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The fast-track confirmation process is like none other in U.S. history so close to a presidential election.
In the Nov. 3 election more than 54 million votes have already been cast, with an additional 100 million or so expected before a winner is declared.
This year, wildfires already have destroyed some 9,200 buildings and killed 31 people.
Walker died Friday of cancer, family spokesman John T. Davis told The Associated Press.
The “big talk” argument likely will be a primary theme for the defense, as attorneys indicated during a preliminary hearing this month.
While gun rights advocates say fears of violence at the polls are unfounded, the toxic political atmosphere and the prospect of armed poll monitors have some worried.
The U.S. coronavirus caseload has reached record heights with more than 83,000 infections reported in a single day.
Visitors to the U.S. Capitol and the White House can see preparations already underway for the Jan. 20 ceremony to inaugurate the to-be-determined next president.
Authorities say a U.S. Navy training plane traveling from Florida has crashed in an Alabama residential neighborhood near the Gulf Coast, killing both people in the plane.
The 73-year-old “Terminator” actor and former California governor said on social media Friday that he had a new aortic valve implanted in his heart.
A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday.
The world’s largest hornet at 2 inches long, the invasive insects can decimate entire hives of honeybees and deliver painful stings to people.
The delays are a worrisome sign for voters who still have not returned their absentee ballots.
California prosecutors said Friday they again will seek the death penalty for Scott Peterson even as a county judge considers throwing out his conviction for murdering his pregnant wife because of juror misconduct during a 2005 trial that riveted the nation.
The fiasco has highlighted the Vatican’s often self-inflicted communications wounds and the willingness of Pope Francis to push his own agenda, even at the expense of fueling pushback from conservative Catholics.
The United States is approaching a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases in the latest ominous sign about the disease’s grip on the nation, as states from Connecticut to Idaho reel under the surge.
Barrett, a federal appeals court judge, is expected to be confirmed on Monday and quickly join the court.
New Yorkers are getting to vote early for the first time in a general presidential election. In-person voting starts Saturday at 280 voting locations statewide and will last through Nov. 1.
Worldwide, the virus has infected more than 41 million people and killed more than 1.1 million, according to a count by Johns Hopkins University.
Extra precautions have been added to the spooky celebration.
The Mount Washington Observatory is closing its museum in North Conway in an effort to focus more on its core missions.
A pest that has killed millions of the country’s ash trees is spreading in Vermont and has been detected for the first time in Chittenden County.
The coronavirus pandemic and how communities responded dominated a debate between Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster and Republican challenger Steve Negron.
The European Parliament said that so-called veggie burgers, soy steaks and vegan sausages can continue to be sold as such in restaurants and shops across the union.
State officials say 65-year-old Charles Ugvine Coleman was arrested Thursday and jailed in the death of Elizabeth Ann Howell Wilson, who disappeared after working a shift at a textile mill on March 20, 1976.
He started 130 of the 160 regular-season games he played, racking up 1,452 tackles, the second most in team history.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Epsilon was about 195 miles east of Bermuda on Friday morning.
The count determines the number of congressional seats each state gets, where roads and bridges are built, how schools and health care facilities are funded, and how $1.5 trillion in federal resources are allocated annually.
A California appeals court on Thursday upheld an order requiring Uber and Lyft to treat their California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors, less than two weeks before voters will be asked to exempt the ride-hailing giants from the state’s gig economy law.
A Minnesota judge has dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck, but the more serious second-degree murder charge remains.
Hurricane Epsilon’s maximum sustained winds dropped slightly as it moved northwest over the Atlantic Ocean on a path that should sideswipe Bermuda on Thursday.
Transcripts released Thursday show financier Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend was combative and defensive under tough questioning four years ago about her ex-boyfriend’s interactions with underage girls.
According to court documents, two men in southeast Oklahoma have been charged for allegedly performing an illegal gender reassignment surgery without a license and storing the body parts in a freezer.
The footage shows Trump growing increasingly prickly as anchor Lesley Stahl presses him on the coronavirus pandemic, his slipping support with suburban women and other issues.
U.S. regulators have approved the first drug to treat COVID-19. Remdesivir is an antiviral medicine given through an IV for patients needing hospitalization.
The Food and Drug Administration may have to decide by year’s end whether to allow use of the first vaccines against the virus.
More than a quarter of a million people come to see Santa at Macy’s in New York each year, making it hard to create a safe environment during a pandemic, the company says.
From Italy to the United Kingdom, nations are trying to get a handle on a surging pandemic.
The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says students learning remotely coronavirus pandemic can still vote in their college towns if they previously established residency in the state.
The number of laid-off Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 787,000, a sign that job losses may have eased slightly but are still running at historically high levels.
Vermont officials say less than half of an $8 million COVID-19 pandemic relief program for people and small businesses behind on their utility bills has been used.
The pandemic has created a new need for socially distanced voting locations, as well as a unique opportunity with venues idled after games and other events were canceled.
Obama's visit underscores the significance of Pennsylvania, the swing state Biden himself has visited the most this campaign.
The allegations underscored the U.S. government's concern about efforts by foreign countries to influence the election by spreading false information.
The Florida-based James Randi Educational Foundation announced its founder died Tuesday at 92
Hurricane Epsilon, the 10th of this very busy Atlantic season, was moving toward Bermuda on Wednesday.
The Senate is planning a rare weekend session to push the nominee toward confirmation on Monday.
An obituary for a Minneapolis-area woman who died at age 93 included one specific request for her mourners: Do not vote for Donald Trump.
Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions in a feature-length documentary called “Francesco.”
Negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief bill have taken a modest step forward, though time is running out and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Donald Trump’s most powerful Senate ally, is pressing the White House not to move ahead right now.