Category: Politics

The nominee refused to say at confirmation hearing whether landmark same-sex marriage case was properly decided. But pending case could make views more transparent.

Federal and state officials said they have fortified election systems since 2016, when Russian hackers scanned election-related websites and software across the country for vulnerabilities.

The Alaska Republican, who had said the Senate should not vote on a new justice so close to the election, said she wouldn’t hold her opposition to the process against Barrett.

The president offered this pessimistic assessment as he said there were some GOP senators he didn’t want to help in their reelection bids.

Events have pushed the election in the former vice president’s direction and away from a president who fuels fears and speaks of carnage. But can he win?

In Thursday’s debate, Biden cited a letter from former U.S. intelligence officials to describe material released by Giuliani as a “Russian plant,” but the letter cites no direct evidence.

President Trump voted “for a guy named Trump” in West Palm Beach and then had a trio of appearances in North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin. Joe Biden returned to his native Pennsylvania for events in Bucks County and Luzerne County, two areas crucial to winning the important state.

The sweeping executive order strips job protections from employees in policy roles across the government.

President Trump is urgently repeating his tactics of 2016: big rallies, conspiracy theories, insulting nicknames. But the political landscape has shifted, and the effect may not be the same.

Even late in the campaign, Kamala Harris’s opponents continue to mispronounce her first name. Allies say it’s an effort to signal that she is somehow foreign.

The medical history of each man, competing to become the oldest sitting president in American history, has become a central component of an increasingly negative race.