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June 30, 2020
Amy McGrath overcame a bumpier-than-expected Kentucky primary to win the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination Tuesday, fending off progressive Charles Booker.
Barack Obama theGrio.com
June 30, 2020
Report says Barack Obama speaks with the Joe Biden campaign regarding the election and may be called in to help…
Donald Trump theGrio.com
June 30, 2020
White House officials were aware in 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for…
Donald Trump theGrio.com
June 30, 2020
President Donald Trump received backlash for retweeting a clip of one of his supporters from The Villages shouting “White Power.”
June 30, 2020
"Begin Again" author Eddie Glaude shares books to help contextualize the uprisings, racial reckoning and possible reconstruction of America in…
Mayor Quinton Lucas theGrio.com
June 30, 2020
Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, posted a screenshot of a racist message that he received in response to…
June 30, 2020
Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced plans to slash $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget and defer funds to public…
June 29, 2020
House Democrats and Republicans clashed at a hearing on U.S. Park Police's use of force to clear protesters before Trump's…
June 29, 2020
Reddit and Twitch on Monday banned a forum that supported President Donald Trump and Trump's account, respectively, as part of a crackdown…
June 29, 2020
The city of Jacksonville, Florida, where mask-averse Donald Trump plans to accept the Republican nomination, ordered the wearing of face…
Donald Trump theGrio.com
June 29, 2020
Qasem Soleimani was killed by a U.S. drone strike in at a Baghdad airport and in response, Iran issued an…
Supreme Court theGrio.com
June 29, 2020
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over…
June 28, 2020
Mississippi lawmakers voted Sunday to surrender the Confederate battle emblem from their state flag, triggering raucous applause and cheers.
Mike Pence theGrio.com
June 28, 2020
In an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation on Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence thinks Black Lives Matter is a "radical-left…
June 28, 2020
Worldwide confirmed coronavirus infections hit the 10 million mark Sunday as voters in Poland and France went to the polls…