NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — In the wake of the fatal shooting of a federal judge’s son in New Jersey, bi-partisan legislation seeks to restrict online access to judges’ personal information. Twenty-year-old Daniel Anderl, the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, was shot and killed inside the family’s home on July 19 by a gunman…

The nearly 1 million people around the world who have lost their lives to COVID-19 have left us a gift: Through desperate efforts to save their lives, scientists now better understand how to treat and prevent the disease — and millions of others may survive.Ming Wang, 71, and his wife were on a cruise from…

President Trump’s pick to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one that will elate social conservatives. If she is confirmed, as expected by the Republican Senate in the coming weeks, Amy Coney Barrett could cement the court’s conservative lean for years.Barrett is a federal judge on the U.S.…

Widespread rapid testing. Football stadiums filled with fans. A rebounding jobs market.Those are just some of the promises and predictions President Donald Trump and his administration have made since the early days of the novel coronavirus pandemic about what the federal government would deliver by September and before — a month that at one point…

The Justice Department has released a pair of documents casting fresh doubt on the judgment of senior law enforcement officials who investigated possible links between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016, showing that one of the FBI case agents thought prosecutors were out to “get Trump” and that a key source of allegations against…

In recent days, the president cast doubt on the integrity of vote totals. He said he might not accept the results if they show him losing to Democratic nominee Joe Biden. He said it was imperative to quickly fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg because the nation’s…

Against a backdrop of a struggling economy and more than 170,000 lives lost to the coronavirus, Republicans on Monday painted an ominous picture of what losing the White House would mean for the country.It may not have been the traditional, crowd-filled production the president and his party originally wanted to celebrate, but the first night…

There was nothing ceremonious about it, which, in a way, was entirely fitting for the Washington Nationals of 2020. The team that never got to celebrate its 2019 title with fans, never found traction this summer, never did much aside from step on its own feet and fight injuries, lost a game Wednesday and was…

The Trump administration is expected to urge Republican state attorneys general on Wednesday to investigate social media sites over allegations that they censor conservatives online, escalating the White House’s war with Silicon Valley as tech giants are increasingly taking action against the president’s most controversial posts.The administration plans to raise the issue at a gathering…

He ignored Churchill’s frankness even as the prime minister encouraged resolve.September 11, 2020, 8:06 PM• 6 min readPresident Donald Trump has taken to comparing himself to legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to defend why he intentionally minimized the threat of the coronavirus in public earlier this year even as he privately acknowledged that the…

Big employers including Gap Inc.’s Old Navy, Target Corp. and Warby Parker are telling employees they can take paid time off to volunteer as election workers this fall as they aim to help solve a national poll-worker shortage and offer workers a way to find a sense of purpose. Power the Polls, an initiative to…

Two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, said over the weekend that whoever is elected president in November should nominate Ginsburg’s replacement. But it would take four Republican senators joining with all 47 Democrats and independents who caucus with Democrats to block consideration of a Trump nominee.It was not publicly…

Demonstrators argued that getting the flu vaccine should be a choice.August 31, 2020, 12:35 AM• 6 min readHundreds of people gathered Sunday to protest a new flu vaccine mandate for Massachusetts students, enacted as school districts prepare to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.At the demonstration in front of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, protesters…

Back in 2016 and early 2017, Fox News was the self-satisfied home to a great deal of principled thinking about the importance of the American people’s will.Here, for example, was Laura Ingraham, voicing her approval of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s machinations to bypass Obama nominee Merrick Garland and get conservative justice Neil M. Gorsuch…