WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday turned down an appeal from the Nevada Green Party, keeping the progressive party off the state's November presidential ballot.

The justices refused to intervene and overturn the state supreme court, which ruled two weeks ago the Green Party used the wrong form when gathering signatures. There were no ...Read more

Nepal’s attempt to deliver justice and accountability following the country’s decade-long civil war froze more than two years ago with little progress – but a recent development has raised hopes that it could soon be revived and revamped.

In August 2024, the country’s parliament passed a long-awaited bill that sets the stage ...Read more

Gentrification has become a familiar story in cities across the United States. The story line typically goes this way: Middle- and upper-income people start moving into a lower-income or poor neighborhood. Housing prices rise in response, and longtime residents and businesses are driven out.

As the U.S. population becomes increasingly...Read more

In their campaigns, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris project different emotions and moods. The contrast between them was particularly sharp during their debate on Sept. 10, 2024.

One candidate made appeals to the past, used more negative words and invoked fear. The other spoke more of the future, used ...Read more

A few weeks before Justin Bieber and his wife, Hailey, announced in May 2024 that they were expecting, the pop icon posted a selfie where he appears tearful and distraught.

While media attention quickly pivoted to the pregnancy, there was little attention paid to the significance of a male celebrity and expectant father publicly ...Read more

DENVER — The idea behind “The Wild Robot” sounds like a paradox: An artificially intelligent machine transforms itself into an emotional creature after exposure to the wilderness.

Those emotions are not a malfunction, but rather a result of natural evolution for our android protagonist, Roz. In author Peter Brown’s hit book, and now the...Read more

In 2015, Donald Trump shocked the political establishment and many Americans when he came down the escalator at Trump Tower to announce his first presidential candidacy and attacked Mexican migrants:

“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people,” Trump said at the time.

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WASHINGTON — Republican nominee Donald Trump told an antisemitism summit that Jewish voters could be to blame if he ultimately lost the presidential election and complained that he had not “been treated right” after his support of Israel.

“In my opinion the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” Trump said at the event ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones sent a series of texts critical of fellow Republicans as he worked to help former President Donald Trump overturn his narrow defeat in the weeks following the 2020 election, according to documents obtained through a public records request first reported by The New York Times.

The texts by Jones, who was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower its benchmark interest rate by a half percentage point was a “political move” and that a smaller cut would have been preferable.

“It really is a political move. Most people thought it was going to be half of that number, which ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate his travel ban that barred people from some predominantly Muslim countries and expand it to prevent refugees from war-torn Gaza from entering the United States.

“I will ban refugee resettlement from terror-infested areas like the Gaza Strip, and we will seal our border and bring ...Read more

A new report from CNN uncovering a series of offensive and alarming comments allegedly made by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson on online forums years ago jolted the governor’s race Thursday.

The newly unearthed comments, which Robinson denied making and called “salacious, tabloid trash,” prompted a flurry of speculation about ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bevy of new polls released in the last 24 hours have Kamala Harris either leading or tied with Donald Trump in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania — though none shows the former president ahead, as he was before President Joe Biden dropped out.

Polls from the New York Times/Siena College/Philadelphia Inquirer, ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 76-year-old Anchorage man was arrested this week on federal charges accusing him of threatening to kidnap and kill six U.S. Supreme Court Justices and their relatives in scores of messages beginning last year.

Panos Anastasiou was arrested Wednesday at his Spenard home on 22 charges tied to more than 465 messages sent ...Read more

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Top election officials from Georgia and other swing states met Thursday to assure the public their elections are fair and accurate.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger outlined a host of measures the state takes to ensure voting is secure. Election officials from Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris leads former President Donald Trump, 50% to 45%, in a nationwide Florida Atlantic University poll released Thursday.

There has been little change in the last three weeks despite momentous events, including the Harris-Trump debate last week and the thwarted assassination attempt against Trump on Sunday.

In FAU’s ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After more than a month of checkpoints and sheriff’s patrol cars snaking around the perimeter of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Palm Beach County officials are calling for help to fit the bill.

In a letter signed by County Mayor Maria Sachs, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and Town of Palm ...Read more

DETROIT — Democratic leaders of the national Uncommitted Movement said Thursday they won't be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president, citing her "unwillingness" to shift away from the administration's "unconditional" support for arming Israel with weapons.

But the group's three leaders from Michigan said they do intend to ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck in the swing state of Nevada, with less than two months to go until the November election.

A new survey from Emerson College Polling/The Hill of swing states showed the candidates tied each with 48% support in the Silver State, a marginal change from...Read more