Obama made a high-profile intervention as he expressed his concerns over Trump’s actions during his White House tenure thus far during his Democratic National Convention (DNC) speech, suggesting his successor had not risen to the gravitas of the role and was incapable of doing so. Trump quickly resorted to his Obamagate line of attack against the former Democratic president, criticizing him in all-caps Tweets in rebuke of the pointed remarks against his capabilities....

Trump spoke to Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Friday night and criticized the case against the 18-year-old Rittenhouse, saying he believed it had been “prosecutorial misconduct.” Rittenhouse had been faced with a number of charges. Those charges included first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide. He was acquitted on all counts. “I think that it was a great decision,” Trump told Ingraham. “I was surprised it had to go this far....

“There have been 29 times a vacancy opened during an election year, or prior to an inauguration. 29 times, that’s a lot. Every single time, the sitting president made a nomination. That included—you ever hear of George Washington? Did you ever hear of Thomas Jefferson? Or how about the great Abraham Lincoln?” Trump said. “Think of it, 29 times. Every single time, nobody said, ‘Oh, let’s not fill the seat....

In a lengthy year-end newsletter to his supporters on Tuesday, the former president praised his administration’s coronavirus response and concluded that he handled the pandemic “exceptionally well.” “It’s not even close,” he wrote. More than two years after SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the world is no closer to knowing the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19, a disease that has now killed more than 819,000 Americans and claimed more than 5....

In his second campaign event of the day in Pennsylvania, Trump continued to criticize Biden’s energy policies, including Biden’s stance on fracking. Pennsylvania’s second-largest export is energy. Trump has repeatedly said that “if Biden wins, China wins” while discussing Biden’s energy stance. On Monday, Trump showed a video highlighting Biden’s past positive comments about China to the crowd. “Joe Biden Doesn’t Support American Workers,” read a legend at the beginning of the clip....

The Democrat-controlled House Ways and Means Committee voted to publicly release six years of the former president’s long-sought tax returns on Tuesday. The long legal battle for the records ended last month, when a Supreme Court decision finally authorized the release of the documents to Congress. Trump bucked tradition by refusing to release his tax records when he first ran for president in 2016, claiming that he couldn’t, due to an ongoing IRS audit....

Trump took to his social media site Truth Social early on Wednesday and criticized the search of his Florida residence, where FBI agents reportedly seized a dozen boxes as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents. “The FBI and others from the Federal Government would not let anyone, including my lawyers, be anywhere near the areas that were rummaged and otherwise looked at during the raid on Mar-a-Lago,” Trump wrote....

Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld, who also offered his own criticisms of Fallon and Kimmel, while Trump recalled a famous incident when Fallon touched his hair in 2016. The former president has been the subject of many jokes at the hands of Fallon, who hosts The Tonight Show on NBC, and Kimmel, who helms Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC. Trump praised Gutfeld, saying he was both funny and serious and that his show was doing well before discussing the late-night comedians....

Biden has made a point of criticizing Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, implying that his experience with the U.S. H1N1 outbreak in 2009 provided him with the knowhow to lead the U.S. response to COVID-19. Trump has claimed that a Biden administration would shut down the country again leading to a host of negative effects. On Thursday, Trump said the coronavirus differed from H1N1 because it was easier to transmit and contract....

The ex-president voiced support for his supporters arrested over the storming of the U.S. Capitol building, while addressing a large crowd in Selma during his “Save America” rally. Listing GOP aims, Trump told the crowd: “We will, while we’re at it, demand justice for the January 6 prisoners and full protection of their civil rights. Like was received by ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter, who murdered people throughout our country....

An eight-page letter sent Tuesday by White House counsel Pat Cipollone branded the inquiry an attempt by Democrats to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election and to influence the upcoming 2020 presidential election. The impeachment inquiry came following whistleblower allegations that claim President Donald Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate a potential political rival. In a July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Trump discussed Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son Hunter....

Last year, the clock remained at 100 seconds to midnight, where it has been since 2020, but tensions between Russia and Ukraine this year could edge the minute hand even closer to 12 o’clock. The Doomsday Clock is a visual representation of just how close humanity is to destroying life as we know it, with midnight representing the eruption of a global catastrophe. When the clock was first unveiled at the start of the Cold War in 1947, it was set at seven minutes to midnight....

A 51st-minute goal from Josip Brekalo proved to be the match-winner as Stuttgart overcame Dortmund 2-1 at Mercedes-Benz Arena Friday. Dortmund 11/1 for the Bundesliga Earlier, Marc Bartra and goalkeeper Roman Burki had gifted Chadrac Akolo the hosts’ opener before Maximilian Philipp equalised after Andre Schurrle’s penalty was saved. Bosz, whose team are now winless in five league matches, was left upset by the result and the way his side conceded....

There will be a lot more who believe that it is a possibility for this Mexico team after a fine performance under tough circumstances to defeat Cameroon 1-0 in Natal and tie Brazil on three points at the top of Group A. Oribe Peralta took the standing ovation for his 61st-minute goal, but Giovani Dos Santos was the star of the show as Mexico dominated, with Cameroon only showing the briefest flashes of quality....

Now, as McDermott starts his final postseason as a collegian, he adds the title of Sporting News Player of the Year to his list of accomplishments. MORE: Sporting News’ Players of the Year, 1943-2014 McDermott leads the nation in scoring, shoots better than 52 percent from the floor and had his team running neck-and-neck with conference champion Villanova, a team the Bluejays swept. His accomplishments didn’t stop there. He scored 39 points in a 63-60 victory over St....

The husband-and-wife team of Elizabeth Diller, 48, and Ricardo Scofidio, 67, have built almost no conventional structures, but they express their cleverly subversive ideas in projects–mostly art installations–that comment on culture, technology and our dearly held assumptions. Some of their best work is on view through May 25 at the Whitney Museum in New York, in the show “Scanning: The Aber-rant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio.” In “Master/Slave,” a battalion of toy robots loops endlessly on conveyor belts, under constant video surveillance (a frequent D?...

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases made the comments in response to a question about what the Biden administration can do in its first days in order to tackle the spread of the novel coronavirus. Fauci told NPR on Thursday that the new administration will also likely “put a lot of effort” into accelerating the rollout of the vaccine program. “We want to get it to one million vaccinations per day, as the president-elect has mentioned,” Fauci said....

Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been a member of the White House coronavirus task force since its inception in January. Although positive cases of the coronavirus have declined in some areas of the U.S., Fauci told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that surges of the virus as the weather grows cooler are possible. Those increases in COVID-19 cases could affect how Americans normally celebrate the November holiday....

Paying down slightly in the captain’s slot allows plenty of the studs to fill my two lineups. The biggest omissions are Ben Simmons and Chris Paul, but we were able to fit Joel Embiid, Kemba Walker and Tobias Harris in the first lineup and Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell and Danilo Gallinari in the second. A few value plays round them out and give us a good shot at big nights....