When Amy Coney Barrett last appeared on President Donald Trump’s shortlist of Supreme Court nominees, she was only months into her first turn as a judge on Chicago’s 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and had a very slim record of rulings. This time, as she finds herself a front-runner to be nominated for the…
PORTLAND, Maine — Ranked choice voting will be used for the first time in a presidential race in the U.S. under a ruling Tuesday by the Maine Supreme Court, which concluded that a GOP-led petition drive intended to prevent its use came up short. The Supreme Judicial Court concluded the Maine Republican Party failed to…
Troye, who worked as an adviser to Pence on counterterrorism and homeland security issues before leaving the administration in August, appeared in an ad released last Thursday for the group Republican Voters Against Trump in which she recounted her experience on the taskforce. “It was shocking to see the president saying that the virus was…
The vote count in the Senate shows Republicans can squeak through a confirmation of President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, with anti-Trump leader Sen. Mitt Romney pledging to help advance the nominee. The move gives Mr. Trump the green light as he plans to unveil his pick Saturday to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.…
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…