Politics News

September 23, 2020

Congress seeks to block goods from China over forced labor

A bipartisan bill aimed at keeping goods out of the U.S. that are made with the forced labor of detained ethnic minorities ...

September 23, 2020

Facebook: Fake pages from China tried to disrupt US politics

Facebook says it has removed a small network of fake accounts and pages that originated in China and focused on disrupting ...

September 23, 2020

Cindy McCain endorses Biden for president in rebuke of Trump

Cindy McCain endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president Tuesday in a rebuke of President Donald Trump by the widow of the ...

September 23, 2020

Beta weakens to tropical depression, stalls over Texas coast

Beta weakened to a tropical depression Tuesday as it parked itself over the Texas coast, raising concerns of extensive ...

September 23, 2020

High court front-runner Amy Coney Barrett hailed by right

A front-runner to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal appellate ...

September 23, 2020

White House lawyer Kate Todd in running for high court seat

President Donald Trump didn't have to look very far for one of the contenders on his short list to replace the late Ruth ...

September 22, 2020

Court reviewer: Ohio State broke law by withholding records

Ohio State University violated state public records law by intentionally withholding old documents from one of the men ...

September 22, 2020

2 Marines accused in drug overdose case of fellow Marine

Two U.S. Marines were arrested Tuesday on a federal grand jury indictment that alleges the lance corporals were involved in ...

September 22, 2020

Court papers: Woman wrote 'give up' in ricin note to Trump

A Canadian woman accused of mailing a package containing ricin to the White House included a threatening letter in which she ...

September 22, 2020

'Justice Joan' Larsen emerges as finalist for Supreme Court

One of the women on Donald Trump’s short list to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court got her first taste ...

September 22, 2020

Frenemies: Romney, GOP reunite on plan for Ginsburg seat

Sen. Mitt Romney is having a homecoming moment. The Utah Republican and 2012 GOP presidential nominee incensed President ...

September 22, 2020

Supreme Court vacancy rattles Susan Collins' Senate race

It's so on brand for Sen. Susan Collins to be in a pressure cooker over how she'll vote in a showdown riveting the nation.

September 22, 2020

Some Dems, not yet Biden, talk of expanding Supreme Court

The prospect that President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans will fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat ...

September 22, 2020

Ranked choice voting in Maine a go for presidential election

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 ...

September 22, 2020

Complaint flushed: No charge in toilet election display

A prosecutor in Michigan has flushed a complaint about a toilet that was promoted as a place to drop absentee ballots.

September 22, 2020

New Ohio House speaker's sterling narrative has detractors

There were some whispers among members of the Republican caucus that Bob Cupp should be the person to lead the Ohio House.

September 22, 2020

Mother of IS member loses bid to block UK evidence transfer

The mother of a British man who is suspected in the beheadings of Westerners taken hostage by the Islamic State group lost ...

September 22, 2020

Huge California wildfire threatening more than 1,000 homes

A wildfire scorching its way through brush and timber from the mountains to the desert northeast of Los Angeles threatened ...