President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden quickly moved to capitalize on the enthusiasm of their party bases for filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court, hauling in a wave of campaign contributions and strategizing messaging to boost voter turnout. Both parties are fired up after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth…
President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd at the end of a campaign event at the Bemidji Regional Airport in Bemidji, Minnesota, September 18, 2020. Tom Brenner/Reuters President Donald Trump has exhibited an obsession with the notion that certain people have superior genes for a long time. Trump on Friday told a crowd of nearly…
(CNN)Some federal buildings in Louisville, Kentucky, will be closed this week and police will operate under a state of emergency as the city awaits an announcement by state Attorney General Daniel Ca…
Critics of Chinese-controlled social media app TikTok have called for any deal to require shifting the company's headquarters to the U.S. to ensure Americans' data is protected from surveillance by a foreign government, but making such a promise may be easier said than done."You’ll never eliminate the risk ... but you can certainly mitigate it," Joseph…
Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday reiterated his vow to hold a vote on a Supreme Court nominee once one is named by President Donald Trump and argued there is ample tim…
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…