LAS VEGAS - President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden went on offense Sunday, with each campaigning in states they are trying to flip during the Nov. 3 election that is just over two weeks away. Trump began his…
Posted: 18 October 2020 [08:40 PM] Posted: 18 October 2020 [08:35 PM] HARRISONBURG, Va. - Fire officials have determined there are no additional victims from a weekend explosion and fire that injured five people in Virginia, the city of Harrisonburg announced Sunday night. Two people were flown to University of Virginia’s medical…
Posted: 11 October 2020 [08:22 PM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was ready to return to the campaign trail despite unanswered questions about his health on the eve of a Florida rally meant to kick off the stretch run before Election Day.…
Posted: 11 October 2020 [08:19 PM] WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett vows to be a justice “fearless of criticism” as the split Senate charges ahead with confirmation hearings on President Donald Trump’s pick to cement a conservative court majority before Election Day. Barrett,…
Posted: 07 October 2020 [08:52 PM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery from COVID-19 and suggested his diagnosis could be a “blessing in disguise" in the nation's battle against the pandemic. But there is no way…
Posted: 07 October 2020 [08:49 PM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's move Tuesday to cut off talks on another government aid package will further weaken an economy straining to recover from an epic collapse, economists say, and deepen the hardships for jobless Americans and struggling businesses.…
Posted: 06 October 2020 [09:01 PM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday called an abrupt end to negotiations with Democrats over additional COVID-19 relief, delaying action until after the election despite ominous warnings from his own Federal Reserve chairman about the deteriorating conditions in the…
Record-breaking California wildfires surpass 4 million acres Posted: 04 October 2020 [06:57 PM] SAN FRANCISCO - In a year that has already brought apocalyptic skies and smothering smoke to the West Coast, California set a…
Physician blasts Trump for putting others in vehicle at risk Posted: 04 October 2020 [06:53 PM] Associated Press BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - President Donald Trump declared, "I get it," in a message to the nation Sunday evening before…
Trump transferred to Walter Reed medical center Posted: 02 October 2020 [07:40 PM] Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump appeared in public Friday evening for the first time since being stricken by COVID-19, boarding…
President Trump and first lady test positive for coronavirus Posted: 02 October 2020 [01:23 AM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday. Trump’s…
Posted: 29 September 2020 [08:54 PM] DETROIT - The worries are growing for United Airlines flight attendant Jordy Comeaux. In a few days, he’ll be among roughly 40,000 airline workers whose jobs are likely to evaporate in an industry decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. Unless…
Posted: 27 September 2020 [08:32 PM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Sunday that confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will go “quickly” but his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, implored the Republican-led Senate to hold off on voting on her nomination until after…
New York Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017 Posted: 27 September 2020 [08:26 PM] President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in…
Posted: 25 September 2020 [08:04 PM] WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is expected to announce Saturday that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as he aims to put a historic conservative stamp on the high court just weeks before the election.…
Posted: 25 September 2020 [08:01 PM] WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol as the first woman ever so honored, making history again as she had throughout her extraordinary life while an intensifying election-year battle swirled over…
Posted: 22 September 2020 [07:47 PM] The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, by far the highest in the world, hitting the once-unimaginable threshold six weeks before an election that is certain to be a referendum in part on President Donald Trump's handling…
Posted: 22 September 2020 [07:43 PM] WASHINGTON - Votes in hand, Senate Republicans are charging ahead with plans to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the Nov. 3 election, launching a divisive fight over Democratic…
Posted: 20 September 2020 [08:38 PM] NEW YORK - Sure, there were the RBG bobbleheads, the Halloween getups, the lace collars, the workout videos. The “I dissent” T-shirts, the refrigerator magnets, the onesies for babies or costumes for cats. And yes, the face masks, with slogans…
U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes tests positive for COVID-19 Posted: 20 September 2020 [07:27 PM] WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine for 14 days, she announced…
Posted: 18 September 2020 [09:00 PM] WASHINGTON - Efforts to fashion a temporary spending bill needed to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month ran aground Friday amid a fight over farm bailout funding that's a key priority of President Donald Trump and…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87 Posted: 18 September 2020 [08:54 PM] WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice,…
Posted: 15 September 2020 [08:27 PM] WASHINGTON - Israel on Tuesday signed historic diplomatic pacts with two Gulf Arab states at a White House ceremony that President Donald Trump declared will mark the “dawn of a new Middle East," casting himself as an international peacemaker at…
Posted: 15 September 2020 [08:23 PM] LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The city of Louisville agreed to pay $12 million to the family of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a settlement announced Tuesday, months after Taylor’s slaying by police thrust the Black woman’s name…
Posted: 13 September 2020 [08:51 PM] WASHINGTON - Bernie Sanders is warning that if onetime rival Joe Biden doesn’t do more to promote his policies and reach out to Latino voters, the Democratic presidential nominee is at risk of falling short to President Donald Trump this…
Posted: 13 September 2020 [08:49 PM] WASHINGTON - Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is committing at least $100 million to help Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in the crucial battleground state of Florida. Bloomberg’s late-stage infusion of cash reflects Democrats’ concerns about the tight…
Remote towns evacuated as Creek Fire grows Posted: 07 September 2020 [08:12 PM] SHAVER LAKE, Calif. - Evacuation orders were expanded Monday to more mountain communities as a huge wildfire churned through California's Sierra National…
Posted: 07 September 2020 [08:09 PM] Associated Press MILWAUKEE - Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris met the family of a Wisconsin man shot by police last month to kick off her Labor Day visit to a critical swing state while President Donald Trump assailed the…
Virus throwing theme park attendance for a loop Posted: 07 September 2020 [08:06 PM] TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Theme park operators who spent months installing hand sanitizing stations, figuring out how to disinfect roller coasters seats…
India overtakes Brazil for second highest number of cases, behind U.S. Posted: 07 September 2020 [08:04 PM] NEW DELHI (AP) - India’s coronavirus cases surged to 4.2 million, the second-highest total in the world, on Monday as urban metro…
Posted: 06 September 2020 [08:49 PM] ASSOCAITED PRESS FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - In this soldier's city and across the country, veterans and military families are divided about reports that President Donald Trump made disparaging comments toward the military, with some service members bristling at the remarks and…
Posted: 04 September 2020 [09:00 PM] LACEY, Wash. - A man who said he believed a civil war was coming to America and was suspected of killing a right-wing protester in Portland, Oregon, died in a hail of gunfire in neighboring Washington state, officials and witnesses…
Posted: 04 September 2020 [08:39 PM] WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared President Donald Trump “unfit” for the presidency on Friday, delivering an impassioned reaction to a report that Trump - who never served in uniform - allegedly mocked American war dead. The president…
Posted: 01 September 2020 [08:27 PM] ASSSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Pressed by Democrats to quickly negotiate a new coronavirus relief package, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday the administration remains willing to work on a bipartisan agreement to help small businesses, the unemployed, children and schools.…
Posted: 01 September 2020 [08:19 PM] KENOSHA, Wis. - President Donald Trump stood at the epicenter of the latest eruption over racial injustice Tuesday and came down squarely on the side of law enforcement, blaming “domestic terror” for the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and making no…
Posted: 30 August 2020 [08:03 PM] PORTLAND, Ore. - The mayor of Portland, Oregon, and President Donald Trump engaged in a real-time argument Sunday as the president sent a flurry of critical tweets about Ted Wheeler as the mayor was holding a press conference about the…
Posted: 28 August 2020 [08:06 PM] WASHINGTON - Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously laid out a vision for harmony between white and Black people 57 years ago, his son issued a sobering reminder about the…
Posted: 28 August 2020 [07:36 PM] WASHINGTON - After spending a pandemic spring and summer tethered almost entirely to his Delaware home, Joe Biden plans to take his presidential campaign to battleground states after Labor Day in his bid to unseat President Donald Trump. No…
Posted: 25 August 2020 [09:19 PM] KENOSHA, Wis. - Jacob Blake, the Black man shot multiple times by police in Wisconsin, is paralyzed, and it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again, his family's attorney said Tuesday, while calling for the officer who opened…
Posted: 25 August 2020 [09:11 PM] RICHMOND, Va. - Jerry Falwell Jr. announced his resignation Tuesday as the head of Liberty University after a provocative photo and revelations of his wife's extramarital affair roiled the evangelical school founded by his father. Falwell’s exit marks a…
Posted: 23 August 2020 [08:31 PM] SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Three massive wildfires chewed through parched Northern California landscape Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other preparations ahead of a frightening weather system. That system was packing high winds and more of…
Posted: 23 August 2020 [08:31 PM] NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Gulf Coast braced Sunday for a potentially devastating hit from twin hurricanes as two dangerous storms swirled toward the U.S from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Officials feared a history-making onslaught of life-threatening…
Posted: 16 August 2020 [07:44 PM] CINCINNATI (AP) - At least 18 people were shot, including four killed, as gunfire erupted in several places around the city overnight, authorities said Sunday. Officers responded just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday to the Avondale neighborhood and found 21-year-old Antonio…
Posted: 16 August 2020 [07:43 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she is calling the House back into session this week to vote on a bill prohibiting the U.S. Postal Service from implementing any changes to operations or level of service. The action…
Posted: 16 August 2020 [07:42 PM] LOS ANGELES (AP) - A rare summer thunderstorm brought lightning that sparked several small blazes in Northern California on Sunday and stoked a huge forest fire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes north of Los Angeles.…
Posted: 14 August 2020 [08:06 PM] UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council on Friday resoundingly defeated a U.S. resolution to indefinitely extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran, with the Trump administration getting support from only the Dominican Republic. The vote in the 15-member council…
Posted: 14 August 2020 [08:02 PM] Washington - The U.S. Postal Service is warning states coast to coast that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted, even if mailed by state deadlines, raising the…
Posted: 11 August 2020 [06:38 PM] It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday,…
Posted: 11 August 2020 [06:36 PM] JERUSALEM - When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, agreed to form an “emergency” government in May after three bitter and deadlocked election campaigns, the goal was to stabilize Israeli politics in the face of a global…
Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his running mate Posted: 11 August 2020 [06:29 PM] WILMINGTON, Del. - Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making history by selecting the first…
