(Headline USA) A 17-year-old in Illinois accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday fought his return to Wisconsin to face homicide charges that could put him in prison for life.
Kyle Rittenhouse was arrested at his home in Antioch, Illinois,...
(Associated Press) Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday that he and his wife have both tested positive for the coronavirus.
The governor's office said in a statement that Northam is showing no symptoms while those of Pam Northam are mild.
Northam and his wife plan to isolate for the next 10 days...
(Headline USA) Florida's attorney general asked state and federal law enforcement on Wednesday to investigate possible election law violations after billionaire and former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg helped raise more than $16 million for Florida felons to pay their debts so they can vote in the presidential election.
Attorney General...
(Headline USA) Breonna Taylor's family and their lawyers sharply criticized Kentucky's attorney general for the failure to bring charges against police officers in her death, calling Friday for him to release the transcripts of the grand jury proceeding while vowing to continue their protests until the officers are charged.
Tamika Palmer,...
(Associated Press) New Mexico's Democratic senators have placed the judicial confirmations for two U.S. District Court vacancies on hold until after the Nov. 3 election.
They say the president has politicized the process, so they'll wait until the voters have spoken.
Using their home-state consultation authority, Sens. Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall...
(Headline USA) Louisville police in riot gear barricaded roads and cars honked as the crowd marched past a nighttime curfew during a second night of protests over the refusal of Kentucky state officials to prosecute officers in the death of Breonna Taylor.
Officers also blocked the exits of a church where...
(Headline USA) The final stretch of a presidential campaign is typically a nonstop mix of travel, caffeine and adrenaline.
But in response to the pandemic, Joe Biden is taking a lower key approach.
Since his Aug. 11 selection of California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, Biden has had 22 days...
(Headline USA) Since Joe Biden ran away with the Democratic presidential nomination in March, leading progressives have accepted him — sometimes grudgingly — as their party's leader.
But, in the final weeks of the campaign, the Supreme Court vacancy threatens to inflame old divides.
Some activists on the left are pressing Biden...
(Headline USA) Authorities pleaded for calm while activists vowed to fight on Thursday in Kentucky’s largest city, where a gunman wounded two police officers during violent protests following the decision not to charge officers for killing Breonna Taylor.
Outrage over a grand jury’s failure to bring homicide charges against the officers...
(Headline USA) As the decision in Kentucky to bring charges against only one of three police officers involved in a raid that killed Breonna Taylor sparks renewed protests nationwide, a new survey finds support has fallen for demonstrations against "systemic racism" as they have turned out to only be an...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump was booed Thursday as he paid respects to late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
He plans to nominate a replacement this weekend for the liberal justice.
The president and first lady Melania Trump stood silently at the top of the steps of the court and looked down...
(Headline USA) Democrats are launching a digital ad targeting Pennsylvanians voting by mail to explain how to correctly fill out and return the ballots, hoping to avert worried predictions that 100,000 votes or more could be invalidated because the ballots aren't put in the proper envelope.
The so-called naked ballots have...