Biden, 77, leads in polls against Trump, the Republican incumbent, both nationwide and in most of the crucial swing states set to provide the decisive electoral college count on November 3. Coming right after Trump defied Democrats and nominated a conservative to replace the late Supreme Court liberal icon Ruth…

US Supreme Court is on the verge of a historic transformation that could wind back the law in America for decades, in some cases to the 1930s, pre-New Deal approach. With President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the nine-member bench would lock in a 6–3, conservative-liberal majority…

The United Kingdom and France both reported their highest rise in daily coronavirus case numbers with Europe in the grip of a second wave of infection. French health authorities reported 16,096 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours. A total of 31,511 people have died from coronavirus in France, and 497,237…

For months, the city of Louisville in Kentucky has been at the center of nationwide protests demanding justice for the police killing of Breonna Taylor. Now the University of Louisville’s Brandeis School of Law is offering a course to educate its students on the systemic inequalities that have led up…

More than six months after emergency medical worker Breonna Taylor was shot dead by police in her Louisville home, a grand jury has indicted one officer in relation to shooting into her neighbor’s apartment — but no officers were charged for their role in Taylor’s death. Former officer Brett Hankison…

Samsung’s got another Galaxy S20 in store for its fans, and the device has been tailored for our unusual times. The Galaxy S20 Fan Edition, also known as the Galaxy S20 FE, packs some high-end features found in the rest of the S20 lineup — like low-band 5G connectivity —…

A scaled-down coronavirus stimulus offered by Senate Republicans was blocked from advancing in the upper chamber thanks to Democratic opposition. The failed endeavor represented the partisan gridlock that’s persisted for months, with few in Washington confident that an agreement to help the American people will be able to pass until…

New York Governor Cuomo warned of continued coronavirus outbreaks at colleges Tuesday, September 8, after New York University students partied in Washington Square Park over the weekend. The governor railed against school officials at NYU, saying they should have done more to prevent the large gathering as universities across the…

Also known as the state of Deseret, the state of Utah, was founded by church leaders of the Mormon faith, Utah being one of 500 communities founded in the 1800s. What is Nevada today was once part of Utah, and the name was changed from Deseret to Utah after the…