Biden to Visit Kenosha Thursday, Two Days After Trump

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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says he is visiting Kenosha, Wisconsin, Thursday, two days after Republican President Donald Trump walked along a street in the Midwestern city left in rubble in the aftermath of civil unrest spawned by the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer.   Biden’s campaign said the former vice president would hold a community meeting in Kenosha, a 100,000-resident city on the shores of Lake Michigan.   “What we want to do is — we’ve got to heal,” Biden said at a news conference Wednesday. “We’ve got to put things together. Bringmore

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Markey Defeats Kennedy in Massachusetts Senate Primary

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U.S. Senator Ed Markey won a high-profile Democratic primary Tuesday, defeating a challenge by Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy III.The 39-year-old Kennedy had cast the 74-year-old Markey as out of touch after a long career in Congress and drew a late endorsement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.But Markey had strong popularity in Massachusetts and had the support of prominent progressives in the Democratic Party, including Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Markey will be a strong favorite in the general election in November when he faces Republican candidate Kevin O’Connor.Several Democratic House incumbents also fended off primary challengers Tuesday.House Ways andmore

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Melania Trump’s Ex-Adviser Says She Taped Calls for Protection

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A former friend and adviser of Melania Trump said Tuesday that she made recordings of her conversations with the first lady because she needed evidence to protect herself amid questions about the costs of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, whose book “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady,” was released this week, helped produce Trump’s inauguration and later worked for the first lady as an unpaid White House adviser. Wolkoff left the White House in February 2018 when her contract was terminated. The White House blasted the book as “full ofmore

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Facebook, Twitter Suspend Russian Network Ahead of Election

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Facebook said Tuesday that it removed a small network of accounts and pages linked to Russia’s Internet Research Agency, the “troll factory” that has used social media accounts to sow political discord in the U.S. since the 2016 presidential election.  Twitter also suspended five related accounts. The company said the tweets from these Russia-linked accounts “were low quality and spammy” and that most received few, if any, likes or retweets. The people behind the accounts recruited “unwitting” freelance journalists to post in English and Arabic, mainly targeting left-leaning audiences. Facebook said Tuesday the network’s activity focused on the U.S., U.K., Algeria and Egypt and other English-speaking countriesmore

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Pentagon: China Expected to Double Nukes in Next Decade

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A new Pentagon report predicts that China will “at least double” the size of its nuclear warhead stockpile over the next decade as it pursues its own nuclear triad to conduct nuclear strikes by land, sea and air. China’s modernization and expansion of its nuclear force is part of a broader effort aimed at matching, and in some cases surpassing, the United States military by 2049 as the dominant power in the Indo-Pacific region, according to the Pentagon’s annual “China Military Power” report to Congress that was released Tuesday. The report said the number of Chinese nuclear warheads is currently estimated tomore

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Treasury Secretary: COVID-19 Economic Aid ‘Still Needed’

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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Tuesday a second massive round of aid addressing the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is “still needed,” even as the U.S. economy is showing signs of recovery.  Mnuchin’s testimony comes as talks for a second round of aid have remained stalled on Capitol Hill since $600 a week in expanded federal unemployment benefits to millions of out-of-work Americans expired in late July.  Congressional Democrats have proposed an extension of those benefits, while Republicans have put forward a proposal that would cap benefits at 70% of a worker’s earnings. The overall price tag for amore

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