POLITICS

(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...

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., asked the Justice Department this week to investigate some of the top leftist environmental groups, arguing that Russia and China are using them to influence U.S. policies. In a letter to attorney General William Barr, Cheney said that the interests of environmentalists align with hose of...

(Headline USA) A judge on Friday cleared the way for more absentee ballots to be counted in Michigan, saying envelopes postmarked by the eve of the Nov. 3 election are eligible, even if they show up days later. The decision is significant in a state that is anticipating waves of absentee...

(Headline USA) After President Donald Trump responded to tough questioning earlier in the week at a town hall hosted by ABC and its Democrat host George Stephanopoulos, CNN created a friendly environment Thursday night for 2020 challenger Joe Biden to field softball questions to tee up attacks on the...

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump stepped up his rhetoric on cultural issues, aiming to boost enthusiasm among rural Wisconsin voters as he tries to repeat his path to victory four years ago. Making his fifth visit to the pivotal battleground state this year, he held a rally Thursday evening in Mosinee,...

(Headline USA) Former FBI Director James Comey will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, appearing just a month before the presidential election as Republicans have sought to bring closure to the travesty of 2016's Russia hoax. Comey, whom Trump fired in May 2017, will be a featured...

Countering prior witness testimony from Senate Judiciary Hearings, FBI Director Chris Wray told lawmakers Thursday that Antifa is an ideology, not an organization. Wray's claim put him at odds with President Donald Trump and many of the administration's other law-enforcement officials. Trump, with support from Wray's boss, Attorney General William Barr,...

(Headline USA) Democrat Joe Biden appears ready to follow the advice of 2016 loser Hillary Clinton, who advised him last month not to concede "under any circumstances. The former vice president is currently assembling a team of top lawyers in anticipation of court challenges to the election process that could...

Documents released last week by the Justice Department about the mishandling of cell phones during the Mueller investigation indicated that a government iPhone issued to former FBI lawyer Lisa Page may not have been lost as the DOJ previously claimed. The new materials came in response to a Freedom of...