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CLEVELAND – As the old saying goes, it’s like pouring gasoline on a fire.If the deadliest pandemic in a century, the worst economic downturn in decades, and a summer of nationwide protests over racial inequity weren’t enough for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump to battle over at Tuesday at the first of three presidential debates,…

Show captionThe restrictions would have made TikTok impossible to use in the US Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty ImagesTikTokJudge grants injunction sought by app’s owner ByteDance to let it remain available for downloadGuardian staff and agenciesSun 27 Sep 2020 20.33 EDTTikTok has been granted a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump’s executive order banning the service from US…

President Trump hadn’t even announced his Supreme Court pick this weekend yet a whisper campaign had already developed against Judge Amy Coney Barrett questioning whether her adoption of two Haitian children was on the up-and-up. Tactics formerly reserved for only the nastiest of political campaigns have in recent years bled over into battles for the…

President Trump will announce Saturday evening his nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the recent death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, setting up a bitter confirmation fight in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. At an event in the White House Rose Garden, Trump is expected to name federal…

A New York Supreme Court judge on Thursday ordered a public judicial inquiry into the case of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old who died after being put in an apparent chokehold by a New York police officer in 2014.Judge Joan Madden on Thursday ordered a "summary inquiry" into the case, including an alleged lack of immediate…