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Updated: 4 hours ago
|By Roxanne Reid
WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows discusses Trump's acceptance speech, negotiations on the next relief bill, and mail-in voting
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
A breakdown in the talks would put at risk more than $100 billion to help reopen schools, a fresh round of $1,200 direct payments to most people and hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments to help them avoid furloughing workers and cutting services as tax revenues shrivel.
Updated: 9 hours ago
|By Associated Press
Kanye West's unlikely White House bid is getting help qualifying for presidential ballots in key states from Republicans around the country, fueling suspicions he's being pushed to run by allies of President Donald Trump hoping to siphon support away from Joe Biden.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
The United States added 1.8 million jobs in July, a pullback from the gains of May and June and evidence that the resurgent coronavirus is weakening hiring and the economic rebound.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Associated Press
U.S. intelligence has assessed that China is hoping President Donald Trump does not win reelection, while Russia is working to denigrate Democrat Joe Biden.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By MATTHEW DALY
The U.S. Postal Service says it lost $2.2 billion in the three months that ended in June as the beleaguered agency — hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic — piles up financial losses that officials warn could top $20 billion over two years.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Brent Scowcroft, who played a prominent role in American foreign policy as national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and was a Republican voice against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has died. He was 95.
Updated: 13 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The announcement by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo clears the way for schools to offer at least some days of in-person classes, alongside remote learning.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By Associated Press
The matter now returns to the panel for consideration of other legal issues.
Updated: 16 hours ago
|By WBAL Staff
People in Maryland have been waiting for hours - day after day - trying to get mail that was never delivered.
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Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 8:11 PM MDT
|By JONATHAN LEMIRE
President Donald Trump is engaging in a deeply personal attack on Joe Biden, even questioning without foundation the former vice president's faith in God.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 8:06 PM MDT
|By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL and PAUL WISEMAN
An unemployed makeup artist with two toddlers and a disabled husband needs help with food and rent. A hotel manager says his unemployment has deepened his anxiety and kept him awake at night. A dental hygienist, pregnant with her third child, is struggling to afford diapers and formula.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 7:50 PM MDT
|By Associated Press
Both sides have set a goal of reaching a deal by week’s end.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:47 PM MDT
|By Associated Press
Since the day Trump took office, the ACLU has filed 237 lawsuits against the administration and about 160 other legal actions.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:24 PM MDT
|By MATTHEW DALY
A Democratic senator said Thursday he is launching an investigation into changes at the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries across the country just as big volume increases are expected for mail-in election voting.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 5:55 PM MDT
|By Kyle Midura
States struggle to balance books with primary revenue streams running dry. Congress is split on whether to bail them out.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 1:59 PM MDT
Dismukes said he maintains his innocence regarding allegations of stealing money from a former employer.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 12:13 PM MDT
|By WPBF staff
Three teenagers are accused of jumping a wall to get into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Palm Beach Police say they had an AK-47 with them.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 12:07 PM MDT
|By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press
New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday her office is suing to dissolve the National Rifle Association, saying its leaders exploited it for personal gain.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 10:12 AM MDT
|By Gray News Staff
David Nagy, 79, of Jefferson, Texas,died a needless death, his family pointed out in his obituary.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 7:31 AM MDT
|By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
President Donald Trump is still trying to overturn “Obamacare,” but his predecessor’s health care law keeps gaining ground in places where it was once unwelcome.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 7:59 PM MDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
After more than a week’s worth of meetings, at least some clarity is emerging in the bipartisan Washington talks on a huge COVID-19 response bill.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 7:16 PM MDT
|By Associated Press and AMANDA SEITZ
The State Department says Russia is using social media, state-funded media and a loose network of proxy websites to amplify conspiracy theories and misinformation, most recently around the coronavirus.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 3:09 PM MDT
|By Kyle Midura
President Donald Trump will visit a Whirlpool factory in Clyde, Ohio Thursday. There, he'll propose new steps to bring American jobs back on-shore, and tout his record revitalizing manufacturing during.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 12:09 PM MDT
|By Associated Press
Trump also called for the first formal presidential debate, scheduled for Sept. 29, to be moved up on the calendar because early voting will have already begun in some states.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 11:59 AM MDT
|By Associated Press
The free Covidwise app is available in Apple and Android app stores as of Wednesday.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 11:00 AM MDT
|By BILL BARROW Associated Press
Biden's exchange was part of an interview conducted with the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 10:40 AM MDT
|By MATTHEW LEE
The State Department’s acting inspector general resigned abruptly on Wednesday following the firing of his predecessor in circumstances now being investigated by Congress.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 10:36 AM MDT
|By BILL BARROW
Joe Biden will not travel to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic presidential nomination because of concerns over the coronavirus, party officials said Wednesday, signaling a move to a convention that essentially has become entirely virtual.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 10:29 AM MDT
|By MATTHEW PERRONE, NICKY FORSTER and MICHELLE LIU
An Associated Press analysis found that the number of tests per day slid 3.6% over the past two weeks to 750,000, with the count falling in 22 states. That includes places like Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and Iowa where the percentage of positive tests is high and continuing to climb.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2020 at 6:13 AM MDT
|By KEVIN FREKING
In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing the practice — and while his campaign and the GOP challenge Nevada over its new vote-by-mail law.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 10:21 PM MDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the two sides set a goal of reaching an agreement by the end of the week to permit a vote next week.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 7:08 PM MDT
|By Jacqueline Policastro
In a broadcast exclusive, the president says he wants to extend the $600 weekly benefit to unemployed Americans.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 6:28 PM MDT
|By Jacqueline Policastro
The state plans to allow all active voters to vote by mail.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 3:16 PM MDT
|By PHIL MARCELO, CARLA K. JOHNSON and LISA MARIE PANE
Big house parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars and restaurants — there are reasons the U.S. has racked up more than 155,000 coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts 5 million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 2:21 PM MDT
|By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law legislation that will devote nearly $3 billion annually to conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands. The measure was overwhelmingly approved by Congress.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 2:06 PM MDT
|By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer
Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 11:52 AM MDT
The comments came in a wide-ranging, contentious interview with Axios that aired Monday on HBO.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 10:36 AM MDT
|By MIKE SCHNEIDER
The U.S. Census Bureau is cutting its schedule for data collection for the 2020 census a month short as legislation that would have extended the national head count’s deadlines stalls in the U.S. Senate.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 5:11 AM MDT
|By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
The Trump administration’s plan to provide every nursing home with a fast COVID-19 testing machine comes with an asterisk: The government won’t supply enough test kits to check staff and residents beyond an initial couple of rounds.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2020 at 4:27 AM MDT
|By REGINA GARCIA CANO and MICHAEL CASEY
Some 23 million people nationwide at risk of being evicted, according to The Aspen Institute, as moratoriums enacted because of the coronavirus expire and courts reopen. Around 30 state moratoriums have expired since May, according to The Eviction Lab at Princeton University.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 5:38 PM MDT
Nevada state lawmakers passed a bill Sunday that would add the state to a growing list of U.S. states that will mail active voters ballots ahead of the November election amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 5:17 PM MDT
|By ANDREW TAYLOR
Both the Trump administration negotiating team and top Capitol Hill Democrats remain far apart, and talks since Saturday — when the combatants announced modest progress — have yet to lend momentum.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 2:52 PM MDT
|By JEFF AMY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press
Many schools are planning a hybrid approach, with students alternating between in-person classes and online instruction.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 2:30 PM MDT
|By MATTHEW DALY
The House Oversight Committee has invited the new postmaster general to appear at a hearing next month to examine operational changes to the U.S. Postal Service that are causing delays in mail deliveries.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 12:23 PM MDT
|By MARY CLARE JALONICK
House Democrats have subpoenaed four top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying that the Trump administration is stonewalling their investigation into the firing of the State Department’s top independent watchdog earlier this year.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 12:07 PM MDT
|By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press
Trump told reporters at the White House that he was formally removing chair Skip Thompson and another member of the board, and he threatened to remove other board members if they continued to hire foreign labor.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 11:48 AM MDT
|By LARRY NEUMEISTER
A Manhattan prosecutor trying to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns told a judge Monday that he was justified in demanding them, citing public reports of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.”
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 9:17 AM MDT
|By CLAIRE GALOFARO and KAT STAFFORD Associated Press
Black women have long been the heart of the Democratic Party — among the party's most reliable and loyal voters — but for decades that allegiance didn't translate to their own political rise.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 7:57 AM MDT
|By Melissa Egan
Gov. Doug Ducey’s first stay-at-home order, issued in March, shut down the town. The order stopped tourists from traveling, silencing the sounds of gun shows, music from saloons and the laughter from smiling visitors.