Biden calls former VP Mondale 'giant' of political history
President Joe Biden has saluted his โfriend of five decadesโ Walter Mondale, traveling to the University of Minnesota to remember the former vice president and Democratic Party elder whose memorial service was delayed for a year due to the pandemic.
Biden warns of US peril from Trump's 'dagger' at democracy
President Joe Biden is forcefully accusing Donald Trump and his supporters of holding a โdagger at the throat of democracyโ with his election lies that sparked last yearโs deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.
College cancels Meacham talk over Planned Parenthood ties
A conservative Christian university in Alabama has withdrawn an invitation for Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham to speak during inaugural activities for its new president.
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Biden, Harris: Protect voting rights to honor John Lewis
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are both marking the one-year anniversary of the death U.S. Rep. John Lewis by urging Congress to enact laws to protect voting rights.
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Hundreds of historians call for Trump's removal from office
This combination photo shows Pulitzer-Prize winning authors, from left, Ron Chernow, Garry Wills and Jon Meacham, who are among hundreds of historians who have signed an open letter calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office. The letter comes after last weeks siege of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. (AP Photo)NEW YORK โ Pulitzer-Prize winners Garry Wills, Ron Chernow, Jon Meacham and Stacy Schiff are among hundreds of historians who have signed an open letter calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office after last week's siege of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. Others endorsing it include Douglas Brinkley, David Blight, Mary Beth Norton, Rick Atkinson, Diane McWhorter and Rick Perlstein. With days left in Trumpโs presidency, the Democratic-led House of Representatives is preparing to impeach Trump this week.
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`The books that see her through': Winfrey suggests seven
NEW YORK โ With Election Day approaching and the pandemic ongoing, Oprah Winfrey is setting aside her usual book club recommendations and instead citing seven personal favorites, ranging from James Baldwin's landmark essays in โThe Fire Next Timeโ to Mary Oliver's poetry collection โDevotions.โWinfrey is calling her choices โThe Books That See Me Through," works she values for โtheir ability to comfort, inspire, and enlighten.โ"Itโs a mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and spirituality, books I know and trust and revisit time and again,โ she said in a statement Monday. Winfrey had planned a new choice every two months; her previous selection, Isabel Wilkerson's โCaste,โ was announced in early August. Winfrey spokesperson Chelsea Hettrick said the seven books announced Monday would serve as โa bridge between selections,โ and that no firm timeline had been set for future choices. โThis year has brought such unprecedented change overall. We will re-evaluate in the coming weeks the selection plan and timing for the remainder of 2020,โ she said.
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Trump, Biden prepare to debate at a time of mounting crises
Guests for the first presidential debate take their seats, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Chaotic first debate: Taunts overpower Trump, Biden visions
Over and over, Trump tried to control the conversation, interrupting Biden and repeatedly talking over the moderator, Chris Wallace of Fox News. The president tried to deflect tough lines of questioning โ whether on his taxes or the pandemic โ to deliver broadsides against Biden. Give me a name,โ Trump said, before Biden mentioned the far right, violent group known as the Proud Boys. Trump then pointedly did not condemn the group, instead saying, โProud Boys, stand back, stand by. Trump snarled a response, declaring that โI'll tell you Joe, you could never have done the job that we did.
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Trump, Biden prepare to debate at a time of mounting crises
Preparations take place for the first Presidential debate in the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, in Cleveland. The first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to take place Tuesday, Sept. 29. The health emergency has upended the usual trappings of a presidential campaign, lending heightened importance to the debate. โIf Biden is unable to indict Trump for all that he has done, (that) would be profound failure. Despite the upheaval, the presidential race has remained largely unchanged since Biden seized control of the Democratic field in March.
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Julia Reed, chronicler of Southern life and food, dies at 59
Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, has died. Reed died Friday of cancer, the editors of Garden & Gun magazine said in a post on the magazine's website. She attended parties with the likes of former Secretary of State and Army Gen. Colin Powell and former Vice President Al Gore, but was a champion of her native Mississippi, according to Meacham. A chapter in her book, Julia Reeds South, eventually led her to dedicate an entire book on how to party and dine in New Orleans, The Times Picayune/New Orleans Advocate reported. She called it Julia Reeds New Orleans: Food, Fun and Field Trips for Letting the Good Times Roll.In addition, Reed served on the board of the Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans, the newspaper said.
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Four more years? Trump struggles to outline second term plan
NEW YORK President Donald Trump is adamant that he wants another four years in office. But he offered few clues about what he would do if he remains in the White House. He similarly stammered through an interview last month when pressed by a friendly TV host to talk about what a second term would look like. Trump is reshaping his campaign, announcing Wednesday that veteran GOP operative Bill Stepien will replace Brad Parscale as campaign manager. When asked for the presidents second-term agenda, the White House pointed to Trumps response to COVID-19 but offered little in the way of specifics.
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Remembering the slave who joined Jefferson in Philadelphia
In this June 30, 2020, photo, a man walks in front of the Declaration House in Philadelphia. Countless words have been written about the Declaration of Independence and Thomas Jefferson, but few about Robert Hemings, the slave who was on hand as Jefferson famously declared that All men are created equal. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)NEW YORK In the early summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson worked away in the second floor parlor of a boardinghouse in downtown Philadelphia. His father was the slave owner John Wayles, Thomas Jeffersons future father-in-law; his mother was a slave, Elizabeth Hemings. Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman with whom Jefferson fathered several children, was Robert Hemings sister, and Jeffersons future wife, Martha Wayles, was his half-sister.