WASHINGTON -- Climate change activists are pressuring Joe Biden to distance himself from former Obama administration advisers they view as either too moderate or too cozy with the fossil fuel industry, a sign of disunity on the eve of the Democratic convention.

Groups such as Data for Progress and the Revolving Door Project are building a case ...Read more

Twitter Inc. briefly blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign account, @TeamTrump, from posting on its social network for violating the company's policy on coronavirus misinformation.

Trump's personal account, @realDonaldTrump, had retweeted a post of a video that included an interview Trump did Wednesday with Fox News in which he said ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday freed jails in Orange County, California, from a federal judge's order that required social distancing among inmates, regular testing and distribution of cleaning supplies and hand sanitizers.

Acting by a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal from the county's lawyers and put on ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Kansas quietly filed its petition last week with the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Kris Kobach's signature policy requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab's office announced in June their plans to file the petition with ...Read more

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

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

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

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Avid sportsman Donald Trump Jr. said Tuesday on Twitter he opposes the Pebble Mine project, as the Trump administration considers whether to issue a key permit for construction.

Retweeting a post calling on the federal government to block the copper and gold mine, Trump Jr. said the Bristol Bay region is too important to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party officials charged Tuesday that Antone Melton-Meaux, the top challenger to incumbent U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, skirted campaign finance laws by hiding some of his top political consultants in next week's nationally watched Democratic primary.

A Federal Election Commission complaint obtained by ...Read more

MIAMI -- Donald Trump severed ties with Jeffrey Epstein after the disgraced financier hit on the teenage daughter of a Mar-a-Lago member, threatening the Trump brand of glitz and glamour, according to a new book published about the president's Palm Beach club.

Trump publicly disavowed Epstein a day after the financier's arrest on July 11, 2019,...Read more

MIAMI -- After claiming inaccurately for weeks that mail voting is rife with fraud, President Donald Trump is now backing off his attacks on mail ballots in his home state.

"Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True," Trump tweeted Tuesday.

Trump's tweet -- in stark ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Karen Bass is an unlikely contender for vice president.

The five-term Los Angeles Democrat has never run for statewide office, much less a national one; she hasn't faced a tough reelection race in her comfortably liberal district.

Until recently, Bass was scarcely known outside California. And if the 66-year-old leader ...Read more

President Donald Trump's support among Republicans and other conservative voters has begun to erode amid the continued coronavirus pandemic and its associated economic havoc, a new poll shows.

The poll from the University of California, Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies shows Trump far behind Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Shares of Kodak began to soar last week even before President Donald Trump's announcement that the company was in line for a $765 million government loan to support the manufacture of pharmaceutical ingredients.

But was any of the unusual volume attributable to insider trading? That's what Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's push to ban the popular video-sharing app TikTok is only the latest in a yearslong struggle by his administration to slow China's technology juggernaut.

But experts say the U.S. effort lacks a well-coordinated policy that addresses domestic tech investment as well as concerns of key American allies.

"I ...Read more