In Portland, Robert McCullough, an energy economist who describes himself as a “liberal Republican,” was struck by Judge Kavanaugh’s emotional tone as he pilloried Democrats on the committee and cried as he talked about how the charges had affected his family and children. “For an experienced judge to issue such a tirade is very unusual,”…
ON SEPTEMBER 16th America learned the identity of a woman who says she was assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, while in high school. Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor in California, told the Washington Post that as a 17-year-old, Mr Kavanaugh, with the help a male friend, cornered…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — The show onstage might well have been called Fox & Friend. As President Trump wrapped up the midterm election cycle with a late-night rally in southeast Missouri on Monday, he was joined by a trio of conservative media rock stars. Introducing the president as he stumped for Republican candidates was Rush…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford both gave evidence on Thursday President Donald Trump has ordered an FBI investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against his nominee for the US Supreme Court.A Senate committee earlier voted to approve Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the top US court.But a Republican…
Enlarge / The 10.5-inch iPad Pro. Andrew CunninghamWhile exploring the Setup app in iOS 12, 9to5Mac discovered an identifier referring to an iPad labeled "iPad2018Fall". The identifier also added to a bevy of evidence and reports suggesting a new iPad Pro model is imminent. That's not the only hint about new iPads in the iOS…
But Mr. Leahy indicated that documents marked “committee confidential” show that Manuel Miranda, then a Republican staffer on the Judiciary Committee, had sent Judge Kavanaugh emails about Mr. Leahy’s private concerns about a judicial nominee whose hearing was coming up and a draft letter Mr. Leahy had not yet sent. He also suggested that the…
U.S. voters will decide whether Republicans keep control of Congress in national elections Tuesday — amid concern that social-media misinformation, controversial ballot-access restrictions in several states and even the threat of possible election-system hacking might sway the results. Here’s the latest news on election integrity from Washington, Silicon Valley and America’s more than 170,000 polling…
Pinterest has announced the opening of its first office in Canada, which will be spearheaded by Erin Elofson, a veteran leader on sales teams at Facebook and Microsoft’s operations in Canada. Stressing international growth in general as a priority, Pinterest said in Tuesday’s announcement that more than 80% of signups coming from outside the United…
Microsoft has stopped developing new features for the touch-friendly Office Mobile apps for Windows 10, reports the Verge. Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile first made their debut with Windows 8.1. Their significance is twofold: they have a user interface that's designed to be touch-friendly, and they're built using Microsoft's modern UWP (Universal Windows…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionGusts & floods: the impact of the storm There are warnings the worst is still to come from a storm in the US that has already been linked to the deaths of at least 14 people.Storm Florence has been dumping what has been called "epic" rain as…
