(Headline USA) Ranked choice voting will be used for the first time in a presidential race under a ruling Tuesday by the Maine Supreme Court, which concluded a GOP petition drive came up short.
The Supreme Judicial Court concluded that the Maine Republican Party failed to reach the threshold of signatures...
(Headline USA) The “H” word — hypocrisy — is suddenly in vogue at the Capitol as lawmakers debate how quickly to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed that President Donald Trump’s as-yet unnamed nominee...
(Headline USA) A federal judge ruled Monday that absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin can be counted up to six days after the Nov. 3 presidential election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
The highly anticipated ruling, unless overturned, means that the outcome of the presidential race in Wisconsin...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio--Cortez, D-N.Y., speculated this weekend that presidential candidate Joe Biden will “likely” move farther to the Left once elected due to the influence of the Democratic Party’s left-wing.
When asked if she and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are concerned that Biden is too moderate for their platforms, Ocasio-Cortez...
In a matter of days, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., is set to release his committee’s report on its investigation into the foreign business dealings of presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Johnson hinted during an interview this weekend that what his committee discovered could disqualify Biden from the...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump says he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday, after funeral services for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
He told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that he had a list of five finalists, “probably four,” and that he is pushing for a...
(Headline USA) Four years ago, the allure of conservative Supreme Court appointments helped persuade skeptical Republicans to support Donald Trump for president.
Two years ago, a contentious clash over Trump's choice of Brett Kavanaugh for the court was credited with bolstering GOP gains in the Senate in an otherwise bad midterm...
(Headline USA) The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election cast an immediate spotlight on the crucial high court vacancy, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell quickly vowing to bring to a vote whoever President Donald Trump nominates.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden vigorously disagreed,...
(Headline USA) A presidential campaign that was already tugging at the nation’s most searing divides has been jolted by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, potentially reshaping the election at a moment when some Americans were beginning to cast ballots.
For months, the contest has largely centered on...
(Headline USA) A solidly blue state for the past half century, Minnesota became an unquestioned presidential battleground on Friday as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden fought for working-class voters in dueling events that marked the beginning of early voting.
The candidates steered clear of the state's most...
Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden desperately tried to salvage the loss of another solid blue state while campaigning Friday in Duluth, Minnesota.
Biden met with passers by in the city's downtown area, drawing a crowd of around 200.
It was the largest in-person crowd Biden has had since the pandemic exploded...
(Headline USA) House Democrats on Friday prepared a temporary spending bill that is needed to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month — and that would allow lawmakers to leave Washington to campaign.
It's a lowest-common-denominator, bare-minimum measure that befits a deeply polarized Congress. Even so, it...