Wearing a yellow skirt that reached just below her knees, a black and white shirt, and a sunbonnet, 15-year-old Amelia Staffeldt planned to pick dandelions. But after she crossed the road to the old Steitz farm, she was attacked and stabbed twice behind her right ear. It looked as if the murderer had also tried […]
“We need corporate welfare reform.” Near the end of a speech that included hyperbole, vitriol, and some straight-up attacks on capitalism, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien told the Republican delegates something they needed to hear. “The biggest recipients of welfare in this country are corporations,” O’Brien said, “and this is real corruption.” Republicans understand well that […]
Former President Trump turned the 2024 Republican National Convention into a campaign rally in his first speech since surviving an assassination attempt, claiming God was on his side during the shooting and calling for his party to unify to “save this country.” Trump divulged the details of his near-death experience as he addressed thousands in...
Dancing, pomp and celebration and a star-studded line up of speakers headlined an eventful four days that culminated in former President Trump formally accepting the GOP’s nomination for president. Here are some of the most memorable moments from the 2024 Republican National Convention. Trump tells the story of the shooting Trump recounted the story of...
The Biden campaign on Thursday ripped former President Trump's convention speech as a rambling attempt to mask his "extreme vision" for a second term, while touting President Biden's intention to stay in the race. Biden campaign chair Jen O'Malley Dillon in a statement sought to connect Trump to Project 2025, a controversial policy blueprint from...
MILWAUKEE — Former President Trump on Thursday formally accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president with a lengthy speech that was part emotional recounting of a near-death experience and part rambling rendition of his greatest hits. Here are five notable moments from Trump’s keynote address. Trump makes ostentatious entrance The former president is a showman,...