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Updated: 49 minutes ago
|By Associated Press
The census is used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets, in a process known as apportionment, as well as the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending annually.
Updated: 1 hour ago
|By LARRY NEUMEISER
The decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan came after the Justice Department argued that the United States — and by extension U.S. taxpayers — should replace Trump as the defendant in a lawsuit filed by the columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Updated: 2 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The statement also urges leaders to heed the verdict of “legitimate election results” regardless of who wins in November.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By Associated Press
With more than a third of the expected ballots in the election already cast, it could become increasingly challenging for Trump and Biden to reshape the race.
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Updated: 5 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The court is weighing a plea from the president to prevent the Manhattan district attorney from acquiring his tax returns as well as appeals from his campaign to shorten the deadline for receiving and counting absentee ballots in the battleground states of North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Amy Coney Barrett is headed to the Supreme Court. The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee by a 52-48 vote, with Republicans overpowering Democratic opposition a week before Election Day.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Since 2017, the president and Republican National Committee have held several fundraisers at the president’s Washington hotel in the historic Old Post Office building, which the president’s company leases from the federal government.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Worldy Armand, a 39-year-old Boston resident, was taken into custody late Sunday after drug control unit officers on patrol saw a man who matched the description of the suspect authorities were looking for in the ballot box fire, police said.
Updated: 17 hours ago
|By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE
Stocks are slumping sharply in afternoon trading on Wall Street Monday and deepening last week’s losses, as a troubling climb in coronavirus counts threatens the global economy.
Updated: 22 hours ago
|By Associated Press
It’s possible, if unlikely that a small economic-relief package will be approved in a post-election “lame duck” session of Congress. More likely, a broad rescue measure could be enacted early next year.
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Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 9:07 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Skirmishes broke out between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump as a Jews For Trump convoy of hundreds of cars draped with American flags and Trump 2020 banners rolled slowly through Manhattan and Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon.
Updated: Oct. 26, 2020 at 6:12 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
With a bit of rejiggering, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump played host Sunday to hundreds of super-heroes, unicorns, skeletons and even a miniature version of themselves as part of a Halloween celebration at the White House.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 11:04 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The NYPD prohibits officers from “endorsing political candidates or publicly expressing personal views and opinions” about candidates while on duty or in uniform.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 10:33 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Pacific Gas & Electric started cutting power Sunday to tens of thousands of California residents and planned outages for many more to prevent the chance of sparking wildfires due to extreme fire weather.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 10:27 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Close to 8.6 million Americans have contracted the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and about 225,000 have died; both totals are the world’s highest.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 7:57 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Massachusetts election officials say a fire was set in a Boston ballot drop box holding more than 120 ballots in what appears to have been a “deliberate attack."
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 6:35 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The number of people casting an early ballot in the presidential election now surpasses those who voted early during all of 2016.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 1:17 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly Sunday to advance Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett toward final confirmation despite Democratic objections, just over a week before the presidential election.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2020 at 10:42 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The vice president's office says Pence does not have to quarantine because he is considered an essential worker.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2020 at 10:57 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
In addition to a spike in coronavirus cases in the U.S., the percentage of people who are testing positive for COVID-19 is up in many parts of the country.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2020 at 12:43 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The fast-track confirmation process is like none other in U.S. history so close to a presidential election.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2020 at 9:03 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
While gun rights advocates say fears of violence at the polls are unfounded, the toxic political atmosphere and the prospect of armed poll monitors have some worried.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2020 at 12:47 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Visitors to the U.S. Capitol and the White House can see preparations already underway for the Jan. 20 ceremony to inaugurate the to-be-determined next president.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 5:40 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The delays are a worrisome sign for voters who still have not returned their absentee ballots.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 4:14 PM CDT
|By ZEKE MILLER, JONATHAN LEMIRE and WILL WEISSERT
The coronavirus was a central topic for both candidates on Friday as Trump headed to Florida and Biden prepared to address the topic in Delaware.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 2:35 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Barrett, a federal appeals court judge, is expected to be confirmed on Monday and quickly join the court.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 12:23 PM CDT
|By DEB RIECHMANN and MATTHEW LEE
The deal, which would deepen Sudan’s engagement with the West, follows Trump’s conditional agreement this week to remove the North African nation from the list of state sponsors of terrorism if it pays compensation to American victims of terror attacks.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 10:26 AM CDT
|By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Walmart filed a lawsuit saying that the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration are blaming the company for the government’s own lack of regulatory and enforcement policies to stem the crisis.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 6:56 AM CDT
|By MARC LEVY
The campaign acknowledged the taping in a letter from a lawyer that complained it had caught voters on video illegally depositing multiple ballots. City elections officials responded they could not confirm the activity was inappropriate under Pennsylvania law.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020 at 5:50 AM CDT
|By Nick Ochsner
An order filed in federal court earlier this month outlines the plans by a man identified as Alexander Hillel Treisman, who also used the alias Alexander S. Theiss. He is being held on child pornography charges.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 11:22 PM CDT
|By JONATHAN LEMIRE, BILL BARROW and STEVE PEOPLES
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden scrapped over how to tame the raging coronavirus in Thursday’s final 2020 debate.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 7:54 PM CDT
|By ERIC TUCKER and FRANK BAJAK
The voter intimidation operation apparently used email addresses obtained from state voter registration lists, which include party affiliation and home addresses and can include email addresses and phone numbers.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 6:42 PM CDT
|By MARCY GORDON
With Democrats boycotting the hearing, the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee voted to authorize the legal orders if Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey did not agree to testify voluntarily.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The footage shows Trump growing increasingly prickly as anchor Lesley Stahl presses him on the coronavirus pandemic, his slipping support with suburban women and other issues.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 3:33 PM CDT
|By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate as Republicans powered past Democrats' boycott of the session.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 10:32 AM CDT
|By CNN staff
The double edition is filled with articles and editorials related to the election and its implications.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 8:02 AM CDT
Snowden is a former NSA contractor who fled the U.S. to avoid prosecution after allegedly publicly disclosing classified information in 2013.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 12:18 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Obama's visit underscores the significance of Pennsylvania, the swing state Biden himself has visited the most this campaign.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 11:01 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The allegations underscored the U.S. government's concern about efforts by foreign countries to influence the election by spreading false information.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 6:21 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The Senate is planning a rare weekend session to push the nominee toward confirmation on Monday.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 5:41 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief bill have taken a modest step forward, though time is running out and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Donald Trump’s most powerful Senate ally, is pressing the White House not to move ahead right now.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 4:59 PM CDT
|By Christ Anderson and Ed Payne
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said he’s willing to pay for a one-way ticket for anyone famous who wants to move from the country if President Donald Trump is re-elected.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 3:21 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
It is against federal law to intimidate voters, and officials in the affected areas are working with FBI and Homeland Security to find out who is behind the emails.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 12:29 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
A Maryland man was charged Wednesday with making death threats against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and running mate U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris in a letter left on the doorstep of a neighbor who had yard signs supporting the candidates.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 9:38 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
As Trump was on the road, Biden was meeting at his lakeside home in Wilmington, Delaware, with senior adviser Ron Klain, who is in charge of debate preparation.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 4:44 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
The families were separated between July 2017 and June 2018 under a “zero-tolerance” policy to criminally prosecute every adult who entered the country illegally from Mexico.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 11:14 PM CDT
|By WSVN Staff
As a uniformed officer, wearing a political mask supporting any candidate is "unacceptable" and a violation of police department policy, officials say.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 3:13 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that he’ll schedule a vote if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Trump administration are able to seal an agreement on a huge COVID-19 relief bill.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 2:19 PM CDT
|By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MARCY GORDON
The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2020 at 2:07 PM CDT
|By JANIE HAR
All 11 supervisors have signed on to the CAREN legislation, guaranteeing it will pass, despite some criticism that the name is sexist and divisive.