Too hard to vote? Fired-up Black voters are doing it anyway
In the historically black neighborhoods of Waco, Texas, the usual get-out-the-vote activities in this presidential election year were upended by the pandemic.
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'Baffled' and 'scared,' U.S. felons face hurdles after regaining right to vote
Nine years after completing a prison sentence for a gang-related shooting, Angel Sanchez cast his first ballot in a U.S. presidential election on Saturday, one of a growing number of Americans with felony convictions who regained the right to vote.
Business partner of ex-Giuliani associate expected to enter guilty plea
A business partner of Lev Parnas, the former associate of U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, is expected to enter a guilty plea on Thursday after being charged with defrauding investors in an insurance startup they founded.
A lesson learned: Democrats plot route to Washington through statehouse races
Even as the presidential election dominates the country's attention, Democrats have spent record-breaking sums this year on winning seats in state legislatures, 10 years after a Republican wave gave that party the power to reshape U.S. congressional maps.
California crews begin to tame two Orange County wildfires as winds ebb
Weakening winds overnight enabled firefighters in Southern California to begin to corral two raging wildfires that left two front-line crew members hospitalized and were threatening tens of thousands of homes, authorities said on Wednesday.
Trump pulls statistically even with Biden in Florida; Arizona is a dead heat: Reuters/Ipsos
President Donald Trump has pulled into a virtual tie with Democratic challenger Joe Biden in Florida, just a week after the former vice president held a narrow lead there, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
Philadelphia sets city-wide curfew to quell violent protests
Philadelphia has imposed a city-wide curfew starting Wednesday at 9 p.m. to try to prevent a third night of looting and violence amid widespread protests over the police killing of a Black man.
Hospitals in Wisconsin, Texas under strain as COVID-19 cases surge
UW Health University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin has been rushing to convert available space into units for COVID-19 patients, as the state's medical facilities struggle to keep pace with a surge in new infections.
U.S. unseals charges over 2008 kidnapping of American journalist
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging Haji Najibullah, an Afghanistan national, with six counts related to the 2008 kidnapping of an American journalist and two Afghan nationals.
Former DEA spokesman sent to prison for seven years for posing as CIA spy
A former spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in prison for defrauding at least a dozen companies of over $4.4 million by falsely claiming to be an undercover Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative.