Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump, confronted with a damaging report that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and allied troops in Afghanistan, declared Sunday on Twitter that he was about the finding by U.S. intelligence.Democrats including Trump’s prospective presidential rival, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized Trump’s seeming indifference to the explosive report in Friday’s New York Times. Neither Trump nor other administration officials have specifically denied the report, which has since been...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump, confronted with a damaging report that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and allied troops in Afghanistan, declared Sunday on Twitter that he was about the finding by U.S. intelligence.Democrats including Trump’s prospective presidential rival, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized Trump’s seeming indifference to the explosive report in Friday’s New York Times. Neither Trump nor other administration officials have specifically denied the report, which has since been...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement America is having a conversation with itself, in voices that ring with rage, despair — and, sometimes, hope. For nearly two weeks, street protests have, leaping cities and towns in an electrifying arc, reverberating far beyond the Minneapolis street corner where a white police officer of a black man, George Floyd, and kept it there for nearly nine minutes.That image — and all it evoked about America’s disturbing past and troubled present — was seared into the collective consciousness. Floyd’s last words — “I can’t breathe” — were at...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement America is having a conversation with itself, in voices that ring with rage, despair — and, sometimes, hope. For nearly two weeks, street protests have, leaping cities and towns in an electrifying arc, reverberating far beyond the Minneapolis street corner where a white police officer of a black man, George Floyd, and kept it there for nearly nine minutes.That image — and all it evoked about America’s disturbing past and troubled present — was seared into the collective consciousness. Floyd’s last words — “I can’t breathe” — were at...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The nation’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 in less than four months on Wednesday, a heart-rending inflection point in a pandemic that has profoundly altered Americans’ daily lives, ravaged the U.S. economy and put the country’s bare-knuckle political disunity on display for all the world to see. Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The first...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The nation’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 in less than four months on Wednesday, a heart-rending inflection point in a pandemic that has profoundly altered Americans’ daily lives, ravaged the U.S. economy and put the country’s bare-knuckle political disunity on display for all the world to see. Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The first...WW…