WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden said Wednesday that his campaign had convened a group of 600 lawyers and thousands of volunteers to prepare for any "chicanery" that might disrupt or interfere with the November election.

"We're continuing to fight any effort to exploit the pandemic for political purposes, support the countless state and local officials ...Read more

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., blocked a Trump administration rule that disqualified immigrants at the southern U.S. border from receiving asylum unless they had already sought it elsewhere.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly ruled Tuesday that the government had "unlawfully promulgated" the asylum rule, bypassing the usual public ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- When Lauren Boebert launched her Republican primary campaign against Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton back in December, she was asked who she considered her actual opponent: Tipton or New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

"I'm absolutely running against her," Boebert said, according to a clip of the interview with Denver's ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Egregious, grotesque, absurd, crazy, ridiculous.

These are a handful of the words that some local African American leaders are using to rebuke the Minneapolis City Council's moves toward dismantling the Police Department, even as they demand an overhaul of law enforcement.

While the movement to defund the police has been driven ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A federal appellate court has temporarily stopped a judge's order that granted hundreds of thousands of felons the right to vote, the latest turn in Florida's battle over felon voting rights.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled in favor of state officials and Gov. Ron DeSantis, who asked the court to stop a...Read more

Heavily armed gunman attacked a drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico on Wednesday, killing 24 people in what appeared to be a revenge hit amid a feud between gangs.

Police said that in addition to the dead, seven were wounded at a rehabilitation center in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Reforma newspaper reported.

Mexico's government has been ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden's presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and associated state parties raised $141 million in June and brought in twice that amount for the full second quarter, topping the hauls from Donald Trump and Republicans in the those same periods.

The take is the biggest yet for either candidate during the 2020 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A music teacher accused of giving semen-tainted flutes to elementary school students has agreed to plead guilty to state and federal charges involving various sex crimes against children, authorities said Wednesday.

John Edward Zeretzke, 61, of Ventura agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of production of child pornography,...Read more

Pride 2020 is officially in the books and man, it was complicated: The COVID-19 pandemic forced organizers to cancel parades; the horrific deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery sparked monthlong Black Lives Matter protests, many joined by the LGBTQ community in a show of solidarity; marriage equality turned 5; and the Supreme ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A day after the Senate passed a last-minute extension of the Paycheck Protection Program loan application deadline, the House did the same Wednesday, clearing the bill for the president.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the Senate by unanimous consent passed a bill on Tuesday from Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., extending the Small Business...Read more

HONG KONG -- Chinese officials have described Hong Kong's new national security law as "tailor-made" for the former British colony. Lawyers in the city, however, say the statute may be open to abuse and difficult to apply.

The 35-page legislation drafted behind closed doors in Beijing represents an uneasy marriage between China's "socialist ...Read more

CHICAGO -- With neighboring Indiana and other states pausing their reopening plans or even moving backward as new cases of the coronavirus surge, officials in Chicago and Illinois said Wednesday they have no plans to alter loosened rules that took effect statewide last week.

When Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced his "Restore Illinois" reopening ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- After George Floyd's death in police custody, both Republicans and Democrats immediately wrote bills to change policing practices, sparking hope that they would overcome the partisanship gripping most policy debates to enact meaningful legislation.

But as lawmakers leave Washington for a two-week recess, the parties are locked in ...Read more

The publisher of a memoir about President Donald Trump's family got a temporary restraining order against the book lifted by an appeals court that said the company doesn't appear to be bound by a confidentiality agreement signed by the book's author, Mary Trump, nearly 20 years ago.

The decision issued Wednesday by a New York state appeals ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's campaign along with the Republican National Committee raised $266 million during the second quarter of 2020, widening the president's cash advantage over Joe Biden.

The Trump campaign said Wednesday that it increased its fundraising by 71% from the first quarter, despite the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down ...Read more

Half of all COVID tests are positive in Mexico, highest in world

As nations around the world try to get their economies humming again, the number of coronavirus tests coming back positive has turned into the metric to watch. Five percent is the threshold to reopen safely. Ten percent is troubling, 20% outrageous.

In Mexico, it stands at 50%.

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