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White House wants to announce Trump’s Supreme Court pick before first debate, source says

September 19, 2020 12:21 PM CNN

The White House wants to announce President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vacant seat on the Supreme Court…

Trump says Republicans have ‘obligation’ to select new Supreme Court justice ‘without delay’

September 19, 2020 8:19 AM Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump on Saturday urged the Republican-run U.S. Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death throws dramatic election into even more chaos

September 19, 2020 8:00 AM CNN

As America mourned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a brilliant trailblazer for women and an equal rights icon —…

READ: Supreme Court announces Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death

September 19, 2020 7:23 AM CNN

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at the age of 87. Read the full announcement from the Supreme Court: Associate Justice Ruth…

Most recent US elections have had an international event as the October Surprise. This one may be no different

September 19, 2020 2:01 AM CNN

You may be through with 2020 already, but brace yourselves. The next 50 to 120 days could be the most volatile globally for decades. The October…

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, legal pioneer, dies of cancer at age 87

September 18, 2020 5:35 PM Associated Press, ABC News, CNN

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second…

Biden says nomination to replace Justice Ginsburg should happen after voters ‘pick the president’

September 18, 2020 7:47 PM Associated Press

WILMINGTON, Delaware — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says the winner of the November election should pick a successor to the late U.S.…

Trump calls Justice Ginsburg an ‘amazing woman,’ doesn’t mention filling her vacant court seat

September 18, 2020 7:21 PM Associated Press

BEMIDJI, Minnesota — President Donald Trump says the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was “an amazing woman” who led an…

Majority Leader McConnell says a Trump Supreme Court nominee will receive vote by full Senate

September 18, 2020 6:52 PM Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will vote on President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Ruth Bader…

Speaker Pelosi says replacement for RBG needs ‘commitment to equality, opportunity & justice for all’

September 18, 2020 7:02 PM Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death is “an incalculable loss for our…

Where’s your health care plan, Mr. President?

September 18, 2020 1:18 PM CNN

Pandemics don’t care about partisan politics. So when Robert Redfield — President Donald Trump’s director of the US Centers for Disease…

Fact-checking Biden’s CNN town hall

September 18, 2020 1:10 PM CNN

CNN hosted a drive-in town hall with 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Pennsylvania on Thursday night. It was Biden’s…

U.S. banning WeChat, TikTok citing national security

September 18, 2020 6:55 AM Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday it will ban Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat from U.S. app stores on Sunday and will bar…

CDC reverses controversial virus guidelines that said people without symptoms may not need a test

September 18, 2020 12:33 PM CNN

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website has updated, yet again, guidelines for testing people who…

Official says Europe will send 30 observers for US presidential vote instead of 500 because of the pandemic

September 18, 2020 11:09 AM Associated Press

VIENNA (AP) — Europe’s largest security organization said Friday that it has drastically scaled back plans to send as many as 500 observers to…

Fact check: Boasting and attacking Biden, Trump makes at least 25 false claims at Wisconsin rally

September 18, 2020 9:23 AM CNN

As former Vice President Joe Biden was participating in a CNN town hall in Moosic, Pennsylvania, on Thursday night, and making a handful of false or…

Biden’s mistakes could cost him badly in debate with Trump

September 18, 2020 7:50 AM CNN

Joe Biden’s campaign is no doubt feeling pretty good after the former vice president’s Thursday night performance in the CNN drive-in…

Is in-person voting safe from Covid-19? It can be if you follow these guidelines

September 18, 2020 4:30 AM CNN

And we’re off! In-person voting has officially started in some parts of the United States for the November 2020 election, with at least 10…

5 things to know for September 18: coronavirus, election 2020, USPS, Taiwan

September 18, 2020 4:18 AM CNN

The West Coast wildfires are still so severe, Yosemite National Park has had to close due to hazardous air quality. Firefighters are hoping better…

5 takeaways from Joe Biden’s CNN town hall

September 17, 2020 10:17 PM CNN

Joe Biden cast the United States as unsafe under President Donald Trump and claimed he could unite the country Thursday night in a CNN town hall less…

Ex-White House Coronavirus Task Force staffer & native El Pasoan slams Trump, will vote for Biden

September 17, 2020 3:29 PM KVIA ABC-7, CNN

WASHINGTON, DC — An El Paso native and former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence assailed President Donald Trump’s response to the pandemic in…

Jim Carrey will play Joe Biden on ‘SNL’

September 17, 2020 12:44 PM CNN

“Saturday Night Live” has found its Joe Biden. Jim Carrey will play the Democratic nominee and former vice president on this season of…

Clyburn says Barr’s remark comparing lockdowns to slavery is ‘the most ridiculous, tone-deaf, God-awful thing I’ve ever heard’

September 17, 2020 12:09 PM CNN

House Majority Whip James Clyburn on Thursday slammed Attorney General William Barr for comparing coronavirus lockdowns in the US to slavery, saying…

Twitter lacks the guts to actually stop Trump’s deception

September 17, 2020 11:01 AM CNN

President Donald Trump is treating social media as a rule-free zone where anything goes and companies like Twitter aren’t doing nearly enough…

Fact check: Biden ad misleadingly suggests Trump called Covid-19 a ‘hoax’

September 17, 2020 10:55 AM CNN

During his campaign’s highest week of ad spending, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tweeted out an ad Tuesday attacking President…

Coronavirus surges back into the campaign with Woodward revelations

September 17, 2020 10:00 AM CNN

The coronavirus has reemerged as the topic people are hearing most about President Donald Trump after the release of tapes in which Trump admitted…

Barack Obama is publishing a memoir — right after the election

September 17, 2020 6:37 AM CNN

Former President Barack Obama’s long-awaited presidential memoir is coming this year — but not until after the November election. A flood…

Al Gore rips Trump’s Covid-19 response: ‘He’s trying to gaslight the virus’

September 16, 2020 9:58 PM CNN

Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is “trying to gaslight” the coronavirus, in a scathing…

Unmasking Trump’s real governing philosophy

September 16, 2020 9:01 PM CNN

Has America ever seen a presidential campaign like this one? One that involves a candidate as out-of-the-ordinary as President Donald Trump, with his…

Trump’s intelligence chief reverses decision to halt in-person election briefings for congressional committees

September 16, 2020 4:45 PM CNN

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe reversed course Wednesday on his decision to end in-person election security briefings for key…