Sep 04 North Carolina kicks off mail voting as requests spike By Bryan Anderson, Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press Mail voting has started in the presidential election as North Carolina begins to send out about 600,000 ballots to voters who have requested them. Those voters are overwhelmingly Democrats and independents. Continue reading
Sep 04 Trump says he won’t let Pentagon close Stars and Stripes newspaper By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press The Pentagon's plan to shut down the military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, hit a major roadblock Friday, as President Donald Trump announced that he won't allow that on his watch. Continue reading
Sep 04 WATCH: Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking U.S. war dead By Zeke Miller, Alexandra Jaffe, Associated Press Biden is intensifying his efforts to frame the 2020 election as a referendum on the president's character. Defending himself, Trump says the allegations published by The Atlantic are false. Continue reading
Sep 04 WATCH: Trump officials hold press conference on Serbia-Kosovo economic deal By Associated Press Serbia and Kosovo announced Friday that they have normalized economic ties as part of U.S.-brokered discussions that also include Belgrade moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem and Pristina recognizing Israel. Continue reading
Sep 04 Trump disparaged U.S. military casualties as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers,’ report says By Associated Press The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump's comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press. Continue reading
Sep 03 Mexico struggles with U.S. water debt, suggests U.N. audit By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Mexico has fallen behind in the amount of water it must send north from its dams under a 1944 treaty, and is struggling to make up the shortfall by the Oct. 24 deadline. Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch 3:27 Trump faces fallout for remarks about voting twice as Biden visits family of Jacob Blake By Lisa Desjardins President Trump is taking his reelection campaign to Pennsylvania for a Thursday evening rally. He is also facing scrutiny over Wednesday remarks in which he urged people to vote twice, which is fraudulent. Meanwhile, Democratic opponent Joe Biden spent the… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch 9:06 How Fox News’ ‘low-quality information’ fuels Trump’s policies As the presidential election approaches, questions are raised daily about not only the candidates themselves, but also how they are covered by the news media. In President Trump’s case, the attention focuses on his relationship with Fox News. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Sep 03 WATCH: Donald Trump holds rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania By Jill Colvin, Associated Press Two months from Election Day, President Donald Trump and his allies are feeling new optimism about Pennsylvania, a battleground state that flipped in his favor in 2016. Continue reading
Sep 03 Some Americans unlikely to quailfy new $300 federal jobless benefit By Christopher S. Rugaber, Leah Willingham, Associated Press The administration rolled out the new $300-a-week benefit, using money from a $44 billion disaster relief fund, after Congress and the White House failed to agree to extend the $600 payment. Yet because of a raft of restrictions and bureaucratic… Continue reading