WASHINGTON -- Democratic nominee Joe Biden's presidential campaign will buy $280 million in advertising time in the fall, almost twice as much as the $151 million President Donald Trump has slated so far for the final three months before Election Day.

The Democrat's campaign says the advance reservations of ad time will allow it to expand the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Last week, allies of Karen Bass saw her vice presidential prospects on the ascent, believing she had supplanted fellow Californian Kamala Harris as one of the finalists to be Joe Biden's running mate.

"Kamala is done," said a Democratic congressman who has privately made the case for Bass to Biden aides.

But then unfavorable ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As the national debate rages over how to safely reopen schools this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, one institution has forged ahead before most others: the United States Naval Academy.

Each year, the Naval Academy takes in roughly 1,200 students for a seven-week physical and mental training regimen known as Plebe Summer. The ...Read more

Walt Disney Co. is managing through the COVID-19 crisis in a way almost no other company can. For a business centered around theme parks that by their very definition require crowds of people, all indications from guests' anecdotes and reporting from journalists who have visited the reopened Orlando Disney World are that its safety measures are ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump frequently says there's a difference between absentee voting, which he once called "good" in a tweet, and mail-in voting, which he has called "inaccurate and fraudulent."

But the people who run elections don't make that distinction.

Though the terms vary from state-to-state, as do the laws, the terms "...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For more than a year, state officials and community groups in California have pushed a singular message: the importance of filling out the decennial count.

Organizations canvassed neighborhoods, and hosted rallies and information sessions where they explained how census data turns into federal dollars that trickle down to cities ...Read more

A steady stream of Mexican residents strolled across the Gateway International Bridge into Brownsville, Texas, on a recent hot and humid evening.

In ones and twos, they walked two-tenths of a mile into America, to a plasma center with a sign welcoming them as heroes; convalescent plasma is being investigated as a treatment for COVID-19. Then, a...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- Activist Cori Bush on Tuesday unseated longtime U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, ending his 20-year hold on Missouri's 1st Congressional District and becoming the first Black woman to represent Missouri in the nation's capital.

Clay narrowly beat Bush in St. Louis County, but Bush won decisively in St. Louis city.

Bush, 44, of ...Read more

Kansas Treasurer Jake LaTurner defeated embattled Republican Rep. Steve Watkins in the GOP primary Tuesday, three weeks after the freshman congressman was charged with voter fraud.

LaTurner has 49% of the vote with more than 50% of precincts reporting in the Kansas 2nd Congressional District. Watkins has 31%, while former Kansas Secretary of ...Read more

Alvaro Uribe, the most powerful leader in Colombia's recent history, was placed under house arrest while he's being investigated over an alleged plot to bribe jailed mobsters.

The Supreme Court is investigating the former president over an alleged attempt to manipulate witnesses and frame one of his political opponents.

The magistrates hearing...Read more

The United States will continue supporting Venezuela's National Assembly President Juan Guaido as the country's rightful leader, despite Nicolas Maduro's efforts to orchestrate a "fraudulent" election, a top U.S. diplomat said during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

"Juan Guaido occupies the office of the interim president because it was vacant as ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Ahead of a pivotal vote about the Minneapolis City Council's plan to remake policing, an analysis of the proposal shows the council faces legal barriers to eliminating officers.

Even if the proposal makes it onto the November ballot and voters approve it, elected officials will have to wade through a series of "thorny" and "...Read more

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Through most of July, Black Lives Matter speakers would take to the steps of the Multnomah County Justice Center and talk about their movement to people -- sometimes numbering in the thousands -- who gathered in a nearby street and park.

They often appeared to be second to the main act that would unfold later in the evening in...Read more