Friday's Headlines: Trump unleashes broadsides against Biden, criticizes ‘Democrat-run’ cities
Trump's speech was a tidal wave of false claims and revisionist history; Few masks, little distancing: Trump celebrates at crowded White House party largely devoid of virus precautions; Trump's convention speech was selling a fantasy version of himself; Convention spins alternate reality with torrent of falsehoods aimed at buoying Trump's flagging campaign; Laura devastated a narrow path north of the Gulf Coast; Before a fatal shooting, teenage Kenosha suspect idolized the police; Trump presented the mother of all fabrications on the White House lawn; Trump desecrates a public monument in the finale to a convention of lies; Trump will endanger American lives if it helps him get reelected; America's excessive reliance on sanctions will come back to haunt it; The 'missing' immigrant voters whose absence might swing the election; Americans shouldn't be forced to invest in China's military; Senators seek federal probe over use of drug in nursing homes; Jobless Americans say they won't forget that Congress let benefits lapse; White House announces deal to provide 150 million rapid coronavirus tests; A Black man, the police and a story that's on repeat in America
President Trump delivered a scathing and wholesale attack on Democrat Joe Biden and fiercely defended his stewardship of a nation buffeted by historic crises, appealing to voters for a second term in an election he said would either preserve or destroy the "American way of life."
The event projected to millions that a president whose approval ratings have fallen amid the pandemic has returned to business as usual, even if most Americans have not.
The president's speech and its setting provided a view into the mind of a vainglorious man who believes that he is the Constitution and his is the righteous party of God.
While all political confabs involve some level of spin and revisionism, the Republican National Convention this year has stood out for its brazen defiance of facts, according to experts on propaganda and misinformation.
The hurricane made landfall as a Category 4 storm, killing at least four residents, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power and dumping massive amounts of rain on the region.
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The 17-year-old, who has been charged with homicide, shadowed local law enforcement as a cadet and filled his social media feeds with posts declaring that "Blue Lives Matter."
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They are calling on federal authorities to determine whether providers improperly treated patients with hydroxychloroquine, failed to disclose serious side effects or faced any repercussions from regulators responsible for oversight of the industry.
Millions of desperate Americans, some facing evictions or having trouble paying bills, are livid that Congress left them in the lurch when the $600-a-week benefit expired.
The move is the federal government's biggest step into testing for the virus that has killed more than 177,000 Americans and infected more than 5.8 million.
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