Sen. Baldwin Draws on Inequities in Health Care, Wealth in Convention Speech

coronavirus pandemic.At Walgreens stores nationwide, team members are going above and beyond for customers and each other.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterHaim Saban, the media billionaire who is a fixture in Democratic Party fundraising, is organizing a $500,000-per-person fundraiser for Joe Biden next Monday.Saban has long said he is “a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.” In a statement supporting Biden, Saban said the former vice president will “ensure that the strong, bipartisan alliance between the U.S.

Bosses in Oldham say they can ‘offer lessons learned’ to Bolton on how to bring down a coronavirus spike after they narrowly avoided a full local lockdown.In the middle of August the borough was balanced on a knife edge with the threat of an economic shutdown looming.However nearly a month later and the number of new infections in Oldham has dropped significantly – although it remains in the ‘red zone’.In the week leading to September 9 the rate of infection per 100,000 people was 58.2 – down

Bolton has been met by with surprise and confusion.From today, the town is no longer included in the Greater Manchester-wide lockdown despite a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in recent days.The latest data shows that Bolton currently has the second highest rate of new coronavirus infections in the country.There were 170 new cases in the week from August 23 to 29, with the infection rate now standing at 59.1 per 100,000 people.This has quickly risen from 18.4 the week before, when 53 people

Bolton council leader David Greenhalgh confirmed the council will ask for restrictions banning different households from meeting indoors or private gardens to remain in place.In a statement, he said: “It is with a heavy heart that the cabinet and officer team have come to this decision and this will be incredibly disappointing for both residents and business owners.“We urged the government to lift Bolton out of the additional restrictions at a time when infection rates were low.

Donald Trump's acceptance speech, the nation heads into the fall campaign as divided as it ever was.“This was unquestionably the best Donald Trump production ever,” ABC News analyst Sara Fagen said as fireworks burst over Washington.“This was repugnant,” said MSNBC's Joy Reid.There was a weariness in analysts' voices following two weeks of conventions in the COVID-19 era — mostly virtual for the Democrats and, for the Republicans, a collection of mostly pretaped speeches concluding with a

Former US president Barack Obama is among those to have paid tribute to “blessed” actor Chadwick Boseman, who has died aged 43 after a battle with cancer.

Richard Grenell, the former acting director of national intelligence hailed by gay conservatives for being the first openly gay Cabinet member, made no mention of his sexual orientation or LGBTQ issues in his speech Thursday at the Republican National Convention.

President Donald Trump is officially the Republican Candidate in the 2020 Presidential Election.

inflammatory anti-LGBTQ statements he’s made over the years — Graham Lynch took aim at Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s record on various LGBTQ issues during the Obama administration and cast a Biden-Harris administration as a threat to the First Amendment rights of people who oppose homosexuality, transgenderism, or same-sex marriage on religious grounds.Graham Lynch called on devout Americans to “liv[e] out our faith in our daily lives, in our schools, in our jobs, and yes, even in the public

Seconds after former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi accused Joe Biden of nepotism, the president’s youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention.

History was made Aug. 11 when Joe Biden announced California Sen.

Joe Biden as he accepted his party's nomination for president of the United States. After a full week of stirring videos of people across America and speeches from some of the most powerful and influential members of the Democratic party, Biden put a pin in the DNC with a quote from the poet Seamus Heaney, saying that this was "our moment" and "our mission" to "make hope and history rhyme." But the hosts of late-night TV had the final word of the night.

Ted Johnson, Dominic Patten “Family, family, family.”That was the  motto of the video that introduced Joe Biden on the final night of the virtual Democratic National Convention, and showed just how the COVID-19 forced transformation of a national tradition could produce something in many cases more intimate.Far from the cheering crowd of delegates that have characterized American political conventions for decades, the former vice president’s big night was the culmination of finely tuned

Joe Biden is receiving lots of praise for the speech that he just gave while accepting the Democratic presidential nomination during the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

the third day of the Democratic National Convention.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAt 18, first-time voter Billie Eilish is the youngest music artist to appear at the Democratic National Convention, and she made the most of the platform, delivering a strong speech against President Donald Trump, advocating Joe Biden and imploring Americans to vote.She was introduced by host Kerry Washington, who spoke of the voter-registration booths at Eilish’s concerts — which were present before the singer was old enough to vote — and her efforts to reduce the