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A federal judge has approved a request from a group of WeChat users to delay looming U.S. government restrictions that could effectively make the popular app nearly impossible to use.
Beta would be the ninth named storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. in 2020, tying a record set in 1916.
Just 44 days before President Trump’s reelection will be decided, Republicans are again looking to a Supreme Court nomination fight to unite a deeply fractured party as it faces the very real possibility of losing the White House and control of the Senate this fall.
Because the contest is a special election to finish John McCain’s term, the winner could be sworn in as soon as the results are officially certified. Other winners in the November election won’t take office until January.
The glitch at the virtual creative arts Emmy telecast was minor, but it may have provoked flashbacks for the host of Sunday’s more ambitious main TV awards ceremony.
The corporate support for a QAnon-promoting politician is another example of how the conspiracy theory has penetrated mainstream politics, spreading beyond its origins on internet message boards popular with right-wing extremists.
Eddie Rosario, Miguel Sanó and Josh Donaldson homered as the Minnesota Twins clinched a second straight postseason berth with an 8-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
Beta is forecast to become a hurricane on Sunday.
Authorities in Rochester, New York, say a mass shooting has resulted in fatalities.
The El Dorado Fire has burned more than 33 square miles and was 65% contained, with 10 buildings destroyed and six damaged.
The U.S. move faces stiff opposition from the other members of the U.N. Security Council who have vowed to ignore it.
What looked like another quiet night for Detroit’s bats suddenly changed in the eighth.
Federal officials intercepted an envelope addressed to the White House that contained the poison ricin, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Saturday.
President Donald Trump on Saturday promised to put forth a female nominee in the coming week to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pushing the Republican-controlled Senate to consider the pick without delay.
President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s given his “blessing” to a proposed deal between Oracle and Walmart for the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned app he’s targeted for national security and data privacy concerns.
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday cast an immediate spotlight on the vacancy on the high court, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowing to bring President Donald Trump’s nominee to a vote with just over six weeks before the election.
The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87.
Cuomo, a Democrat, said that he’ll appoint a commission to choose an artist and oversee the selection of a location for the statue.
A large group of mourners packed the high court’s steps and the street across from the U.S. Capitol in a nighttime memorial.
Photos show that smoke was used to clear the crowd, and it appeared that tear gas was deployed.
Navalny was kept in an induced coma for more than a week while being treated with an antidote.
The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck Southern California late Friday night.
U.S. President Donald Trump warned this week that Washington would harshly respond to any Iranian attempts to take revenge for the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
A firefighter has died battling a wildfire in California that officials say was sparked by a device used to reveal a baby’s gender.
Zach Plesac pitched impressively into the eighth inning, and Brad Hand worked out of a jam in the ninth to lift the Cleveland Indians to a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers.
Willson Contreras' sharp RBI single in the first accounted for the only run off the 40-year-old Hill.
The White Sox clinched their first playoff berth since 2008 on Thursday night.
Minnesota will feel like a genuine battleground on Friday when President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden campaign to mark the beginning of early voting.
House Democrats on Friday prepared a temporary spending bill that is needed to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month — and that would allow lawmakers to leave Washington to campaign.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Baldwin County coroner Dr. Brian Pierce said the death in the Foley area and was of someone who was involved in storm cleanup.
An intelligence committee official said the panel hasn’t rescheduled the deposition at this time, but said DHS had delayed the processing of his lawyers' clearances.
It was unclear whether such actions would violate U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh’s temporary restraining order prohibiting the Census Bureau from winding down field operations while she considers a request to extend the headcount by a month.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released $13 billion for reconstruction of the grid and to help rebuild schools damaged by the storm.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention essentially returned to its previous testing guidance, getting rid of language posted last month that said people who didn’t feel sick didn’t need to get tested.
Americans who are returning to the U.S. and Canadians who are returning to Canada are also exempted from the border closure.
The storm comes amid a very active hurricane season in the Atlantic and “Wilfred” is the last name on the Hurricane Center’s list of storm names for the season.
A federal judge has blocked Michigan’s longstanding ban on transporting voters to the polls, ruling it conflicts with U.S. election law.
The Catholic Church in Italy has long been associated with the Mafia, thanks in part to their post-war common cause against communism. Pope Francis said the religious and cultural image and patrimony of the Madonna “must be preserved in its original purity.”
Members of the Navalny team said they searched his hotel room in the city of Tomsk upon learning that he collapsed on the flight home.
Ending the 2020 census at the end of September instead of the end of October, could cost Florida and Montana congressional seats.
Casey Mize allowed three earned runs in 3 2/3 innings for Detroit.
FBI Director Chris Wray says he regards antifa as more of an ideology than an organization.
Jerry Harris, the star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” was arrested Thursday on felony charges of production of child pornography.
Winston Groom, the author of the novel “Forrest Gump” that was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a pop cultural phenomenon, has died.
José Abreu homered and drove in two runs and Edwin Encarnación also homered for Chicago.
Homeowners and businesses along the soggy Gulf Coast began cleaning up Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Sally, even as the region braced for a delayed, second round of flooding in the coming days from rivers and creeks swollen by the storm’s heavy rains.
A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” before the November election.
Olivia Troye is the latest former member of the Trump administration to speak out against him and urge voters to deny him a second term.