(Headline USA) The prospect of a vaccine to shield Americans from coronavirus infection emerged as a point of contention in the White House race as President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “disparaging” for political gain a vaccine he repeatedly has said could be available before the election.
“It's so dangerous for...
(Headline USA) Jacob Blake has spoken publicly for the first time since a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot him seven times from behind as he appeared to reach for a knife in his vehicle after resisting arrest and overcoming a Taser.
He said he's in constant pain from the shooting, which...
(Headline USA) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called a business group that traditionally supports Republicans a bunch of sellouts, and said he hoped they'd leave him out of their list of endorsements.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce earlier this week decided to endorse 23 freshmen House Democrats in this fall's...
(Headline USA) U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler has made opposition to the demands of the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement a centerpiece of her effort to win conservative support in her campaign, and Thursday, supporters of the movement again pushed back.
A former state Senate candidate and one other woman shouted down...
(Headline USA) Once hailed as one of the most livable U.S. cities, Portland, Oregon, is grappling with an uncertain future as it reaches a stunning benchmark: 100 consecutive nights of riots citing "systemic racism" as an excuse, marred by vandalism, chaos — and the killing of a supporter of President...
(Headline USA) An Antifa member suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a conservative group in Portland, Oregon, last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.
The man, Michael Forest Reinoehl,...
(Headline USA) The U.S. unemployment rate fell sharply in August to 8.4% from 10.2%.
Employers added 1.4 million jobs, the Labor Department said, down from 1.7 million in July. The U.S. economy has recovered about half the 22 million jobs lost to the pandemic.
Governors --- mostly Democrats --- are still keeping...
(Headline USA) A black journalist quit his job at a Kenosha, Wisconsin, daily newspaper after disputing a headline for a story about a rally organized by the family of Jacob Blake, a black man shot by a police officer after he resisted arrest while violating a restraining order over a...
(Associated Press) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Trump administration have informally agreed to keep a stopgap government-wide funding bill — needed to avert a shutdown at the end of this month — free of controversy or conflict.
The accord is aimed at keeping any possibility of a government shutdown off...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Thursday that people who vote early by mail should show up at polling places and vote again if their ballots haven’t been counted, a slight walk back from his comments a day earlier when he suggested people vote twice to test the mail-in system.
Trump...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration said Wednesday it won't pay more than $60 million in dues it owes to the World Health Organization and will use the money instead to pay down other contributions to the United Nations.
The announcement came just a day after the White House announced the U.S....
(Associated Press) About 68,000 pieces of political mail were delayed for five days upon arriving at a Baltimore mail processing facility ahead of Maryland's June primary, according to a U.S. Postal Service audit.
The mail, described as campaign materials from a candidate, was sent May 12 and “sat unprocessed” for nearly...