NEW YORK - His father's presidential race can't prevent Eric Trump from being questioned under oath by State Attorney General Letitia James.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge rejected a request from Eric Trump Wednesday to postpone his deposition until after the election in a probe of the Trump Organization's financial dealings.

Justice Arthur ...Read more

MIAMI - For months, President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden have strategized on voter turnout, election officials have braced for an autumn like no other, and the U.S. Postal Service has vowed to be ready to handle a record number of mail ballots going out in the nation's largest swing state.

Now it's time for millions of ...Read more

MIAMI - Americans traveling to Cuba will not be able to buy rum or tobacco as souvenirs, nor will they be able to stay in government hotels, according to new restrictions announced by president Donald Trump on Wednesday.

"Today as part of our continuing fight against communist oppression, I am announcing that the Treasury Department will ...Read more

LOS ANGELES - Federal officials are focusing on utility equipment around Cogswell Dam as part of their investigation into what sparked the massive Bobcat fire, according to paperwork filed with state utility regulators.

In an incident report filed with the California Public Utilities Commission last week, Southern California Edison indicated ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Clemency Board on Wednesday declined to pardon Desmond Meade, the Orlando man who spearheaded Amendment 4, which allows felons who complete their sentences to get their voting rights back, but told him he could ask again.

DeSantis said he had questions over Meade's dishonorable discharge ...Read more

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused the GOP of hypocritically trashing precedent to quickly transform the top court into a right-wing bulwark against the liberal values the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought for.

"They are fighting to reverse Justice Ginsburg's legacy, not honor it," the New York Democrat said, in a fierce ...Read more

LOS ANGELES - When Los Angeles County officials explain the massive coronavirus outbreak that hit this summer, they often point to Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, two long weekends when gatherings with friends and family fueled the spread of the virus.

Now, two weeks after the Labor Day holiday, officials worry the same pattern is emerging...Read more

LOS ANGELES - Beleaguered fire crews made significant progress overnight on the Bobcat fire burning in northeastern Los Angeles County.

After weeks of struggling to keep up with the fire's erratic, multidirectional growth, crews had achieved 38% containment of the blaze as of Wednesday morning - more than doubling the fire's containment from ...Read more

Johnson & Johnson has begun dosing up to 60,000 volunteers in a study of its COVID-19 vaccine, marking the first big U.S. trial of an inoculation that may work after just one shot.

J&J became the fourth vaccine maker to move its candidate into late-stage human studies in the U.S. If enrollment goes as expected, the trial could yield results as ...Read more

Mike Tyson is ready to punch his ballot.

The boxer said he plans to vote for the first time in the 2020 presidential election.

"This election will be my 1st time voting," Tyson tweeted Tuesday. "I never thought I could because of my felony record. I'm proud to finally vote."

The former heavyweight champion also shared a link to help others ...Read more

When the first fire of the season broke out on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in Northern California in July, Greg Moon faced a dilemma.

As Hoopa's fire chief and its pandemic team leader, Moon feared the impact of the blaze on the dense coniferous forests of the reservation, near Redwood National and State Parks, where 3,000 tribal members ...Read more

A grand jury on Wednesday decided to indict only one of the three Louisville, Kentucky, officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, charging him with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment.

Former cop Brett Hankison, who lost his job in June, is accused of firing blindly into Taylor's apartment during a botched raid on ...Read more

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's casket arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, where she will lie in honor for two days so members of the public can pay their respects.

More than 100 of Ginsburg's former law clerks stood silently on the court plaza and steps, wearing black masks and at safe social distances, as her casket was carried by ...Read more

WASHINGTON - Only one House Democrat in the caucus's 14-member elected leadership team is exiting the chamber next year, but that opening has created a competitive race for assistant speaker and cleared opportunities for other ambitious Democrats to run for the lower-ranking positions those candidates are vacating.

With Assistant Speaker Ben ...Read more

WASHINGTON - The upcoming Senate battle over a Supreme Court nomination is sharpening the focus on the 2010 health care law on the campaign trail before a high-stakes oral arguments hearing to determine the law's future, which will be held just a week after the election.

In a campaign in which health care was already a top issue for voters, the...Read more