal, drafted by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and senior Republican John Cornyn of Texas, promises to shield employers when customers and workers are exposed to coronavirus by moving lawsuits to federal court and limiting legal liability to acts of "gross negligence or intentional misconduct," according to a draft of the plan obtained by The Associated Press. “Even if businesses and hospitals follow all the relevant guidelines and act in good faith, they could end up fighting a very long and a very expensive lawsuit," Cornyn said.

‘Justice needs to be served’: Minneapolis businesses put principles first

In a Minneapolis neighborhood hit hard by protests following George Floyd’s death, a desire for racial justice unites independent business owners even as they face an uncertain recovery.

Kellyanne Conway Urges Trump to Resume Coronavirus Briefings to Boost Approval Ratings

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway urged President Donald Trump on Friday to resume giving regular coronavirus briefings, claiming his sinking approval ratings on the pandemic will surge if the public hears from him daily on the crisis.Amid a bevy of recent polls showing the vast majority of the American public strongly disapproves of the president’s handling of the virus that’s killed nearly 140,000 Americans, Conway appeared on the president’s favorite morning show Fox & Friends to react to the current surge in coronavirus cases.After Conway brushed off the spike in cases as “hotspot surges” while assuring the Fox audience that the White House had the virus under control, co-host Steve Doocy wondered aloud why the president’s ratings were “underwater” on coronavirus.“You look at the data, from public and private polling, and Joe Biden actually beats the president on COVID response and Joe Biden is in the basement not doing anything,” Doocy added.The senior Trump aide first snarked about the former veep’s campaign strategy before saying the reason Trump’s “numbers may be a little softer” on COVID-19 is due to the end of Trump’s daily task force briefings.“The president’s numbers were much higher when he was out there briefing everybody on his day by day basis about the coronavirus,” she said. “Just giving people the information.”“They were out there every day when we had at some point 2,500 deaths in one day, at the highest level and I guess it was April or so, March and April, and the president and the task force were there most days, giving the information,” Conway continued. “I think the president should be doing that.”Doocy, meanwhile, jumped in to ask why the president stopped with the daily briefings in late April, prompting the White House official to say “some people are encouraging him to stop.”Doocy agreed that Trump should resume with his regular task force briefings, adding that the president was “fully engaged” on the pandemic. Conway, meanwhile, noted that the briefings don’t need to be “two hours” but that they shouldn’t be “zero minutes, either.”In a follow-up gaggle with reporters at the White House, Conway repeated her assertion that the president needs to bring back the briefings, explicitly stating that his “numbers were much higher when he was out there briefing everybody on a day by day basis about the coronavirus.”The daily task force briefings featuring the president came to an abrupt end in late April after the president openly suggested that injecting disinfectants and ultraviolet light into the body could be used as a way to kill the virus.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

The once humble pickup has gone full-on luxury — here are my favorite swanky features

Today's full-size pickups can easily hang with Audi, BMW, and Mercedes when it comes to luxury appointments.

Iran estimates up to 25 million virus cases since outbreak

Iran’s president Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak's beginning, and urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. President Hassan Rouhani cited a new Iranian Health Ministry study in offering the unprecedentedly high number of infections. Rouhani also said he believes an additional 30-35 million people could be infected in coming months, again without citing the basis for his estimate.

Ousted Florida scientist Rebekah Jones’ whistleblower complaint takes aim at governor

The former data scientist accuses Gov. Ron DeSantis’ health agency of seeking to falsify statistics used to justify the state’s reopening.

Maxwell could "squeal" on "well-known names," Epstein accuser says

Maxwell is facing criminal charges in connection with Epstein and was denied bail this week.

Plague squirrels spread ‘Black Death’ in Colorado and kill teenage boy in Mongolia

The "Black Death" has returned to Colorado after an infected squirrel passed the bubonic plague onto a human in the state for the first time in five years.It comes as health authorities continue to monitor an outbreak of bubonic plague after a 15-year-old boy died in Mongolia from eating an infected marmot, a type of ground squirrel.

F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Saw Basis in Early 2017 to Doubt Dossier

By BY CHARLIE SAVAGE AND ADAM GOLDMAN from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2OBAH77

Gabriella Tucci, 90, Dies; Italian Soprano and Met Opera Mainstay

By BY ANTHONY TOMMASINI from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2ZEizjm

Home Depot and Lowe’s join other retailers with mask mandates.

By BY MICHAEL CORKERY from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3fIvuWY

Washington N.F.L. Harassment Report Shocked Many, but Not Women

By BY JULIET MACUR AND KEN BELSON from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3jfy1KI

For Third Time This Week, the Federal Government Carries Out an Execution

By BY HAILEY FUCHS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2ZFoWDe

In interview with Fauci, Zuckerberg says U.S. failed on coronavirus response

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic — in which more than 138,000 Americans have died — has been “significantly worse” than in the rest of the world.

Ohio veteran, 37, who went viral for refusing to wear a mask, died of COVID-19

A friend of Richard Rose III's, said in a Facebook post his friend was believed to be healthy. Ohio does not have a mandate for wearing masks.

A spacecraft rocketing around the sun just beamed back the closest images ever taken of our star

The Solar Orbiter discovered little explosions happening all across the solar surface. They could crack one of the sun's biggest mysteries.

Biden campaign on police association endorsing Trump, latest polling, VP search

Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond, co-chairman of the Biden campaign, joins 'Fox & Friends.'

River Nile dam: Sudan blasts 'unilateral' move as Ethiopia dam fills

As talks fail with Ethiopia, Sudan says water levels drop downstream and Egypt demands "clarification".

Cuomo slams Trump over coronavirus response, says CDC report shows 'terrible failing on behalf of the federal government'

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, citing a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, took President Donald Trump to task Thursday over the federal coronavirus response. The governor touted the report because it backs his argument that the virus came to New York through Europe, not China. "It will be a double-barreled shotgun of incompetence," Cuomo told ...

How a leading left-wing academic and activist wound up in the middle of a free speech debate

A once obscure internet debate over the limits of free speech and the rise of what critics call “cancel culture” has, somewhat improbably, become a significant 2020 campaign issue. 

Rep. Justin Amash confirms he won't seek re-election to Congress

Amash, who has served in Congress since 2011, announced in July 2019 that he was leaving the Republican Party.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls White House press secretary 'Karen'

"Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth," the mayor tweeted in response to the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, describing her as "derelict."

'We'll see him in court': Atlanta mayor questions Georgia gov's 'bizarre' lawsuit over mask mandate

Keisha Lance Bottoms said she thinks it’s no coincidence Gov. Brian Kemp filed the suit after she pointed out President Trump violated the city's mask law.

China moves rocket into place for upcoming Mars mission

China has moved a rocket into position to launch a rover to Mars in one of three upcoming missions to the red planet, one from the U.S. and another by the United Arab Emirates. The Long March-5 carrier rocket is China’s heaviest-lift launch vehicle and has been used experimentally three times, but never with a payload. Dubbed Tianwen-1, China’s mission to Mars aims to land a rover to gather scientific data.

No, Gavin Newsom says, Orange County won't reopen its schools (as long as infections are this high)

In a Friday press conference, Newsom said all 32 counties on the coronavirus "watch list" will have remote learning, as San Francisco joined the list.

'This is urgent': Second round of stimulus checks 'a necessity' in next coronavirus package, Pelosi says

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding Congress send out a second round of stimulus checks for American taxpayers as negotiations heat up between Democrats and Republicans for a fifth round of federal coronavirus relief.Earlier this year, Congress approved the Treasury Department to cut $1,200 checks to every American taxpayer, with extra monetary benefits for parents with children under 18.

Confederate flags fly worldwide, igniting social tensions and inflaming historic traumas

The United States isn’t the only country debating Confederate symbols. The Confederate flag can be seen flying in Ireland, Germany, Brazil and beyond. Sometimes, the red-white-and-blue-crossed flag is seemingly displayed as kitsch, a kind of Americana. Other times, its display conveys a political meaning more reflective of the flag’s origins in the slave-holding, Southern American republic. Wherever the Confederacy crops up, controversy usually follows. My academic research as a cultural geographer traces how Confederate iconography gets stitched into the cultural fabric of places thousands of miles from the United States. Irish ‘rebels’In the city of Cork, Ireland, fans of the local hurling and soccer teams have long flown the Confederate flag, which is sometimes called the “rebel flag,” from the stands. Both teams are called “The Rebels,” and their team colors match those of the Confederate flag. After NASCAR banned Confederate flags at its racing courses in June, a Gaelic Athletic Association administrator announced that it would ban the flag at Cork soccer games, too. Some Cork Rebels fans had already soured on the flag. In 2017 a defender of Confederate statues killed anti-racism activist Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, cementing for many the flag’s association with white supremacy.But the Red Hand Defenders, a right-wing paramilitary organization in Ireland, still brandishes the Confederate flag because of its potent political symbolism.[Expertise in your inbox. Sign up for The Conversation’s newsletter and get expert takes on today’s news, every day.]The Protestant hardliner group emerged in the Ulster region in 1998 to oppose Northern Ireland’s possible secession from the United Kingdom and reunification with Ireland. To thwart this “home rule” campaign, the Red Hand Defenders executed a series of deadly bombings and in 1999 killed the Catholic human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson. Ireland’s connection with the Confederacy dates back to the Civil War. Many of the Confederate generals whose statues dot the U.S. South, including Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, were Scots-Irish. Their families came from Ulster, which includes parts of both Ireland and Northern Ireland.In a 2008 post called “War of Northern Aggression,” the Belfast-based photography website Extra Mural Activity featured some murals in the Ulster region, including one celebrating the Ulster heritage of Generals Lee and Jackson. “The Confederate attempt to secede from the union is put in parallel with loyalist resistance to Home Rule,” it explains. Brazil’s Confederate rootsLike Ireland, Brazil has an ancestral connection to the American Confederacy. After the Civil War ended slavery in the United States, some 8,000 to 10,000 Confederate soldiers left the vanquished South and migrated to Brazil. There, farmland was cheap and slavery was still legal. Historical research suggests that as many as 50 Confederate families purchased over 500 enslaved Black people in Brazil. Today, the descendants of these “Confederados,” as the Americans came to be known in Portuguese, hold an annual festival in São Paulo state celebrating their heritage. Dancers clad in antebellum and Civil War attire square dance to American country music on an enormous stage emblazoned with the Confederate flag while visitors enjoy Southern fried chicken and biscuits and purchase Confederacy-themed souvenirs. The festival, held in the Protestant cemetery where many original Confederate settlers were buried back when Brazil was predominantly Catholic, began in 1980. Since the 2017 killing in Charlottesville, the Confederados’ event has met resistance from Black Brazilians, who find its romanticization of the slaveholding South and its Confederate iconography disturbing. White supremacy in GermanyFor Neo-Nazis in Germany, the white supremacy embedded in Confederate iconography is useful. It’s a stand-in for the Nazi swastika, which has been banned in Germany since the Holocaust. And during Civil War reenactments in Germany, Germans who side with the South are often acting out “Nazi fantasies of racial superiority,” Wolfgang Hochbruck, professor of American Studies at the University of Freiburg, told The Atlantic in 2011. In those situations, the Germans flying the Confederate flag clearly understand its historic origins and meaning. That’s not always the case. A Confederate flag spontaneously appeared in the crowd at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, for example. There, it may have been understood as a symbol of anti-communism. A recent study shows that German schools, like many in the United States, teach the Civil War as primarily a battle over Southern states’ desire to remain “free” from federal interference – not over their desire to preserve slavery. Historians have debunked this “states rights” theory of the conflict. But many in Germany may still view the flag as a symbol of freedom or independence.Sometimes, people in Germany and elsewhere seem to see the Confederate flag as simply part of American culture. The Confederate iconography spotted at a country music festival in Geiselwind in 2007, for example, was probably seen as kitsch. Culture warsThough Confederate iconography takes on different meanings in other countries, research shows it often crops up along those countries’ own political fractures, religious conflicts and racial divides. Flying it tends to inflame simmering social tensions, reopen old wounds and spur debates about history like those underway in the United States. For Americans, who are almost evenly split on whether the Confederacy represents racism, the Confederate flag is today an unmistakable signal of a deeply divided society. Fifty-two percent say they support removing Confederate monuments from public space.That’s up 19 percentage points since 2017, when modern blood was shed over the 19th-century Confederacy. Charlottesville has forced people everywhere to contend with both the historic reality of the American South and, increasingly, its surprisingly worldwide 21st-century legacy.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South * Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intactJordan Brasher has received funding from the National Security Education Program's David L. Boren Fellowship, The University of Tennessee’s Thomas-Penley-Allen Fellowship, the W.K. McClure Scholarship for the Study of World Affairs, and the Stewart K. McCroskey Memorial Fund. Jordan Brasher is a member of the American Association of Geographers and a Research Fellow with Tourism RESET, a collaborative research and outreach initiative dedicated to identifying, studying, and challenging patterns of social inequity in the tourism industry.

Ghislaine Maxwell is 'worse than Jeffrey Epstein' says key accuser

Ghislaine Maxwell was “worse than Jeffrey Epstein” and “masterminded” the alleged abuse of women and young girls, one of his victims has claimed. Virginia Roberts Giuffre said she met Maxwell when she was 16 years old and alleged that the British heiress arranged for her to have sex with Prince Andrew three times when she was 17. The prince and Maxwell have adamantly denied the accusations. “Ghislaine was much more conniving and smart than Epstein ever was,” Ms Giuffre, who now lives in Australia, told CBS News. “I know that woman. I’ve known her really well. Put it this way — Epstein was Pinocchio, and she was Gepetto.” Ms Giuffre, now 36, said she believes Maxwell "did it to keep Jeffrey happy" and "because she loves the control over people." "Jeffrey was a sick pedophile. But she was the mastermind," she said.

Brazil tops 2 million coronavirus cases, with 76,000 dead

Since late May, three months after Brazil's first reported case of the coronavirus, it has recorded more than 1,000 daily deaths on average in a gruesome plateau that has yet to tilt downward. On Thursday evening, the federal health ministry reported that the country had passed 2 million confirmed cases of virus infections and 76,000 deaths. Experts blame denial of the virus' deadly potential by President Jair Bolsonaro and lack of national coordination combined with scattershot responses by city and state governments, with some reopening earlier than health experts recommended.

Berkeley moves toward removing police from traffic stops

After hours of emotional public testimony and a middle-of-the-night vote by Berkeley leaders, the progressive California city is moving forward with a novel proposal to replace police with unarmed civilians during traffic stops in a bid to curtail racial profiling. The City Council early Wednesday approved a police reform proposal that calls for a public committee to hash out details of a new Berkeley Police Department that would not respond to calls involving people experiencing homelessness or mental illness. The committee also would pursue creating a separate department to handle transportation planning and enforcing parking and traffic laws.

'I didn't do it': Executed federal prisoner used final words to plead innocence

The first man executed by the US federal government in 17 years protested his innocence in his final words before his sentence was carried out on Tuesday.Asked if he wanted to give a final statement before the lethal injection procedure, Lee reportedly said “I bear no responsibility for the deaths of the Mueller family.”

Brad Parscale 'took the bullet' for Jared Kushner, Trump's actual campaign manager

Brad Parscale, President Trump's campaign manager since February 2018, did not find out he was being replaced by his deputy, Bill Stepien, until right before the news became public Wednesday evening — hours earlier than planned, The New York Times reports. Parscale will stay on as senior adviser for data and digital operations, similar to the role he played in Trump's 2016 campaign, but it's not clear how much Trump's campaign shakeup will actually shake up the campaign."Trump is often described as his own campaign manager, and his political operation, which is overseen by Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, and a senior White House adviser, has been tailored to his desires," the Times reports. In fact, according to several people involved in the campaign, "Kushner has served as the de facto campaign manager" throughout the 2020 re-election effort, and he was "a key figure in replacing" Parscale, whom he handpicked in 2016."Jared Kushner was the campaign manager yesterday, is the campaign manager today, and will be the campaign manager tomorrow," a source close to the White House told NBC News. "Brad took the bullet for Jared."On the other hand, Parscale's ouster has been rumored for a while, thanks to his unusually high profile — including appearing in Trump's campaign ads — and newly lavish lifestyle. Trump is also dropping to double-digit deficits in national polls, and Parscale "suffered something of a mortal wound" after only 6,000 people showed up to Trump's Tulsa rally three weeks ago, an embarrassment "Trump could not let go of," the Times reports.Parscale is close with Trump's adult children, though, and his company is the conduit to paying Eric Trump's wife and Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend. Several campaign aides emphasized to the Times that "Parscale was being asked to stay on, unlike others who have been let go from the Trump orbit."More stories from theweek.com Maryland's GOP governor publishes a scathing indictment of Trump's coronavirus response Trump attacks Biden's housing desegregation proposal as a plot to 'abolish our suburbs' Donald Trump is destroying the Post Office

Kentucky Democratic party stalwart sentenced to prison

Kentucky businessman and Democrat Party stalwart Jerry Lundergan was sentenced on Thursday to 21 months in prison for making illegal contributions to the failed U.S. Senate campaign of his daughter, former Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. Prosecutors said Lundergan, 73, orchestrated a scheme to funnel more than $200,000 in illegal contributions to Grimes' 2014 campaign against Republican Mitch McConnell.

Tiger Woods Is at Ease and in Contention After Layoff

By BY BILL PENNINGTON from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/39bxAfO