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Wisconsin governor Tony Evers declined the federal government’s offer on Tuesday to send additional National Guard members to Kenosha, the lakefront city that has faced widespread rioting and unrest after police shot Jacob Blake, a White House staffer said Wednesday. “Local law enforcement in Wisconsin have told the White House they need at least 750 …

President Donald Trump’s approval rating has risen in six swing states over the last two weeks as voter concerns about the coronavirus have waned, a new poll shows. While the boost still leaves Trump trailing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden — Biden is leading Trump 49 percent to 46 percent across the six states — …

In his speech to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.) praised President Trump as the first president in years to attempt to bring America’s foreign wars to an end. “President Trump is the first president in a generation to seek to end war, rather than start one,” Paul said. “Madison …

The Trump administration is considering whether to formally label China’s treatment of Uighurs a “genocide,” Politico reported on Tuesday. A genocide designation by the U.S. government could have political and legal consequences for the country. If the genocide label is approved, it could pressure the U.S. to intervene in some form to counteract the genocide, though …

President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would nominate acting Department of Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf to fill the role in a full-time capacity. “I am pleased to inform the American Public that Acting Secretary Chad Wolf will be nominated to be the Secretary of Homeland Security,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Chad has done …

The mainstream press has so far ignored House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to label Congressional Republicans and members of the Trump Administration “enemies of the state,” despite providing wall-to-wall coverage of President Trump’s use of the term “the enemy of the American People” to describe the press in 2017. Pelosi, appearing Monday with Ayman Mohyeldin …

At the RNC four years ago, I thought Trump couldn’t win the White House and that his nomination would destroy the Republican Party. I was wrong. When the Republican Party formally nominated Donald Trump four years ago at the national convention in Cleveland, I thought the GOP was making huge mistake. It seemed Trump would …

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project was forced to delete a viral tweet that falsely claimed President Trump “relished” in a convention supporter calling former President Barack Obama a “monkey,” while the video clearly shows the term was not used. “When President Trump mentioned Obama, someone from the crowd shouted, “Monkey!” and the president relished in it. …

TikTok sued the U.S. government on Monday, accusing the Trump administration of denying the company its due process rights by moving to ban the video-sharing app. “We do not take suing the government lightly, however we feel we have no choice but to take action to protect our rights, and the rights of our community …

New York attorney general Letitia James is investigating the Trump Organization for allegedly inflating the value of their assets to secure loans, according to a legal document filed on Monday. The attorney general’s office is probing “Statements of Financial Condition” sent to lenders regarding assets and debts, the document noted. The office began its investigation …