(Reuters) – A fast-moving wildfire that has killed one person and destroyed more than a dozen homes in the drought-parched canyons northwest of Los Angeles, had scorched more than 33,000 acres of land by early Monday, fire officials said. Authorities said the so-called Sand Fire grew from 22,000 acres, or more than 34 square miles […]
The head of the U.S. Democratic Party resigned Sunday on the eve of the party’s national convention set to affirm former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as its 2016 presidential nominee. Debbie Wasserman Schultz quit the post amid a furor over leaked emails that show party leaders mocked and criticized the upstart campaign of […]
Division instead of unity is a dominant narrative at the the Republican National Convention, as Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s criticisms of presidential nominee Donald Trump spilled over into the final day of the four day event. Speaking to his home state delegation Thursday at the convention in the midwestern city of Cleveland, Cruz said he […]
CLEVELAND—Hopes by Donald Trump and the Republican Party to hold a carefully scripted national convention were thrown into disarray Monday, after a chaotic shouting match erupted on the convention floor, displaying long-standing tensions between pro- and anti-Trump factions of the party. In scenes of disorder not seen in a Republican convention in several decades, hundreds […]