Throngs of voters faced long lines and coronavirus precautions at polling centers in four states on Friday to cast ballots in the 2020 election, describing their choice to vote early and in-person as…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: In the long run, it may not matter much who wins the presidential election. That is, of course, heresy among pundits, consultants and the political class, but it is at least as accurate as any other thing being said about the race at the moment. President Trump came to office borne on a wave…
PHILADELPHIA — Devyn Smith won’t let the coronavirus or a ballot arriving in her mailbox keep her from showing up in person at the polling station to cast her vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden. Ms. Smith, a 28-year-old Black woman who works as a teller at a credit union, said going to the…
Independent voters have tuned out the political party conventions but those are precisely the voters whom President Trump must reach to move the needle in the presidential race, according to pollsters. These unaffiliated voters, who are notorious for their ability to swing elections, have emerged more important than ever in 2020 as both parties locked…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…