From the Allegheny Plateau to the Florida coast to the wide-open spaces of the Upper Midwest, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will spend the last weekend of the 2020 presidential campaign crisscrossing the country in search of the last remaining undecided voters. Trump, who trails in the (meaningless) national polls but […]
Pennsylvania is the state most likely to decide next week’s presidential election, but a Supreme Court ruling this week has all but guaranteed that we won’t know who won the Keystone State’s 20 electoral votes on Election Day. The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican effort to force Pennsylvania to discard mail-in ballots received […]
Data released Thursday morning show that the U.S. economy has experienced record-breaking growth during the past three months, but also reveal that the country has a long way to go to get out of the hole created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Commerce’s preliminary estimate of third-quarter gross domestic product growth, the last […]
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress on Wednesday, he will call on lawmakers to take explicit action to rewrite the law that protects a free and open internet. In doing so, he will be implicitly asking the federal government to impose huge new regulatory costs on social media sites like his own—costs that […]
The 2020 presidential election is already being litigated in front of the U.S. Supreme Court even though Election Day is still a week away. In a few key swing states, the rules under which the election will be conducted remain unsettled, including the potentially all-important question of when the polls will actually close—that is, when […]
With just over a week to go until Election Day, is the Trump administration signaling its surrender to COVID-19? “We’re not going to control the pandemic,” White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. Instead, Meadows said, the administration will “control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation […]
After weeks of failing to offer a straight answer to the question of whether he’d support adding additional justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is testing out a new answer in advance of Thursday’s debate. In a preview of an interview that will air Sunday on 60 Minutes, Biden outlines […]
One administration built the cages. Another administration filled them. Who is actually to blame? That question occupied President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden for a good portion of the time allotted to a discussion of immigration during Thursday’s debate, the last of the 2020 campaign season. Trump blamed the Obama administration for […]
In any other baseball season, two Cleveland Indians pitchers hitting the bars in Chicago after a Saturday night game wouldn’t be news. It wouldn’t cause a minor scandal within the team’s clubhouse, and it certainly wouldn’t result in the two offending players being immediately removed from the Indians’ roster. But that’s exactly what happened after […]
American distillers have already taken heavy collateral damage in a trade spat over airplane manufacturing subsidies—and now things could be taking a turn for the worse. If the European Union (E.U.) follows through on a threat to impose $4 billion in new tariffs against American-made goods, booze is likely to be one of the major […]
