21 days ago
By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - If President Donald Trump repeats claims in a national address on Thursday that the 2020 election was stolen from him, as many experts expect, he would not just be rehashing old conspiracy theories.
He would, they say, be threatening the very integrity of forthcoming U.S. elections, including the November midterms.
Reuters reported earlier this week that Trump's forthcoming speech would cover purported voting machine vulnerabilities and that the White House was weighing whether to release controversial intelligence to do with China's intentions or abilities to disrupt the 2020 vote.
Both of those topics are staples of Republican conspiracy theories that Beijing or other foreign powers swung the election in favor of Trump's opponent, Democrat Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - If President Donald Trump repeats claims in a national address on Thursday that the 2020 election was stolen from him, as many experts expect, he would not just be rehashing old conspiracy theories.
He would, they say, be threatening the very integrity of forthcoming U.S. elections, including the November midterms.
Reuters reported earlier this week that Trump's forthcoming speech would cover purported voting machine vulnerabilities and that the White House was weighing whether to release controversial intelligence to do with China's intentions or abilities to disrupt the 2020 vote.
Both of those topics are staples of Republican conspiracy theories that Beijing or other foreign powers swung the election in favor of Trump's opponent, Democrat Joe Biden.
1 month ago
Have you ever walked along a beach and wondered about the reason behind the large concrete blocks or bits of rusting metal emerging from the shingle?
Recent storms and shifting sands have exposed various World War Two sea defences at sites in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Today, the East Anglian coast is a largely peaceful sight, but from summer 1940 it was a place of frenzied construction.
"It was frantic throughout July, August and September in 1940, as they constructed defences as fast as they could to block an invasion all along the UK coast," said Dave Thurlow, who works at the RSPB reserve north of Sizewell in Suffolk.
Very little had been done to build defences around the United Kingdom until after the British Expeditionary Force was forced to evacuate from the beaches of Dunkirk.
Recent storms and shifting sands have exposed various World War Two sea defences at sites in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Today, the East Anglian coast is a largely peaceful sight, but from summer 1940 it was a place of frenzied construction.
"It was frantic throughout July, August and September in 1940, as they constructed defences as fast as they could to block an invasion all along the UK coast," said Dave Thurlow, who works at the RSPB reserve north of Sizewell in Suffolk.
Very little had been done to build defences around the United Kingdom until after the British Expeditionary Force was forced to evacuate from the beaches of Dunkirk.
2 months ago
Police in Kansas City, Missouri, are searching for a person they describe as "armed and dangerous" who is wanted in connection with a string of shootings that killed one person and injured four others. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports.
