Government and Politics
Published on August 14, 2020 - Page 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged Thursday he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money to make it harder to process an...
Published on August 13, 2020 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) —Americans counting on emergency coronavirus aid from Washington may have to wait until fall. Negotiations over a new virus relief...
Published on August 13, 2020 - Page 18
WASHINGTON — Gretchen Whitmer wanted out. The Michigan governor had caught the interest of Joe Biden and his vice presidential vetting committee,...
Published on August 12, 2020 - Page 8
NEW YORK (AP) — School officials nationwide should improve mental health resources, monitor student social media accounts and improve physical...
Published on August 11, 2020 - Page 4
State and local government officials across the U.S. have been on edge for months about how to keep basic services running while covering rising...
Published on August 11, 2020 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination will be held at either the...
Published on August 10, 2020 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mail piling up. Constant attacks from the president. Cuts to overtime as record numbers of ballots are expected to pass through...
Published on July 30, 2020 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) —Four Big Tech CEOs — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple — are answering...
Published on July 30, 2020 - Page 10
President Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would ravage...
Published on July 29, 2020 - Page 7
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republicans once dominated voting by mail in Florida. That was before President Donald Trump got involved. After months of...
Published on July 26, 2020 - Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional watchdogs are questioning the government’s decision to award a $700 million coronavirus relief loan to a struggling...
Published on July 26, 2020 - Page 10
WASHINGTON (AP) —Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday that Republicans were set to roll out the next COVID-19 aid package Monday and...
Published on July 26, 2020 - Page 19
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump may be losing, but that doesn’t mean Joe Biden is winning. At least that’s the concern of a pro-Democrat...
Published on July 24, 2020 - Page 5
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage over a Republican lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House...
Published on July 24, 2020 - Page 6
LOS ANGELES — Three out of four Americans, including a majority of Republicans, favor requiring people to wear face coverings while outside their...
Published on July 24, 2020 - Page 6
WASHINGTON (AP) —A House committee voted Thursday to try and rein in President Donald Trump’s clemency powers, approving legislation to discourage...
Published on July 14, 2020 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —A federal judge on Monday demanded more information about President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of...
Published on July 13, 2020 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Sunday that the first federal execution in nearly two decades can proceed as scheduled on Monday....
Published on July 10, 2020 - Page 7
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s niece offers a scathing portrayal of her uncle in a new book, blaming a toxic family for raising a narcissistic,...
Published on July 10, 2020 - Page 10
WASHINGTON (AP) —Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints he’s being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York...
Published on July 9, 2020 - Page 4
NEW YORK (AP) — Still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and street protests over the police killing of George Floyd, exhausted cities around the...
Published on July 9, 2020 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) — Political task forces Joe Biden formed with Bernie Sanders to solidify support among the Democratic Party’s progressive wing...
Published on July 6, 2020 - Page 4
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Donald Trump has a vision for his second term, if he wins one, of establishing a “National Garden of American Heroes” that...
Published on June 30, 2020 - Page 8
WASHINGTON (AP) —Democrats pushed a package expanding “Obamacare” coverage through the House on Monday, a measure that’s doomed to advance no further...
Published on June 28, 2020 - Page 5
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s brother has asked another court to halt publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece, after his first bid...
Published on June 26, 2020 - Page 9
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday strengthened the Trump administration’s ability to deport people seeking asylum without allowing them...
Published on June 26, 2020 - Page 10
WASHINGTON (AP) —The House approved a far-reaching police overhaul from Democrats Thursday as a divided Congress struggles to address the global...
Published on June 23, 2020 - Page 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump opened a new front Monday in his fight against mail-in voting, making unsubstantiated assertions that...
Published on June 21, 2020 - Page 4
TULSA, Okla. (AP) —President Donald Trump pressed ahead Saturday with a comeback rally amid a pandemic by declaring “the silent majority is stronger...
Published on June 19, 2020 - Page 7
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants. It was the...