(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration can end census field operations early, in a blow to plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the administration’s decision to end the count.
The Census Bureau says it has counted 99.9% of households nationwide.
The ruling increased the chances of the...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to revive a lawsuit filed by members of Congress against President Donald Trump alleging that he illegally profits off the presidency.
The high court said it would not hear a case filed by Democratic members of Congress in 2017.
A federal appeals court in Washington...
(Headline USA) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he's scheduling a procedural vote on a GOP COVID-19 relief bill next week, saying aid to hard-hit businesses shouldn't be held up by gridlock involving other aid proposals.
The Kentucky Republican says the first item of Senate business when the chamber...
(Headline USA) In most election cycles, America wouldn’t pay attention to the Portland, Oregon, mayoral race — but this isn’t a normal year.
Months of riots against law enforcement have made Portland national news in a divisive election year, and President Donald Trump routinely derides Mayor Ted Wheeler as a weak...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden says he is “not a fan” of adding seats to the Supreme Court, after weeks of avoiding questions about the idea that’s been pushed by progressives and used by Republicans to attack him.
“I’ve already spoken on — I’m not a fan of court packing, but I...
(Headline USA) To hear Democrats tell it, a Supreme Court with President Donald Trump's nominee Amy Coney Barrett could quickly get rid of the law that gives more than 20 million Americans health insurance coverage.
But that's not the inevitable outcome of a challenge the court will hear Nov. 10, just...
(Headline USA) Defiant as ever about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump on Monday turned his first campaign rally since contracting COVID-19 into a full-throated defense of his handling of the pandemic, joking that he was healthy enough to plunge into the crowd and give voters “a big fat kiss."
There was...
(Headline USA) California's chief elections official on Monday ordered Republicans to remove unofficial ballot drop boxes from churches, gun shops and other locations and Attorney General Xavier Becerra, presuming illegal activity without evidence, warned those behind “vote tampering" could face prosecution.
Republican refused, saying they are taking advantage of California's liberal...
(Associated Press) Roberta Wright McCain, the mother of the late Sen. John McCain who used her feisty spirit to help woo voters during his 2008 presidential campaign, has died. She was 108.
A spokesperson for daughter-in-law Cindy McCain says Roberta McCain died Monday. A cause of death was not immediately released.
“It...
(Headline USA) Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are set to begin as a divided Senate moves ahead on President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and nudge the court slightly more towards conservatism before Election Day.
Barrett, a federal appeals court judge,...
(Headline USA) A federal judge has upheld a state court agreement that extends Minnesota's deadline for counting absentee ballots by seven days, expanding opportunities for political parties and candidates who trail on Election Day to "find" new votes to make up deficits.
Republicans had asked U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel to...
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) At last week’s rambunctious televised debate in Cleveland, former Vice President Joe Biden said this about President Donald J. Trump: “We handed him a booming economy. He blew it.”
Not so fast, Sleepy Joe.
In fact, rather than “booming,” Biden and Obama bequeathed President Trump an economy...