U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday named a special counsel to investigate how classified government documents ended up being stored at a former Washington office of President Joe Biden and at his Wilmington, Delaware, home. Garland, the top U.S. law enforcement official, selected career prosecutor Robert Hur, a former lead federal prosecutor in the […]
WASHINGTON — The top election official in the southern U.S. state of Georgia called Wednesday for the state legislature to eliminate general election runoffs when no candidate reaches the required 50% threshold in the first round of voting. Georgia has held three crucial runoff elections in the last two years, all of which have drawn national […]
WASHINGTON — Vote counting is not yet complete in the 2022 U.S. congressional elections, and a key Senate runoff contest is three weeks away, but former President Donald Trump is looking ahead, announcing Tuesday night he is running again for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. “America’s comeback starts right now,” Trump said. It is his […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer price increases eased in August compared to a year ago, the government said Tuesday, but the drop was modest and may not be noticed much by financially squeezed American households. The inflation rate was up at an annualized 8.3% rate in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The figure was down […]