President Trump faces pressure to sign his name to a bipartisan election security bill known as the Defending the Integrity of Voting Systems Act after Congress gave the legislation its final go-ahead Monday. The House of Representatives easily passed the proposal by voice vote held on the heels of fellow lawmakers across Capitol Hill in…
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns for the final time to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, an army of more than a hundred of her former clerks will meet the casket and accompany it up the stone s…
Editors, USA TODAY Published 3:49 a.m. ET Sept. 23, 2020 | Updated 5:53 a.m. ET Sept. 23, 2020CLOSEPublic viewing set for Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Supreme Court The late Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week at age 87, will lie in repose at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. Following a private ceremony for…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was briefly interrupted by a heckler Tuesday while doing a live news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on the partisan fight over the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vacant Supreme Court seat.“You ain’t doing s--t!” a man shouted, prompting the New York Democrat to stop talking and look up from his notes.“Stop lying to…
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The U.S. government on Tuesday executed a former soldier who said an obsession with witchcraft led him to kill a Georgia nurse he believed had put a spell on him.William Emmett LeCroy, 50, was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at the same U.S. prison in Terre…
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…