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More than 17 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record-shattering avalanche of early votes driven both by Democratic enthusiasm and a pandemic that has transformed the way the nation votes. The total represents 12% of ...

With President Donald Trump frequently raising alarms about the potential for voter fraud due to an increased number of absentee mail-in ballots being used to avoid in-person contact during an international pandemic, experts have speculated that the upcoming presidential election ...

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WASHINGTON — Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination cleared a key hurdle Thursday as Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past Democrats’ objections in the drive to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick before the Nov. 3 election. The panel set ...

Three years into the #MeToo movement, there may be more awareness around workplace sexual harassment. But a new report finds that almost three-quarters of people reporting such harassment suffer from retaliation if they complain. More than 7 out of 10 ...

NEW YORK — Three Rockland County Jewish congregations are suing New York state and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying he engaged in a “streak of anti-Semitic discrimination” with a recent crackdown on religious gatherings to reduce the state’s coronavirus infection rate. ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An undetermined number of Ohio inmates who are serving additional time because firearms were involved in their crimes could see their sentences reduced in light of a recent court ruling, a top lawyer for the state prison ...

A state appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling dismissing a suit against the town of Cheektowaga and the Cheektowaga Police Department. After a snow storm in November 2014, David M. Deneke, 50, of Depew was found dead in ...

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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett presented herself Wednesday in her final round of Senate confirmation questioning as a judge with a conservative approach and deeply held personal and religious beliefs but committed to keeping an open mind ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Bernard S. Cohen, who successfully pursued a landmark legal challenge to a Virginia law banning interracial marriage and later went on to a successful political career as a state legislator, has died. He was 86. Cohen ...

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis couple celebrated in some circles and vilified in others for waving guns at protesters marching on their private street pleaded not guilty to two felony charges at a brief hearing Wednesday. Mark and Patricia ...

NEW YORK — Amy Cooper, the white woman charged with filing a false police report for calling 911 during a dispute with a Black man in New York’s Central Park in May, made a second, previously unreported call in which ...

A man convicted of second-degree murder will get a new trial because he was not present during sidebar questioning of some prospective jurors in the trial. Kesean R. McKenzie-Smith, 29, was convicted in November 2013 of second-degree murder, three counts ...

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